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Benjamin Esterly

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Benjamin Esterly Veteran

Birth
Mahoning County, Ohio, USA
Death
21 Sep 1912 (aged 76–77)
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
Plot
1, 2, 48
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The son of Christopher & Ann Marie (Weinman) Esterly, in 1860, he was a drover living in Springfield, Mahoning County, and stood 5' 5" tall with dark hair and brown eyes. It appears that he never married.

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, March 11, 1865, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg March 13 as a private with the second organization of Co. H, 87th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company June 29, 1865.

On June 2, 1903, he entered the soldiers' home in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, leaving the following October 6 but returning three times before his death there from a "cerebral hemorrhage."


Military Information: PVT, INFANTRY
The son of Christopher & Ann Marie (Weinman) Esterly, in 1860, he was a drover living in Springfield, Mahoning County, and stood 5' 5" tall with dark hair and brown eyes. It appears that he never married.

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, March 11, 1865, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg March 13 as a private with the second organization of Co. H, 87th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company June 29, 1865.

On June 2, 1903, he entered the soldiers' home in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, leaving the following October 6 but returning three times before his death there from a "cerebral hemorrhage."


Military Information: PVT, INFANTRY


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