Notes for Daniel Minick GARLAND
School teacher and farmer. Served three years 7th Pa. Calvary.
Obtiuary: "...resident of Bixler...died in National Military Home, Dayton, Ohio, July 11, 1907 ...cancer of the face. Internment was made at the family burial plot in the cemetery at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. ...son of John and Mary (Minich) Garland and was born near Loysville September 2, 1826. He taught school in this county for twenty four years. He was a solider of the Civil War, a member of Co. H, 7th Penna Calvary from December, 1863 until the close of the war, September 25, 1865 and was in the battles of Sherman's army from Nashville to Atlanta. After the fall of Atlanta and the surrender of General Hood he was under General Wilson with 25,000 calvary and fought in all the battles of the Alabama campaign, joining in the capture of Jefferson Davis. Mr. Garland was married to Miss Elizabeth Kistler, of Loysville, April, 1858, with whom he lived forty five years. Their children are John K. druggist, Harrisburg; S. Luther, killed in a storm in Trego county, Kansas, July, 1902; Ida (Mrs. John Wertz) died in Manitou Springs, Colo., 1889; Rev. D. Frank, pastor of first Lutheran church, Dayton, Oh; and Annie Salomie, who died January 6, 1873..." Source: Perry County newspaper as quoted in Gerald Collins, MARIANA (LOY) KISTLER AND SOME OF HER DESCENDANTS, 1996, Copy in Perry Historians collection, New Bloomfield, PA
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