Eaton County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Wilson, George 
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Cemetery:           Rose Hill Cemetery
Name:               George Wilson

Date Of Photograph: October 11, 2011
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Monument and headstone located in Block F - Lot 27

WILSON MONUMENT

Inscription on monument:

Side 1

JAMES WILSON
1855 - 

ELIZA A.
HIS WIFE
1856 - 1898

Side 2:

JAMES G. 
H. WILSON
1819 - 1890

Side 3:

GEORGE
SON OF
J. W. & E. A.
WILSON
1882 - 1897

Smaller headstone located near monument:

J. G. H. WILSON
CO I
26TH MICH INF

Note: James G.H. Wilson enlisted in Co. I. 26th Michigan at New Haven on March 
28, 1864, at the age of 44 and had been MIA at the Battle of Spotsylvania. At 
some point returned from being missing at Spotsylvania and was discharged by 
Special Order No. 140, dated June 3, 1865. His father, Arthur, had served in 
the War of 1812 and James and his wife, Abigail, had nine children. James died 
on August 17, 1890, and is buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery at Eaton Rapids, 
Eaton County, Michigan. (Lt. Joseph Wilson had also served in Co. I.) 

26th Michigan service included: the Wilderness, Po River, Spotsylvania, & 
others 


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