GEORGE KALE died on Sunday at his home in Mt. Pleasant, Conowago township, aged 87 years and three months.
Mr. Kale was born in France, coming to this country when he was one year old. The greater part of his life was spent in Union township, near Scheivert's school house. He moved to Mt. Pleasant four months ago.
He was a veteran of the Civil War having served in Company K. 165th Regiment, and also in the 150th Regiment.
In 1868 he was married to Miss Lamanda Keefauver, who survives with one son, David Kale, of Pittsburgh, and two daughters, Mrs. Oliver Newman, of Mt. Pleasant, and Miss Eliza Kale, at home.
Funeral was on Wednesday from St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Hanover, with a requiem high mass and interment at Joseph's Catholic Cemetery.
Source : The Gettysburg Compiler Newspaper - Gettysburg, Adams Co., Pennsylvania - Saturday, May 11, 1918
NOTE:
The obituary is definitely incorrect in one regard, George never served with the 150th Pa Inf. Drafted into the 165th Pa Inf, he was drafted again on March 6, 1865, and assigned to Co. I, 56th Pa Inf. He mustered out July 1, 1865.
Source: Dennis Brandt
GEORGE KALE died on Sunday at his home in Mt. Pleasant, Conowago township, aged 87 years and three months.
Mr. Kale was born in France, coming to this country when he was one year old. The greater part of his life was spent in Union township, near Scheivert's school house. He moved to Mt. Pleasant four months ago.
He was a veteran of the Civil War having served in Company K. 165th Regiment, and also in the 150th Regiment.
In 1868 he was married to Miss Lamanda Keefauver, who survives with one son, David Kale, of Pittsburgh, and two daughters, Mrs. Oliver Newman, of Mt. Pleasant, and Miss Eliza Kale, at home.
Funeral was on Wednesday from St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Hanover, with a requiem high mass and interment at Joseph's Catholic Cemetery.
Source : The Gettysburg Compiler Newspaper - Gettysburg, Adams Co., Pennsylvania - Saturday, May 11, 1918
NOTE:
The obituary is definitely incorrect in one regard, George never served with the 150th Pa Inf. Drafted into the 165th Pa Inf, he was drafted again on March 6, 1865, and assigned to Co. I, 56th Pa Inf. He mustered out July 1, 1865.
Source: Dennis Brandt
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