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Elias Bachman – 208th Pennsylvania Infantry
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on July 25, 2018
The death of Elias Bachman was reported in the Shamokin News-Dispatch, 18 December 1933:
VET EXPIRES WHILE SEATED IN CHAIR
Elias Bachman, 87, one of the last Civil War veterans in the lower end of the county, fell dead at the home of Mrs. Elveretta Walt, of Dalmatia, and with whom the aged soldier had been making his home.
Death came to Comrade Bachman as he was seated in a rocking chair and was due to acute heart failure. The soldier had never married and for some years past had been living retired.
Elias Bachman was a native of the lower end of the county and had spent his entire life there. He served throughout the Civil War. A brother, Solomon Bachman, Sunbury, is the only immediate survivor.
Elias Bachman is buried at the Trinity Church Cemetery, Dalmatia, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. His grave marker recognizes his service as a Private in Company A of the 208th Pennsylvania Infantry, with which he served from 26 August 1864 through his honorable discharge on 1 June 1865.
On 23 July 1890, Elias Bachman applied for an invalid pension which he received and collected until his death, as shown on the Pension Index Card, above, from Fold3. At two times in his life he stayed at a Soldiers’ Home in Virginia, 1911-1912 and 1924-1926. Before retirement he worked as a laborer.
Previously, Elias Bachman was named here in the post entitled Dalmatia Civil War Veterans.
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News clipping from Newspapers.com.
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