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Contributed by: Dan Davis Joseph Haberstroh; born 03 Mar 1843 in Baden, Germany; died 27 Oct 1927; buried in Bethany (Bethania) UCC Cemetery, on 6740 St. Charles Rock Road, Wellston, MO (St. Louis County) Section S, Lot 17 Enlisted into the Union Army; on Sept. 1 1861, at the St. Louis Arsenal. Branch: enlisted with Captain Welfleys Battery Missouri Volunteers, light artillery then transferred to 2nd Battery B, 1st Regiment, Mo. Light Artillery. Mustered out as a corporal on September 30, 1864. Service Number: 1042595 On July 8, 1913 in a affidavit to the Commissioner in regards to a request for an increase in his Civil War Pension, Joseph Haberstroh declares: I was born in Baden, Germany on March 3, 1843. I came to St. Louis, Mo. with my parents in the year of 1848 and have lived here since except for the time I was in the Army. |