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Edmond U. Loomis

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Edmond U. Loomis

Birth
Death
24 Nov 1877 (aged 26)
At Sea
Burial
Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Lost at Sea at the wreck of the USS Huron

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Carlisle Weekly Herald, Carlisle, Pa
13 Dec 1877, Thu pg 3
The corpse of Mr Loomis arrived in this place on Tuesday evening of last week, and was taken to the residence of his grandmother, Mrs C Underwood, on South Pitt street. The remains were encased in a metallic casket around which was placed the American flag. No person was permitted to see the corpse. Six of his fellow members in the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity acted as pall-bearers, and the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College attended the funeral. The remains were interred in the family plot in the old graveyard. Peace be his ashes.

Edmond appears with his family on the 1860 census in Carlisle, PA:
Name Age
Isaah C Loomis 46
Mary S Loomis 36
James H Loomis 18
Grace Loomis 13
Raymond Loomis 9
Edmond Loomis 8
Susan Harts 25
Lost at Sea at the wreck of the USS Huron

Following Provided by Scooterpa:

Carlisle Weekly Herald, Carlisle, Pa
13 Dec 1877, Thu pg 3
The corpse of Mr Loomis arrived in this place on Tuesday evening of last week, and was taken to the residence of his grandmother, Mrs C Underwood, on South Pitt street. The remains were encased in a metallic casket around which was placed the American flag. No person was permitted to see the corpse. Six of his fellow members in the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity acted as pall-bearers, and the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College attended the funeral. The remains were interred in the family plot in the old graveyard. Peace be his ashes.

Edmond appears with his family on the 1860 census in Carlisle, PA:
Name Age
Isaah C Loomis 46
Mary S Loomis 36
James H Loomis 18
Grace Loomis 13
Raymond Loomis 9
Edmond Loomis 8
Susan Harts 25


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