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Last NameGREENE
First NameGEORGE SEARS, MAJ GEN
Maiden 
RelationH/O ELIZABETH VINTON
Cemetery NumberWK023
Cemetery NameMAJ GEN GEORGE SEARS GREENE
Birth Day6
Birth MonthMAY
Birth Year1801
Death Day28
Death MonthJAN
Death Year1899
WarCIVIL
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map00007
Stone Materialbronze
Conditiongood
Shapecrude fieldstone
Carvingno carving
Legibilitygood
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches) 
Stone Width (inches) 
Exists?
Last Seen Date2023
Carver 
Notes/Misc Details
Notesattended West Point 1819-1823; Officer of Artillery until 1836. Reentered the army as a Col 60th Reg't of NY Vols. Promoted to Brigadier General then Major General. Faught in several Civil War battles and was severly wounded. The sword and the bronze plaque are missing in 1995. The sword is at the Kentish Guard Amory in East Greenwich and the plaque was turned in by a scrap metal dealer in West Warwick and is now at the Warwick City Hall. died: MORRISTOWN, NJ
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