James Henry Link
Representing: Union
Unit History
- 30th Wisconsin Infantry D
Family History
Created by Brian
James Henry Link
- Birth
- 15 Sep 1833
Michigan, USA
- Death
- 25 Feb 1920 (aged 86)
Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
- Burial
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Cremated, the Location of the ashes is unknown.Specifically: Cremation Society records indicate given to an unidentified third party
- Memorial ID
- Civil War veteran: Private, Company D, 30th Wisconsin Infantry; in receipt of pension from 23 Jun 1880. With his wife, Margaret Glenn, and three children, he lived in New Richmond, Saint Croix, Wisconsin, where he was a farmer and his son William was a carpenter. Life turned on its head on 12 Jun 1899, when Margaret was killed in the New Richmond Cyclone, the ninth most deadly tornado in American recorded history. After her death, James drifted to Minneapolis, then lived with his daughters for the rest of his life, moving with them to Seattle before 1910. Three days following his death his body was cremated by the Washington Cremation Society on Queen Anne Hill. His final location has not yet been found.
Cemetery
Buried at CWV CREMATED BURIALS & UNKNOWN BURIALS