Personal Information
Last Name: Morse   Birth: July 11, 1845
First Name: Franklin   Death: March 9, 1926
Middle Name: B   Age: 80
    Unit: 18th Branch: INF
    State: IA Company: C
Side: Union
Confederate
If Federal
State From:
Rank: PVT
    Enlisted: July 7, 1862 Discharged: August 20, 1865
Veteran
Summary
Franklin B. Morse was born in New York to Ahira/Ahirah Morse and Rose Ann Laffe(y). He married Mary A. Holbrook on 14 Nov 1869 in Walla Walla (children: Charles F, Cara D. Morse Stanfield). On 15 Mar 1900, he married Emma J. Weatherman in Walla Walla. Franklin enlisted at the age of 18 in Freedom township, Clinton, Hamilton County, Iowa and was mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansas. Occupations: farmer, shipping clerk, county constable, and policeman. He was a member of Gen. Warren Post No. 28 of Walla Walla, Walla Walla County, Washington. Sources: Ancestry, FamilySearch, Fold3, Washington Digital Archives, Civil War Pensions Index, WA Death Certificate, Roster/Records of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion (Vol. 3), Registry 24th Annual Encampment Dept of WA/AK G.A.R. (Walla Walla, 25-27 Jun 1906), Early Marriages of Walla Walla County, Illustrated History of Walla Walla County, WA by Lyman, U.S. Veterans Adm Pension Payment Card, Western States Marriage Index, U.S. Civil War Draft Registrations, U.S. Civil War Soldiers, Census of Union Veterans & Widows of Civil War-1890, U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, Census (1880-1920), Retsil, WA Veterans Home (Case 1080) Find-a-Grave (I.D.-71034753)

Cemetery Information
Cemetery NameMountain View
Cemetery Street2120 S 2nd Ave
Cemetery CityWalla Walla
Cemetery Township
Cemetery CountyWalla Walla
Cemetery StateWA
Grave Information
Cemetery Lot50
Cemetery SectionBlock 6
Cemetery Grave Number15
GAR PostAbraham Lincoln 4
GAR DepartmentWA
Military Headstone
Replace Headstone
Reset Headstone
Private Headstone
Headstone
GAR Marker
MOLL Marker
Other Marker
CBRC
MOH