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Conrad Brehm - PVT - Co
B - 134 Infantry Regiment New York
Enlisted, 14Aug1862; Age, 18
Mustered out, 20Jun1865
Headstone Reading, Oakwood Cemetery,
Joliet, IL - Section 11:
All on one stone:
Conrad Brehm
died Feb. 2, 1906
aged 60
yrs. Co. B 134 Rec NY Vol.
Elizabeth, his wife died Jan. 6, 1911
aged 62
yrs.
George Brehm died Nov. 2, 1875 aged 4 days
Another stone:
Caroline B. Brehm 1874-1932
Conrad H. Brehm 1870-1932
Will County Illinois USGenWeb
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Published Obituaries:
Joliet
Evening
Herald, Tuesday,
February
6, 1906, Page 6
Conrad Brehm
An hour
before midnight of the day
preceeding
the thirty-seventh anniversary of his marriage, the soul of Conrad
Brehm,
without physical pain, peacefully and quietly passed to its maker.
Conrad
Brehm was born in Roboldhausen,
Karbessen,
Germany,
December 27, 1845
and came
to American in 1853, locating in
Schenectady,
N.Y.
He made his
home with the Shaker’s at this place, until his enlistment in Co. B. 134
th
New York, Vol. Infantry, August 14, 1862, and served continuously in
that
command until June 20, 1865.
He
participated in the battles of
Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg,
Lookout
Mountain,
Missionary
Ridge, Resaca,
Kenesaw
Mountain, Peach Tree
Creek,
Atlanta
and six other minor engagements.
At
Lookout
Mountain he was
afflicted with sun
strike, disabling him for some time.
After the
conclusion of his war service he returned to his adopted home, in
Schenectady,
until 1867, and then as a stone cutter he found employment in
Joliet,
and it has ever since been his home.
On
February 3, 1869, he was married to
Miss Elizabeth Stock at the old home in
New York
state, who survives him.
Twelve children
were born to this happy couple, one of whom died in infancy.
Eleven children are living, of whom eight are
residents of
Joliet.
He was a
consistent, conscientious and faithful adherent and member of the
Methodist Episcopal
Church and a staunch and energetic worker in the same.
For a considerable time he was in its early
days in Joliet, the leader of the Y.M.C.A.
In 1900 he
was elected School Inspector from the
East Side
and his
record for good work in that capacity stands among the very best.
He have an excessive amount of time
gratuitously to this work determined that advantages denied him as a
child should
be attainable easily, by future generations.
At
his own request, he did not succeed himself.
Mr. Brehm
was hardly to be called a politician, but devoted a great deal of time,
as a
labor of love, in the interest of the G.A.R.
He
held many offices in Bartleson Post, and filled them
so
satisfactorily that he was elected and ably filled the position of
Commander in
1898.
He performed very efficient work
as a member of the visiting committee to the Soldiers’ Widows’ Home at
Wilmington
in this county.
Conrad
Brehm died at
eleven o’clock
o the
night of February 2, after a well spent life of sixty years.
His record as a man is an enviable one, a
loving and devoted husband and a kind and affectionate father.
Loyal to every good interest for the benefit
of mankind, true to his adopted country and patriotic to the core, his
absence
will be missed by his many friends, the little ones in our public
schools and
our city.
Thus closes the record of a
man who and whose life was full of good deeds and contentment and with
neither
envy nor enmity towards any man.
Additional Biographical Material:
Souvenir of Settlement and Progress of
Will County, Ill.,
Historical Directory Publishing Co., 1884:
Conrad Brehm, 134th New York Inf. -
Member Bartleson Post No. 6 G.A.R., organized October 25, 1882