The son of George & Susan (Meixel) Franklin, in 1860 he was a farm laborer living with his family in Lower Dickinson Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 8" tall and had light hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg October 10, 1861, mustered into federal service at Pittsburgh October 14 as a private with Co. D, 77th Pennsylvania Infantry, and promoted to corporal, date unknown. He was detached to brigade headquarters from May 20, 1863, until the following August when he returned to duty with the regiment. Captured at the battle of Chickamauga September 19, 1863, he was confined at Richmond, Virginia, paroled at City Point, Virginia, March 21, 1864. and reported to Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland. He returned to the regiment, but was admitted to Cumberland U.S. Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, ca. July 1864, and returned to duty on September 21. He honorably discharged at term's end November 6, 1864, at Pulaski, Tennessee.
After the war, he married Fannie Shetron and fathered Laura A. (b. 10/19/68 - married John Luther Farner), Margaret J. "Maggie" (b. @1871), Jesse R. (b. 07/18/72), John P. (b. @1874), Mary Ellen (b. 06/10/77 - married Edward D. Kutz), George B. (b. @1878), and Gertrude B. (b. 07/??/80). There is an indication that the last two children were the offspring of a woman named Anna, and the two women did contest for a widow's pension. His cause of death is listd as "chronic myocardits with cardial dilatation."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg October 10, 1861, mustered into federal service at Pittsburgh October 14 as a private with Co. D, 77th Pennsylvania Infantry, and promoted to corporal, date unknown. He was detached to brigade headquarters from May 20, 1863, until the following August when he returned to duty with the regiment. Captured at the battle of Chickamauga September 19, 1863, he was confined at Richmond, Virginia, paroled at City Point, Virginia, March 21, 1864. and reported to Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland. He returned to the regiment, but was admitted to Cumberland U.S. Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, ca. July 1864, and returned to duty on September 21. He honorably discharged at term's end November 6, 1864, at Pulaski, Tennessee.
After the war, he married Fannie Shetron and fathered Laura A. (b. 10/19/68 - married John Luther Farner), Margaret J. "Maggie" (b. @1871), Jesse R. (b. 07/18/72), John P. (b. @1874), Mary Ellen (b. 06/10/77 - married Edward D. Kutz), George B. (b. @1878), and Gertrude B. (b. 07/??/80). There is an indication that the last two children were the offspring of a woman named Anna, and the two women did contest for a widow's pension. His cause of death is listd as "chronic myocardits with cardial dilatation."
The son of George & Susan (Meixel) Franklin, in 1860 he was a farm laborer living with his family in Lower Dickinson Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 8" tall and had light hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg October 10, 1861, mustered into federal service at Pittsburgh October 14 as a private with Co. D, 77th Pennsylvania Infantry, and promoted to corporal, date unknown. He was detached to brigade headquarters from May 20, 1863, until the following August when he returned to duty with the regiment. Captured at the battle of Chickamauga September 19, 1863, he was confined at Richmond, Virginia, paroled at City Point, Virginia, March 21, 1864. and reported to Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland. He returned to the regiment, but was admitted to Cumberland U.S. Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, ca. July 1864, and returned to duty on September 21. He honorably discharged at term's end November 6, 1864, at Pulaski, Tennessee.
After the war, he married Fannie Shetron and fathered Laura A. (b. 10/19/68 - married John Luther Farner), Margaret J. "Maggie" (b. @1871), Jesse R. (b. 07/18/72), John P. (b. @1874), Mary Ellen (b. 06/10/77 - married Edward D. Kutz), George B. (b. @1878), and Gertrude B. (b. 07/??/80). There is an indication that the last two children were the offspring of a woman named Anna, and the two women did contest for a widow's pension. His cause of death is listd as "chronic myocardits with cardial dilatation."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg October 10, 1861, mustered into federal service at Pittsburgh October 14 as a private with Co. D, 77th Pennsylvania Infantry, and promoted to corporal, date unknown. He was detached to brigade headquarters from May 20, 1863, until the following August when he returned to duty with the regiment. Captured at the battle of Chickamauga September 19, 1863, he was confined at Richmond, Virginia, paroled at City Point, Virginia, March 21, 1864. and reported to Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland. He returned to the regiment, but was admitted to Cumberland U.S. Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, ca. July 1864, and returned to duty on September 21. He honorably discharged at term's end November 6, 1864, at Pulaski, Tennessee.
After the war, he married Fannie Shetron and fathered Laura A. (b. 10/19/68 - married John Luther Farner), Margaret J. "Maggie" (b. @1871), Jesse R. (b. 07/18/72), John P. (b. @1874), Mary Ellen (b. 06/10/77 - married Edward D. Kutz), George B. (b. @1878), and Gertrude B. (b. 07/??/80). There is an indication that the last two children were the offspring of a woman named Anna, and the two women did contest for a widow's pension. His cause of death is listd as "chronic myocardits with cardial dilatation."
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