Re: Jacob W d 1918 Civil War Drummer hardware
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Jacob W d 1918 Bklyn NY wido Mary L. Dietchess
Doreen McKennaPowers 1/01/02
Jacob W. MCKEEVER, seventy-six years old, died yesterday at his home, 10 Liberty street. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted at the age of eighteen years in the Duryea Zouaves, serving for three months with them
and then re-enlisted in the Twelfth Regiment, N.Y. Volunteers. At the close of the war he enlisted in the old Seventh Regiment, of which he was sergeant drummer for thirty years. He was a member of Fern Council, No. 774, Royal Arcanum, for thirty-three years. He had been a hardware merchant on Fulton street for the past thirty years.
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Re: Jacob W d 1918 Civil War Drummer hardware
Barbara Ohl 3/16/05