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Easton Daily Express, Tuesday, September 17, 1918, page 2
Stephen Walter
Stephen Walter, 78 years old a well known Civil War veteran and lifelong resident of Easton; died at 6:50 o’clock last night at his home, No. 31 South Seventeenth Street, from the infirmities of old age. Mr. Walter had been in ill health for the past twenty-one months, but had been bedfast only six weeks. When the Civil War Broke out he enlisted in the 147th Pennsylvania Volunteers with which he served three years and then enlisted in the Third Hancock Veteran Volunteers being advance to a corporal. For nearly forty years he was to the employ of Jacob Hay and sons. In addition to his wife he is survived by the following children: Mrs. James Daubert, Corney W. William W. and Mrs. George Dickey, all of Easton; Harvey F., Clemon S. and Mamie K. all at home and Mrs. Samuel Brunnel, of Council Bluffs, Iowa. A sister, Mrs. Annie Tinsman, of Elizabeth, N.J., twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive. He was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd and Lafayette Post No. 217, G.A.R.
