The only child of Daniel H. & Susan (Cohick) Fralich and stepson of John W. Sours, in 1850 he was living with the William Amos family in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In 1860, he was a brick layer presumably living in or near Paradise Township, Lancaster County, but is not found in that census but is found in the 1863 draft registration there. He stood 5' 9" tall and had dark hair and dark eyes. He never married.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-eight in West Chester, Chester County, June 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Baltimore, Maryland July 26 as a private with Co. E, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). On February 10, 1862, he was detached to gunboat service with the Mississippi River Flotilla, where he was wounded in the head, date and place unknown. He discharged by surgeon's certificate at Cairo, Illinois.
2. Enlisted at Cairo December 19, 1863, with the U.S. Navy, serving first at the rank of seaman, then as acting master's mate, and honorably discharged at term's end December 17, 1864.
A cousin described him as a man "of a roving nature." On November 18, 1886, he entered the soldiers' home in Hampton, Virginia, but left October 11, 1888, for the undefined cause of being "without character." He was admitted to the soldiers' home in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, November 21, 1899, but dropped from the rolls June 8, 1901, for being AWOL. Reportedly an alcoholic, he was admitted to the Pennsylvania state lunatic asylum on November 16, 1908, and remained there until his death from "chronic myocarditis" with "chronic interstitial nephritis" a contributing factor. He also reported 1832 as his year of birth.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-eight in West Chester, Chester County, June 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Baltimore, Maryland July 26 as a private with Co. E, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). On February 10, 1862, he was detached to gunboat service with the Mississippi River Flotilla, where he was wounded in the head, date and place unknown. He discharged by surgeon's certificate at Cairo, Illinois.
2. Enlisted at Cairo December 19, 1863, with the U.S. Navy, serving first at the rank of seaman, then as acting master's mate, and honorably discharged at term's end December 17, 1864.
A cousin described him as a man "of a roving nature." On November 18, 1886, he entered the soldiers' home in Hampton, Virginia, but left October 11, 1888, for the undefined cause of being "without character." He was admitted to the soldiers' home in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, November 21, 1899, but dropped from the rolls June 8, 1901, for being AWOL. Reportedly an alcoholic, he was admitted to the Pennsylvania state lunatic asylum on November 16, 1908, and remained there until his death from "chronic myocarditis" with "chronic interstitial nephritis" a contributing factor. He also reported 1832 as his year of birth.
The only child of Daniel H. & Susan (Cohick) Fralich and stepson of John W. Sours, in 1850 he was living with the William Amos family in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In 1860, he was a brick layer presumably living in or near Paradise Township, Lancaster County, but is not found in that census but is found in the 1863 draft registration there. He stood 5' 9" tall and had dark hair and dark eyes. He never married.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-eight in West Chester, Chester County, June 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Baltimore, Maryland July 26 as a private with Co. E, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). On February 10, 1862, he was detached to gunboat service with the Mississippi River Flotilla, where he was wounded in the head, date and place unknown. He discharged by surgeon's certificate at Cairo, Illinois.
2. Enlisted at Cairo December 19, 1863, with the U.S. Navy, serving first at the rank of seaman, then as acting master's mate, and honorably discharged at term's end December 17, 1864.
A cousin described him as a man "of a roving nature." On November 18, 1886, he entered the soldiers' home in Hampton, Virginia, but left October 11, 1888, for the undefined cause of being "without character." He was admitted to the soldiers' home in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, November 21, 1899, but dropped from the rolls June 8, 1901, for being AWOL. Reportedly an alcoholic, he was admitted to the Pennsylvania state lunatic asylum on November 16, 1908, and remained there until his death from "chronic myocarditis" with "chronic interstitial nephritis" a contributing factor. He also reported 1832 as his year of birth.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-eight in West Chester, Chester County, June 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Baltimore, Maryland July 26 as a private with Co. E, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). On February 10, 1862, he was detached to gunboat service with the Mississippi River Flotilla, where he was wounded in the head, date and place unknown. He discharged by surgeon's certificate at Cairo, Illinois.
2. Enlisted at Cairo December 19, 1863, with the U.S. Navy, serving first at the rank of seaman, then as acting master's mate, and honorably discharged at term's end December 17, 1864.
A cousin described him as a man "of a roving nature." On November 18, 1886, he entered the soldiers' home in Hampton, Virginia, but left October 11, 1888, for the undefined cause of being "without character." He was admitted to the soldiers' home in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, November 21, 1899, but dropped from the rolls June 8, 1901, for being AWOL. Reportedly an alcoholic, he was admitted to the Pennsylvania state lunatic asylum on November 16, 1908, and remained there until his death from "chronic myocarditis" with "chronic interstitial nephritis" a contributing factor. He also reported 1832 as his year of birth.
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