Herrick Lunn
Herrick Lunn was born around 1832 in Pennsylvania to Jesse and Almira Lunn. His father was a farmer who owned $1,000 of real estate and $275 of personal property by 1860. He grew up in Windham, Pennsylvania. He married a woman named Emily in the 1850s. By 1860, he was working as a farmhand, and he owned $150 of personal property.
He enlisted in the Union army on October 24, 1862, and he mustered in as a private in Company D of the 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry four days later. He died of typhoid fever in Acquia Creek, Virginia, on March 14, 1863.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (3175) | Lunn, Herrick | 1832 | 1863-03-14 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Private
- Rank out: Private
- Rank highest: Private
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (3777) [writer] ~ Herrick Lunn to Sister and Friends, 13 January 1863
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (898) [enlisted] [D] ~ 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry
SOURCES
1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com.
