This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bachler, Bates, Herker, Hindman, Bartles, Ward, Derlith Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1655 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. June 1, 1933. "Ranks Are Thinning".--Another of the few remaining civil war veterans, John H. Bachler, passed away Monday, May 29, at his home in Dutch Hollow community after a long illness during which he suffered much but complained not at all. Mr. Bachler was the last of the civil war veterans in the west section of Fremont county, and for years had been a familiar figure on Memorial and other patriotic days. This respected veteran was born February 29, 1848 in Ohio, and lived to the age 85 years and 3 months. He came with his parents when about 8 years old to eastern Nebraska, and in 1880 moved to Fremont county, which has since been his home, except for a few years spent in Oklahoma. Shortly after the close of civil strife he married Martha Bates. To their union ten children were born, two daughters dying in infancy and one son preceding his father by only two years. Those remaining are Andy, who scarcely left his father's bedside during his last illness; Alex of Bartlett; Mrs. Nellie Herker of Thurman; Mrs. Nettie Hindman, Mrs. May Bartles of PacificJunction; Henry who lives in Oregon, and William in California. He also leaves a brother Henry, who came from Whitefish, Montana, to help care for the ailing one two months ago; two sisters, Mrs. Katherin Ward of Chester, Montana, Mrs. Mary Ann Derlith of Oklahoma City. Funeral services were held on Wednesday at the Thurman Methodist church, Elder Charles Aitken of Bartlett in charge.