Armstrong County PA Archives Tombstones.....Spiker, Daniel Christopher
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Daniel Christopher Spiker
1827 - 1905

Comment: This illegible stone was tracked to Daniel 
Christopher Spiker, a Civil War veteran from Harrison 
Twp,Allegheny County. Freeport records show that he was born 
in 1831 but the 1900 census states he was born in Sep 1829. 
He lived in Fawn Township in 1860 with wife Phoebe Jane 
Hathaway and son Henry, then joined Co H of the 6th 
Regiment, Heavy Artillery, 212th Volunteers. Discharged on 
Jun 13 1865, he returned to Harrison Twp and worked as a 
coal miner. Families trees on Ancestry list 4 known 
children: Henry, Edward, Nancy and Laura Charlotte. He d. 
Mar 18 1915 according to records.