new research

Today I received the death certificate of William Hagan, who was the brother of John A Hagan, our Ireland immigrant ancestor. It indicated his father's name as John and William's birthplace only as Ireland. However, it states that he was buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery in New York. I googled the name of the cemetery and it turns out that Cypress Hills is a national cemetery. It was opened to receive Civil War soldiers who died during the war. In 1873, the cemetery was opened up to burials of soldiers of the Civil War who did not die during the war, but were honorably discharged. So it appears that William was a Civil War Veteran and now I have civil war records to track down, which might be helpful