Name: John Thomas Keaton
Birth Place: Brown's Cove Albemarle Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:Farmer Rockingham Co.
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Date of Enlistment: 8/2/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: G
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions:
Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent sick 09-29-1862 to 10-00-1863; present 11-00-1863, 12-00-1863
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Notes: Issued clothing 03-01-64, 04-01-64
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Spotsylvania Courthouse, hip - 5/12/1864
Hospital:
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
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Postwar Life:
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Near Bridgewater Rockingham Co.
Date of Death: 1/27/1913
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Beaver Creek Church of the Brethren Cemetery, northeast of Spring Creek on Rt. 752
Epitaph:
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