Remains of Civil War veterans found in funeral home’s storage

[rangerrebew]

Remains of Civil War veterans found in funeral home’s storage
By Michael Casey, The Associated Press
 Nov 5, 2024, 04:00 PM
 
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle.

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing linking them to the Civil War. Still, that was enough for an organization dedicated to locating, identifying and interring the remains of unclaimed veterans to conclude over several years that they were all Union soldiers deserving of a burial service with military honors.


“It's amazing that they were still there and we found them,” said Tom Keating, the Washington state coordinator for the Missing In America Project, which turned to a team of volunteers to confirm their war service through genealogical research. “It's something long overdue. These people have been waiting a long time for a burial.”

https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2024/11/05/remains-of-civil-war-veterans-found-in-funeral-homes-storage/

[rangerrebew]

Seattle, huh?  Probably hidden by liberals still upset about the freeing of the slaves!

[catfish1957]

I've done plenty of help for others using deductive  and triangulation processes for dna matching for genealogical purposes.
It should be pretty easy to find out who he is. 

[AL]

Good luck on this research.  From my research, the reporting by the officers on the west coast gave few names of casualties, what few there are shows Rank and Last only.  Officers did keep personal diaries including the full names of their soldiers, some of those diaries are in museums scattered about.  Hopefully this organization will be able to solve the mystery.   

[catfish1957]

Good luck on this research.  From my research, the reporting by the officers on the west coast gave few names of casualties, what few there are shows Rank and Last only.  Officers did keep personal diaries including the full names of their soldiers, some of those diaries are in museums scattered about.  Hopefully this organization will be able to solve the mystery.   

If they could run a sample of his dna, they could find his closest relatives, as all these services have a way to sort by the amount of centi-morgans of shared dna code.  With that list, it's pretty easy to triangulate a match if the matches have had  their tree data posted.


From there, it is a decent bet that a subsequent desc. is found or if the soldier is single, a brother or sister of the veteran lines up.  Most of that era are now 2-5 great grandparents (depending on your age)