Iowa Family Group Sheet for William A. KLEPPER

Submitted by: Donna Hansen Stene 
Email: csstene@juno.com 

HUSBAND: WILLIAM A KLEPPER 
Birth date: 20 Nov 1840 
Birthplace: Pennsylvania 
Death date: 8 Sep 1863 
Place of death: Bear Creek, Mississippi 
Burial place: Greenwood Cemetery, Muscatine, Iowa  
Father: CHRISTIAN KLEPPER 
Mother: NANCY ANN KUDZ 

Marriage date: 30 Aug 1862 
Marriage place: Muscatine, Iowa 

WIFE: HELEN JULIA REBECCA LONGENECKER 
Birth date:28 Nov 1843 
Birthplace: Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Death date: 24 Aug 1920 
Place of death: Defiance, Shelby County, Iowa  
Burial place: Union Township Cemetery, Defiance, Iowa 
Other Spouse: WILLIAM RAY 
Father: JOSHUA LONGENECKER 
Mother: ANN WINNEMORE

NO CHILDREN

Documents and Sources

Marriage recorded, Muscatine, Iowa, book A, page 89
WILLIAM KLEPPER was in Company A, 35th Iowa Volunteer Unit of the Union Army.
Enlisted at Muscatine, Iowa, on 29 August 1862, went into camp on Muscatine Island, 
was in Cairo, Illinois, Island Ten, western Kentucky during the winter of 1862-63, 
the Vicksburg Campaign, took part in the capture of Jackson, in western Tennessee 
for several months, and died from congestive bilious fever at the Regimental Hospital, 
Bear Creek, Mississippi. 

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