Oscar J. Crozier (b. circa 1844 - d. 1915)
MSA SC 5496-51755
USCT Soldier, Kent County, Maryland
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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (U.S. Colored Troops Pension File Collection) [MSA SC 4126] Oscar J. Crozier. Box 29. Folder 568.Special Collections. MSA SC 1399-1-264-5. Fourth District Chestertown Kent Co. In An Illustrated Atlas of Kent & Queen Anne Counties, Maryland, 1877. Philadelphia: Lake, Griffing & Stevenson, 1877.
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Find a Grave. “Pvt. Oscar James Crozier.” Record added 3 Feb. 2008 by RCann. 30 Apr. 2013. Accessed online at findagrave.com.
Hopkins, G. M. City Atlas of Philadelphia, Vol. 6, Wards 2 through 20, 29 and 31. 1875. Index Plate. Private collection of Matt Ainslie. Accessed online at philageohistory.org.
Lithograph of the William Penn Hotel, December 1848. Image from the collection of The Library Company of Philadelphia. Accessed online at brynmawr.edu.
Photograph of Captain J.W.M. Appleton, Company A, 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Image from the Florida State Archives Photographic Collection. Accessed online at battleofolustee.org.
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“Susan Crozier’s Death Certificate.” Ancestry.com. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates Index, 1803-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
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The National Archives. The Freedmen’s Bureau. Accessed 5th May, 2013. http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/freedmens-bureau/.
Year: 1850; Census Place: Philadelphia Middle Ward, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_814; Page: 38A; Image:81.
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