U.S. Civil War Veteran, having served as a Private with Company C, 1st Regiment, Pa Volunteers, serving Aug 13 1861-June 13 1864. Married to Catherine Ryan McFate.
Frank's obituary as printed in the Chester Times:
There was laid to rest from his late home on the Fairview Road yesterday afternoon all that was mortal of another of the country's gallant defenders of a generation ago and one of the men who formed the human wall against disunion at Gettysburg, Frank McFate, a lifelong resident of this community, who died last Saturday leaving a wife and three children to mourn his demise. His death, he was 76 years, was due to the infirmities of old age, it is said. Mr. McFate was born on the Fairview Road in a little stone house west of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He was the son of William & Sallie McFate. During the Civil Was he enlisted in the Union Army and it was with pardonable pride that the old veteran pointed to the fact that his name was emblazoned on the great monument at Gettysburg. For many years he was employed at the Leiper and Lewis quarry's. He worked as a foreman at the quarry in Avondale after the war according to his son Edward. He was 6'1" tall and 200 lbs. Besides his widow Mr. McFate is survived by his son Edward of Ridley Park, and two daughters Mrs. Joseph McLaughlin who resides in Ridley Park and Mrs. Charles Risley of Baltimore. His grave in peaceful Chester Rural Cemetery will make one more Wilde Post Grand Army of the Republic will have to decorate this coming Memorial Day.
Frank's obituary as printed in the Chester Times:
There was laid to rest from his late home on the Fairview Road yesterday afternoon all that was mortal of another of the country's gallant defenders of a generation ago and one of the men who formed the human wall against disunion at Gettysburg, Frank McFate, a lifelong resident of this community, who died last Saturday leaving a wife and three children to mourn his demise. His death, he was 76 years, was due to the infirmities of old age, it is said. Mr. McFate was born on the Fairview Road in a little stone house west of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He was the son of William & Sallie McFate. During the Civil Was he enlisted in the Union Army and it was with pardonable pride that the old veteran pointed to the fact that his name was emblazoned on the great monument at Gettysburg. For many years he was employed at the Leiper and Lewis quarry's. He worked as a foreman at the quarry in Avondale after the war according to his son Edward. He was 6'1" tall and 200 lbs. Besides his widow Mr. McFate is survived by his son Edward of Ridley Park, and two daughters Mrs. Joseph McLaughlin who resides in Ridley Park and Mrs. Charles Risley of Baltimore. His grave in peaceful Chester Rural Cemetery will make one more Wilde Post Grand Army of the Republic will have to decorate this coming Memorial Day.
U.S. Civil War Veteran, having served as a Private with Company C, 1st Regiment, Pa Volunteers, serving Aug 13 1861-June 13 1864. Married to Catherine Ryan McFate.
Frank's obituary as printed in the Chester Times:
There was laid to rest from his late home on the Fairview Road yesterday afternoon all that was mortal of another of the country's gallant defenders of a generation ago and one of the men who formed the human wall against disunion at Gettysburg, Frank McFate, a lifelong resident of this community, who died last Saturday leaving a wife and three children to mourn his demise. His death, he was 76 years, was due to the infirmities of old age, it is said. Mr. McFate was born on the Fairview Road in a little stone house west of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He was the son of William & Sallie McFate. During the Civil Was he enlisted in the Union Army and it was with pardonable pride that the old veteran pointed to the fact that his name was emblazoned on the great monument at Gettysburg. For many years he was employed at the Leiper and Lewis quarry's. He worked as a foreman at the quarry in Avondale after the war according to his son Edward. He was 6'1" tall and 200 lbs. Besides his widow Mr. McFate is survived by his son Edward of Ridley Park, and two daughters Mrs. Joseph McLaughlin who resides in Ridley Park and Mrs. Charles Risley of Baltimore. His grave in peaceful Chester Rural Cemetery will make one more Wilde Post Grand Army of the Republic will have to decorate this coming Memorial Day.
Frank's obituary as printed in the Chester Times:
There was laid to rest from his late home on the Fairview Road yesterday afternoon all that was mortal of another of the country's gallant defenders of a generation ago and one of the men who formed the human wall against disunion at Gettysburg, Frank McFate, a lifelong resident of this community, who died last Saturday leaving a wife and three children to mourn his demise. His death, he was 76 years, was due to the infirmities of old age, it is said. Mr. McFate was born on the Fairview Road in a little stone house west of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He was the son of William & Sallie McFate. During the Civil Was he enlisted in the Union Army and it was with pardonable pride that the old veteran pointed to the fact that his name was emblazoned on the great monument at Gettysburg. For many years he was employed at the Leiper and Lewis quarry's. He worked as a foreman at the quarry in Avondale after the war according to his son Edward. He was 6'1" tall and 200 lbs. Besides his widow Mr. McFate is survived by his son Edward of Ridley Park, and two daughters Mrs. Joseph McLaughlin who resides in Ridley Park and Mrs. Charles Risley of Baltimore. His grave in peaceful Chester Rural Cemetery will make one more Wilde Post Grand Army of the Republic will have to decorate this coming Memorial Day.
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