He is found in the 1863-65 draft registration as a laborer living in East Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Lancaster September 5, 1861, and mustered into federal service there September 16 as a private with Co. H, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. After the battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862, he was detailed to drive an ambulance, suggesting his health was inadequate for active duty, and he was hospitalized for an unspecified illness at Nashville, Tennessee, during late July 1864. The illness apparently was severe as he honorably discharged at Harrisburg December 2, 1864, two months after others in the regiment with expired enlistments had mustered out in Atlanta, Georgia. He married Susanna Weinhold and fathered Isaac Lemon (b. 10/28/68). By 1880, he was living with his family in Reading, Berks County, but returned to Lancaster County sometime after 1900. Shortly before his death, he entered the Berks County alms house, possibly because his son Lemon was a Berks County resident and remained there until his death. According to his obituary in the June 21 Reading Times, he died at the age of 64-6-4, calculating to a birth date of December 15, 1839, but the June 20 edition claims he died at the age of seventy-two. He is in the 1850 census as a thirty-two-year-old, in the 1880 census at forty-six, and 1900 census claims a January 1830 birth. He is not found with certainty in the 1860 and 1870 censuses.
(Note that it is possible he is the same Abraham Trostle who later enlisted and mustered at the age of thirty-three with the 195th Pennsylvania infantry, although this Jacob's pension index only shows the 79th Pennsylvania, and the 195th Abraham did not apply for a pension.)
Contributor: Dennis Brandt
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Lancaster September 5, 1861, and mustered into federal service there September 16 as a private with Co. H, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. After the battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862, he was detailed to drive an ambulance, suggesting his health was inadequate for active duty, and he was hospitalized for an unspecified illness at Nashville, Tennessee, during late July 1864. The illness apparently was severe as he honorably discharged at Harrisburg December 2, 1864, two months after others in the regiment with expired enlistments had mustered out in Atlanta, Georgia. He married Susanna Weinhold and fathered Isaac Lemon (b. 10/28/68). By 1880, he was living with his family in Reading, Berks County, but returned to Lancaster County sometime after 1900. Shortly before his death, he entered the Berks County alms house, possibly because his son Lemon was a Berks County resident and remained there until his death. According to his obituary in the June 21 Reading Times, he died at the age of 64-6-4, calculating to a birth date of December 15, 1839, but the June 20 edition claims he died at the age of seventy-two. He is in the 1850 census as a thirty-two-year-old, in the 1880 census at forty-six, and 1900 census claims a January 1830 birth. He is not found with certainty in the 1860 and 1870 censuses.
(Note that it is possible he is the same Abraham Trostle who later enlisted and mustered at the age of thirty-three with the 195th Pennsylvania infantry, although this Jacob's pension index only shows the 79th Pennsylvania, and the 195th Abraham did not apply for a pension.)
Contributor: Dennis Brandt
He is found in the 1863-65 draft registration as a laborer living in East Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Lancaster September 5, 1861, and mustered into federal service there September 16 as a private with Co. H, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. After the battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862, he was detailed to drive an ambulance, suggesting his health was inadequate for active duty, and he was hospitalized for an unspecified illness at Nashville, Tennessee, during late July 1864. The illness apparently was severe as he honorably discharged at Harrisburg December 2, 1864, two months after others in the regiment with expired enlistments had mustered out in Atlanta, Georgia. He married Susanna Weinhold and fathered Isaac Lemon (b. 10/28/68). By 1880, he was living with his family in Reading, Berks County, but returned to Lancaster County sometime after 1900. Shortly before his death, he entered the Berks County alms house, possibly because his son Lemon was a Berks County resident and remained there until his death. According to his obituary in the June 21 Reading Times, he died at the age of 64-6-4, calculating to a birth date of December 15, 1839, but the June 20 edition claims he died at the age of seventy-two. He is in the 1850 census as a thirty-two-year-old, in the 1880 census at forty-six, and 1900 census claims a January 1830 birth. He is not found with certainty in the 1860 and 1870 censuses.
(Note that it is possible he is the same Abraham Trostle who later enlisted and mustered at the age of thirty-three with the 195th Pennsylvania infantry, although this Jacob's pension index only shows the 79th Pennsylvania, and the 195th Abraham did not apply for a pension.)
Contributor: Dennis Brandt
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Lancaster September 5, 1861, and mustered into federal service there September 16 as a private with Co. H, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. After the battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862, he was detailed to drive an ambulance, suggesting his health was inadequate for active duty, and he was hospitalized for an unspecified illness at Nashville, Tennessee, during late July 1864. The illness apparently was severe as he honorably discharged at Harrisburg December 2, 1864, two months after others in the regiment with expired enlistments had mustered out in Atlanta, Georgia. He married Susanna Weinhold and fathered Isaac Lemon (b. 10/28/68). By 1880, he was living with his family in Reading, Berks County, but returned to Lancaster County sometime after 1900. Shortly before his death, he entered the Berks County alms house, possibly because his son Lemon was a Berks County resident and remained there until his death. According to his obituary in the June 21 Reading Times, he died at the age of 64-6-4, calculating to a birth date of December 15, 1839, but the June 20 edition claims he died at the age of seventy-two. He is in the 1850 census as a thirty-two-year-old, in the 1880 census at forty-six, and 1900 census claims a January 1830 birth. He is not found with certainty in the 1860 and 1870 censuses.
(Note that it is possible he is the same Abraham Trostle who later enlisted and mustered at the age of thirty-three with the 195th Pennsylvania infantry, although this Jacob's pension index only shows the 79th Pennsylvania, and the 195th Abraham did not apply for a pension.)
Contributor: Dennis Brandt
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