Charles W. Gates headstone Rockville Cemetery.

Description: This is a color photograph of the headstone of Charles W. Gates and wife Rebecca Squires in the Rockville Cemetery in Rockville, Parke County, Indiana. Charles, son of Richard and Elizabeth Gates, served in Co. F 4th Maryland during the Civil War taking part in the battles of Gettysburg and Wilderness. He married Rebecca Squires, daughter of Joel and Salina Sayler Butcher and widow of Albert Squires, in Rockville 1913-11-26. He was a member of Morton Relief Corps and Steele Post GAR in Rockville, Indiana and at the time of his passing was one of the last three surviving Civil War veterans in Parke County. This item was donated by Lynn Lee.
Origin: 2003-05
Created By: Lynn Lee.
Lynn Lee.
Contributor(s): Lynn Lee.
Source: http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll67/id/1134
Collection: Parke County Public Library
Copyright: IN COPYRIGHT
Copyright: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Subjects: Parke County (Ind.)--Genealogy
Cemeteries--Indiana--Parke County
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans
Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans
Gates family
Squires family.

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