Person:Joel Parsons (2)

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Joel Parsons
b.23 Aug 1840 Jackson, West Virginia, United States
d.10 Nov 1919 Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States
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Name Joel Parsons
Gender Male
Birth[1] 23 Aug 1840 Jackson, West Virginia, United States
Marriage to Emma Moorhead
Military[2] 16 Aug 1894

Awarded Medal of Honor
Death[1] 10 Nov 1919 Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States
Burial[1] Union Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States
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Medal of Honor

Rank and organization: Private, Company B, 4th West Virginia Infantry. Place and date: At Vicksburg, Miss., 22 May 1863. Entered service at: Mason City, W. Va. Birth: ------. Date of issue: 16 August 1894 Citation: Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party." 2

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Civil War Pension

  • Application 518294, Certificate 868854
  • Widow's Application 1148935, Certificate 881673 3
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ohio. Department of Health. Office of Vital Statistics. Certificates of death, 1908–present. (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983–2005)
    cert. 62729 (1919).
  2. ↑ United States. Army. Center of Military History. Medal of Honor Recipients.

    http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/civwarmz.html

  3.   United States. Veterans Administration. Organization index to pension files of veterans who served between 1861 and 1900- [1917]. (Washington, District of Columbia: The National Archives, 1949).
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