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Note: ***email from Helen E. Shipe, heshipe@icubed.com***
My sisters and I went to the California University of Pennsylvania's library on Saturday to do your lookup on Samuel McDaid's death. We did not find an "obit" as such but we did find this entry in the Daily Reporter (believe this was the old Washington Observer) on Monday, December 24, 1889:
"S. S. McDaid, who carries the mail daily between West Finley and West Alexander, died very suddenly on Saturday evening. Mr. McDaid had finished his day's work and while entering the house fell dead in the doorway. Heart disease is supposed to have caused his death. He had been carrying the mail for about six months."
We searched the Daily Reporter for several days afterwards and in the December 27, 1889 edition found another note as follows: "Geo. W. McDaid has been appointed postmaster at West Finley." This was Samuel's younger brother and we wonder if he took over Samuel's position at the Post Office. We have also learned that George McDaid was a Civil War Vet and died from cancer on 19 June 1913
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Information about "Henderson's Department Corp" from:
THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A COMPILATION OF THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES.
PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, BY BVT. LIEUT. COL. ROBERT N. SCOTT, THIRD U. S. ARTILLERY AND PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO ACT OF CONGRESS APPROVED JUNE 16, 1880.
WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1880.
O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXIX/2 [S# 49]
Correspondence, Orders, And Returns Relating Specially To Operations In North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, And Pennsylvania, From August 4 To December 31, 1863.
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.--#5
Abstract from return of the Department of the Monongahela, Maj. Gen. William T. H. Brooks, U.S. Army, commanding, August 31, 1863.
OOfficers.AAggregate present
MMen.BAggregate present and absent
PPresent for duty
Command.OMAB
General headquarters.9....99
Barnesville, Ohio 5167177186
Connellsville, Pa 18440523553
Hendrysburg, Ohio 3929595
New Wilmington, Pa.1747575
Pittsburgh, Pa 3809092
Pulaski, Pa 1485269
Somerton, Ohio 3858888
West Finley, Pa 3899292
Wheeling, W. Va 373160175
Total 49 1,1481,361 1,434
Troops in the Department of the Monongahela, Maj. Gen. William T. H. Brooks, U. S. Army, commanding, August 31, 1863.
BARNESVILLE, OHIO.
Ohio Company (Departmental Corps), Capt. James L. Deens.
Ohio Company (Departmental Corps), Capt. Hamilton Eaton.
CONNELLSVILLE, PA.
1st Independent Pennsylvania Cavalry Battalion (militia), Lieut. Col. Richard C. Dale.
HENDRYSBURG, OHIO.
Ohio Company (Departmental Corps), Capt. Joseph P. Arrick.
NEW WILMINGTON, PA.
Pennsylvania Company (emergency militia), Capt. Joseph R. Kemp.
PITTSBURGH, PA.
Pennsylvania Company (emergency militia), Capt. Samuel T. Griffith.
PULASKI, PA.
Pennsylvania Company (emergency militia), Lieut. James M. Brown.
SOMERTON, OHIO.
Ohio Company (Departmental Corps), Capt. Samuel Beard.
WEST FINLEY, PA.
Pennsylvania Company (emergency militia), Capt. John Henderson,
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