In 1850, he was a laborer living in Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but is not found in the 1860 census. He stood 5’ 8” tall and had dark hair, brown eyes, and a coffee complexion. He married Elizabeth A. lnu. and fathered Anna Mary (b. @1848 - married Samuel H. Brown).

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Upper Penns Neck (now Carneys Point) Township, Salem County, New Jersey, and apparently mustered into federal service in Philadelphia that same day as a private with Co. C, 22nd U.S. Colored Troops. He was promoted to corporal July 1, 1864, and to sergeant December 21, 1864, but was on sick furlough in Lancaster from February 18, 1865, for which he was charged $3.00 in transportation costs. He was reduced to ranks to date October 1, 1865, reason not stated in his compiled military service records, although ill health is a possibility. He honorably discharged with his company October 16, 1865, at Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas.

Shortly after the war, he moved to Harrisburg and later pastored a church in Middletown, Dauphin County, where he died suddenly from an apparent heart attack. All of his Lancaster County obituaries erroneously claim he was buried in Harrisburg.

In 1850, he was a laborer living in Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but is not found in the 1860 census. He stood 5’ 8” tall and had dark hair, brown eyes, and a coffee complexion. He married Elizabeth A. lnu. and fathered Anna Mary (b. @1848 - married Samuel H. Brown).

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Upper Penns Neck (now Carneys Point) Township, Salem County, New Jersey, and apparently mustered into federal service in Philadelphia that same day as a private with Co. C, 22nd U.S. Colored Troops. He was promoted to corporal July 1, 1864, and to sergeant December 21, 1864, but was on sick furlough in Lancaster from February 18, 1865, for which he was charged $3.00 in transportation costs. He was reduced to ranks to date October 1, 1865, reason not stated in his compiled military service records, although ill health is a possibility. He honorably discharged with his company October 16, 1865, at Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas.

Shortly after the war, he moved to Harrisburg and later pastored a church in Middletown, Dauphin County, where he died suddenly from an apparent heart attack. All of his Lancaster County obituaries erroneously claim he was buried in Harrisburg.