Easton Express Sept. 17, 1918 p. 2
Stephen Walter, 78 years old, a well known Civil War Veteran and lifelong resident of Easton, died at 6:30 o'clock last night at his home No. 31 South Seventeenth Street, from the infirmities of old age. Mr. Walter had been in ill health for the past twenty-one months, but had been bedfast only six weeks.
When the Civil War broke out he enlisted with the 147th Pennsylvania Volunteers with whom he served for three years and then enlisted in the Third Hancock Veteran Volunteers, being advanced to a corporal.
For nearly forty years he was in the employ of Jacob Hay and Sons. He was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd and Lafayette Post No. 217 G.A.R.
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Note: His obit indicates that he died the 16th, but his gravestone inscription is the 12th.
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Son of Franklin and Rebecca Walter.
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Stephen Walter of Palmer Township
married
Amanda Koehler of Palmer Township
on December 6, 1873
~Easton Daily Argus~
Stephen Walter, 78 years old, a well known Civil War Veteran and lifelong resident of Easton, died at 6:30 o'clock last night at his home No. 31 South Seventeenth Street, from the infirmities of old age. Mr. Walter had been in ill health for the past twenty-one months, but had been bedfast only six weeks.
When the Civil War broke out he enlisted with the 147th Pennsylvania Volunteers with whom he served for three years and then enlisted in the Third Hancock Veteran Volunteers, being advanced to a corporal.
For nearly forty years he was in the employ of Jacob Hay and Sons. He was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd and Lafayette Post No. 217 G.A.R.
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Note: His obit indicates that he died the 16th, but his gravestone inscription is the 12th.
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Son of Franklin and Rebecca Walter.
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Stephen Walter of Palmer Township
married
Amanda Koehler of Palmer Township
on December 6, 1873
~Easton Daily Argus~
Easton Express Sept. 17, 1918 p. 2
Stephen Walter, 78 years old, a well known Civil War Veteran and lifelong resident of Easton, died at 6:30 o'clock last night at his home No. 31 South Seventeenth Street, from the infirmities of old age. Mr. Walter had been in ill health for the past twenty-one months, but had been bedfast only six weeks.
When the Civil War broke out he enlisted with the 147th Pennsylvania Volunteers with whom he served for three years and then enlisted in the Third Hancock Veteran Volunteers, being advanced to a corporal.
For nearly forty years he was in the employ of Jacob Hay and Sons. He was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd and Lafayette Post No. 217 G.A.R.
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Note: His obit indicates that he died the 16th, but his gravestone inscription is the 12th.
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Son of Franklin and Rebecca Walter.
_____________________
Stephen Walter of Palmer Township
married
Amanda Koehler of Palmer Township
on December 6, 1873
~Easton Daily Argus~
Stephen Walter, 78 years old, a well known Civil War Veteran and lifelong resident of Easton, died at 6:30 o'clock last night at his home No. 31 South Seventeenth Street, from the infirmities of old age. Mr. Walter had been in ill health for the past twenty-one months, but had been bedfast only six weeks.
When the Civil War broke out he enlisted with the 147th Pennsylvania Volunteers with whom he served for three years and then enlisted in the Third Hancock Veteran Volunteers, being advanced to a corporal.
For nearly forty years he was in the employ of Jacob Hay and Sons. He was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd and Lafayette Post No. 217 G.A.R.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Note: His obit indicates that he died the 16th, but his gravestone inscription is the 12th.
___________________
Son of Franklin and Rebecca Walter.
_____________________
Stephen Walter of Palmer Township
married
Amanda Koehler of Palmer Township
on December 6, 1873
~Easton Daily Argus~
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