Samuel M. LEHMAN

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1870 US Census in Campbell, Greene, Missouri

Cause of death: hepatic cirrhosis

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Death Certificate - Machinist, 723 Montgomery Ave, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cemetery: Monument
Marital Status: Single

Served in Company E, 121st Infantry Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers. Mustered in August 19, 1862 for a three-year term.

Samuel's parents and his brother Henry were removed and reburied in Lawnview Cemetery in Rockledge, so it is possible this was the case with Samuel as well, however we have found no record of this.

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Cause of death was listed as Apoplexy, the place of death was the North Texas Hospital for the Insane, although tuberculosis patients were also treated there. It is currently known as Terrell State Hospital. Age at death quoted as 65.

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Died from "Concussion"

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1870 US Census in Campbell, Green, Missouri. Parents' birth places were not shown.
1872 Arrived in Denison, Texas
1880 US Census in Denison, Grayson, Texas, Occupation Express Agent, parents both born in France !!
1900 US Census in Denison, Grayson, Texas, parents born in Germany, Switzerland



"One of the saddest events that have happened in Denison for many years was the sudden death of our pioneer townsman, Joe Brutsche, Thursday.
Mr. Brutsche died at home. When stricken down he was engaged in doing some work in the back yard. Death was instant. It was a flash from time into eternity. We think it a good way to step behind the veil, for long suffering is not the wish of any one. Mr. Brutsche was one of the old guards of pioneer Denison, casting his lot here in 1872. His whole life had been a very busy and useful one. His first business venture was with the Adams Express Co., of which he was agent. He was better known as city assessor and collector. When he retired from that office he took up fire insurance and was conducting that business at the time of death. As a business man he was not surpassed in Denison. In March l878, was married to Miss May Legate, the sister of Russ Legate, who was a teacher at the time in the public schools. To the union six children were born. He is survived by the following relatives: His wife. Mrs. May A. Brutsche; children. Mrs. John Gregg. Sherman; Mrs. Frank G. Hobart. Fort Worth; Sidney Brutsche. Oklahoma City; Harry Brutsche, Denison; Miss Eugenia Brutsche, Denison; Joseph Brutsche. Jr., Denison.
We are sorry that Joe Brutsche is dead, and that sorrow is shared by thousands who loved and esteemed him. His character and disposition were of the sort that he made friends and held them." The Sunday Gazetter, Denison Texas, February 7, 1909

Joseph married May Augusta LEGATE 1878, Denison, Grayson, Texas. May (daughter of Sidney Smith LEGATE and Hannah Wiggin SMITH) was born 9 Sep 1856, Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died 1 Nov 1935, Brownsville, Cameron, Texas; was buried Fairview Cemetery, Denison, Grayson, Texas. [Group Sheet]

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Henry was awarded the Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor, although he never actually received it. He served in the Union Navy as a Landsman and entered the service in Pennsylvania. He was awarded the CMOH on General Order Number 45, dated December 31, 1864. His citation reads "Served on board the USS Tacony during the taking of Plymouth, North Carolina, 31 October 1864. Carrying out his duties faithfully during the capture of Plymouth, Brutsche distinguished himself by a display of coolness when he participated in landing and spiking a 9-inch gun while under a devastating fire from enemy musketry." (Henry was eighteen years old at the time)

http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/179/brutsche-henry.php



Joseph, Jeanette, and their son Henry were originally buried at Monument Cemetery in Philadelphia. In 1956 Monument Cemetery was condemned by the City of Philadelphia and sold to Temple University, and all of the graves there were exhumed and relocated to Lawnview Cemetery in Rockledge, Pennsylvania. Most of the existing headstones were dumped en masse into the Delaware River near the present-day Betsy Ross Bridge to protect the shoreline from erosion.



Henry died of 'albuminuria,' the presence of albumin in the urine, a symptom of kidney disease associated with diabetes.



Henry liked soldiering. He also served in the 44th Pennsylvania Militia in 1863, and the 2nd Provisional Pennsylvania Cavalry in 1865-66



Plymouth had been occupied by Union forces from 1862 until April 1864, when the Confederate forces launched a counter attack. During the night of April 18th, the iron-clad Albemarle, taking advantage of an abnormally high river level, safely passed over obstructions which had been placed in the Roanoke River by the Union Army and slipped undamaged past Fort Gray, west of Plymouth. In the predawn hours of April 19th, the Albemarle encountered the Southfield and the Miami, the most powerful Union vessels on the Roanoke. The Albemarle promptly sank the first and heavily damaged the second, forcing the Miami and two other gunboats to retreat. Late that afternoon, the Confederates launched a double envelopment attack against both the east and west sides of the town. The Union General Henry Wessels unconditionally surrendered his entire command on April 20th. But on October 28, 1864 Lt. William Cushing and twenty-two men sailed up the Roanoke River in a 30 foot steam launch with a lanyard-detonated torpedo mounted on a spar and after reaching the Albemarle, detonated it against the hull creating a hole "big enough to drive a wagon in." She sank immediately in six feet of water, paving the way for Union forces to retake Plymouth a few days later.