O R Kleinke

Gravestone of O.R. Kleinke in Gettysburg National Cemetery

NPS Photo

Quick Facts

Significance:

3rd MO Infantry D

Place of Birth:

Chicago, IL

Date of Birth:

1869

Place of Death:

Camp Meade, PA

Date of Death:

08/25/1898

Place of Burial:

Illinois, Row B, Site #1

Cemetery Name:

Gettysburg National Cemetery

Illinois, Row B, Site #1

Enlisted May 1898, court martialed (AWOL) July 11-13, 1898, sentenced to $10 fine. Admitted to Camp Meade August 10,1898 with typhoid fever and died of a perforated bowel August 25, 1898, age 29. Remains interred in Gettysburg National Cemetery. He was survived by his wife Margaret (29), married March 1891 and son Charles (3).

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