Union County Veterans Remembrance Committee

Permanent Veteran Record

William Coe Piper

BranchArmy
RankCorporal
Conflict / EraSpanish American War
Years of Service08/05/1898
Date of Birth02/12/1873
Date of Death08/05/1898
HometownUNKNOWN, OH
Burial LocationParis Twp: Oakdale
Monument PaverNo
SourceMarysville Tribune, 8/24/1898; Union Co. Cem. Rec., Vol. 5, p. 142; 1880 U.S. Federal Census; History of Union County Ohio (Curry), p. 569-70; Spanish American War Centennial Website

School: UNKNOWN. born in Marysville, graduate of MHS; no records found in Mass. Rosters for Spanish American War; cemetery records list DOB as 1874, DOD as 5/5/1894; died of fever, accompanied by acute dysentery; buried in Santiago, Puerto Rico body was disinterred and returned home on United States funeral ship, Roumania (see Marysville Tribune, 5/3/1899); buried in Oakdale, Section C, Row 1, Gr. 3, on 5/5/1899

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