Private Braden Ziegler.  Private Braden Ziegler enlisted into Company B on the 13thof March 1865.  He was born in 1833 in Butler, PA and lived in Punxstawny from age 17 on. He died in Punxy on Dec. 15, 1912 and was buried in the Circle Hill Cemetery in Punxy. He was a member of the Captain Little Post, G.A.R.  According to his obituary, he was a cabinetmaker and carpenter by trade.

 

He was married to Susan Spencer in 1853 and they had 5 children. One of them, George Ellis married my great- grandmother, Jenny Isobel Black, Their son, Richard B. Zeigler married Rose Knorr, a Granddaughter of William Woter, who is my other Great-great-great grandparent.