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Andrew Rickrode

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Andrew Rickrode

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
6 May 1908 (aged 76)
Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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The son of Richard & Margaret (Kuhn) Rickrode, he married Susannah Seifert June 17, 1856, and fathered Francis Jerome (b. 09/30/60), Joseph Milton (b. 04/10/62), William Andrew (b. 02/23/68), and Mary Emma (b. 01/25/72 - married George Hoffman). In 1860, he was laborer living with and/or working for Jacob Leifert on Oxford Township, Adams County. He stood 5' 9" tall and had brown hair and blue eyes.

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Harrisburg February 16, 1865, mustered into federal service there March 9 as a private with the 74th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. G, and honorably discharged with his company August 29, 1865.

In 1880, he was living in Oxford Township, Adams County, and in 1890, in Hanover, York County. On June 3, 1904, he entered the Soldiers' Home in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, where he remained until September 2, 1905, when he transferred to the home in Vermillion County, Illinois. He discharged September 14, 1906, after he went absent without leave. Neither obituary nor death certificate was found in any online archive, so the death location seen here is unconfirmed.
The son of Richard & Margaret (Kuhn) Rickrode, he married Susannah Seifert June 17, 1856, and fathered Francis Jerome (b. 09/30/60), Joseph Milton (b. 04/10/62), William Andrew (b. 02/23/68), and Mary Emma (b. 01/25/72 - married George Hoffman). In 1860, he was laborer living with and/or working for Jacob Leifert on Oxford Township, Adams County. He stood 5' 9" tall and had brown hair and blue eyes.

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Harrisburg February 16, 1865, mustered into federal service there March 9 as a private with the 74th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. G, and honorably discharged with his company August 29, 1865.

In 1880, he was living in Oxford Township, Adams County, and in 1890, in Hanover, York County. On June 3, 1904, he entered the Soldiers' Home in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, where he remained until September 2, 1905, when he transferred to the home in Vermillion County, Illinois. He discharged September 14, 1906, after he went absent without leave. Neither obituary nor death certificate was found in any online archive, so the death location seen here is unconfirmed.


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