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William Sheahan Family Graves, Dennysville, MaineDescription
William Sheahan family grave stones in the town cemetery, Dennysville, Maine, mark the graves of Sergeant William Sheahan, Co. F., Sixth Maine Volunteers, who was killed at the Battle of Rappahannock Station, November 7, 1863, buried beside his wife Cordelia, who died just a few weeks earlier on October 18, 1863, and their infant daughter, Delia, who died December 19, 1861, aged 2 months and six days.Context
Sergeant William Sheahan of Company F, 6th Maine Volunteers, was killed during the Battle of Rappahannock Station on November 7, 1863. He is buried here with his wife, Cordelia, who had died just three weeks before, on October 18, 1863, beside their daughter Delia, who had died December 19, 1861, aged two months and six days. Of him, his Captain, Theodore Lincoln of Dennysville, said: "He was the bravest man I ever saw." On Saturday, January 9, 1864, John D. Allan entered in his diary, "William Sheahan's body was brought home. He is to be buried next Wednesday." Capt. Theodore Lincoln, a civil engineer who had superintended the construction of important railroad lines in Ohio and Indiana from preliminary surveys to their complete equipment, had served three perilous years in the 6th Maine Regiment and was awaiting mustering out in Portland when he suffered and acute attack of the deadly disease which had claimed the lives of so many brave young soldiers. He died at his father's home in Dennysville on November 10, 1865.Collection
Photos for Map, Contemporary Photographs of the Dennys River Area
