Where is Civil War Veteran Henry Cater (1827 - 1865) buried?

Question

Hi Wikitreers,

We have Private Henry Cater who enlisted with the 106th New York Infantry Regiment Co. C on July 29, 1862, at Oswegatchie, to serve three years. Fold3 has some viewable sources but some sources are behind the Ancestry membership paywall? It appears from the viewable records he died January 5, 1865 and is buried somewhere in Philadelphia, Pa. The widow has a name of Sarah A  Cater. It seems he left behind a child and wife upon his death.

Does he have a place of burial or does his widow? Where was he born?

Any collaboration is appreciated

Thank you

Answer 1

FamilySearch has the Philadelphia death certificates available. His is here: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DC5S-4QM He was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery ('O F' on the death certificate), which was closed in 1951; bodies were moved to Lawnview Cemetery (in Rockledge) or Mount Peace (in Philadelphia).

Comments

Thank you Harry

His cause of death is “exhaustion following secondary hemorrhage”

Occupation listed as “Soldier”

Place of birth: England

Ward 22

Chestnut Hill U.S  Hospital? Maybe a military hospital

It appears he died in Philadelphia at this hospital on the death record?

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Yes, I agree that he died in Philadelphia. (When bodies were transported to Philadelphia for burial, they usually only filled out the "undertaker's certificate", and attached something from the location where the person died.) I think the hospital is Mower General Hospital (Wikipedia page), but I don't know as much about the hospitals in Philadelphia as I should.

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Here is the FindAGrave for both cemeteries he just needs to have a memorial created by a contributor when they find a gravestone. I couldn’t find a memorial when I searched  

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1628663/mount-peace-cemetery

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/45275/lawnview-cemetery

Answer 2

The Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Town and Church Records, 1669-2013, database at ancestry.com has a Henry Cater, who was buried on January 12, 1865, in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Philadelphia.

https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2020650649:2451?ssrc=pt&tid=193470796&pid=282527590575

Comments

The cemetery was apparently used as part of the national cemetery system during the Civil War, with 277 soldiers buried there, with the remains later re-buried at the Philadelphia National Cemetery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Fellows_Cemetery_(Philadelphia)

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Thank you Roger

It’s hard to believe they moved the soldiers from the respective graves. What year was that I don’t see it yet?

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1885.

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Ah yes I see it as it’s source Holt, Dean W. (2009). American Military Cemeteries, 2d ed. McFarland. pp. 397

Edit: “However, in 2013, workers unearthed 28 graves and remains that were not moved and were still under the playground of the William Dick school built in 1954.” Haas, Kimberly (10 February 2020). "Playing on Hallowed Ground: Hidden