Frank Shubert MOH

b. 12/01/1841 Hessen, Germany. d. 24/12/1920 ?

DATE OF MOH ACTION: 02/04/1865 Petersburg, Virginia.

Frank Shubert MOH

Shubert was born in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, in the modern day state of Hesse, Germany on 12 January 1841. He immigrated to the United States in 1858 and applied for citizenship in Fonda, New York. He worked for a year on a farm in Palatine Bridge, New York and learned the shoemaking profession in Canajoharie, New York. He married Cecilia M. Lettice Shubert and fathered four children. After the war, he ran a shoe store in Canajoharie that still stands on Church Street.

 

MOH CITATION:

Capture of two markers.

 

BURIAL LOCATION: PROSPECT HILL CEMETERY, CANAJOHARIE, NEW YORK.

3RD STREET, LOT 151.

LOCATION OF MEDAL: UNKNOWN.