The son of Edward P. & Julia Ann (Milton) Milley, in 1860 he was a gunsmith living in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 5" tall and had brown hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of nineteen in Lancaster September 6, 1861, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer February 9, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and re-mustered there February 12. He is listed as "wounded, slight" on August 1, 1864, but no details are found in his compiled miltiary service records. Promoted to corporal January 25, 1865, he honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Enfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00.
He married Julia Ann Wilson November 28, 1866, in Lancaster and fathered Mary E. (b. 03/29/69), Edward Purvine (b. @1873), Edward Thomas (b. @1874), Charles H. (b. @1875), Katherine V. (b. 03/30/77 or 04/18/77), William Hoover (b. 02/23/78), and Viola (b. 04/06/82). He moved to Pittsburgh shortly his marriage. He then married Rosa Eaches, née McCullough, ca. 1890 without divorcing Julia and assumed a bigamous life. Until Julia discovered his duplicity and threatened to expose him.
On the final day of his life, Milley returned home from his job as a day watchman where three workmen were repairing the basement water pipes. Moments later, the workmen hear two gunshots, then a third. They rushed up the cellar steps into the backyard and found Rosa lying on the back porch, blood streaming from her back and abdomen. Frederick lay nearby, unconscious, blood pouring from his head. Both died later that day in South Side Hospital.
Julia afterward moved to Philadelphia and successfully applied for a widow's pension.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of nineteen in Lancaster September 6, 1861, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer February 9, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and re-mustered there February 12. He is listed as "wounded, slight" on August 1, 1864, but no details are found in his compiled miltiary service records. Promoted to corporal January 25, 1865, he honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Enfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00.
He married Julia Ann Wilson November 28, 1866, in Lancaster and fathered Mary E. (b. 03/29/69), Edward Purvine (b. @1873), Edward Thomas (b. @1874), Charles H. (b. @1875), Katherine V. (b. 03/30/77 or 04/18/77), William Hoover (b. 02/23/78), and Viola (b. 04/06/82). He moved to Pittsburgh shortly his marriage. He then married Rosa Eaches, née McCullough, ca. 1890 without divorcing Julia and assumed a bigamous life. Until Julia discovered his duplicity and threatened to expose him.
On the final day of his life, Milley returned home from his job as a day watchman where three workmen were repairing the basement water pipes. Moments later, the workmen hear two gunshots, then a third. They rushed up the cellar steps into the backyard and found Rosa lying on the back porch, blood streaming from her back and abdomen. Frederick lay nearby, unconscious, blood pouring from his head. Both died later that day in South Side Hospital.
Julia afterward moved to Philadelphia and successfully applied for a widow's pension.
The son of Edward P. & Julia Ann (Milton) Milley, in 1860 he was a gunsmith living in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 5" tall and had brown hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of nineteen in Lancaster September 6, 1861, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer February 9, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and re-mustered there February 12. He is listed as "wounded, slight" on August 1, 1864, but no details are found in his compiled miltiary service records. Promoted to corporal January 25, 1865, he honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Enfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00.
He married Julia Ann Wilson November 28, 1866, in Lancaster and fathered Mary E. (b. 03/29/69), Edward Purvine (b. @1873), Edward Thomas (b. @1874), Charles H. (b. @1875), Katherine V. (b. 03/30/77 or 04/18/77), William Hoover (b. 02/23/78), and Viola (b. 04/06/82). He moved to Pittsburgh shortly his marriage. He then married Rosa Eaches, née McCullough, ca. 1890 without divorcing Julia and assumed a bigamous life. Until Julia discovered his duplicity and threatened to expose him.
On the final day of his life, Milley returned home from his job as a day watchman where three workmen were repairing the basement water pipes. Moments later, the workmen hear two gunshots, then a third. They rushed up the cellar steps into the backyard and found Rosa lying on the back porch, blood streaming from her back and abdomen. Frederick lay nearby, unconscious, blood pouring from his head. Both died later that day in South Side Hospital.
Julia afterward moved to Philadelphia and successfully applied for a widow's pension.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of nineteen in Lancaster September 6, 1861, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer February 9, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and re-mustered there February 12. He is listed as "wounded, slight" on August 1, 1864, but no details are found in his compiled miltiary service records. Promoted to corporal January 25, 1865, he honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Enfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00.
He married Julia Ann Wilson November 28, 1866, in Lancaster and fathered Mary E. (b. 03/29/69), Edward Purvine (b. @1873), Edward Thomas (b. @1874), Charles H. (b. @1875), Katherine V. (b. 03/30/77 or 04/18/77), William Hoover (b. 02/23/78), and Viola (b. 04/06/82). He moved to Pittsburgh shortly his marriage. He then married Rosa Eaches, née McCullough, ca. 1890 without divorcing Julia and assumed a bigamous life. Until Julia discovered his duplicity and threatened to expose him.
On the final day of his life, Milley returned home from his job as a day watchman where three workmen were repairing the basement water pipes. Moments later, the workmen hear two gunshots, then a third. They rushed up the cellar steps into the backyard and found Rosa lying on the back porch, blood streaming from her back and abdomen. Frederick lay nearby, unconscious, blood pouring from his head. Both died later that day in South Side Hospital.
Julia afterward moved to Philadelphia and successfully applied for a widow's pension.
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