CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES AT AGE OF 88
The funeral of Matthew Spence, 88-year-old veteran of the Civil War, who died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. G. W. Dorsey, Jr., 2001 Jefferson street, will be held at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning from St. Andrew's P. E. Church, Eighth and Shipley streets, of which he was a communicant. Interment will be in Mt. Salem cemetery.
The deceased, who served in the 23rd Pennsylvania Volunteers, Birney's Zouaves, during three years and three months, saw action at the battles of Antietam, Cold Harbor, Mary's Heights, Federalsburg, Gettysburg and the Wilderness campaign. He was wounded three times, and at Gettysburg fought against his brother James, a Rebel soldier serving with Stonewall Jackson's Washington Light Artillery. Both Matthew and James, now dead, attended the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg.
Mr. Spence is survived, in addition to Mrs. Dorsey, by three sons, Lewis J., Harry M. and Edwin H. Spence, of New York City, and by 14 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
Members of Brandywine Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he was a member and the oldest Odd Fellow in Delaware, and comrades of Thomas A. Smith Post, G. A. R., and the Sons of Veterans are invited to attend the funeral with relatives and friends.
Friends may call at the Dorsey residence tomorrow night and Wednesday morning until 10 o'clock to view the body.
(Wilmington Morning News, Wilmington, DE, 8 Sep 1930, Page 2)
Per FAG #47025283
CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES AT AGE OF 88
The funeral of Matthew Spence, 88-year-old veteran of the Civil War, who died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. G. W. Dorsey, Jr., 2001 Jefferson street, will be held at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning from St. Andrew's P. E. Church, Eighth and Shipley streets, of which he was a communicant. Interment will be in Mt. Salem cemetery.
The deceased, who served in the 23rd Pennsylvania Volunteers, Birney's Zouaves, during three years and three months, saw action at the battles of Antietam, Cold Harbor, Mary's Heights, Federalsburg, Gettysburg and the Wilderness campaign. He was wounded three times, and at Gettysburg fought against his brother James, a Rebel soldier serving with Stonewall Jackson's Washington Light Artillery. Both Matthew and James, now dead, attended the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg.
Mr. Spence is survived, in addition to Mrs. Dorsey, by three sons, Lewis J., Harry M. and Edwin H. Spence, of New York City, and by 14 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
Members of Brandywine Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he was a member and the oldest Odd Fellow in Delaware, and comrades of Thomas A. Smith Post, G. A. R., and the Sons of Veterans are invited to attend the funeral with relatives and friends.
Friends may call at the Dorsey residence tomorrow night and Wednesday morning until 10 o'clock to view the body.
(Wilmington Morning News, Wilmington, DE, 8 Sep 1930, Page 2)
Per FAG #47025283
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