CYPHERT John B. - December 2, 1920 - John B. Cyphert, a former resident of
Limestone township, Clarion county, died November 28th, 1920, at Los
Angeles, Calif. The deceased was one of a family of nine children of
Solomon and Nancy Kerr Cyphert and was born near Kingsville, March 1842,
where he resided until September, 1861 when he and a neighbor boy, John
Newhouse, of Howe, Jeff. Co.,Pa., enlisted in Co. F, 63d Pa. Inf. taken
out by the late Maj. B.J. Reid of Clarion, and served three years in the
Army of the Potomac in Heintzeman's Brigade, Hancock's Corps. He was in
every engagement the 63d was in until the expiration of his enlistment in
October 1864. He was wounded at the Wilderness and was specially commended
for his bravery by General Hancock at Chancellorsville, and voted a medal
by Congress for his services at that time. After he returned from the army
he stayed with his mother at Kingsville until 1867, when he went west and
spent some fifteen years in the mining camps of Colorado, Nevada and
California. After having accumulated a competence he took up his residence
at Los Angeles and lived a retired life. Of his ancestors there were eight
brothers on his father's side at the battle of Brandywine. On his maternal
side his great-grandfather, Matthew Haney, was one of the soldiers who came
here with Lafayette.The family consisted of Hon. Henry Cyphert,
Kingsville; James K .Cyphert, who died at Brookville a few years ago and
who served three years in Co. C 105th Regt.. Pa. Vol.; Barbara, deceased
wife of John Crate of Brookville; George, who served three years with the
16th Pa. Res. and was shot through the hips; Daniel O., a prosperous farmer
of the state of Washington; Michael J. deceased of Washington; Bennie, who
died in infancy, and Charles G., of Kingsville. The deceased was a man of
unassuming manner and had many friends. He was never married.