Bradford County PA Archives Obituaries.....Sheardown, A. M. January 18, 1864 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Donald Buncie http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008389 June 11, 2023, 12:29 pm The agitator.: (Wellsborough, Tioga County, Pa.): March 09, 1864 At the residence of his father in Troy, Bradford county, Pa., on the 18th of Jan., of chronic diarrhea, A. M. Sheardown, M. D., youngest son of Rev. Thomas S. Sheardown, aged 25 years… He began the practice of medicine at Elmira, N. Y., where on the first call for volunteers, he enlisted in the N. Y. service as a private. The hardships were too great for him, and after suffering some three months with the typhoid fever, he received his discharge and came to Tioga in this county… At the time of the last invasion of Pennsylvania he received the appointment of assistant surgeon in the U. S. Army, and joined the 107th Regiment Pa. Vols., and while engaged in caring for the sick and wounded at the hard fought battle of Gettysburg, disease fastened itself upon him, and after months spent in camp and hospital, he was transferred to the embrace of his fond parents, when, after lingering some three weeks, he took an affectionate farewell of friends... File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/bradford/obits/s/sheardow19722gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb