E. B. Root Photographs

Edward Bernum Root was born 20 April 1845 in Queensbury, NY,
the second of six children of David and Cordelia Root.
He married Amanda "Minnie" Worden of Coxsackie, NY on 8 September 1869.
They had three daughters: Emma Edna, Minnie, and Anna.
Amanda died 19 May 1918 in Ulster, NY. Edward died 10 November 1918, in Kingston, NY.
They are buried in Woodside Cemetery, Dumont, NJ.

E. B. Root sometime after the war. E. B. Root on Decoration Day
Dumont, NJ, 1918.

Damaged, undated tintype of
E. B. Root in his G.A.R. uniform.

E. B. Root's medals (not to scale).
At left and center are, respectively, the front and back of his G.A.R. medal.
At right are two different, single-sided medallions.

Edward and Minnie's headstone
at Woodside Cemetery, Dumont, NJ.

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E. B. Root sometime after the war.	E. B. Root on Decoration Day Dumont, NJ, 1918.