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Matthias/Mathis Eller

Matthias/Mathis Eller

Male 1831 - 1863  (32 years)

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  • Name Matthias/Mathis Eller 
    Born 22 Mar 1831 
    Gender Male 
    Died 01 Jul 1863  Gettysburg, Va. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Mathis was wounded slightly July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg, and was captured July 7, at Williansport, MD. He was sent as a POW to Harrisburg, PA, and died there September 25, 1863, of acute diarrhea.
    Person ID I235  George Michael Eller
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2020 

    Father Absalom Eller,   b. 17 Feb 1803, Purlear, Wilkes County, GA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Feb 1879, Purlear, Wilkes County, GA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Sarah Reynolds,   b. 16 Feb 1805,   d. 06 Mar 1875, Wilkes County, NC Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 28 Feb 1824  Wilkes County, NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F136  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Frances Miller,   b. 04 Aug 1834 
    Last Modified 7 May 2016 
    Family ID F139  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Headstones
    GME (or DME)    		GME (or DME)
    The first letter could be almost any "round" letter. We speculate (with no proof) that it might be Mattias Eller (1831-1863) who died as a young man. Matthias might have had a first name we don't know.
    Eller, Mathis (1831-1863)    		Eller, Mathis (1831-1863)
    Private, Company K, 53rd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry. He died while a Prisoner of War.

  • Notes 
    • It appears that Mathis is the same person as Mattias. Both Mathis (by service record) and Matthias were born in Wilkes county. Their age would be near the same: Hook states Matthias was born March 22, 1831, and his service record states that Mathis was 34 years old, March 25, 1862.

      Mathis was wounded slightly July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg, and was captured July 7, at Williansport, MD. He was sent as a POW to Harrisburg, PA, and died there September 25, 1863, of acute diarrhea.

      He is buried at Finn's Point National Cemetery in Salem County, NJ at the Confederate War Dead Monument. Erected in 1910, the monument lists the name of 2,436 Confederate prisoners of war that died while being held in captivity. The names are inscribed on bronze tablets that ring the base. All of the over 2,000 Confederate dead in Finn's Point National Cemetery lay in unmarked graves.