John Lynch
Woodlawn Cemetery
Edwardsville, Illinois, USA
John served as a Private in Company A, 39th Regiment, Illinois Infantry. He was age 44 and a resident of St. Louis, Missouri when he joined on 31 October 1861. He was mustered out on 29 October 1864 when his three year enlistment expired.
Kelly Collins reports that at the time of his discharge, John Lynch was in ill health and on the advice of the Company doctor he did not immediately return home to Edwardsville, Illinois. He passed away on 28 March 1866 at New Orleans, Louisiana. The cause of death may have been smallpox.
John Lynch was buried in Locust Grove Cemetery at New Orleans. Apparently subsequent burials at this location often disturbed previous interments in a haphazard manner. The cemetery was closed in 1879 and Thomy Lafon School was built on the land without the removal of any of the bodies.
The U. S. Department of Veteran Affairs accepted the family's petition that a memorial maker be erected to John Lynch in Woodlawn Cemetery at Edwardsville, Illinois, where other members of his family are buried.
Brief Genealogy
Lynch & Lanterman family
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Documents
- Clay Hardin Lynch & Martha Lizette Fiegenbaum - marriage license - 1884
- Clay Hardin Lynch - death certificate
- Clay Hardin Lynch - obituaries
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