NOTE: Birth name: Messiah K. Sheetz
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) adds the following:
The son of George & Eliza (Krumbine) Sheetz, in 1860 he was a blacksmith living with his family in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, March 6, 1865, mustered into federal service that same day as a private with Co. K, 195th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company January 31, 1866. He is in the company register as "Messiah K. Sheetz."
He married Malinda Hartman and fathered Sarah E. (b. @1867), Catharine R. "Kate" (b. @1869), Emma M. (b. 09/25/72 - married Harry Steinmetz), Levi Franklin (b. 07/14/75), Ida M. (b. @1879 - married a Grimes), and Alice (b. 03/??/87 - married a Keller). A member of Lebanon's Sedgwick Post No. 42, G.A.R., he died at his home from "chronic myocarditis" leading to "acute heart failure (asystole)."
He is in the 1860 census as "Matthias" and 1900 census as "Levi" which is overwritten with a scrawled name beginning with "M." He is listed in all other censuses, his military records, death certificate, several of his children's death certificate, and his obituary as "Messiah," yet his tombstone identifies him as "Matthias."
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) adds the following:
The son of George & Eliza (Krumbine) Sheetz, in 1860 he was a blacksmith living with his family in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, March 6, 1865, mustered into federal service that same day as a private with Co. K, 195th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company January 31, 1866. He is in the company register as "Messiah K. Sheetz."
He married Malinda Hartman and fathered Sarah E. (b. @1867), Catharine R. "Kate" (b. @1869), Emma M. (b. 09/25/72 - married Harry Steinmetz), Levi Franklin (b. 07/14/75), Ida M. (b. @1879 - married a Grimes), and Alice (b. 03/??/87 - married a Keller). A member of Lebanon's Sedgwick Post No. 42, G.A.R., he died at his home from "chronic myocarditis" leading to "acute heart failure (asystole)."
He is in the 1860 census as "Matthias" and 1900 census as "Levi" which is overwritten with a scrawled name beginning with "M." He is listed in all other censuses, his military records, death certificate, several of his children's death certificate, and his obituary as "Messiah," yet his tombstone identifies him as "Matthias."
NOTE: Birth name: Messiah K. Sheetz
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) adds the following:
The son of George & Eliza (Krumbine) Sheetz, in 1860 he was a blacksmith living with his family in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, March 6, 1865, mustered into federal service that same day as a private with Co. K, 195th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company January 31, 1866. He is in the company register as "Messiah K. Sheetz."
He married Malinda Hartman and fathered Sarah E. (b. @1867), Catharine R. "Kate" (b. @1869), Emma M. (b. 09/25/72 - married Harry Steinmetz), Levi Franklin (b. 07/14/75), Ida M. (b. @1879 - married a Grimes), and Alice (b. 03/??/87 - married a Keller). A member of Lebanon's Sedgwick Post No. 42, G.A.R., he died at his home from "chronic myocarditis" leading to "acute heart failure (asystole)."
He is in the 1860 census as "Matthias" and 1900 census as "Levi" which is overwritten with a scrawled name beginning with "M." He is listed in all other censuses, his military records, death certificate, several of his children's death certificate, and his obituary as "Messiah," yet his tombstone identifies him as "Matthias."
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) adds the following:
The son of George & Eliza (Krumbine) Sheetz, in 1860 he was a blacksmith living with his family in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, March 6, 1865, mustered into federal service that same day as a private with Co. K, 195th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company January 31, 1866. He is in the company register as "Messiah K. Sheetz."
He married Malinda Hartman and fathered Sarah E. (b. @1867), Catharine R. "Kate" (b. @1869), Emma M. (b. 09/25/72 - married Harry Steinmetz), Levi Franklin (b. 07/14/75), Ida M. (b. @1879 - married a Grimes), and Alice (b. 03/??/87 - married a Keller). A member of Lebanon's Sedgwick Post No. 42, G.A.R., he died at his home from "chronic myocarditis" leading to "acute heart failure (asystole)."
He is in the 1860 census as "Matthias" and 1900 census as "Levi" which is overwritten with a scrawled name beginning with "M." He is listed in all other censuses, his military records, death certificate, several of his children's death certificate, and his obituary as "Messiah," yet his tombstone identifies him as "Matthias."
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
