Lakeside Cemetery Veteran Burials circa 1908

Lakeside Cemetery, 1718 East Lake Rd., Erie, Pennsylvania. Postcard courtesy of Tom DiLuzio.

The Strong Vincent Post No. 67, Grand Army of the Republic decorated the graves of soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and the Spanish-American War for Decoration Day in 1908. The most famous veteran buried in the Lakeside Cemetery in Erie, PA is Captain Charles Vernon Gridley. 

Gridley was the commander of the U.S.S. Olympia during the Spanish-American War. His grave overlooks the bluff of Lake Erie at Lakeside Cemetery. John P. Vincent Gridley, a  U.S. Marine who was killed aboard the U.S.S. Missouri during the Spanish-American War, is also buried in Gridley Circle.

The G.A.R. also decorated the following graves in Lakeside Cemetery in 1908:

James Anderson, Co. H, 5th Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery

Charles A. Baker, U.S. Navy

James N. Beebe, U.S. Navy (served on the U.S.S. Michigan 1869-1891)

Harry Benning, U.S. Navy

Jotham A. Black, Co. K, 10th Vermont Volunteer Infantry

Frederick Boltze, Co. F, 6th Maryland

L. W. Bright, Co. D, 55th Pennsylvania

Lena Bruegel, Army Nurse

Lorenz Burkel, Co. G, 98th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Charles E. Butler, Co. E, 125th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Zacheus Churchill, U.S. Navy

Henry Gernhart, Co. G, 169th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Francis M. Gifford, Co. A, 44th New York Volunteer Infantry

H. C. Gully, U.S. Navy (possibly Henry Gully from the U.S.S. Michigan)

Richard Johnson, Co. D, 83rd Ohio

Ambrose Kennicott, Co. K, 120th New York Volunteers

J. K. Lamphire, 3 Months Erie Regiment

Sigismund Leuckart, U.S. Navy (served on the U.S.S. Michigan)

Robert H. McKay

Clark Nichols, U.S. Army

Amba Orcutt, Co. K, New York Heavy Artillery

George Platt, U.S. Navy

William H. Price, Co. F, 6th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry (Civil War)

George Pulling, Co. K, 47th Wisconsin Volunteers

James C. Rice, U.S. Navy

Fred A. Roth, Co. G, U.S. Cavalry

Martin Ryan, Spanish-American War

A. J. Simons, U.S. Army, Co. D, 112th New York

John R. Smith, Co. C, 98th Pennsylvania

Stephen Strong, Co. K, 98th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

A. J. Thomas, U.S. Navy

Benjamin Tolbert, Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves

Frank Torrence, Co. F, 30th Michigan Volunteers

Oscar H. Tourtalott, Co. F, 168th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Philip Wagner, Co. L, 56th New York Volunteer Infantry

Phineas Wheeler, Co. A, 53rd Illinois (he was reinterred at the Erie Cemetery)

Henry N. Ziegler, Co. E, 33rd U.S. Infantry