HELP! flag male ancestor  John Raymond  MEIGGS

  (b. 25 July 1838 Bristol, Rhode Island, USA   d. 22 July 1890 Bristol, Rhode Island, USA )  
Cause of Death: suicide by pistol shot; incapacitated war injuries

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John Raymond MEIGGS was born 25 July 1838 in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA

John Raymond MEIGGS was the child of James Wilson MEIGS   and   Reliance GRAY and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Ansel MEIGS and Elizabeth WILSON (maternal)  Pardon GRAY and Reliance DAVIS

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John Raymond  married  Sarah Jane BLOUNT .  The couple had (at least) 1 child. Sarah Jane BLOUNT  was born 30 August 1839 in Newtonmore, England.  Sarah Jane died 2 May 1930 in Cranston, Rhode Island, USA (Pawtuxet) (Fiskeville) (Mashantatack). 

John Raymond MEIGGS died 22 July 1890 in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA.
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birth1838 Birth
25 July 1838
Bristol, Rhode Island, USA
NewsFrom the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.
Invention 1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
1861 Birth of Child
John Raymond MEIGGS was born 22 August 1861, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA

John Raymond was 23 years old.
News1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
News1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.
death1890 Death
22 July 1890
Bristol, Rhode Island, USA

He died at the age of 52.
Added: 1/27/2021 4:52:40 PM - Updated: 1/27/2021 5:01:45 PM
Did You Know?America - Did you know? 1918-1920 - Worldwide influenza epidemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S., 500,000 perish.

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