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Submitted: 7/5/09 • Approved: 7/13/09 • Last Updated: 6/9/20 • R14584-G0-S3
"Son of S.W. & L.C. Aston" (Samuel White Aston & Louisa Carrell Alderson)
"Born Sept 30, 1844 died July 21, 1863"
"He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down, he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not"
Pvt.Co.C, 37th VA inf. Enlist Mar 5, 1862 at Lebanon as a sub for Felix Grundy Catron. Hosp at Charlottesville Jul 21, 1862, typhoid fever; Wounded July 1863 at Battle of Gettysburg, arm amputated; died July 22,1863 General Hospital, Richmond.
Note: death date based on military records was Jul 22; his headstone reads Jul 21.
Contributed on 7/5/09 by fayemccranie
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