Showing posts with label 153 OH Infantry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 153 OH Infantry. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

John Neal, 193 OH Infantry

Headstone, Evergreen Cemetery


John Neal was a member of company K of the 193 Ohio Infantry, which formed in March 1865. It served at Harper's Ferry and then throughout Virginia before mustering out in August 1865

Kentucky State Journal
November 23, 1894

Death of Captain John W Neal
Captain John W. Neal was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati yesterday morning to be operated on for a cancerous growth in his left eye. He was placed under the charge of Dr. Conner. The operation was performed, but Captain Neal died in a few minutes thereafter. Captain Neal was a soldier during the late war. Until recently he had been an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, O. His body was removed to the residence of his son in Dayton, Ky., from which place the funeral will be held this afternoon at two o’clock

Rest in peace, soldier

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

George Lansdale, US Navy, update



Here is another brief bit of information I found about Mr. Lansdale.


Kentucky State Journal 
October 7, 1890-7-1890

The funeral of the late George W. Lansdale took place last Sunday afternoon from his late residence on Ann street. William Nelson Post No. 1 G.A.R.,  and William Nelson Drill Corps attended in a body, headed by the F.C. Miller Drum Corps. Rev. Dr. Harley J. Steward preached the funeral sermon, after which the remains were taken to Evergreen Cemetery for interment.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Lazarus Fagin, Co. A 153 OH Infantry

Headstone in Evergreen Cemetery


The 153rd Ohio Infantry regiment, part of the National Guard, was organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, near Cincinnati, in the spring of 1864. It spent time in West Virginia before going to Camp Chase Ohio and then mustering out in September of the same year.


Kentucky Post, January 25, 1907

Dayton “Lazarus Fagin, 82, 325 Third-av., died yesterday afternoon of a complication of diseases, leaving a daughter Mr. Metzner. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon from the residence, the burial being in Evergreen Cemetery.

Rest in peace, soldier