Last name also seen as Edlemen and Edelman (for memorial we will keep the way it was on his memorial stone)

Civil War veteran - Union
Co. A-148 Regiment, P.V.
Dates of Service: 8/25/1862 to 6/1/1865∼Elias is the son of John and Anna Maria Edelman. Anna Maria died when her son was only 3 years of age, and his father remarried.

United States Census, 1860
West Buffaloe Tp, Union, Pennsylvania
Household ID: 378
John Edleman 50 Pennsylvania
Mary A 50 Pennsylvania
Cornelius 21 Pennsylvania
Elias 14 Pennsylvania
Edwin 13 Pennsylvania
Alexander 11 Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Smith 18 Pennsylvania
all born

"Elias enrolls at Rebersburg, Pa., Aug. 22, 1862 for three years as a private in Comp. A. 148th Pa. Inf. as a musician. By March or April 1864, he is transferred to Comp. C 79th Pa. Regt. the "Invalid Corps" and mustered out July 8, 1865 at Providence, R.I." ~~ Mifflinburg Telegraph Weekly Newspaper, Trail of History for January 9, 2014, by local historian, Dr. Mary-Belle Lontz.

United States Census, 1870
West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania
Eli Eddleman 26 Farm Laborer Pennsylvania
Matilda 24 Pennsylvania
Alice 3 Pennsylvania
On the same census: Eli's father John Eddleman 63; Mary A 60; Edwin 23 Miller; Mary I 21; Alexander 21; Lilly 2 ~~ Also his brother John Eddleman 34; Susanna 33; William 11; Rose E 8; John N 6; Brainard 2 - all born Pennsylvania

United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917
Elias Edleman
pension: 25 May 1888
Pennsylvania, United States
Military Rank: Musc.
Military Company: A
Military Regiment: 148
State: Pennsylvania
Military Unit: Infantry
National Archives and Records Administration
Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900

United States General Index to Pension Files 1861-1934
Elias Edleman
25 May 1888
Pennsylvania, United States
Beneficiary's Name: Matilde Edleman
Publication Number T288, Film Number 137, GS Film Number 540893, Digital Folder 005080226, Image 03917

"There were five children who grew to the years of maturity,[Alexander, the subject of this article] the others being John and Cornelius, both farmers of Missouri: Eli, who was an agriculturist of Union County, Penn., but is now deceased and Edwin a miller living in West Buffalo township. " ~~ Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Penn-Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder by J.H. Beers and Company 1898 pg 1205

"List of Soldiers Buried in the Several Cemeteries in Union County.
Mifflinburg.
Old Graveyard.
Edleman, Elias"
~Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania, 1755-1855 by John Blair Linn; Harrisburg, PA. Lans S. Hart, Printer and Binder. 1877. pg 594