Daniel & Matilda (Oldfield) Garber
 

Richland Co., Ohio

 
 

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Daniel & Matilda (Oldfield) Garber

Butler Times:  29 July 1905, Vol. XII, No. 49

 
 
 

Submitted by Amy

 

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Both born in 1828, Daniel on April 8th. in Washington Co., Penn.  He moved with his parents to Richland County in 1836 and settled on a farm about 3 miles west of Butler.  Matilda was born and reared on a farm near Greenwood Mills, near Bellville.  The couple was married on July 22, 1849.  Daniel built the first shoe shop in Butler, and was a veteran of the Civil War - enlisting in 1862 in Co. E., 102nd. Reg't. O.V.I. and serving with that regiment till the close of the war.  He was captured during his military service at Athens, Alabama on Sept. 5, 1864, and confined in the rebel prison at Cahaba, Alabama until March, 1865 - surviving the rations of a pine of cornmeal per day, cob an all, ground together.  He was on the steamer Sultana which blew up on the Mississippi River seven miles north of Memphis, Tennessee on the night of April 27 - he being one of three survivors out of thirteen on the boat of Company E.


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