His death certificate shows his parents to be Ross & Margaret (Burtner) Anderson, but several online family trees claim both William and James for the father and Taylor for his mother's maiden name as well as Mary for her Christian name. His data is conflated with a similarly aged William Anderson who lived in Bedford County in 1860, but this William's pension file clearly demonstrates that they are not the same man. In 1860, this William was a farmer living in Monaghan Township, York County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 7" tall and had light hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, please note that the company shown on the tombstone is wrong. He served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three in Mechanicsburg June 15, 1863, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg June 23 as a private with Co. D in the six-month organization of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry (181st Pennsylvania). While stationed at Capon, West Virginia, his horse fell on him as he was coming off picket duty, and he did little or no duty thereafter.
2. Despite his injury and motivated by a need to support his parents, he re-enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Monroe Township, Cumberland County, January 27, 1864, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg that day as a private with Co. A in the three-year organization of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and promoted to bugler, date as yet unknown. On July 10, 1865, as part of a war-end consolidation, he transferred to Co. D, 1st Pennsylvania Provisional Cavalry, and honorably discharged with his company July 13, 1865, at Cloud Mills, Virginia.
He married Susanna A. "Susy" Althouse January 12, 1879, and fathered the children you see linked below. In 1890, he was living in Dillsburg, York County, and a member of Mechanicsburg's Zinn Post, No. 415, G.A.R. He died at the reported age of 63-0-5 from "apoplexy" accompanied by "neurotic trouble including spasms of 2 years"
A Civil War veteran, please note that the company shown on the tombstone is wrong. He served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three in Mechanicsburg June 15, 1863, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg June 23 as a private with Co. D in the six-month organization of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry (181st Pennsylvania). While stationed at Capon, West Virginia, his horse fell on him as he was coming off picket duty, and he did little or no duty thereafter.
2. Despite his injury and motivated by a need to support his parents, he re-enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Monroe Township, Cumberland County, January 27, 1864, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg that day as a private with Co. A in the three-year organization of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and promoted to bugler, date as yet unknown. On July 10, 1865, as part of a war-end consolidation, he transferred to Co. D, 1st Pennsylvania Provisional Cavalry, and honorably discharged with his company July 13, 1865, at Cloud Mills, Virginia.
He married Susanna A. "Susy" Althouse January 12, 1879, and fathered the children you see linked below. In 1890, he was living in Dillsburg, York County, and a member of Mechanicsburg's Zinn Post, No. 415, G.A.R. He died at the reported age of 63-0-5 from "apoplexy" accompanied by "neurotic trouble including spasms of 2 years"
His death certificate shows his parents to be Ross & Margaret (Burtner) Anderson, but several online family trees claim both William and James for the father and Taylor for his mother's maiden name as well as Mary for her Christian name. His data is conflated with a similarly aged William Anderson who lived in Bedford County in 1860, but this William's pension file clearly demonstrates that they are not the same man. In 1860, this William was a farmer living in Monaghan Township, York County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 7" tall and had light hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, please note that the company shown on the tombstone is wrong. He served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three in Mechanicsburg June 15, 1863, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg June 23 as a private with Co. D in the six-month organization of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry (181st Pennsylvania). While stationed at Capon, West Virginia, his horse fell on him as he was coming off picket duty, and he did little or no duty thereafter.
2. Despite his injury and motivated by a need to support his parents, he re-enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Monroe Township, Cumberland County, January 27, 1864, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg that day as a private with Co. A in the three-year organization of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and promoted to bugler, date as yet unknown. On July 10, 1865, as part of a war-end consolidation, he transferred to Co. D, 1st Pennsylvania Provisional Cavalry, and honorably discharged with his company July 13, 1865, at Cloud Mills, Virginia.
He married Susanna A. "Susy" Althouse January 12, 1879, and fathered the children you see linked below. In 1890, he was living in Dillsburg, York County, and a member of Mechanicsburg's Zinn Post, No. 415, G.A.R. He died at the reported age of 63-0-5 from "apoplexy" accompanied by "neurotic trouble including spasms of 2 years"
A Civil War veteran, please note that the company shown on the tombstone is wrong. He served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three in Mechanicsburg June 15, 1863, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg June 23 as a private with Co. D in the six-month organization of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry (181st Pennsylvania). While stationed at Capon, West Virginia, his horse fell on him as he was coming off picket duty, and he did little or no duty thereafter.
2. Despite his injury and motivated by a need to support his parents, he re-enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Monroe Township, Cumberland County, January 27, 1864, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg that day as a private with Co. A in the three-year organization of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and promoted to bugler, date as yet unknown. On July 10, 1865, as part of a war-end consolidation, he transferred to Co. D, 1st Pennsylvania Provisional Cavalry, and honorably discharged with his company July 13, 1865, at Cloud Mills, Virginia.
He married Susanna A. "Susy" Althouse January 12, 1879, and fathered the children you see linked below. In 1890, he was living in Dillsburg, York County, and a member of Mechanicsburg's Zinn Post, No. 415, G.A.R. He died at the reported age of 63-0-5 from "apoplexy" accompanied by "neurotic trouble including spasms of 2 years"
Inscription
Co, C [wrong], 20th Reg, Pa Cav
Gravesite Details
Birth date calculated from a stated age at death of 63-0-5
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
