The son of John & Sarah (Ettinger) Enders, he married Amanda Dietrich and fathered the children you see linked below. In 1850, he was living in Jefferson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, but is not found in the 1860 census, although he is in the 1863-65 draft registration still residing in Jefferson Township.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted by Pennsylvania at the stated age of forty in Dauphin County October 30, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 2 as a private with Co. F, 172nd Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 1, 1863. Why he added two years to his enlistment age is unknown, but it does raise questions as to the accuracy of the give question as to the birth year seen here. His tombstone claims service with "172 Regt. P. D. M. V." that presumably means 172nd Regiment Pennsylvania Drafted Militia Volunteers, which is a contradiction. The "V" may stand for "Veteran," but if so is improperly used because veteran regiments did not exist at that point in the war.
On March 14, 1881, he applied for a disability pension and received it. He died in the county almshouse survived by only three of his children. His obituary in the Harrisburg Telegraph claims he was eighty years old at the time of his death, but the age at death on the tombstone shows him nearly seven months short of that and calculates to the birthdate used above.
The son of John & Sarah (Ettinger) Enders, he married Amanda Dietrich and fathered the children you see linked below. In 1850, he was living in Jefferson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, but is not found in the 1860 census, although he is in the 1863-65 draft registration still residing in Jefferson Township.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted by Pennsylvania at the stated age of forty in Dauphin County October 30, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 2 as a private with Co. F, 172nd Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 1, 1863. Why he added two years to his enlistment age is unknown, but it does raise questions as to the accuracy of the give question as to the birth year seen here. His tombstone claims service with "172 Regt. P. D. M. V." that presumably means 172nd Regiment Pennsylvania Drafted Militia Volunteers, which is a contradiction. The "V" may stand for "Veteran," but if so is improperly used because veteran regiments did not exist at that point in the war.
On March 14, 1881, he applied for a disability pension and received it. He died in the county almshouse survived by only three of his children. His obituary in the Harrisburg Telegraph claims he was eighty years old at the time of his death, but the age at death on the tombstone shows him nearly seven months short of that and calculates to the birthdate used above.
Inscription
CO. F 172 REGT P.D.M.V.
Family Members
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Abner A. Enders
1848–1929
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Francis W Enders
1849–1918
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David Porter Enders
1850–1930
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Sarah E. Enders
1852–1858
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Augustus F. Enders
1854–1858
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Mary E. Enders
1855–1858
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Amanda Melinda Enders Sweigard
1857–1929
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Zachariah E. Enders
1859–1865
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Agnes Louisa Enders Miller
1860–1948
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Clara Ellen Enders
1864–1872
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John W. Enders
1866–1881
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