Ira L. Lindsey ²⁴⁹

   Cause of his death was military casualty.

Biographical review: containing life sketches of leading citizens of Worcester County, Massachusetts
v. 30, pt. 2
Boston: Biographical Review Pub. Co., 1899
p. 887

Ira Lindsay spent his boyhood and school days in Turner, [Maine]. With few advantages and little schooling, he had to make his own way in the world from an early age, but he was of a vigorous constitution and quick in many ways to earn money. Having served an apprenticeship, he became a mechanic. From Turner, he went to Grafton, Mass., where he spent some time. Subsequently he came to Worcester, and here engaged in the business of mechanical draughtsman. He was a man of rugged strength, mentally and physically, and despite his meagre education, which he always regretted, he became a successful and prosperous man. In March, 1864, he enlisted in Company A, Twenth-fifth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. Afterward he was in the Peninsular Campaign under General Butler and in all the subsequent engagements of the regiment up to the time of his death. He was killed in the battle at Cold Harbor in June, 1864. Previous to that event he had become noted for his fearlessness, and the papers which were to have made him Sergeant had been already made out and signed. Mr. Lindsay was a born fighter, having, perhaps inherited this aggressive tendency with his Scotch blood. While genial in disposition, he was of strong Christian character. He was buried in the battlefield.

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The Battle of Cold Harbor was fought May 31 - June 12, 1864 in Hanover County, Virginia and was a Confederate victory. It was one of the bloodiest civil war battles with 13,000 Union casualties and 2,500 Confederate casualties.

  Events

• He worked as a shoe maker and machinest.

• He appeared on the census in 1850 in Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He lived in the household of his parents.

• He served in the military as a private in the Civil War in Co. A, 25th Massachusetts Infantry 17 March 1864. He was killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor at the age of 38.

• He had a residence in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

• He was buried at Hope Cemetery in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Ira is not buried at the Cold Harbor Cemetery in Virginia along with the other soldiers that lost their lives. His remains may actually reside at Hope Cemetery. Otherwise, this is just a monument erected in his memory.

Ira married Mary Catherine Estabrook, daughter of Capt. Washington Estabrook and Lydia Watson, 11 June 1857 in Princeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.⁵⁸⁹ (Mary Catherine Estabrook was born 18 January 1830 in Princeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts,^591,592 died 12 April 1919 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts ⁵⁹² and was buried 15 April 1919 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts at Hope Cemetery ⁵⁹².) The cause of her death was arteriosclerosis with cerebral hemorrhage as a contributing cause.