MILITARY: Civil War Soldier Interments, 1880, Blair County, PA

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OUR DEAD SOLDIERS.
Efforts Being Made to Get a Complete List of Them.

  A list of the soldiers buried in Blair county has been made, and 
although it is much to be regretted many graves are now lost which in 
all probability will not again be found.  To save them from oblivion 
Dr. William D. Hall, of this city, on behalf of Post No. 62, Grand Army 
of the Republic, has for some time past been endeavoring to make a 
complete list.  There are about seventy-five soldiers buried in the 
neighborhood of Altoona, but of these he has a record of less than one-
half.  Below will be found a list of the names so far as he has 
obtained them, and any one knowing of omissions will please send them 
to the doctor or to any member of the post, by mail or otherwise.  It 
is to be hoped this matter will not be overlooked but that by another 
year the list will be much more nearly complete than at present.  If 
any graves are not marked with headstones the government will furnish 
them free of cost upon the proper application being made.  The names 
are as follows:
  James John McCormick, First Lieutenant, Company D, buried at St. 
John's Cemetery.
  James Maxwell, private, Company L, Seventy-second regiment, in 
Fairview.
  Henry Schwartz, Captain, Company I, Ninety-third regiment, in 
Fairview.
  David M. Burkholder, private, Company D, One Hundred and Eighty-
Fourth regiment, in Antis township.
  Mordecai McMahon, private, Company G, Thirteenth cavalry, in 
Fairview.
  Charles Moyer, private, Company F, Fourth cavalry, in Fairview.
  Edward Evers, private, Company E, Eighth reserves, in Fairview.
  John Kelly, Corporal, Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth 
volunteers, in Fairview.
  George R. Everson, Jr., private, Company B, Eighth reserves, in 
Fairview.
  George M. Louden, private, Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth, 
in Fairview.
  Joseph S. McLaughlin, private, Company D, One hundred and Twenty-
fifth regiment, in Fairview.
  George W. Burley, First Lieutenant, Company C, One Hundred and Tenth 
regiment, in Fairview.
  Emanuel J. Burley, private, Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth 
volunteers, in Fairview.
  Daniel Foust, private, Company D, Two Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania, 
in Fairview.
  Lemuel M. Beales, private, Company D, Thirteenth cavalry, in 
Fairview.
  John C. Bowers, Corporal, Company D, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth 
volunteers, in Fairview.
  Isaac Hill, in Fairview.
  John McLaughlin, Corporal, Company F, Seventy-sixth volunteers, in 
Fairview.
  Joseph Bush, Corporal, Company F, Second Pennsylvania cavalry, in 
Fairview.
  John Fry, private, Company G, Twelfth cavalry, at Asbury Chapel.
  Levi Valentine, private, Company G, Twelfth Cavalry, in Asbury 
Chapel.
  Frederick Wentzell, private, Company M, Sixty-second volunteers, at 
Newry.
  Joseph S. Hamilton, private, Company H, One Hundred and Tenth 
volunteers, in Logan township.
  Stephen C. Potts, First Lieutenant, Company M, Sixty-second 
volunteers, at Hollidaysburg.
  P. T. Keys, Captain, Sixteenth United States infantry, at 
Hollidaysburg.
  David Coho, private, Company B, Third Pennsylvania volunteers, in 
Collinsville.
  David Cassiday, Corporal, Company F, Second Pennsylvania reserves, at 
Fairview.
  John Walton, Sergeant, Company A, Two Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania 
volunteers, at Collinsville.
  Isaac Markley, gunboat Clara Dalton, at Fairview.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, May 29, 1880