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Benjamin Franklin Kuhn

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Benjamin Franklin Kuhn Veteran

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
25 Apr 1919 (aged 73)
Alice, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Kecksburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.1693981, Longitude: -79.4636942
Memorial ID
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Civil War veteran: Co F, 11th Regiment, PA Volunteer Infantry

PA death certificate: father, William Kuhn; mother: Mary Elless (ancestry.com) Mary born 1812 PA
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The son of William & Mary Rachel (Ellis) Kuhn, he had a twin sister Susan (his twin) and in 1860 was a laborer living with his mother and sister in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary unk. and fathered Elizabeth (b. @1864), Rachel A. (b. @1867), Harry G. (b. @1869), Clark W. (b. 11/??/72), Minnie Ada (b. @1874), Mattie M. (b. @1877), and Linnie O. B. (b. @1879). Known largely by his middle name, his mother is in both the 1850 and 1860 censuses as "Ellis."

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted as a substitute and mustered into federal service at Gettysburg August 12, 1864, as a private with Co. K, 11th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 31, 1865. He is on the company register as "Franklin Cune" and applied for his pension using that spelling.

Cause of death was "bronchial pneumonia."

(Submitted by Dennis Brandt #47232334)
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Civil War veteran: Co F, 11th Regiment, PA Volunteer Infantry

PA death certificate: father, William Kuhn; mother: Mary Elless (ancestry.com) Mary born 1812 PA
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The son of William & Mary Rachel (Ellis) Kuhn, he had a twin sister Susan (his twin) and in 1860 was a laborer living with his mother and sister in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary unk. and fathered Elizabeth (b. @1864), Rachel A. (b. @1867), Harry G. (b. @1869), Clark W. (b. 11/??/72), Minnie Ada (b. @1874), Mattie M. (b. @1877), and Linnie O. B. (b. @1879). Known largely by his middle name, his mother is in both the 1850 and 1860 censuses as "Ellis."

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted as a substitute and mustered into federal service at Gettysburg August 12, 1864, as a private with Co. K, 11th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 31, 1865. He is on the company register as "Franklin Cune" and applied for his pension using that spelling.

Cause of death was "bronchial pneumonia."

(Submitted by Dennis Brandt #47232334)
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