spouse: Did not marry
parents: Joseph and Lovina (Kline) Keller
military: Served with Co C 49OVI organized in Sulphur Springs, then Annapolis, captured at Battle of Stone River, where cousins Capt Amos Keller and Lt Aaron Keller were killed. Spent 30 days at Libby Prison. Mustered out with his company in November 1865
Served as Commander of Biddle Post GAR
occupation: Partner with cousin Chris Keller #86025356 in O & C Keller General Mdse Store in Sulphur Springs for 56 years. John Striker took ownership in 1934.
Obit of OLIVER J. KELLER; Oliver J. Keller, 91, Sulphur Springs merchant and the last Civil War veteran in Liberty Township, died at his home in Sulphur Springs at 2:45 this morning following a prolonged illness of a complication of diseases. He had been bedfast for several months. Mr. Keller was a native of Northhampton County, Pa., and was born July 28, 1843, a son of Joseph and Lovina (Kline) Keller. He was one of a family of 11 children, only one of whom is now living. Albert D. Keller, a teacher in Heidelberg College in Tiffin. When he was 14 years of age his parents came to Liberty township and settled on a farm one and a half miles northeast of the village of Sulphur Springs. He enlisted in the Civil war in 1851 becoming a member of C. Company 49th O.V.I, under his cousin Captain Amos Keller and served from August 15 until he received his discharge at Victoria, Texas on November 1865. Iin June 1863 he was advanced from a private to a corporal and he received a sergeant's commission in Feb. 1864. As the Civil war neared its close, he was commissioned to go to the Texas border to assist in quelling the Maxamillian uprising. During the war he fought in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and the siege of Atlanta. At the battle of Stone River he was captured by the confederates but released six months later when he rejoined his regiment. He was one of the few remaining members of Biddle Post, G.A.R. At the close of the conflict he returned to Sulphur Springs and entered the mercantile business in 1866. Later he and a cousin, C.A. Keller formed a partnership which continued for 55 years. He was a member of Hope Reformed church in Sulphur Springs, and served as a church official at different times during his long affiliation with the congregation. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Hope Reformed church with Rev. Frank Zartman, church pastor, conducting the service and burial will be in Union cemetery. The body will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Rader in Sulphur Springs from 9 a.m. Wednesday until 12 o'clock noon and from 12 o'clock until the hour of the service. Friends may call either at the Rader home or the church during those hours.
parents: Joseph and Lovina (Kline) Keller
military: Served with Co C 49OVI organized in Sulphur Springs, then Annapolis, captured at Battle of Stone River, where cousins Capt Amos Keller and Lt Aaron Keller were killed. Spent 30 days at Libby Prison. Mustered out with his company in November 1865
Served as Commander of Biddle Post GAR
occupation: Partner with cousin Chris Keller #86025356 in O & C Keller General Mdse Store in Sulphur Springs for 56 years. John Striker took ownership in 1934.
Obit of OLIVER J. KELLER; Oliver J. Keller, 91, Sulphur Springs merchant and the last Civil War veteran in Liberty Township, died at his home in Sulphur Springs at 2:45 this morning following a prolonged illness of a complication of diseases. He had been bedfast for several months. Mr. Keller was a native of Northhampton County, Pa., and was born July 28, 1843, a son of Joseph and Lovina (Kline) Keller. He was one of a family of 11 children, only one of whom is now living. Albert D. Keller, a teacher in Heidelberg College in Tiffin. When he was 14 years of age his parents came to Liberty township and settled on a farm one and a half miles northeast of the village of Sulphur Springs. He enlisted in the Civil war in 1851 becoming a member of C. Company 49th O.V.I, under his cousin Captain Amos Keller and served from August 15 until he received his discharge at Victoria, Texas on November 1865. Iin June 1863 he was advanced from a private to a corporal and he received a sergeant's commission in Feb. 1864. As the Civil war neared its close, he was commissioned to go to the Texas border to assist in quelling the Maxamillian uprising. During the war he fought in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and the siege of Atlanta. At the battle of Stone River he was captured by the confederates but released six months later when he rejoined his regiment. He was one of the few remaining members of Biddle Post, G.A.R. At the close of the conflict he returned to Sulphur Springs and entered the mercantile business in 1866. Later he and a cousin, C.A. Keller formed a partnership which continued for 55 years. He was a member of Hope Reformed church in Sulphur Springs, and served as a church official at different times during his long affiliation with the congregation. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Hope Reformed church with Rev. Frank Zartman, church pastor, conducting the service and burial will be in Union cemetery. The body will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Rader in Sulphur Springs from 9 a.m. Wednesday until 12 o'clock noon and from 12 o'clock until the hour of the service. Friends may call either at the Rader home or the church during those hours.
spouse: Did not marry
parents: Joseph and Lovina (Kline) Keller
military: Served with Co C 49OVI organized in Sulphur Springs, then Annapolis, captured at Battle of Stone River, where cousins Capt Amos Keller and Lt Aaron Keller were killed. Spent 30 days at Libby Prison. Mustered out with his company in November 1865
Served as Commander of Biddle Post GAR
occupation: Partner with cousin Chris Keller #86025356 in O & C Keller General Mdse Store in Sulphur Springs for 56 years. John Striker took ownership in 1934.
Obit of OLIVER J. KELLER; Oliver J. Keller, 91, Sulphur Springs merchant and the last Civil War veteran in Liberty Township, died at his home in Sulphur Springs at 2:45 this morning following a prolonged illness of a complication of diseases. He had been bedfast for several months. Mr. Keller was a native of Northhampton County, Pa., and was born July 28, 1843, a son of Joseph and Lovina (Kline) Keller. He was one of a family of 11 children, only one of whom is now living. Albert D. Keller, a teacher in Heidelberg College in Tiffin. When he was 14 years of age his parents came to Liberty township and settled on a farm one and a half miles northeast of the village of Sulphur Springs. He enlisted in the Civil war in 1851 becoming a member of C. Company 49th O.V.I, under his cousin Captain Amos Keller and served from August 15 until he received his discharge at Victoria, Texas on November 1865. Iin June 1863 he was advanced from a private to a corporal and he received a sergeant's commission in Feb. 1864. As the Civil war neared its close, he was commissioned to go to the Texas border to assist in quelling the Maxamillian uprising. During the war he fought in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and the siege of Atlanta. At the battle of Stone River he was captured by the confederates but released six months later when he rejoined his regiment. He was one of the few remaining members of Biddle Post, G.A.R. At the close of the conflict he returned to Sulphur Springs and entered the mercantile business in 1866. Later he and a cousin, C.A. Keller formed a partnership which continued for 55 years. He was a member of Hope Reformed church in Sulphur Springs, and served as a church official at different times during his long affiliation with the congregation. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Hope Reformed church with Rev. Frank Zartman, church pastor, conducting the service and burial will be in Union cemetery. The body will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Rader in Sulphur Springs from 9 a.m. Wednesday until 12 o'clock noon and from 12 o'clock until the hour of the service. Friends may call either at the Rader home or the church during those hours.
parents: Joseph and Lovina (Kline) Keller
military: Served with Co C 49OVI organized in Sulphur Springs, then Annapolis, captured at Battle of Stone River, where cousins Capt Amos Keller and Lt Aaron Keller were killed. Spent 30 days at Libby Prison. Mustered out with his company in November 1865
Served as Commander of Biddle Post GAR
occupation: Partner with cousin Chris Keller #86025356 in O & C Keller General Mdse Store in Sulphur Springs for 56 years. John Striker took ownership in 1934.
Obit of OLIVER J. KELLER; Oliver J. Keller, 91, Sulphur Springs merchant and the last Civil War veteran in Liberty Township, died at his home in Sulphur Springs at 2:45 this morning following a prolonged illness of a complication of diseases. He had been bedfast for several months. Mr. Keller was a native of Northhampton County, Pa., and was born July 28, 1843, a son of Joseph and Lovina (Kline) Keller. He was one of a family of 11 children, only one of whom is now living. Albert D. Keller, a teacher in Heidelberg College in Tiffin. When he was 14 years of age his parents came to Liberty township and settled on a farm one and a half miles northeast of the village of Sulphur Springs. He enlisted in the Civil war in 1851 becoming a member of C. Company 49th O.V.I, under his cousin Captain Amos Keller and served from August 15 until he received his discharge at Victoria, Texas on November 1865. Iin June 1863 he was advanced from a private to a corporal and he received a sergeant's commission in Feb. 1864. As the Civil war neared its close, he was commissioned to go to the Texas border to assist in quelling the Maxamillian uprising. During the war he fought in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and the siege of Atlanta. At the battle of Stone River he was captured by the confederates but released six months later when he rejoined his regiment. He was one of the few remaining members of Biddle Post, G.A.R. At the close of the conflict he returned to Sulphur Springs and entered the mercantile business in 1866. Later he and a cousin, C.A. Keller formed a partnership which continued for 55 years. He was a member of Hope Reformed church in Sulphur Springs, and served as a church official at different times during his long affiliation with the congregation. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Hope Reformed church with Rev. Frank Zartman, church pastor, conducting the service and burial will be in Union cemetery. The body will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Rader in Sulphur Springs from 9 a.m. Wednesday until 12 o'clock noon and from 12 o'clock until the hour of the service. Friends may call either at the Rader home or the church during those hours.
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