The son of William & Catherine (Zimmerman) Brown, he married Susanna Rhoads in 1860, fathering the children you see linked below. In 1860, he was a laborer living with his family in South Hanover Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 9" tall with light hair and light eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-seven in Harrisburg March 6, 1865, mustered into federal service that same day as a private with the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. I, but discharged by surgeon's certificate to date June 12, 1865.
He was a member of Harrisburg's Hartranft Post No. 58, G.A.R. Cause of his death is listed as "peritonitis." His first name is often spelled with an ending "z," likely indicating how it was pronounced.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-seven in Harrisburg March 6, 1865, mustered into federal service that same day as a private with the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. I, but discharged by surgeon's certificate to date June 12, 1865.
He was a member of Harrisburg's Hartranft Post No. 58, G.A.R. Cause of his death is listed as "peritonitis." His first name is often spelled with an ending "z," likely indicating how it was pronounced.
The son of William & Catherine (Zimmerman) Brown, he married Susanna Rhoads in 1860, fathering the children you see linked below. In 1860, he was a laborer living with his family in South Hanover Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 9" tall with light hair and light eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-seven in Harrisburg March 6, 1865, mustered into federal service that same day as a private with the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. I, but discharged by surgeon's certificate to date June 12, 1865.
He was a member of Harrisburg's Hartranft Post No. 58, G.A.R. Cause of his death is listed as "peritonitis." His first name is often spelled with an ending "z," likely indicating how it was pronounced.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-seven in Harrisburg March 6, 1865, mustered into federal service that same day as a private with the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. I, but discharged by surgeon's certificate to date June 12, 1865.
He was a member of Harrisburg's Hartranft Post No. 58, G.A.R. Cause of his death is listed as "peritonitis." His first name is often spelled with an ending "z," likely indicating how it was pronounced.
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