John Douglass Elder

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Husband John Douglass Elder ^{1 2 3}

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           Died: 2 Jul 1862 - Malvern Hill, Henrico Co, VA 3 4
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         Father: Robert Elder (1809-1890) 1 2 5
         Mother: Nancy Douglass (Abt 1815-1896) 1

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General Notes: Husband - John Douglass Elder

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Civil War: He was second lieutenant of Company D, 62d Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the battle of Malvern Hill, while in command of his company.

Another source states that he was killed in Tennessee.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 201.

2 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 503.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 961.

4 Samuel P. Bates, History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, Vol. II (Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869), Pg 466.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 960.