Person:Samuel Heller (12)

Samuel was transferred from McAllisterville School to White Hall School 18 Sept 1866. He was discharged 25 Jan 1870 on his 16th birthday. He was therefore, a sixteener.

The January 25, 1854 birth date was recorded in the records of the child's parent during application for pension benefits of the deceased soldier. Later records such as "Find a Grave" and "Ancestry" have varying birth dates.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Samuel D Heller, in Pennsylvania's Soldiers' Orphan Schools
   362.281 Page 356, 1877.

   List of pupils attending the school including name, date of birth, date of transfer and/or discharge, reason for discharge (at age 16 or on order), post office when at home and remarks concerning education, occupation, trade or skill.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Samuel D Heller, in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Certificate of Death
   File No 36189, 1908.

   Name, sex, color, date of death, date of birth, age in years, months and days, marital status, birthplace, names of father and mother, their birthplaces, informant, cause of death.

3.   Samuel D Heller, in Find a Grave
   Memorial no.33946897, 2009.

   "Death due to injury to spinal cord caused by railroad accident".