Nate Trenchard 1839-1919-served in Confederate and Union ar

TRENCHARD, BEARDMAN, WATERHOUSE, MCDONOUGH, GRIFFIN, ROBERTSON, BUCK

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Date: 1/26/2016 at 17:47:02

Sounds like an interesting fellow. Cheryl

Dubuque Telegraph Herald, May 11, 1919

PIONEER CITIZEN
MANCHESTER DIES
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“NATE” TRENCHARD PASSES
AWAY THERE AT ADVANCED
OF 79 YEARS
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Manchester, Ia., May 10. – SPECIAL: “Nate” Trenchard died at his home here, May 7th, aged seventy-nine years. He had the unusual record of having served in both the Confederate and Union armies during the Civil War. He had the further record of being a deserter and was proud of it. When the war began he was in Atlanta on business and was forced into the Confederate ranks at the point of a bayonet. While serving there he fought against his brother Henry, a solider in the Union army in one of the early battles. “Nate” deserted from the Confederate army at the first opportunity and returned to his home here and after marrying Miss Mary Beardman on February 21, 1864, he enlisted in the fall of that year in Company I. Second Iowa Calvary and served until the end of the war.

He was born in Steuben County, New York, October 17, 1839, and came with his father and other members of the family to this county in 1853. They took up 600 acres of virgin prairie, including part of the city of Manchester. Nathaniel was a harness maker by trade and a good one and he worked twenty-seven years, here for F. S. Steadman. For the past few years his feeble health has prevented his former activity and has been tenderly cared for by members of his family.

He is the last of a family of eleven children. He is survived by his wife who is seriously ill, one son Roy, of Croton, South Dakota: three daughters, Mrs. Mabel Robertson of Thorpe; Mrs. Viola Griffin of Waterloo; and Mrs. Ethel McDonough of Barranet, Wisconsin; by two stepsons; Harry Buck of Croton, and Everett Waterhouse, and a granddaughter, Thelma Griffin of Waterloo.

Funeral services will be held from the North Manchester Church on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock and burial will be in Oakland Cemetery.