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Zachariah See
Born 1836 Died Feb 9, 1902
Red Hook Methodist Cemetery, Village of Red Hook.West side near the fence toward the middle of the cemetery, marked with an engraved American flag.
Zachariah was the son of Jacob See and Anna Mariah Shufelt. He enlisted to fight in the Civil War on January 1st, 1864 at Albany. He ultimately attained the rank of corporal in Company H of the 91st NY Infantry, and was discharged on August 12th, 1865, disabled by a gunshot to the ankle he received in battle.
In 1865, he was 31 years old when he was enumerated in the New York State census at home with his parents in Schodack, Rensselaer Co., NY. A short time after that, he married Alberteen Kellerhouse, daughter of Jeremiah Kellerhouse and Eliza Myers of Gallatin. They had two children, Anna M. See (1867–1924, married Robert Barringer) and Charles A. See (1869–1948). The family appears together in the 1870 federal census of Milan, but by time the 1875 state census was taken they had split up, and Zachariah and his son Charles were living with paper-maker Smith Tompkins in the Town of Stanford. Zachariah worked in the paper mill and Charles was (at only five years old) a boy servant. In 1880, the federal census shows us that the See children were living with Zachariah’s sister Elizabeth Folmsbee and her husband Alfred in Red Hook.
Divorce was uncommon in this era and Zachariah and Albertine’s is only one of two found among those buried in the Red Hook Methodist cemetery. Albertine Kellerhouse See was enumerated while she was living with widower Thomas Bullis in Gallatin in 1875. She remarried Philip Henry Scism on April 11th, 1890 in Elizaville.
At the end of his life, Zachariah See lived with his daughter Anna See Barringer in Red Hook for a number of years, but died of “hemiplegia” (probably stroke) at Bath, Steuben Co., NY in the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers on February 9, 1902. He was 66.