The son of David & Susanna Maria (Helt) Peffer, he married Mary Ann Shaffer ca. 1851 and fathered Elizabeth (b. @1851), Anna M. (b. @1853), Ellie S. (b. 01/14/57 - Wesley Keener Royer), John Henry & Sabilla (b. 05/??/60), Amanda S. (b. 06/19/66 - married George R. Cunningham), Franklin S. (b., 12/??/68), and Minnie (b. @1873). In 1860, he was a laborer living in Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and is in the 1863-65 draft registration still residing there. He stood 5' 6" tall and had brown hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Columbia, Lancaster County, August 9, 1862, mustered into federal service at Lancaster August 12 as a private with Co. K, 135th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 24, 1863. At muster-out, the army docked his final pay $2.99 for "difference in price of clothing" and additionally for loss of his knapsack, canteen, haversack, his half of a shelter tent, and cartridge box belt plate, financial hits levied in one amount or the other on most the men in the regiment.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Lancaster March 28, 1864, mustered into federal service at Philadelphia April 19 as a private with Co. E, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Enfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00.
Cause of death is listed as "paralysis."
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Columbia, Lancaster County, August 9, 1862, mustered into federal service at Lancaster August 12 as a private with Co. K, 135th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 24, 1863. At muster-out, the army docked his final pay $2.99 for "difference in price of clothing" and additionally for loss of his knapsack, canteen, haversack, his half of a shelter tent, and cartridge box belt plate, financial hits levied in one amount or the other on most the men in the regiment.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Lancaster March 28, 1864, mustered into federal service at Philadelphia April 19 as a private with Co. E, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Enfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00.
Cause of death is listed as "paralysis."
The son of David & Susanna Maria (Helt) Peffer, he married Mary Ann Shaffer ca. 1851 and fathered Elizabeth (b. @1851), Anna M. (b. @1853), Ellie S. (b. 01/14/57 - Wesley Keener Royer), John Henry & Sabilla (b. 05/??/60), Amanda S. (b. 06/19/66 - married George R. Cunningham), Franklin S. (b., 12/??/68), and Minnie (b. @1873). In 1860, he was a laborer living in Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and is in the 1863-65 draft registration still residing there. He stood 5' 6" tall and had brown hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Columbia, Lancaster County, August 9, 1862, mustered into federal service at Lancaster August 12 as a private with Co. K, 135th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 24, 1863. At muster-out, the army docked his final pay $2.99 for "difference in price of clothing" and additionally for loss of his knapsack, canteen, haversack, his half of a shelter tent, and cartridge box belt plate, financial hits levied in one amount or the other on most the men in the regiment.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Lancaster March 28, 1864, mustered into federal service at Philadelphia April 19 as a private with Co. E, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Enfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00.
Cause of death is listed as "paralysis."
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Columbia, Lancaster County, August 9, 1862, mustered into federal service at Lancaster August 12 as a private with Co. K, 135th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 24, 1863. At muster-out, the army docked his final pay $2.99 for "difference in price of clothing" and additionally for loss of his knapsack, canteen, haversack, his half of a shelter tent, and cartridge box belt plate, financial hits levied in one amount or the other on most the men in the regiment.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Lancaster March 28, 1864, mustered into federal service at Philadelphia April 19 as a private with Co. E, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Enfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00.
Cause of death is listed as "paralysis."
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