The son of Adam & Lydia Hess, in 1850 he was a laborer living with his widowed mother and siblings in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah B. McLaughlin and fathered George C. (b. ?, d. 1861), Sarah Emma (b. 07/04/57 - married Daniel B. Padgett), Alice (b. 02/??/70), Ann E. (b. @1872). He is not found with any certainty in the 1860 census.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Lancaster September 18, 1861, mustered into federal service there September 24 as a private with Co. C, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged at term's end October 3, 1864, at Atlanta, Georgia. According to his pension index, he either enlisted with (unlikely) or transferred to Co. B, 17th Veteran Reserve Corps, but details must await the post-covid-19 re-opening of the National Archives and access to his compiled military service records.
By no later than 1890, he was living in Sadsbury Township, Chester County. While walking home along on the railroad tracks, he was struck by a train. His body was found in the pre dawn hours "cut up and torn in a horrible manner, and pieces of it were picked up for a long distance along the track." His remains were not identified until that evening. Newspaper accounts of his death all list his age as fifty.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) •
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Lancaster September 18, 1861, mustered into federal service there September 24 as a private with Co. C, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged at term's end October 3, 1864, at Atlanta, Georgia. According to his pension index, he either enlisted with (unlikely) or transferred to Co. B, 17th Veteran Reserve Corps, but details must await the post-covid-19 re-opening of the National Archives and access to his compiled military service records.
By no later than 1890, he was living in Sadsbury Township, Chester County. While walking home along on the railroad tracks, he was struck by a train. His body was found in the pre dawn hours "cut up and torn in a horrible manner, and pieces of it were picked up for a long distance along the track." His remains were not identified until that evening. Newspaper accounts of his death all list his age as fifty.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) •
The son of Adam & Lydia Hess, in 1850 he was a laborer living with his widowed mother and siblings in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah B. McLaughlin and fathered George C. (b. ?, d. 1861), Sarah Emma (b. 07/04/57 - married Daniel B. Padgett), Alice (b. 02/??/70), Ann E. (b. @1872). He is not found with any certainty in the 1860 census.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Lancaster September 18, 1861, mustered into federal service there September 24 as a private with Co. C, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged at term's end October 3, 1864, at Atlanta, Georgia. According to his pension index, he either enlisted with (unlikely) or transferred to Co. B, 17th Veteran Reserve Corps, but details must await the post-covid-19 re-opening of the National Archives and access to his compiled military service records.
By no later than 1890, he was living in Sadsbury Township, Chester County. While walking home along on the railroad tracks, he was struck by a train. His body was found in the pre dawn hours "cut up and torn in a horrible manner, and pieces of it were picked up for a long distance along the track." His remains were not identified until that evening. Newspaper accounts of his death all list his age as fifty.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) •
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Lancaster September 18, 1861, mustered into federal service there September 24 as a private with Co. C, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged at term's end October 3, 1864, at Atlanta, Georgia. According to his pension index, he either enlisted with (unlikely) or transferred to Co. B, 17th Veteran Reserve Corps, but details must await the post-covid-19 re-opening of the National Archives and access to his compiled military service records.
By no later than 1890, he was living in Sadsbury Township, Chester County. While walking home along on the railroad tracks, he was struck by a train. His body was found in the pre dawn hours "cut up and torn in a horrible manner, and pieces of it were picked up for a long distance along the track." His remains were not identified until that evening. Newspaper accounts of his death all list his age as fifty.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) •
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