Person:Michael Haller (2)

Farmer, teacher, and Captain of Militia. He was born at Shinnston, Harrison County, (then) Virginia. He was married to Sarah Nestor of Barbour County. During the Civil War he served as a Captain in the State Guard. He was killed in an ambush with confederates near Holsberry's Mill, Barbour County, W.Va. He was 41 years old at the time of his death. ^S1

1. ↑ Find A Grave.

   Capt Michael Theodore Haller Burial: Saint John Cemetery, Barbour County, West Virginia, USA

2.   Callahan, James Morton, and American Historical Society (New York). History of West Virginia, old and new: in one volume : and West Virginia biography in two additional volumes. (Chicago [Illinois]: American Historical Society, c1923).

   Quite a bit about him in this book "Michael Theodore Haller, father of Flavius Baxter, was
   born at Shinnston, Harrison County, was a farmer and
   teacher, was a captain of militia in the old mustering days,
   and when the Civil war was fought he was a captain in the
   State Guard. While engaged in rounding up Confederate
   stragglers, who were returning home from the main army
   after the surrender of General Lee, he and his squad ran
   into an ambush and he and several others were killed. This
   tragedy occurred after the war, on April 24, 1865. His
   body was brought home and..."