A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in York August 24, 1861, mustered into federal service there as a private with Co. K, 87th Pennsylvania Infantry. He contracted pneumonia in the summer of 1862 while stationed at New Creek, (West) Virginia, and "never performed any hard duty after that." He was sent to Tabor's boarding house in New Creek to recover. He transferred to the band and sometimes helped to the regimental butcher. Despite his infirmity, he hung on to honorably discharge at term's end October 13, 1864.
He married Mary Ann Redding October 1, 1865, but they had no children. He died in Cumberland Township, Adams County, at the home of his father-in-law, Philip Redding. His obituary gives his age as ca. sixty-five, but the 1860 census indicates a birth year of 1835. In 1886, the widowed Mary Ann married Lewis E. Kumerant (209th Pa Inf).
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in York August 24, 1861, mustered into federal service there as a private with Co. K, 87th Pennsylvania Infantry. He contracted pneumonia in the summer of 1862 while stationed at New Creek, (West) Virginia, and "never performed any hard duty after that." He was sent to Tabor's boarding house in New Creek to recover. He transferred to the band and sometimes helped to the regimental butcher. Despite his infirmity, he hung on to honorably discharge at term's end October 13, 1864.
He married Mary Ann Redding October 1, 1865, but they had no children. He died in Cumberland Township, Adams County, at the home of his father-in-law, Philip Redding. His obituary gives his age as ca. sixty-five, but the 1860 census indicates a birth year of 1835. In 1886, the widowed Mary Ann married Lewis E. Kumerant (209th Pa Inf).
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