Pvt. Warren Stickney

Pvt. Warren Stickney

B Co.        16th Mass. Inf.

   Served three years.

       From the Post #49 files
Member Elgin GAR Veteran's Post #49.

   Obit; Feb. 27, 1911 issue of The Elgin Daily News.
   Warren Stickney, at one time an Elgin resident, died at the Milwaukee old Soldiers Home yesterday, aged 70 years.  Mr. Stickney had been at the home for several years.  While in Elgin he was employed in the plate room of the watch factory.
   He served three years in Company H, 16th Massachusetts Volunteers and was mustered out at Waltham, Mass.  He enlisted at the same time and in the same company with W.R. Cloudman of this city.  He was kno
wn by all the old soldiers and citizens of Elgin.
   He is survived by a wife and daughter, who live at Lessenden place.

Used with permission Dan Mallett

Many members of Post #49 sewed watch faces to their ribbons to show they were from Elgin.