Joseph Crain Audenreid and Mary J. Colkit

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Husband Joseph Crain Audenreid ¹

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           Born: 6 Nov 1859 - Pottsville, Schuylkill Co, PA 1
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           Died: 3 Jun 1880 - Washington, D. C. 2
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         Father: William Audenreid (1793-1850) 3
         Mother: Jane Maria Wills (1808-      ) 3

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Wife Mary J. Colkit ⁴

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         Father: Coffin Colkit (      -      ) 4
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Children

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1 F Florence Audenreid ⁴

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         Spouse: Ludwig, Count de la Forest Divonne (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Crain Audenreid

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After receiving a preliminary education at Dickinson College, he was appointed to West Point in 1857, from which institution he graduated June 24, 1861, and shortly after sent into the field as second lieutenant of the Fourth, later the First, cavalry; afterwards commissioned as first lieutenant and adjutant of the Sixth cavalry, with rank from date of graduating. He immediately entered upon active duty and served in various capacities during the Civil War, 1861-1865. He was successively on the staffs of Generals D. Tyler, E. V. Sumner, John E. Wool, U. S. Grant and W. T. Sherman. He was promoted, in 1866, to the rank of captain of the Sixth United States cavalry, and in 1869, was breveted colonel and aid-de-camp to General Sherman. From 1869 Colonel Audenreid was stationed at Washington City, being chief of the staff of the Lieutenant General. During these years of relaxation from active military service, he became much interested in historical and genealogical research. Besides preparing material for a biography of his father, he had almost completed a genealogical record of his own and allied families. He had a high veneration for the last resting places of his ancestry. and several years prior to his death, the time-defaced tombstones which marked the spot of his honored dead in old Paxtang Church graveyard were, by his direction, chiseled anew and reset.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 700.

2 Marlin A. Field, Peter Smail of Pennsylvania & His Descendants (Ozark, MO: Dogwood Printing, Sept., 1990), Pg 138.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 697.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 701.