The son of John Greenley and Sarah Buchter. Once he left home, Emanuel always used the spelling Greenly.
He married (first) Sarah Winkleman, about 1865; married (second) Mary M. Cain (1880); apparently married (third) Matilda, maiden name undetermined (after April 15, 1910.)
Emanuel served in Company C of the 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Three brothers, Andrew, Samuel and Amos, also served in the Union Army. Later in life Emanuel was a member of Sumner Post No. 398, G. A. R., in Moravia, Iowa.
He died October 19, 1920, at Marshalltown.
The son of John & Sarah (Buchter) Greenly, in 1860 he was a laborer living with and/or working for farmer Jacob Rohrer in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Lancaster October 3, 1861, as a private with Co. C, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Unable to perform active duty, on April 28, 1864, he transferred to Co. G, 19th Veteran Reserve Corps, and honorably discharged at term's end October 3, 1864, at Elmira, New York.He is in Bates History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file, and the company register as "Greenly." His brother James Amos Greenly served with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, but is maintained the rolls by his middle name.
He married Sarah Winkleman ca. 1865 and fathered Alice (b. 06/??/68 - married Charles Johnson), Barbara (b. @1870), Mary Ellen (b. @1871) - married John Henry George), John Jacob (b. 06/22/73), and Wilmina G. (b. @1877). Sarah died in 1879, and he married Mary Ann Plymate, née Cain. They apparently divorced because he married Matilda lnu, his wife at the time of his death. In 1870, he was a carpenter living with his family in Point Township, Northumberland County, in 1880 a farmer in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1900 in Taylor County, Iowa, and later joined the Sumner Post No. 398, G.A.R., in Moravia, Appanoose County, Iowa. He died at the Iowa state soldiers' home in Marshalltown.
He married (first) Sarah Winkleman, about 1865; married (second) Mary M. Cain (1880); apparently married (third) Matilda, maiden name undetermined (after April 15, 1910.)
Emanuel served in Company C of the 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Three brothers, Andrew, Samuel and Amos, also served in the Union Army. Later in life Emanuel was a member of Sumner Post No. 398, G. A. R., in Moravia, Iowa.
He died October 19, 1920, at Marshalltown.
The son of John & Sarah (Buchter) Greenly, in 1860 he was a laborer living with and/or working for farmer Jacob Rohrer in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Lancaster October 3, 1861, as a private with Co. C, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Unable to perform active duty, on April 28, 1864, he transferred to Co. G, 19th Veteran Reserve Corps, and honorably discharged at term's end October 3, 1864, at Elmira, New York.He is in Bates History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file, and the company register as "Greenly." His brother James Amos Greenly served with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, but is maintained the rolls by his middle name.
He married Sarah Winkleman ca. 1865 and fathered Alice (b. 06/??/68 - married Charles Johnson), Barbara (b. @1870), Mary Ellen (b. @1871) - married John Henry George), John Jacob (b. 06/22/73), and Wilmina G. (b. @1877). Sarah died in 1879, and he married Mary Ann Plymate, née Cain. They apparently divorced because he married Matilda lnu, his wife at the time of his death. In 1870, he was a carpenter living with his family in Point Township, Northumberland County, in 1880 a farmer in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1900 in Taylor County, Iowa, and later joined the Sumner Post No. 398, G.A.R., in Moravia, Appanoose County, Iowa. He died at the Iowa state soldiers' home in Marshalltown.
The son of John Greenley and Sarah Buchter. Once he left home, Emanuel always used the spelling Greenly.
He married (first) Sarah Winkleman, about 1865; married (second) Mary M. Cain (1880); apparently married (third) Matilda, maiden name undetermined (after April 15, 1910.)
Emanuel served in Company C of the 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Three brothers, Andrew, Samuel and Amos, also served in the Union Army. Later in life Emanuel was a member of Sumner Post No. 398, G. A. R., in Moravia, Iowa.
He died October 19, 1920, at Marshalltown.
The son of John & Sarah (Buchter) Greenly, in 1860 he was a laborer living with and/or working for farmer Jacob Rohrer in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Lancaster October 3, 1861, as a private with Co. C, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Unable to perform active duty, on April 28, 1864, he transferred to Co. G, 19th Veteran Reserve Corps, and honorably discharged at term's end October 3, 1864, at Elmira, New York.He is in Bates History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file, and the company register as "Greenly." His brother James Amos Greenly served with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, but is maintained the rolls by his middle name.
He married Sarah Winkleman ca. 1865 and fathered Alice (b. 06/??/68 - married Charles Johnson), Barbara (b. @1870), Mary Ellen (b. @1871) - married John Henry George), John Jacob (b. 06/22/73), and Wilmina G. (b. @1877). Sarah died in 1879, and he married Mary Ann Plymate, née Cain. They apparently divorced because he married Matilda lnu, his wife at the time of his death. In 1870, he was a carpenter living with his family in Point Township, Northumberland County, in 1880 a farmer in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1900 in Taylor County, Iowa, and later joined the Sumner Post No. 398, G.A.R., in Moravia, Appanoose County, Iowa. He died at the Iowa state soldiers' home in Marshalltown.
He married (first) Sarah Winkleman, about 1865; married (second) Mary M. Cain (1880); apparently married (third) Matilda, maiden name undetermined (after April 15, 1910.)
Emanuel served in Company C of the 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Three brothers, Andrew, Samuel and Amos, also served in the Union Army. Later in life Emanuel was a member of Sumner Post No. 398, G. A. R., in Moravia, Iowa.
He died October 19, 1920, at Marshalltown.
The son of John & Sarah (Buchter) Greenly, in 1860 he was a laborer living with and/or working for farmer Jacob Rohrer in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Lancaster October 3, 1861, as a private with Co. C, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Unable to perform active duty, on April 28, 1864, he transferred to Co. G, 19th Veteran Reserve Corps, and honorably discharged at term's end October 3, 1864, at Elmira, New York.He is in Bates History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file, and the company register as "Greenly." His brother James Amos Greenly served with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, but is maintained the rolls by his middle name.
He married Sarah Winkleman ca. 1865 and fathered Alice (b. 06/??/68 - married Charles Johnson), Barbara (b. @1870), Mary Ellen (b. @1871) - married John Henry George), John Jacob (b. 06/22/73), and Wilmina G. (b. @1877). Sarah died in 1879, and he married Mary Ann Plymate, née Cain. They apparently divorced because he married Matilda lnu, his wife at the time of his death. In 1870, he was a carpenter living with his family in Point Township, Northumberland County, in 1880 a farmer in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1900 in Taylor County, Iowa, and later joined the Sumner Post No. 398, G.A.R., in Moravia, Appanoose County, Iowa. He died at the Iowa state soldiers' home in Marshalltown.
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