Frederick Franklin

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CIVIL WAR VET PASSES AT AGE OF 95 YEARS

Fredrick Franklin Was Native Of Johnson County

Catlettsburg, Ky.---Fredrick Franklin, Civil War veteran of Catlettsburg who would have been 95 years of age had he lived until the 6th of next month, died here Tuesday, March 12, at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Shirley Meade of Louisa Road, Catlettsburg.

Funeral services were conducted from the Cyrus Chapel at Durbin in Boyd Co, Thursday at two o'clock and will be in charge of Rev. Sam Sloan. Burial will be in the Durbin cemetery.

Mr. Franklin was born in Johnson county, near Paintsville, Ky., on April 6, 1845, the son of Joseph and Susan Friley Franklin. He has been a resident of Boyd county for almost 83 years, spending the greater part of that time in the rural communities of Durbin and Buchanan. He was married to Leeahr Hylton, daughter of Preston and Fannie Hylton on August 12th, 1870. He and Mrs. Franklin, who survives, celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary last August.

Mr. Franklin, a staunch Republican, cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1865. Through-out the seventy-five years he went to the polls to cast his ballot, and he seldom missed an election he had never cast a Democratic vote. His entire life was devoted to farming with the exception of the years he spent in the service of the Union Army during the Civil War. Mr. Franklin enlisted in the Union forces at South Point, O., on September 12, 1862. He became a private in Company A, 39th Kentucky Volunteers, Mounted Infantry, which was organized at South Point on November 1, 1862. He served under Colonel David A. Mims, his company participating in sixteen engagements during the war. Mr. Franklin received his honorable discharge in Louisville, Ky.

His only brother died during service in the Union Army. Two of his sons are Veterans of the World War.

Paintsville Herald

Thursday

03-14-1940