The death of Civil War soldier Simon Goss was reported On This Day in 1881. Goss had served with as a Private in Company F, in the Ninth PA Calvary. He had been wounded at Dandridge, East Tennessee. He died 25 May at his home at Locust Valley , located between Strasburg and Lampeter. Goss, 42, left a wife, Fannie, and six children. He was buried at the Mennonite burying ground in Strasburg. Find a Grave however lists his service information as having enlisted in Company K, 10 th Infantry. Source: Find A Grave. Simon B Goss Historical Data Systems, comp. U.S. , Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo , UT , USA : Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Lancaster daily intelligencer. ( Lancaster , Pa. ), 26 May 1881. Chronicling America : Historic American Newspapers . Library of Congress. On This Day is a prompt I started this month to further explore histor...
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