As recorded in the City of Reading Death Register #408 of 1882
Name: Charles Bentz
Age: 37
Died: May 24, 1882
Cause: Railroad Accident (Reading, Pennsylvania)
Place of Birth: Philadelphia
Address: 716 N. 8th Street, Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania
Burial: May 26, 1882
Location: Charles Evans Cemetery
Attending Physician: William H. Kelly, Cor.
Undertaker: C. Henninger & Sons
Civilian Occupation: Bricklayer
Civil War Military Service:
26 January 1864 (Mustered in at Philadelphia) to 7 August 1865
Company H, 65th Regiment, 5th Cavalry
Rank - Private
Brothers Jacob, Rudolph, and Charles Benz all served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
In 1880 Charles's brother Jacob drowned while was unloading scrape iron from a barge on the Walnut Street Wharf in Philadelphia. His death certificate list his cause of death as "found drown."
Charles was buried in a plot owned by Henry Walter (1792-1864) and Caroline Benz/Bentz Walter (1801-1874). (Find A Grave URL - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90082759). Caroline Benz/Bentz Walter was Charles's aunt (his father's sister).
As recorded in the City of Reading Death Register #408 of 1882
Name: Charles Bentz
Age: 37
Died: May 24, 1882
Cause: Railroad Accident (Reading, Pennsylvania)
Place of Birth: Philadelphia
Address: 716 N. 8th Street, Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania
Burial: May 26, 1882
Location: Charles Evans Cemetery
Attending Physician: William H. Kelly, Cor.
Undertaker: C. Henninger & Sons
Civilian Occupation: Bricklayer
Civil War Military Service:
26 January 1864 (Mustered in at Philadelphia) to 7 August 1865
Company H, 65th Regiment, 5th Cavalry
Rank - Private
Brothers Jacob, Rudolph, and Charles Benz all served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
In 1880 Charles's brother Jacob drowned while was unloading scrape iron from a barge on the Walnut Street Wharf in Philadelphia. His death certificate list his cause of death as "found drown."
Charles was buried in a plot owned by Henry Walter (1792-1864) and Caroline Benz/Bentz Walter (1801-1874). (Find A Grave URL - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90082759). Caroline Benz/Bentz Walter was Charles's aunt (his father's sister).
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