Dr. Franklin Reyner (1841-1927)

REYNER, EASTMAN, HAMLEY

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 7/17/2014 at 21:15:23

Maquoketa Excelsior, Sep. 6, 1927

Dr. Franklin Reyner, Epworth's last surviving Civil War veteran, died at his home in Epworth Friday night at 9:10 o'clock after a few days illness. Dr. Reyner died on his eighty-sixth birthday, having been born at Bladensburg, Maryland, September 2, 1841.

Funeral services were conducted at the Reyner home in Epworth, Monday morning at 9 o'clock. The funeral services and burial were in charge of members of Hyde Clark post of the Grand Army of the Republic, Dubuque, of which Dr. Reyner was a member.

In 1851, when he was ten years old, Dr. Reyner came from the east with his family and located in Dubuque. Ten years later the family moved to Maquoketa. Dr. Reyner enlisted in July, 1861, in Company A, 9th Iowa Infantry as a musician. He learned the smell and burn of powder in March, 1862 at the Battle of Pea Ridge where he shouldered a rifle and fought with his comrades. He was discharged in December, 1862. He attended Rush Medical College and graduated in 1875 and began his practice in Epworth, where he practised until his death.

Dr. Reyner's wife, Sarah Hamley Reyner, died in November, 1924 and he is survived by two daughters, Miss Minnie Reyner, Epworth, and Mrs. Eastman, Rockford, Illinois and a grandson, Reyner Eastman.

Burial was at Mt. Hope cemetery in Maquoketa where a firing squad accompanied the body for the last military honor. Rev. F. C. Worcester was in charge of services.

Dr. Franklin Reyner
 

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