A Civil War veteran, he was drafted in Adams County October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 10 as a private with Co. K, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg.
He married Catharine Cleaver September 9, 1863, in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, and fathered the children you see linked below. In 1890, he was living in Menallen Township, Adams County, in 1922, in York Springs, Adams County, and died at his daughter Anna Mary's home from "arteriosclerosis" with "chronic cystitis" a contributing factor.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334)
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted in Adams County October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 10 as a private with Co. K, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg.
He married Catharine Cleaver September 9, 1863, in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, and fathered the children you see linked below. In 1890, he was living in Menallen Township, Adams County, in 1922, in York Springs, Adams County, and died at his daughter Anna Mary's home from "arteriosclerosis" with "chronic cystitis" a contributing factor.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334)
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