UNIT: Not identified in the booklet
HOMETOWN: Not identified in the booklet
BORN/DIED: Not identified in the booklet
RANK: Not identified in the booklet
GRAVE LOCATION: Junior Order of United American Mechanics Cemetery, Carranza Road; exact grave unknown
Approximate Grave Location:
[GRAVE MAP PLACEHOLDER: Charles Smith]
Junior Order of United American Mechanics Cemetery, Carranza Road; exact grave unknown
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Hear My Story
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Read My Story
In the late 1930’s the Works Project Administration created maps of many cemeteries in the United States. The purpose was to identify the final resting place of war veterans. In Tabernacle, three cemeteries were surveyed. The Junior Order of United American Mechanics on Carranza Road is noted as having one Civil War burial. The vet’s name is Charles Smith.
Unfortunately, no other records exist which can tell us more about him. There is no record of his burial in cemetery records, no tombstone, no obituary and exhaustive researches of available records has turned up only a vague reference in a census sheet.
[IMAGE PLACEHOLDER: Charles Smith]
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Timeline
Civil War: Identified as a Civil War veteran in the cemetery-map account described in the booklet; unit and service dates remain unknown.
Late 1930s: A WPA cemetery survey identified a Civil War burial under his name at the Junior Order of United American Mechanics Cemetery.
Research status: The booklet reports no identified tombstone, cemetery burial record, or obituary; birth and death dates are unresolved.
