Oits: Mark Donley, 1926: of Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 

Submitted by Carol Battin,   pagenie@iname.com,     May 31, 1998.  
Taken from Pittsburgh Post Gazette, April 20, 1926, pgs 1 and 10.

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MARK DONLEY, INDIAN FIGHTER, COUNCILMAN, DIES IN VIRGINIA

     Mark Donley, probably the last of Custer's Scouts, Civil War
veteran and former member of the Pittsburgh City Council, is dead.  Mr.
Donley, who was a prominent resident of the South Side and councilman
for 20 years prior to 1903, died Sunday in Hampton Hospital, Newport
News, Va., following an illness of two years.  He was aged 82.

     Mr. Donley was born in Brownsville and came to Pittsburgh, locating
on the South Side, at age of 12.  His parents were Samuel Donley and
Julia Kephart Donley.

     At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted in the First West
Virginia Cavalry and served three and one-half years in the  Shenandoah
Valley under Gen. Custer and Gen. Sheridan.  Near the close of the war
his brother, Lieut. Sylvester Donley, was killed at his side in the
Battle of Winchester.  He brought the mutilated body of his brother
home to his mother for burial and returned to the front immediately.

     Mr. Donley, prior to his membership in the Pittsburgh City Council,
was borough clerk of Ormsby Borough Council, captain of No. 12 Engine
Company and alderman of the old Twenty-fourth Ward.  He was a
Republican and a follower of C.L. Magee in politics.  He was always 
active in political circles and had many friends throughout the city and
county.  The old Twenty-Fourth Ward which he represented was Democrat
but he was always victorious as a Republican.   He leaves two sons,
Custer Donley of Pontiac, Mich., and Maj. William McClurg Donley of 
Carirck (sp), both war veterans, and a daughter, Mrs. C.D. Church,  
7533 Rosemary road, near Forbes and Braddock avenue.

     The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, from the
home of Mrs. Church.  The Rev. Dr. Percy C. Kammerer, rector of Trinity
Episcopal Church, will officiate.  Burial will be in Allegheny Cemetery
alongside his brother, whom he buried 62 years ago.