The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-29
FUNERAL OF HENRY ROTH
It Was a Day of General Mourning
In Archbald-Young Soldier Was
Laid at Rest With Military
Honors.

1t was a day of general mourning in
Archibald yesterday, when the remains
of Private Henry Roth, of Company C,
who died of typhoid fever in the Potts
vile hospital, last Saturday. were laid
in their final rest. The whole town, it
might be said. turned out to pay tri5-
ute to the dead soldier lad, and the cor
tege that followed the remains to the
cemetery was one of the largest in the
history of Archibald.
Captain Frank Robling, of Company
C: Captain w. A. Raub, of the pro-
visional guard, who was formerly first
lieutenant of Company G, and a large
delegation of volunteers and national
guardsmen were present to do military
honors to their dead comrade. The
Junior Order United American Mechan-
les, of which the deceased was a men,
ber, attended in a body, and there was
also present a large delegation of Della
ware and Hudson Canal company EN-
ployes, the deceased having worked for
that company before enlisting. The
Archibald band headed the funeral pro-
cession.
Services were conducted at the Pres
byterian church by the pastor, Rev. w.
A. Beecher, after which the remains
were exposed to view. At the grave
further services were held by Rev. Mr..
Beecher, assisted by Rev. Mr.. Lee and
also by the Jr. O. L. A. NJ. The band
then played an appropriate selection,
after which a salute of three volleys
was fired over the grave and taps
sounded by Bugler Edward Richards.
The pall-bearers were Privates
Charles ]. Sprandle and Fred. Luther,
| Company G, Thirteenth Pennsylvania;
John Timlin and Thomas Bennes, Sec
| Ond South Carolina; James Anderson,
| Company A, Thirteenth Pennsylvania;
| Joseph Smith, Company d. Twelfth
| Pennsylvania. The flower-bearers were
b. Smith, Company F; James Corbett,
| Company c.; NJ. Philbin. Company f,
J Thirteenth Pennsylvania. In the firing
squad We're Sergeant Neuman, Corporal
Williams and Private Frank Jones,
| Company F; Privates Charles Schu-
maker, Will Gibbons, George Walters
and Frank Banks, Company c.
Private Roth was the eleventh man
| in the Thirteenth to be mustered out
| by death. He was the son of Henry
Roth, of Archibald, but lived for the
last few years in Carbondale, being en-
ployed there by the Delaware and Hud-
son company. He went to Mount
Gretna with the first quota of recruits
and was mustered into the service with
the regiment on the morning of May T.
He was twenty-four years of age
was nearly six feet tall, and weighed
100 to 200 pounds. OF pleasing man.
ner and genial at all times, he was
we'll liked. AS a soldier his record was
unblemished. Though feeling i'll for 6
time, he did not cease attending to his
duties, expecting that he would be al
right every day. Finally, on the 12tl
of the present month he had to ask tc
be relieved while doing tour of guard
duty and at once went to the hospital
1t was then found that his temperature
was over 104 degrees, He was taken tC
the division hospital and three day!
later was removed on a hospital trair
to Pottsville.
This is the third death which has oc-
CURED in Company c, the other tw,
being Private Alvin Evans and Music
ian William Staples, and the seconC
death in the regiment during the pas
week.