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2LT Alfonso L. Braucher

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2LT Alfonso L. Braucher Veteran

Birth
Ohio, USA
Death
28 Jan 1862 (aged 33)
Kentucky, USA
Burial
Independence, Defiance County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
Plot
17
Memorial ID
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February 1, 1862 – Lieutenant Alphonzo T. BRAUCHER, Second Lieut. In the Defiance Company in the 38th Regiment, and son of Isaac Braucher of this vicinity, died suddenly on Wednesday morning last in Kentucky. His friends received a dispatch on Wednesday morning that he was very sick, and at noon another that he was dead. He was about 30 years of age, of robust health, and of exemplary habits and it could only be extreme hardships that could so soon have worn him down. His father started after his remains Wednesday P.M. and will return perhaps today.

Excerpts Pertaining to the Civil War - 1862
(from the Defiance Democrat - 1862) February 1, 1862

Lieutenant Alphonzo T. BRAUCHER, Second Lieut. In the Defiance Company in the 38th Regiment, and son of Isaac Braucher of this vicinity, died suddenly on Wednesday morning last in Kentucky. His friends received a dispatch on Wednesday morning that he was very sick, and at noon another that he was dead. He was about 30 years of age, of robust health, and of exemplary habits and it could only be extreme hardships that could so soon have worn him down.

Birth date was calculated from death date.

Was on tombstone.
He died at Somerset, Kentucky
2nd. Lieut. Co. G. 38th. Reg. O.V.I. S.J.A. G.A.R.
February 1, 1862 – Lieutenant Alphonzo T. BRAUCHER, Second Lieut. In the Defiance Company in the 38th Regiment, and son of Isaac Braucher of this vicinity, died suddenly on Wednesday morning last in Kentucky. His friends received a dispatch on Wednesday morning that he was very sick, and at noon another that he was dead. He was about 30 years of age, of robust health, and of exemplary habits and it could only be extreme hardships that could so soon have worn him down. His father started after his remains Wednesday P.M. and will return perhaps today.

Excerpts Pertaining to the Civil War - 1862
(from the Defiance Democrat - 1862) February 1, 1862

Lieutenant Alphonzo T. BRAUCHER, Second Lieut. In the Defiance Company in the 38th Regiment, and son of Isaac Braucher of this vicinity, died suddenly on Wednesday morning last in Kentucky. His friends received a dispatch on Wednesday morning that he was very sick, and at noon another that he was dead. He was about 30 years of age, of robust health, and of exemplary habits and it could only be extreme hardships that could so soon have worn him down.

Birth date was calculated from death date.

Was on tombstone.
He died at Somerset, Kentucky
2nd. Lieut. Co. G. 38th. Reg. O.V.I. S.J.A. G.A.R.


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