Colorado Spanish American War Service Medal 1st Colorado Vol Infantry Named
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Colorado Spanish American War Service Medal 1st Colorado Vol Infantry Named:
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Original Colorado Spanish American War Service Medal enraged Thomas Rylots over CORP
This medal is pin is missing from the brooch.
The medal is engraved Thomas Rylots over CORP. Thus the nameon the medal is misspelled, as the man’s name was Thomas Rylott according tothe 1st Colorado Edition of Campaigning in the Philippines.
NOTE: Rylots is not an name, if you put into an Ancestry search it yields zero results, thus proving its a misspelling on Rylott.
Thomas Rylott served as a Private and as a Corporal in CompanyF, 1st Colorado Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish American Warand the Philippine Insurrection. He was wounded in action at Paranaque on June10, 1899.
From the 1st Colorado Edition of Campaigning in the Philippines: A little later, though, Company F ran into more shots and Private H. A. Macklem was wounded in the temple,
Frank Duval had his leg broken by a bullet and Thomas Rylott fell on a bolo he had captured and cut himself badly in the leg.
According to the 1897 Leadville, Colorado City DirectoryRylott was a teamster living in that town. According to the 1900 US CensusRylott’s name was J. Thomas Rylott he was living in a boarding house inLeadville, Colorado
where he was a miner, the census also stated that he wasborn in August of 1853 in Delaware. His father was born in Massachusetts andhis mother was born in England.
According to the Colorado State Archives Rylott is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Lake County, Colorado there is no additional information other than the plot designation in the state archives or on the list of burials in Lake County, CO.
That is all that I could find on Rylott that is confirmed. Ibelieve that he was the son of Matthew Rylott who lived in Delaware at the timethat his son’s Joseph and John were born. John falls off the face of the earthafter the 1870 census. Matthew’s wife states in the 1900 US census that shegave birth to 7 children but only two were still alive in 1900. Joseph appearsin census records living in Baltimore and Philadelphia. If this is the rightfamily then Rylott was likely born in the 1860’s rather than in 1853 as statedin the 1900 US Census. But there isn’t enough of a trail to confirm anything asthe only conclusive information dates from the period of 1897 to 1900 and thendies out.
Colorado Spanish American War Service Medal 1st Colorado Vol Infantry Named:
$199.99