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.