The Saratogian newspaper, Saratoga Springs, New York.
Thursday, February 14, 1935.
Joseph Sargood, Veteran of Civil War, Dead At 86.
Native of England, Made Home With Daughter, Lillian Harwood.
Joseph Sargood, 86, who served with the First New York Volunteers before Petersburg and Richmond more than 70 years ago, died at the winter home of his daughter, Mrs. Lillian Harwood, 484 1/2 Broadway, at 7:30 last night. His last campaign was a losing fight against a four weeks seige with a cold which developed into pneumonia.
Mr. Sargood was born in Yorkshire, Eng., April 10, 1848, and came to this country at the age of two on a sailing vessel. He lived in New York until 28, then moved to Watervliet. He went to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harwood, in Middle Grove, 16 years ago.
He enrolled in Company M, first New York Volunteer Engineers, March 3, 1864, a month before he was 16, and served through the rigorous campaigns which ended the Civil War. He was mustered out June 30, 1865.
He was an iron moulder.
Surviving are four sisters, Mrs. A. Williams, Nutley, N.J., and three others; two daughters, Mrs. Harwood, Middle Grove; and Mrs. Herbert Smith, Jersey City; a granddaughter, Mrs. Stanley Braden, Middle Grove; and a great granddaughter, Ruth Braden, Middle Grove.
Funeral services will be at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Bortle Funeral Home, 130 Circular Street. Burial will be in Albany Rural Cemetery.
Other survivors are five sisters of New York City and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Branden, a niece and nephew, of this city.