Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans' Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County, Pennsylvania
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).
Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans' Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County, Pennsylvania
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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