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Wanzer, Sidney O.

MILITARY SERVICE Age: 0, credited to Vermont Unit(s): 36th IL INF Service: Co. K, 36th IL INF See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALS Birth: 05/1843, Vermont Death: 10/21/1921 Burial: Mount Olive Cemetery, Pittsburg, KS Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Findagrave Memorial #: 91837796 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None Noted Pension?: Yes, 4/23/1864 Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: KS, OH, WI (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: Unknown DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today)

BURIAL: Copyright notice Mount Olive Cemetery, Pittsburg, KS Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.

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Obituary

Death of Sidney O. Wenzer

The body of Sidney O. Wenzer, Civil War veteran and probate judge of Sheridan County for a number of years, who died Oct. 25 at the old soldiers' home at Leavenworth, is expected to arrive in Pittsburg today. He was the father of Mrs. W. H. Ports, 1013 East Tenth street. Mr. Wenzer was 78 years of age at the time of his death. He was born in Vermont, but after the Civil War, in which he lost his left foot, he came to Illinois, then Missouri, and finally to Kansas in 1885. He taught school, served as judge, and was postmaster.

He is survived by two sons – Cecil E., of Zurich, Kas., and Orville L., of New York City; and one daughter, Mrs. Ports, who resides here. Funeral arrangements have not been made.

Source: The Pittsburg (KS) Daily Headlight, October 26, 1921.

Deaths and Funerals
Funeral of Sidney O. Wenzer

Funeral services for Sidney O. Wenzer, aged 78, who died Tuesday at the Old Soldiers' home in Leavenworth, Kas., will be held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the E. K. Smith chapel, conducted by the Rev. John Gice, of Erie, and burial will be at Mt. Olive cemetery. Mr. Wenzer was the father of Mrs. W. H. Ports, 1013 East Tenth street, Pittsburg.

Source: The Pittsburg (KS) Sun, October 27, 1921.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.