(NOTE: The above DOB and DOD are based on the information in Tombstone Inscriptions – Franklin County, PA, p. 3:28, which reports an inscription of "John Plough (Fa. ) d. 10 June 1871 59 yrs. 5 mo. 16 days". Two other sources provide conflicting information. Flash60601 has reported the following: "Cedar Grove burial register lists his birth as "12 Feb 1812", death as "12 Jun 1871", and date of burial "15 Jun 1871", and lists his age at death as "59y 4mo" and burial location as plot A-188." The Public Opinion obituary published on 13 Jun 1871 states that John died on "Sunday morning" which was 11 Jun 1871. If he died in his sleep, there might have been some confusion/uncertainty between Saturday night (10 Jun) and Sunday morning (11 Jun), but the cemetery record clearly conflicts with both the obituary and the tombstone inscription.)
The son of Christian and Barbara (Stauffer) Plough, he married Hannah Snider and fathered Ann (b. abt. 1845) and Mary Emma (b. abt. 1853). In 1860, he was a master carpenter living with his family in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of forty-eight and mustered into state service at Chambersburg September 15, 1862, as a private with the Houser Independent Militia Company, and honorably discharged with the unit October 1, 1862. It is noted that John's enlistment occurred less than seven months after his wife's death. (Note: This author has not found any history of the Houser Independent Militia Company, but the same service history has been seen for at least one other individual. This most likely was related to Gen. Robert E. Lee's Maryland (or Antietam) Campaign, the Confederate's first invasion of the North, which included the Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg) on September 17, 1862 only about 35 miles from Chambersburg.)
As noted in his obituary, late in John's mental condition deteriorated to the point where it was necessary to commit him to the insane asylum at Harrisburg where he died a few weeks later.
(NOTE: The above DOB and DOD are based on the information in Tombstone Inscriptions – Franklin County, PA, p. 3:28, which reports an inscription of "John Plough (Fa. ) d. 10 June 1871 59 yrs. 5 mo. 16 days". Two other sources provide conflicting information. Flash60601 has reported the following: "Cedar Grove burial register lists his birth as "12 Feb 1812", death as "12 Jun 1871", and date of burial "15 Jun 1871", and lists his age at death as "59y 4mo" and burial location as plot A-188." The Public Opinion obituary published on 13 Jun 1871 states that John died on "Sunday morning" which was 11 Jun 1871. If he died in his sleep, there might have been some confusion/uncertainty between Saturday night (10 Jun) and Sunday morning (11 Jun), but the cemetery record clearly conflicts with both the obituary and the tombstone inscription.)
The son of Christian and Barbara (Stauffer) Plough, he married Hannah Snider and fathered Ann (b. abt. 1845) and Mary Emma (b. abt. 1853). In 1860, he was a master carpenter living with his family in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of forty-eight and mustered into state service at Chambersburg September 15, 1862, as a private with the Houser Independent Militia Company, and honorably discharged with the unit October 1, 1862. It is noted that John's enlistment occurred less than seven months after his wife's death. (Note: This author has not found any history of the Houser Independent Militia Company, but the same service history has been seen for at least one other individual. This most likely was related to Gen. Robert E. Lee's Maryland (or Antietam) Campaign, the Confederate's first invasion of the North, which included the Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg) on September 17, 1862 only about 35 miles from Chambersburg.)
As noted in his obituary, late in John's mental condition deteriorated to the point where it was necessary to commit him to the insane asylum at Harrisburg where he died a few weeks later.
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