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John Diehl Killian

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John Diehl Killian

Birth
Reamstown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
3 Feb 1916 (aged 75)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
East Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.418666, Longitude: -74.368744
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The son of John S. & Catherine (Diehl) Killian, in 1860 he was a coach maker living in East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 6" tall and had light hair and hazel eyes. He married Katherine Heliene April 21, 1861, and fathered Harry Heliene (b. 06/19/62, d. 10/09/62), Samuel Franklin (b. 06/27/64), Katie May (b. 08/09/67, d. 12/30/76), George Washington Miles (b. 04/24/77, d. 01/12/77), John Calvin (b. 07/06/70), and Charles Wesley (b. 03/27/87).

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg April 29, 1861, as a private with Co. E, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 31, 1861.

In later years, he became a minister, and in 1890 lived in York Borough, York County, Pennsylvania. He died in Germantown Hospital, Philadelphia, from a "fractured leg complicated [by] hypostatic pneumonia received by being struck by an automobile at Wayne Ave. and Rittenhouse St."
The son of John S. & Catherine (Diehl) Killian, in 1860 he was a coach maker living in East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 6" tall and had light hair and hazel eyes. He married Katherine Heliene April 21, 1861, and fathered Harry Heliene (b. 06/19/62, d. 10/09/62), Samuel Franklin (b. 06/27/64), Katie May (b. 08/09/67, d. 12/30/76), George Washington Miles (b. 04/24/77, d. 01/12/77), John Calvin (b. 07/06/70), and Charles Wesley (b. 03/27/87).

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg April 29, 1861, as a private with Co. E, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 31, 1861.

In later years, he became a minister, and in 1890 lived in York Borough, York County, Pennsylvania. He died in Germantown Hospital, Philadelphia, from a "fractured leg complicated [by] hypostatic pneumonia received by being struck by an automobile at Wayne Ave. and Rittenhouse St."


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