Wayne County NyArchives Obituaries.....Denning, Patrick January 11, 1916
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Syracuse Herald Newspaper January 11, 1916
PATRICK DENNING, ONE OF 

LINCOLN’S BODY GUARD, DEAD

 

Well Known Newark Resident Had Close Relations 

With the War President.

 

Newark, Jan. 11. – The funeral of Patrick Edward Denning, one of the last 
survivors of the personal guard of President Lincoln, was held yesterday. Mr. 
Denning often told of his observations of the President and recalled that he 
had shaken hands with the head of the nation.

            Mr. Denning was born in Ireland on St. Patrick’s day, nearly 
seventy-four years ago and came to this country with his parents when he was 3 
years old. The family settled in Boston and at the outbreak of the civil war, 
Mr. Denning was one of the first to enlist.

            As a soldier Mr. Denning had a splendid record. He served in 
Company G, Thirty-second Massachusetts Infantry, until wounded at the battle 
of Gettysburg. He was taken to Washington and, upon recovery, re-enlisted in 
Company E, Twenty-fourth Maryland Veteran Reserve corps, with which division 
he remained until honorably discharged at the close of the war. Before 
Gettysburg Mr. Denning was at Antietam, Fredericksburg, second battle of Bull 
Run, the Wilderness and Chattanooga.

            After re-enlisting Mr. Denning was one of Lincoln’s personal 
guards. He often enjoyed conversations with the great “emancipator.” In his 
later years he loved to describe Lincoln to those with whom he came in 
contact. He could remember shaking hands with Lincoln several times.

            Mr. Denning came to Newark from Washington, after the review of 
the Northern troops. In October, 1874, he married Margaret Murphy of Lyons. He 
entered the harness business, in which he was engaged for fifty years, until 
the death of his son, John Denning, a little more than a year ago. He was a 
charter member of the William B. Vosburg post, G.A.R.: a member of St. 
Michael’s Catholic church, a member of the Holy Name society of that church 
and of the C. B. L. of the Roman Catholic church. Three years ago, at the time 
of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, Mr. Denning was 
delegate from Vosburg post.

            He leaves his wife: a son, William Denning of Utica: three 
daughters, Mrs. Mary Mahoney and Misses Helen and Kathryn Denning of Newark: a 
granddaughter, Miss Anne Denning of Buffalo: a brother, John Denning of 
Boston, and two sisters, Mrs. Thomas Devaney of Medford, Mass., and Mrs. 
Katherine Grant of Lawrence, Mass.

 

From the Syracuse Herald newspaper, which was located in Syracuse, New York, 
January 11, 1916


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