Fairfield County CT Archives Obituaries.....Starr, Grosvenor March 5, 1862

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Stamford Soldiers' Memorial 1869
  GROSVENOR STARR, adjutant, 7th Conn., son of Mrs. Henry B. Starr. See "Citizen
Service," p. 29. Died at Tybee Island, March 5, 1862, after a sickness of five
weeks. "Mr. Starr was at the breaking out of the war, a student at Yale. The
idol of his classmates, who fondly watched his progress with warm anticipations
of his future success, he was distinguished both for his scholarly attainments
and his social qualities.

  "There is no need of many added words to tell what he was. The one title, a
Christian soldier, covers all. At the age of fifteen, he girded himself with
that heavenly armor, with which the soul encounters its unseen foes—the vows
that he then renewed in confirmation. The emblems that were laid upon his coffin
as it was borne by his sorrowing classmates to be laid before the altar, when
were spoken the comforting words of the last service, were his completed
epitaph. Above his breast rested the wreath of spotless flowers. Upon the hero's
sword,—the gift of his loving classmates,—was placed the cross."

  The funeral of Mr. Starr was attended from St. Bartholomew's church New York
City, and his remains lie in the family lot in Greenwood.


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