Henry Silas Sink

Born 1783 Chester County Pa
Died 1869 Franklin County VA

Married 1805
Elizabeth Snider Sink
1485-1871

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Born in 1818 at Taylors Store P.O., Franklin County, Virginia. The son of Henry Silas and Elizabeth Jane Snider Sink.
Married Naomi Altick, on 15 October 1854.
Enlisted in Confederate Army on 10 March 1862 as private, Co. B, 24 Infantry Regiment, with his son William.
Died of smallpox at the Pest House Hospital in Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia. Near by was the Exchange Hotel that was used as a hospital during the war, that treated over 70,000 soldiers, both Union and Confederate. But soldiers with contagious diseases were moved less than a mile away to the “Pest House”. Most were buried on the grounds in common graves.

Children

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Elizabeth Sink Jannay
1844-1920
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James Sink
1849-1931

Skelton Sink
1848-1931
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Fannie Sink Hodges
1852-1930
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Jonathan Whitehead ‘John” Sink Jr
1855-1918
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George Jacob Sink
1856-1946
Married 1881
Lucy Victoria Oyler-Sink
1864-1936