David King Yoder and Catharine Elizabeth Neil

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Husband David King Yoder ¹

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            AKA: D. L. Yoder 2
           Born: 12 Aug 1835 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Eli Yoder (1807-      ) 1
         Mother: Hannah Rhodes (Abt 1815-1848) 1

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       Marriage: 21 Mar 1863 or 1864 1 2

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Wife Catharine Elizabeth Neil ³

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           Born: 16 Mar 1843 - Perry Twp, Jefferson Co, PA 2
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         Father: Thomas N. Neil (1819-1877) 3
         Mother: Eliza A. McClelland (1820-1865) 4 5

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Children

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1 F Carrie Luticia Yoder ¹

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2 F Lula May Yoder ¹

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General Notes: Husband - David King Yoder

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He received his education at Gaysport, Blair County, Pennsylvania, and at fourteen years of age began firing an engine for his father, and at seventeen ran the engine during his father's sickness. He began his first run as engineer in 1853, on the western division of the Pennsylvania railroad, continuing until 1858, when he left and went on the Columbia & Philadelphia railroad. After running an engine on this road for a year he departed for the south, and after spending a few weeks there he returned to Gaysport, his old home, and joined the Juniata Rifles, a military company commanded by Capt. A. M. Lloyd. Shortly after Fort Sumter was attacked, and a call for troops was made by the president. The captain offered the services of his company, which were accepted. On their arrival at Harrisburg they were consigned to the 3d Pa. Regt. to guard railroads. At the expiration of three months they were discharged at Harrisburg; but still being anxious to serve his country longer, he went to Washington, D. C., where he enlisted in an independent company, called Putnam Rangers. Mounted and fully equipped, they were sent out as scouts through Virginia with different army corps. When the order to disband independent companies was received, they were sent to Camp Carroll, at Baltimore, Maryland, and formed into the 1st Maryland regiment of cavalry. At the formation of the company Mr. Yoder was elected second sergeant, which position he held until 1863. At that time, while on picket-duty near Culpeper Court House, he was taken ill. At sick-call he was ordered to field hospital, and afterward to general hospital, where he was compelled to remain for several months, as the fever (typhoid) had taken a strong hold upon him. Returning again to the regiment, he was detailed as sergeant of the ambulance corps. This position he held until he enlisted as veteran volunteer in Co. G. He was transferred, however, to Co. L, of same regiment, and was appointed, April 14, 1864, quarter-master-sergeant of company L, 1st Regt. Md. V. V. C., which was discharged Aug. 8, 1865, at Richmond, Virginia. On returning home Mr. Yoder was employed as machinist at the Altoona shops for two years, and after a trip through the west worked for two years in the railroad shops at Pittsburgh. Jan. 1, 1867, he took an engine on the Allegheny Valley road, and April 1, 1868, took the run from Pittsburgh to Kittanning, continuing on the same run for twenty years.

In 1856, on the Pennsylvania railroad, he and two other engineers were snowed in near Horse Shoe Bend, with three engines, all night and the next day, suffering greatly with the cold. He lived seventeen years at Chartiers, and moved to his property in Verona in 1884.
He was a member of G. A. R., A. O. U. W., and was a K. T.

1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 592.

2 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 148.

3 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 147.

4 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 485.

5 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 133.