He married Barbara Bender September 1852 and fathered Sarah Jane (b. 04/04/54), William Mitchel (b. 02/09/59), George (b. @1863), Louis (b. @1866), John (b. @1870), and Mary (b. 10/07/71). In 1860, he was a farmer living with his family in Monaghan Township, York County, Pennsyvlania, and stood 5' 8" tall with brown hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of thirty-two in York County November 12, 1862, mustered into federal service at York November 14 as a private with Co. G, 166th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863.
Moving west after the war, in 1891 he was admitted to the Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane where he was diagnosed as being "feeble" physically and having "acute mania" and described as "confused, excitable, boisterous, inclined to be violent," and suffering with "dementia." It was alleged he had been intemperate and came from ancestors with the same weakness. On April 19, 1899, he applied for a disability pension from Missouri, suggesting he had been released from the hospital. He died from the effects of a stroke perhaps at Bucklin where, at his death, Barbara was residing. No obituary was found in any online newspaper archive.
He is frequently listed as dying in 1896, but his pension file uses the date shown above.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of thirty-two in York County November 12, 1862, mustered into federal service at York November 14 as a private with Co. G, 166th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863.
Moving west after the war, in 1891 he was admitted to the Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane where he was diagnosed as being "feeble" physically and having "acute mania" and described as "confused, excitable, boisterous, inclined to be violent," and suffering with "dementia." It was alleged he had been intemperate and came from ancestors with the same weakness. On April 19, 1899, he applied for a disability pension from Missouri, suggesting he had been released from the hospital. He died from the effects of a stroke perhaps at Bucklin where, at his death, Barbara was residing. No obituary was found in any online newspaper archive.
He is frequently listed as dying in 1896, but his pension file uses the date shown above.
He married Barbara Bender September 1852 and fathered Sarah Jane (b. 04/04/54), William Mitchel (b. 02/09/59), George (b. @1863), Louis (b. @1866), John (b. @1870), and Mary (b. 10/07/71). In 1860, he was a farmer living with his family in Monaghan Township, York County, Pennsyvlania, and stood 5' 8" tall with brown hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of thirty-two in York County November 12, 1862, mustered into federal service at York November 14 as a private with Co. G, 166th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863.
Moving west after the war, in 1891 he was admitted to the Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane where he was diagnosed as being "feeble" physically and having "acute mania" and described as "confused, excitable, boisterous, inclined to be violent," and suffering with "dementia." It was alleged he had been intemperate and came from ancestors with the same weakness. On April 19, 1899, he applied for a disability pension from Missouri, suggesting he had been released from the hospital. He died from the effects of a stroke perhaps at Bucklin where, at his death, Barbara was residing. No obituary was found in any online newspaper archive.
He is frequently listed as dying in 1896, but his pension file uses the date shown above.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of thirty-two in York County November 12, 1862, mustered into federal service at York November 14 as a private with Co. G, 166th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863.
Moving west after the war, in 1891 he was admitted to the Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane where he was diagnosed as being "feeble" physically and having "acute mania" and described as "confused, excitable, boisterous, inclined to be violent," and suffering with "dementia." It was alleged he had been intemperate and came from ancestors with the same weakness. On April 19, 1899, he applied for a disability pension from Missouri, suggesting he had been released from the hospital. He died from the effects of a stroke perhaps at Bucklin where, at his death, Barbara was residing. No obituary was found in any online newspaper archive.
He is frequently listed as dying in 1896, but his pension file uses the date shown above.
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