OBIT: Stephen C. POTTS, 1862, Blair County, PA

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Lieut. Stephen C. Potts

  So abundantly has our county contributed to the immense army now in 
the field that scarcely an engagement of any magnitude occurs without 
numbering among its killed and wounded some gallant son from our 
mountain district - some loved one from some happy home amongst us.  
The last battle furnished no exception to this melancholy observation, 
and whilst a number of our men were wounded, Lieut. Stephen C. Potts, 
son of George Potts, Esq., formerly of this place and recently of 
Altoona, was killed whilst manfully performing his duty at the head of 
his company upon the bloody field of Fredericksburg.
  He was the First Lieutenant of Company M, Capt. Crozier, and 62d 
Regiment, Penn'a Volunteers, Col. Sweitzer, late of Col. Black's 
regiment.  This company, it will be remembered, was formed in the 
summer of 1861, of volunteers from Altoona and this place, foremost 
among whom in zeal and patriotism was young Potts.  He had served in 
the three months service, and, burning with the ardor and enthusiasm of 
youth, he desired again to serve his country.  No hardships nor perils 
of the camp and field, no attractions and fascinations of home, strong 
enough they were, were sufficient to curb his desires or thwart his 
steadfast purpose.  In all his relations he was correct and esteemed - 
of a kindly and amiable disposition - of generous impulses - and a 
gallant, fearless soldier, through scarcely twenty-one at the time of 
his death.  By his many noble qualities he was endeared to a large 
circle of friends, and his young life was not laid down without the 
tears and regrets of many who respected him living for his virtues, and 
will mourn him dead as a hero.
  His remains were brought to this place for interment, on last Sunday 
at two o'clock, and, preceded by Van Tries' Coronet Band and a military 
escort, and followed by a long procession of citizens, were buried in 
the Presbyterian Cemetery.  The day was bitter cold, but it did not 
prevent an unusually large number of our citizens from paying the last 
sad tribute of respect to the brave boy who so freely poured out his 
young heart's blood upon the ghastly field of Fredericksburg.

Democratic Standard, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday Morning, December 
24, 1862

1860 Logan Township, Blair County census -
George Potts, 54  
Jane Potts, 49  
Margaret Potts, 26  
Steven C. Potts, 19  
George A. Potts, 17