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Capt Benjamin Stone Jr.

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Capt Benjamin Stone Jr.

Birth
Death
10 Sep 1862 (aged 44)
Burial
Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
B84
Memorial ID
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Benjamin Stone was born in Dorchester, MA 28 Dec 1817. He married Ursula S. Clay 2 Nov 1838. Found in the "MA Civil War Soldiers and Sailors, 1861-1865, Volume I, 11th Infantry", page 814; "Res. Dorchester; 43; music engraver; comm. and must. June 13, 1861; wounded and missing, Aug. 29, 1862 at 2d Bull Run, Va.; died of wounds Sept. 10, 1862 at Washington, D. C."
Benjamin is buried at the Dorchester North Burying Grounds in Dorchester, Massachusetts, next to his mother Sarah. There is a statue of him at the Cedar Grove cemetery in Dorchester.
Benjamin Stone was born in Dorchester, MA 28 Dec 1817. He married Ursula S. Clay 2 Nov 1838. Found in the "MA Civil War Soldiers and Sailors, 1861-1865, Volume I, 11th Infantry", page 814; "Res. Dorchester; 43; music engraver; comm. and must. June 13, 1861; wounded and missing, Aug. 29, 1862 at 2d Bull Run, Va.; died of wounds Sept. 10, 1862 at Washington, D. C."
Benjamin is buried at the Dorchester North Burying Grounds in Dorchester, Massachusetts, next to his mother Sarah. There is a statue of him at the Cedar Grove cemetery in Dorchester.

Inscription

PRO
PATRIA

To the memory of
BENJAMIN STONE, Ju.
captain of Dorchester co. k.
11th. Reg't. Mass. vols.
who after sixteen months
of arduous service,
was wounded at the second
Bull Run battle,
and died in Washington
sept. 10, 1862,
in the 45th year of his age,
this Tablet is erected
by his sorrowing townsmen.

"Epitaphs from the old buying ground in Dorchester, Mass."




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  • Created by: homzee
  • Added: Sep 18, 2004
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9478351/benjamin-stone: accessed ), memorial page for Capt Benjamin Stone Jr. (28 Dec 1817–10 Sep 1862), Find a Grave Memorial ID 9478351, citing Dorchester North Burying Ground, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by homzee (contributor 46630500).