Samuel C. Wagner

The son of John M. & Jane Wagner (spelled Waggoner in the 1860 census), in 1860 he was a tanner living in Newville, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 8" tall with black hair and black eyes.

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Newville and mustered into federal service at Washington DC as a private with Co. H, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry (60th Pa). He was promoted to commissary sergeant November 25, 1862, commissioned 2nd lieutenant and commissary of subsistence to date May 1, 1863, and honorably discharged at term's end August 24, 1864.

After the war, he married Laura Ege Woodburn October 25, 1866, and fathered the children you see linked below. In 1900-1910, he lived in Philadelphia but died in his son Charles's home in Wynnewood, Montgomery County, from "chronic interstitial nephritis of unknown duration."* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 24 2018, 17:29:14 UTC

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 24 2018, 17:31:25 UTC