Lower Merion Historical Society

The Lower Merion Historical Society

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Sterrett Lightner

Alias: Lightier

Pvt., 47th Pa. Infantry, Company H

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Entered service Sept. 29, 1861, in Harrisburg at age 46, a farmer from Landisburg. Recorded Oct. 3, 1864, at Camp Discharge, sick and sent to Haddington Hospital in Phila., where he died Dec. 3, 1864, apparently of typhoid fever.