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Dr. John Boyer Beshler of Berrysburg – Assistant Surgeon in Civil War
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on August 9, 2018
Dr. John Boyer Beshler died at Oakdale, Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 8 April 1869, and was buried at the Peace Cemetery, Berrysburg, Dauphin County.
He was the son of Dr. Henry C. Beshler (1806-1888) and Mary [Boyer] Beshler (1814-1894) and was born 8 September 1839.
The Lykens Register from 1869, reprinted in 1907, his death notice:
Dr. John B. Beshler, of Berrysburg, well known to many of our readers, died on Thursday of last week at the home of D. K. McClure at Oakdale, after a protracted illness. Deceased was 29 years old. He was a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.
At the age of 23, J. B. Beshler enrolled on 14 June 1862 as an Assistant Surgeon in the 81st Pennsylvania Infantry at Washington, D.C. According to the record at the Pennsylvania Archives (above), he was discharged on 3 April 1863.
A second card was also found for J. B. Beshler (above), which indicates that his service was also to the 88th Pennsylvania Infantry, as an Assistant Surgeon.
Dr. Beshler’s wife, Jennie Beshler, who died in 1867, is also buried at the Peace Cemetery in Berrysburg. As the above Pension Index Card shows, on 3 June 1883, a guardian applied for pension benefits for a minor child or children. The benefit was not granted.
The Pension Index Card from Ancestry.com names the guardian as Daniel S. Boyer. At the time of this writing, it not known what relationship if any Daniel S. Boyer had to any minor children of Dr. Boyer, or who were the minor children. The names and the reasons of the denial of the pension benefits would most likely be found in the application file, which was not available for this post.
Previously on this blog, Dr. Beshler was featured as part of a post on Civil War Burials at Peace Cemetery. Also, there is a short biographical sketch of him on his Findagrave Memorial.
Any readers with additional information about Dr. John Boyer Beshler are urged to contribute it.
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News clipping from Newspapers.com.
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