Tag: Find-A-Grave

Billy Buskin-Faithful Companion

Another of my Who in the State of Mom Blogspot post
Originally Posted Friday, April 20, 2012

Faithful Companion

Today’s research finds me at the Church Cemetery, Wilmot, Merrimack, New Hampshire. Gravestones offer interesting bits of life from those that are Heaven Found. Frances Chase knew the importance of a faithful companion in the time of battle during the Civil War. So here is his dedication to that faithful companion “Billy Buckskin was a horse that belonged to Francis Chase and was a veteran of the civil war. His grave is marked each year with a flag, on Memorial Day.”
6 January 2017 update:
Francis E. Chase was born 29 Jan 1829 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts to Joseph Chase and Harriet Phelps.
The Find A Grave bio provides an overview of Mr. Chases life and military service.
Pine Hill Cemetery Google Street View

Birth:     Jan. 29, 1829

Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA

Death: Feb. 21, 1908

Wilmot Flat, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA

 

From “A Glimpse of the Past-A History of Wilmot, NH” by Langley:

“Ripley’s famous “Believe it or Not” column in the May 30, 1965 issue of The Boston Advertiser immortalized Wilmot’s remarkable Civil War Horse.”The Grave of a Horse….Francis E. Chase owned a horse named Billy Buskin. The horse was Mr. Francis Chase’s saddle horse he rode all through the Civil War. Mr. Chase was a wagon master of an ammunition train. The horse was given to Mr. Chase by the government when he received his discharge. The horse lived to be over 30 years old. Mr. Chase had a dog named Captain and he lived to be a very old dog and was a constant companion to Billy Buskin and Mr. Chase.” (Letter received from Mr. Fred W. Chase, grandson of Mr. Francis E. Chase, June 3, 1964.) The horse and the dog are buried side by side on the former Chase farm in Wilmot Flat. The G.A.R. of Wilmot started the custom of putting a flag on the horse’s grave each Memorial Day, and the custom has been followed each year. In 1973, Myrtle T. Newcomb, who lived on the former Chase farm gave the town a parcel of land enclosing the Civil War graves of horse Billy Buskin and dog Captain. The Bicentennial Committee placed a plaque at the site near Chase Pond. The marker reads “This plaque marks the grave of Billy Buskin, a horse ridden through the Civil War by Captain Francis E. Chase who lived across the road.” The horse’s bridal was given to the Wilmot Historical Society by Mr. Chase’s great-great Grandson, Edward F. Chase of Plymouth, NH, and is in their room at the old schoolhouse in Wilmot Flat.”

Family links:

Parents:

Joseph Chase (1804 – 1873)

Harriet Phelps Chase (1809 – 1880)

 

Spouses:

Harriet Emily Bussell Chase (1831 – 1902)

Lucy Jane Fowler Langley (1842 – 1915)

 

Children:

Charles Edwin Chase (1850 – 1925)*

George Byron Chase (1852 – 1893)*

Austin E Chase (1857 – 1859)*

 

Siblings:

Francis E Chase (1829 – 1908)

Lydia Alvira Chase Dame (1830 – 1891)*

Lurany K. Chase Flanders (1846 – 1911)*

 

*Calculated relationship

 

Burial:

Pine Hill Cemetery

Wilmot Flat, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA

 

Created by: Brande Watson

Record added: Jul 17, 2005

Find A Grave Memorial# 11370757

Transcriptions of a Different Kind: Find-A-Grave

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FINALLY Get Organized! With DearMyrtle continues:

Yesterday I discussed the importance of transcribing receipts. Today  I’m transcribing the grave markers for my ancestors to Find-A-Grave.

I have been a contributor to Find-A-Grave for the past four years. I have traveled to my ancestors cemeteries, taken photographs and sadly there they sit on my computer. I do have them filed in both the cemetery folder and to the appropriate surname folder. I did not however, transcribe them to Find-A-Grave. In the past four years I have taken photographs for other people via Find-A-Grave requests. I usually gave them the rights to the image to add to their family memorial. I did add my own parents and brothers grave marker.

My goal from now on is to try to transcribe at least one grave marker a week to Find-A-Grave. I feel that is a reasonable and doable task for me.

This morning I followed my advice. I transcribed the first photo, then the second, then, you get the idea. I followed a BSO ( a bright shiny object, as Thomas MacEntee calls them.) I added the transcriptions, photographs, wrote bio’s, notes and linked them to other family members.

Here are the ones I was working on today. I also sent request linking my ancestors to their spouse or parents to memorials that another Find-A-Grave volunteers are managing.

Find A Grave Memorials
Find A Grave Memorials

I must pace myself going forward, to one a week for my own sanity in getting organized.

The importance of transcribing those grave markers and adding photographs of them is so other “cousin lines’ and future generations can find where the are buried and maybe a little about who they were.

Thank you,Dear Myrtle for getting me organized.

Richley-Erickson, Pat “Finally Get Organized,” Dear Myrtle, DearMyrtle’s Genealogy Your Friend In Genealogy since 1995 Blog, 31 Jan 2016. http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/p/finally-get-organized.html: Access 2 Feb 2016, checklists.