Private, Company G, 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Enlisted on September 15, 1862. Discharged by General Order, in June 1865. Date of discharge obtained from pension records.
Lived in Union City, Tyler County, West Virginia, and Jefferson, Ohio after the war. Listed in the 1890 Veteran's Census in Toronto, Ohio. Filed for a pension on February 25, 1887, application number 599,371, certificate 365,178. Featured in the 1910 Memorial Day celebration in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Died in Wellsville, Ohio.
See 18th PA Cav for a virtual cemetery of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Obituary (The Evening Review (East Liverpool, OH)):
Orin C. Cathers Funeral Sunday
Funeral services for Orin C. Cathers, 88 years old, veteran of the Civil War, who died yesterday in the home of his step-son, Evan W. Payne, 944 Wood Street, will be held at the Payne home at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The body will be taken to Toronto at 11 o'clock Monday morning for burial.
The deceased was born in West Virginia and served as a private with Company D, Eighteenth Regiment Pennsylvania cavalry during the Civil War.
He is survived by his widow, Nancy and the following children: Mrs. Frank Hatfield, Mrs. Mary Hann, Mrs. Norman Thorn and Mrs. Allen, all of Steubenville, and Robert Cathers, of Friendly W. Va. Two sisters, one of who resides in Harrisburg, and one brother also survives.
Lived in Union City, Tyler County, West Virginia, and Jefferson, Ohio after the war. Listed in the 1890 Veteran's Census in Toronto, Ohio. Filed for a pension on February 25, 1887, application number 599,371, certificate 365,178. Featured in the 1910 Memorial Day celebration in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Died in Wellsville, Ohio.
See 18th PA Cav for a virtual cemetery of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Obituary (The Evening Review (East Liverpool, OH)):
Orin C. Cathers Funeral Sunday
Funeral services for Orin C. Cathers, 88 years old, veteran of the Civil War, who died yesterday in the home of his step-son, Evan W. Payne, 944 Wood Street, will be held at the Payne home at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The body will be taken to Toronto at 11 o'clock Monday morning for burial.
The deceased was born in West Virginia and served as a private with Company D, Eighteenth Regiment Pennsylvania cavalry during the Civil War.
He is survived by his widow, Nancy and the following children: Mrs. Frank Hatfield, Mrs. Mary Hann, Mrs. Norman Thorn and Mrs. Allen, all of Steubenville, and Robert Cathers, of Friendly W. Va. Two sisters, one of who resides in Harrisburg, and one brother also survives.
Private, Company G, 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Enlisted on September 15, 1862. Discharged by General Order, in June 1865. Date of discharge obtained from pension records.
Lived in Union City, Tyler County, West Virginia, and Jefferson, Ohio after the war. Listed in the 1890 Veteran's Census in Toronto, Ohio. Filed for a pension on February 25, 1887, application number 599,371, certificate 365,178. Featured in the 1910 Memorial Day celebration in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Died in Wellsville, Ohio.
See 18th PA Cav for a virtual cemetery of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Obituary (The Evening Review (East Liverpool, OH)):
Orin C. Cathers Funeral Sunday
Funeral services for Orin C. Cathers, 88 years old, veteran of the Civil War, who died yesterday in the home of his step-son, Evan W. Payne, 944 Wood Street, will be held at the Payne home at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The body will be taken to Toronto at 11 o'clock Monday morning for burial.
The deceased was born in West Virginia and served as a private with Company D, Eighteenth Regiment Pennsylvania cavalry during the Civil War.
He is survived by his widow, Nancy and the following children: Mrs. Frank Hatfield, Mrs. Mary Hann, Mrs. Norman Thorn and Mrs. Allen, all of Steubenville, and Robert Cathers, of Friendly W. Va. Two sisters, one of who resides in Harrisburg, and one brother also survives.
Lived in Union City, Tyler County, West Virginia, and Jefferson, Ohio after the war. Listed in the 1890 Veteran's Census in Toronto, Ohio. Filed for a pension on February 25, 1887, application number 599,371, certificate 365,178. Featured in the 1910 Memorial Day celebration in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Died in Wellsville, Ohio.
See 18th PA Cav for a virtual cemetery of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Obituary (The Evening Review (East Liverpool, OH)):
Orin C. Cathers Funeral Sunday
Funeral services for Orin C. Cathers, 88 years old, veteran of the Civil War, who died yesterday in the home of his step-son, Evan W. Payne, 944 Wood Street, will be held at the Payne home at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The body will be taken to Toronto at 11 o'clock Monday morning for burial.
The deceased was born in West Virginia and served as a private with Company D, Eighteenth Regiment Pennsylvania cavalry during the Civil War.
He is survived by his widow, Nancy and the following children: Mrs. Frank Hatfield, Mrs. Mary Hann, Mrs. Norman Thorn and Mrs. Allen, all of Steubenville, and Robert Cathers, of Friendly W. Va. Two sisters, one of who resides in Harrisburg, and one brother also survives.
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