DEATH: Daniel ROLAND, PA, Jan 1905, York, York County, PA

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Summary
 * Name: Daniel Busey
   * Date of death: 31 Jan 1905
   * Place of death: Emigsville, York C., PA
   * Cause: Senility and Endocarditis sclerotic
   * Physician: Dr. H. F. Gross, 1034 N. George St., York, PA
 
Source 1

Civil War Military Pension Records (under Act of June 27, 1890) of Daniel
Roland [National Archives; photocopy made 23 Nov 1990, in personal
possession of N. Taber]

>From index to military pensions, roll #403:

     Roland, Daniel
     Widow: Roland, Ellen
     Service Luther's Unassigned Co. B. Pa. [Drfted?] Mil. Inf.

      Date of                Application      Certificate       State from
      Filing         Class   Number           Number            which filed
      1890 July 17   Invalid 940,469          728,230           Penna
      1905 Feb 7     Widow   821,675          592,464           Pa

In file: Physician's Affidavit [a standard printed form, underscores indicate 
blanks filled in by hand]

State of _Pennsylvania_, County of _York_, ss:
In the pension claim No. ___ of _Daniel_Roland late of  Co. "B" Capt. Luthers 
Unattached Pennsylvania Drafted Militia.
Personally came before me, a  Justice of the Peace , in and for the aforesaid 
County and State  Dr. H. F. Gross , a citizen of  Nr. [North] York Borough  
whose Post-Office address is  1034 N. George St. York, Pa.  well known to me to 
be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declares in 
relation to the aforesaid case as follows:
That he is a Practicing Physician, and that he has been acquainted with said 
soldier for about  10  years, and that 
"I have been his regular physician since March 1903 - During time that I 
attended him he was in feeble health,  complaining severely of pains through 
joints presumably rheumatic - He had been unable to walk more than a square ever 
since I attended him. He also had marked arterial sclerosis. He died on Jan 31st 
'05, from Senility and Endocarditis sclerotic."
On back: Signed "Dr. H. F. Gross, Practicing medicine 5 1/2 years, [so knew
Daniel before he started practicing medicine] 11 Feb 1905"

Notarized by C. J. Roland [Daniel's son], J. P. [Justice of the Peace]

Stamped [apparently upon receipt] "U. S. Pension Office, Feb 18 1905"

Source 2

"Death Index to York Newspapers, 1901, M to Z"; compiled by DAR [929.3 D285 RR
- Historical Society, York, Pennsylvania].

p. 1632:

     Roland, Daniel, Emigsville, York Co., Pa. Husband of Ella [sic] Busey
     Roland, Civil War veteran, survived by 9 children. ob[ituary] Jan 31,
     1905, aged 81 yrs, 9 mos., 30 days. Interment in Prospect Hill
     Cemetery, York, Pa. York Evening Press, Jan 31, 1905.