PVT Jacob Siverling

1812 - 1901  (88 years)

• Name	Jacob Siverling
  Title	PVT
  Birth	5 Dec 1812	Redbank, Armstrong, PA
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Nov 1901	Markton, Armstrong, PA
  	Jacob Siverling in the Pennsylvania, Veterans Burial Cards, 1777-2012 Name: Jacob Siverling Military Branch: Army Veteran of Which War: U.S. Civil War Registration County: Jefferson Cemetery Name: Lutheran Cemetery Location: Ramsetown Inscription: Co B, 105 Reg Penn Vol Note: Civil War Burial: Saint Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery Ramsaytown Jefferson County Pennsylvania, USA Plot: Row 25
  Person ID	I277	Drollinger Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2016

  
  

  Father	Jacob Siverling,   b. 24 Jan 1782, Towamensing, Northampton, PA d. 16 Nov 1863, Knox, Jefferson, PA (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Mary Anne Harriger,   b. Abt 1788
  Family ID	F917	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 5 Dec 1812 - Redbank, Armstrong, PA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  [Obituary Transcript - The Spirit - A STRANGE SUICIDE. A Man in His Ninetieth Year Blows His Brains Out.] On Sunday of last week, while Jacob Siverling, who was in the ninetieth year of his age, was sitting at the table eating his dinner, he became excited, jumped to his feet and exclaimed: "This ends it. You will never see me alive again." He then went outside, and around the corner of the house, placed the muzzel of an old-fashioned, long barreled pistol to the side of his head, and a bullet crashed into his skull, killing him almost instantly. The deceased was a remarkable vigorous man for his age, but recently is said to have been subject to flighty spells when he would fly into a violent passion about some trivial matter and threaten to shoot himself. Mr. Siverling was a man of considerable intelligence, and with the exception of a little rheumatism, was as sound as the ordinary man of fifty years. His friends all thought that he would easily round out a century of life, and had he not come to the rash conclusion that he would end the "heartaches and the thousand nature shocks that flesh is heir to" and thus "make calamity of so long a life," by self-slaughter, he probably would have seen a hundred years of life. The deceased was a soldier in the 105th regiment, and was a pensioner. Everybody who knew him spoke of him as a fine old man. He lived with his son Amos and daughter at Markton. Name: Jacob Siverling Birth Year: abt 1813 Age in 1870: 57 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1870: Knox, Jefferson, Pennsylvania Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Jacob Siverling 57 Mary Siverling 54 Calvin Siverling 19 Lucinda Siverling 17 Anna S Siverling 15 Elisabeth Siverling 10 Jacob Siverling in the U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 Name: Jacob Siverling Residence: Pennsylvania Enlistment Date: 9 Sep 1861 Rank at enlistment: Private State Served: Pennsylvania Survived the War?: Yes Service Record: Enlisted in Company B, Pennsylvania 105th Infantry Regiment on 09 Sep 1861.Mustered out on 08 Sep 1864. Sources: History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865