Francis A. M. Kreps

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Husband Francis A. M. Kreps ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Maj. Frank A. M. Kreps 3
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         Father: Jacob Fordney Kreps (1806-1888) 4
         Mother: Eliza Turney (1812-1887) 5 6

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General Notes: Husband - Francis A. M. Kreps

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He was the first man to enlist at West Newton, Pennsylvania, in April, 1861, joining the ninety-day service as a member of the Seventh Pennsylvania. Later he became a member of Company B, Seventy-seventh Regiment, being captain and brevet major, and honorably discharged in January, 1866.

When his brother was wounded at Liberty Gap, in Tennessee, June, 1863, and was discharged on account of disability, he took command of the company, and with a number of officers and men of the Seventy-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers was captured at the battle of Chickamauga, and after an imprisonment of fifteen months in different prisons, and six escapes and five recaptures (one through the noted tunnel at Libby), he, with Lieut. E. P. Brooks, made a final and successful escape from Columbia, SC. Floating in a canoe by night, and under the protection of the colored people during the day, they reached the sea-coast, and paddled several miles out to the gunboat “Nipsic,” and were taken to Hilton Head, where they were clothed and sent to Washington.

He was business manager of the Evening Mail newspaper, Allegheny City, PA.

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 673.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 394.

3 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 666.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 664.

5 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 665.

6 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 393.