OBIT: James Oliver DETWILER, 1936, Blair County, PA

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VETERAN WHO FOUGHT AT GETTYSBURG DIES
Funeral Services Held at Erie for James Oliver Detwiler

ERIE, Pa., - Nov. 2 - Funeral services were held today for James
Oliver Detwiler, one of the few surviving men who as youths were
mustered into the Union Army to stem the Confederate tide at
Gettysburg.

Mr. Detwiler, 92 at his death, was 19 when he answered the call to
arms in Altoona, June 30, 1863, as a member of Company C, 46th
Pennsylvania Militia.  He and his little band were rushed to
Gettysburg in time to meet the historic thrust of General George E.
Pickett's Confederate troops.

Until a year ago, when Mr. Detwiler moved to the Soldiers and Sailors
Home here, he had lived at Danville, Ill.  He will be buried there
tomorrow.

Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., Monday, November 2, 1936, page 22

Hoenstine, Floyd G., Soldiers of Blair County:
Detwiler, James Oliver,k Pvt C, 46 Pa. Mil., 1844-1936, Danville, Ill.

HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS.

Rev. James Detwiler, a prominent Methodist clergyman of Danville,
Ill., a former resident of Blair county, is visiting the scenes of
former years and will incidentally attend the Methodist reunion at
Lakemont to-day.  He called on his cousins, H. M. and M. W. Sell,
yesterday, and spent last night in Hollidaysburg with Contractor J. A.
Martz.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, August 1, 1907, page 10