Despite the clearly stated reference to service with Co. C, 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), no record was found for a Joseph Crissel or any variant spelling in that organization in the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file, Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, any Ancestry.com listing of Civil War soldiers including a compiled military service record, and neither pension index nor obituary in any online newspaper archive anywhere in Pennsylvania was located.
There is a strong possibility that the data below references the man buried here, but it is admittedly educated speculation. However, no other man of that name was located in any military record for the state of Pennsylvania. The vast difference in the regiment's name is not that rare a circumstance to encounter.
Joseph Crissel married unusually young to Maria Catherine Cutler October 12, 1845, in Sullivan County, New York, and fathered Harriet (b. @1846), Martha (b. @1849), Sarah (b. 10/19/52), Louisa Elizabeth (b. 02/14/54), Clarinda "Carrie" (b. 06/07/56), Frederick (b. 05/09/59), and William Henry (b. 05/08/61). In 1850, he was living with his family in Wawarsing, Ulster County, New York, but before 1860 had relocated his family to Great Bend, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-five in Montrose, Susquehanna County, September 23, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg October 20 as a private with Co. C, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry, but died from smallpox in a Harrisburg military hospital. He is in the company register and ARIAS as "Crissle."
His age is questionable. The 1850 census lists him as a twenty-three-year-old, agreeing with is stated age at enlistment, but 1860 claims he was thirty-one.
There is a strong possibility that the data below references the man buried here, but it is admittedly educated speculation. However, no other man of that name was located in any military record for the state of Pennsylvania. The vast difference in the regiment's name is not that rare a circumstance to encounter.
Joseph Crissel married unusually young to Maria Catherine Cutler October 12, 1845, in Sullivan County, New York, and fathered Harriet (b. @1846), Martha (b. @1849), Sarah (b. 10/19/52), Louisa Elizabeth (b. 02/14/54), Clarinda "Carrie" (b. 06/07/56), Frederick (b. 05/09/59), and William Henry (b. 05/08/61). In 1850, he was living with his family in Wawarsing, Ulster County, New York, but before 1860 had relocated his family to Great Bend, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-five in Montrose, Susquehanna County, September 23, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg October 20 as a private with Co. C, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry, but died from smallpox in a Harrisburg military hospital. He is in the company register and ARIAS as "Crissle."
His age is questionable. The 1850 census lists him as a twenty-three-year-old, agreeing with is stated age at enlistment, but 1860 claims he was thirty-one.
Despite the clearly stated reference to service with Co. C, 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), no record was found for a Joseph Crissel or any variant spelling in that organization in the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file, Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, any Ancestry.com listing of Civil War soldiers including a compiled military service record, and neither pension index nor obituary in any online newspaper archive anywhere in Pennsylvania was located.
There is a strong possibility that the data below references the man buried here, but it is admittedly educated speculation. However, no other man of that name was located in any military record for the state of Pennsylvania. The vast difference in the regiment's name is not that rare a circumstance to encounter.
Joseph Crissel married unusually young to Maria Catherine Cutler October 12, 1845, in Sullivan County, New York, and fathered Harriet (b. @1846), Martha (b. @1849), Sarah (b. 10/19/52), Louisa Elizabeth (b. 02/14/54), Clarinda "Carrie" (b. 06/07/56), Frederick (b. 05/09/59), and William Henry (b. 05/08/61). In 1850, he was living with his family in Wawarsing, Ulster County, New York, but before 1860 had relocated his family to Great Bend, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-five in Montrose, Susquehanna County, September 23, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg October 20 as a private with Co. C, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry, but died from smallpox in a Harrisburg military hospital. He is in the company register and ARIAS as "Crissle."
His age is questionable. The 1850 census lists him as a twenty-three-year-old, agreeing with is stated age at enlistment, but 1860 claims he was thirty-one.
There is a strong possibility that the data below references the man buried here, but it is admittedly educated speculation. However, no other man of that name was located in any military record for the state of Pennsylvania. The vast difference in the regiment's name is not that rare a circumstance to encounter.
Joseph Crissel married unusually young to Maria Catherine Cutler October 12, 1845, in Sullivan County, New York, and fathered Harriet (b. @1846), Martha (b. @1849), Sarah (b. 10/19/52), Louisa Elizabeth (b. 02/14/54), Clarinda "Carrie" (b. 06/07/56), Frederick (b. 05/09/59), and William Henry (b. 05/08/61). In 1850, he was living with his family in Wawarsing, Ulster County, New York, but before 1860 had relocated his family to Great Bend, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-five in Montrose, Susquehanna County, September 23, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg October 20 as a private with Co. C, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry, but died from smallpox in a Harrisburg military hospital. He is in the company register and ARIAS as "Crissle."
His age is questionable. The 1850 census lists him as a twenty-three-year-old, agreeing with is stated age at enlistment, but 1860 claims he was thirty-one.
Inscription
Co. C 173 Pa Inf [erroneous - see above]
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