The Two Last Living Civil War Heroes of Allegany County,NY

The webmaster is honoring two, and not just the last living Civil War Veteran here.

Why?

Because the next to last living Civil War Veteran of Allegany County, NY was my great-great-grandfather, Christopher Hoffman. Although I never knew him (he died the year before I was born) he has always been revered in my family as a genteel warrior. He went to war when he was 17 (fibbed about his age) and returned like many at war's end to work in the mills and raise a family.

His Obituary tells the story of the next to last to fall.

OBITUARY OF CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN, of Angelica

LAST OF THE BOYS IN BLUE

was written by John P. Herrick, one of the great newspaper men and historians that have served Allegany County in the last century.

Mr. Herrick simply tells the facts of the last Civil War Veteran in the memorial Obituary in a way that would make any reader want to have known the man.

The next to last veteran above lived to be 96 and the last to be 101.

OBITUARY OF DR. JOHN A. JONES, of Short Tract