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 1847 - 1943 (95 years)
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| Name |
COLBY George Gilbert |
| Birth |
14 Jul 1847 |
Windsor, Kennebec, Maine, United States  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Military |
Between 10 Mar 1864 and 8 Jun 1865 [2] |
| as a Private in Co H, 1st Maine Cavalry |
| Census |
20 Jun 1870 |
Windsor, Kennebec, Maine, United States [3] |
- (age 22; house carpenter.)
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| _UID |
BA516BA5E6D24F4CA9C0BFC2587570FC9191 |
| Death |
22 Jan 1943 |
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States [4, 5, 6] |
- ( OBIT:
G.G. Colby, GAR Vet Dies at 95
With the death of George C. Colby Friday morning at the age of 95 and a half years, there remains but one member in the entire county of the Wallace Reynolds post Grand Army of the Republic, Comrade John Smith, his 101 year old Civil War comrade and devoted friend.
Mr. Colby was born in Maine. He served during the Civil War in the First Maine Cavalry, and at the close of the war he sailed around the Horn and arrived in California in 1870.
Two years later Miss Amanda Hayes arrived in Oakland after a slow emigrant train trip across the plains from her home in Missouri. Four years later she became the bride of George Colby with the late Judge Newell of Newell Creek officiating. They spent most of their married life in Santa Cruz.
Last April Mr. and Mrs. Colby celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary.
Mr. Colby was a blacksmith and wheelwright and for many years drove an ox team. The family home is 292 Ocean Street where he lived for about 35 years and where he passed away Friday.
Surviving his passing are his widow Amanda V Colby, and daughter Mrs. Julia Martin of Los Gatos, Mrs. John Hein of San Jose, Mrs. Marguerite Ashley of Santa Cruz, and Mrs. Albert Ashley of Los Gatos. Mrs. Earl Harris is a niece. There are about a dozen grand children and 25 great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Wessendorf mortuary.)
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| Burial |
Aft 22 Jan 1943 |
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States [5] |
Address:
Felton Cemetery |
| Person ID |
I114937 |
Noyes Family Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
2 Jan 2017 |
| Father |
COLBY Nathaniel, b. 16 Sep 1815, Whitefield, Lincoln, Massachusetts Maine, United States d. Yes, date unknown |
| Mother |
CHOATE Sarah, b. 26 Feb 1819, Whitefield, Lincoln, Massachusetts Maine, United States d. Yes, date unknown |
| Marriage |
26 May 1839 [1] |
| Family ID |
F46323 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
WATSON Susetta, b. 7 May 1850, Windsor, Kennebec, Maine, United States d. 19 May 1925 (Age 75 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Jun 1866 |
Windsor, Kennebec, Maine, United States [1, 7] |
| Divorce |
Bef 1880 [8] |
| Children |
| | 1. COLBY George Edwin, b. CA 1868, Windsor, Kennebec, Maine, United States d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 2. COLBY Frank Leslie, b. CA 1869, Windsor, Kennebec, Maine, United States d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F46321 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
17 Aug 2023 |
| Family 2 |
HAYES Amanda Victoria, b. 1857, Missouri, United States d. 1946, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States (Age 89 years) |
| Marriage |
14 Apr 1877 [9] |
| Family ID |
F46325 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
17 Aug 2023 |
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| Sources |
- [S4348] Book-The Choates in America, p.334.
- [S5852] Internet-Civil War-U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine .
- [S6219] Census-1870-ME-Kennebec-Windsor, Roll: M593_547; Page: 638B; Image: 417746; Family History Library Film: 552046.
- [S4922] Internet-Database-ancestry.com-California Death Index 1940-1997, Santa Cruz, CA.
- [S6781] Internet-Database-ancestry.com-U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963.
- [S82] Death-obit, Santa Cruz Sentinel (January 22, 1943).
- [S3808] Internet-Find A Grave, Find A Grave Memorial #126292523 [L. Harmon] 9/20/2014.
- [S1477] Census-1880-ME-Kennebec-Windsor, Roll: 482; Family History Film: 1254482; Page: 538A; Enumeration District: 112; Image: 0396.
- [S3808] Internet-Find A Grave, Find A Grave Memorial #55044407.
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