Pepin, Sylvanus 1825 - 1863

PEPIN

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 8/23/2018 at 14:11:26

Source: New Oregon Plain Dealer Aug. 21, 1863, Reprinted in Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Mar. 17, 1903, LP, C6

“It is currently reported that William Winters, Sylvanus Pepin, Samuel Oldham and Lewis L. Light, all of Co. ‘I’, 38th Iowa Regt, are dead. They were all from this county.”

Transcriber's Note: Information found on photo of gravestone:

Born: Jan. 4, 1825 Died: Aug. 9, 1863
Co I. 38th Iowa
Nativity: Canada.Enlisted Aug. 21, 1862. Mustered Oct. 1, 1862. Died of intermittent fever and diarrhea on Aug. 9, 1863, on hospital steamer "City of Memphis." Buried in National Cemetery, Jefferson Barracks St. Louis, Mo. Section 5, grave 101.