The grave of William Hargrave (1844-1940), Los Angeles National Cemetery,
Section 72, Row 1, Infantry, Upright Section.
William Hargrave was born in Beech Ridge Quebec, south of Montreal in 1844. He moved with his father Andrew and Mother Margaret Lawson to Illinois in 1855. He worked on their farm until the fall of 1864, when he enlisted in the Union Army served in Company F of the 141st Illinois Infantry until discharged in 1865. He was as a coal miner in Kentucky and Illinois and worked in the gold mines of Colorado until cripled by a fall in a mine shaft. He went to New Mexico in 1883, where he was involved in sheep ranching. He retired to San Diego, California in 1889. He later entered the National Military Home at Sawtelle, Los Angeles, California where he lived until his death in 1940.