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Post by Diane Merkel on Feb 27, 2018 15:10:53 GMT -6
I just came across a spreadsheet of South Dakota Gravesites that was prepared by our own Treasuredude years ago. On it he lists Max Goetze (died February 25, 1903) as being buried in the Fort Meade Post Cemetery. I've checked my usual references -- Nichols, Wagner, and Williams -- and do not see him listed. I found his listing on findagrave.com, but there's a huge gap in his bio. It has him with the 7th in the Black Hills in 1874, and then it jumps to his discharge in the 1880s. He was supposedly in the band but, even so, he should have been listed in the references if he was a part of the 7th in June 1876. Fold3.com lists him getting a pension for service in the 7th, but it doesn't have his service dates.
Was Maximilian Goetze in the Seventh Cavalry in June 1876?
I could ask the Dude directly, but that's too easy.
Diane
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Post by tubman13 on Feb 28, 2018 6:59:17 GMT -6
It is easy he was with Felix, on what they call detached service.
Regards, Tom
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Post by Treasuredude on Mar 3, 2018 9:03:53 GMT -6
That is one thing about Max Goetze that has left me scratching my head. He enlisted in 1871 and was with Custer in the Black Hills in 1874. He was a member of the band and could have been on detached service but there seems to be no record or listing of him even being there. His obituary states "After his discharge in the 80s he took up a ranch a few miles from Sturgis." The 1880 census lists him as as a private at Fort Meade. I'm thinking there was a lapse from a discharge, which would have been around 1876 if he enlisted in 1871, until he decided to re-enlist.
On a side note, he received a patent for an improved railway car. He married Annie, the widow of trooper David McWiliams.
It's been a while since I've looked at Max Goetze. Maybe I will have to do some searching.
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Post by Treasuredude on Mar 14, 2018 19:00:22 GMT -6
I have made some changes to the website - 7th Cavalry Troopers in South Dakota. There's a new URL and a whole new look. 7thtroopers.blogspot.com/The same information is all there including photos, obituaries, GPS coordinates, and the entire transcript of Peter Thompson's story as it appeared in the Belle Fourche Bee in 1914. But it is now much easier to navigate and will render automatically for mobile devices.
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Post by tubman13 on Mar 15, 2018 6:25:31 GMT -6
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