www.ancestry.com - American Civil War Soldier's Record:
       John Shiffer - PVT - Co I - 142nd Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania
        Enlisted, 30Aug1862
       Mustered out, 29May1865 in Washington DC
Pennsylvania State Archives:
       Shiffer, John             I - 141 I

Civil War Pension Index (ancestry.com):
       Shiffer, John - I 142 Pa Inf
       Widow - Shiffer, Harriet C.
       Date of filing - 1890Sep01 - Invalid - Application #917785 - Certificate #958760 - Ill
                              1914Feb14 - Widow - Application  #1033397 -Certificate #775960 - Ill

Oakwood Cemetery, Joliet, Illinois - Sexton's Records:
      John Shiffer  (wife, Harriett)
      Born, 17Oct1833, PA; Died, 26Jan1914 [Joliet]
      Buried, Oakwood Cemetery, Section E

Headstone Reading,

Will County Illinois USGenWeb Necrologist Reports (© 2002 The ILGenWeb Project All Rights Reserved):  

Published Obituaries:

The Joliet News,
 Monday, January 26, 1914, page 9

    SHIFFER – John, aged 80 years, a Civil war veteran and a pioneer of Joliet, succumbed today to the infirmities of old age at his home, 609 Second avenue.  Deceased was sick 3 months.

      Funeral Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the United Evangelical church.  Rev. M. Hafelle, a former pastor of that church will officiate and the burial will be in Oakwood cemetery.  The Grand Army will attend the funeral.

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