Joseph W. Luxford
Joseph W. Luxford was born on March 7, 1838, in Kent County, England. He was baptized in Halden, England, on April 22, 1838, and the family lived in Biddenden, England, in the early 1840s. They immigrated to America in the mid-1840s and settled in Sheldon, Vermont. They moved to Troy, Vermont, in the 1850s. He enlisted in the Union army on August 29, 1861, and he mustered in as a private in Company D of the 6th Vermont Infantry on October 15. He died of diphtheria in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 23, 1862.
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(2206)Luxford, Joseph W.1838-03-071862-02-23
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Private
  • Rank highest: Private
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 3

  • (6624) [associated with] ~ Moses Abbott to Dinah Luxford, 1 February 1862
  • (6625) [associated with] ~ Moses Abbott to Dinah Luxford, 26 February 1862
  • (15272) [associated with] ~ Emily S. Aldrich Poem, 18 May 1862

People - Records: 3

  • (2206) Luxford, Joseph W. is the [friend of] (2204) Abbott, Moses
  • (2206) Luxford, Joseph W. is the [sibling of] (2205) Luxford, Dinah
  • (2207) Abbott, Timothy Dodge is the [friend of] (2206) Luxford, Joseph W.

Places - Records: 3

  • (1714) [birth] ~ Kent, England
  • (39) [death] ~ Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
  • (1717) [residence in 1860] ~ Troy, Orleans County, Vermont

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (669) [enlisted] [D] ~ 6th Vermont Infantry
SOURCES

1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; 1841 England Census, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Vermont Vital Records, 1720-1908, available from Ancestry.com; England Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, available from Ancestry.com.