GIRARD STENDER/STANDER, Company "K"

Presented by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.

This man's name is spelled STENARD in his Service Record.

At age 19, Girard Stander (and other variations in spelling) joined for duty and enrolled at Marshall Co., Va. Sept. 27, 1861. He died of Typhoid Fever at Cumberland, Md. Mar. 5, 1862.

According to his Service Record, Girard was a farmer, born in Allegheny Co., Pa.

From the records of the W.Va. Adjutant General: "STENARD (STENART?), Gerard - Resident of or enrolled at Marshall Co., W.Va.; 19; mustered in Nov. 14, 1861 at Wheeling, W.Va. Died of Typhoid Fever at Cumberland, Md. Mar. 5, 1862."

Girard's mother, Catherine E. STANDER, applied for a pension in 1883 and received certificate #228281. Her pension card clarified the spelling of the surname, which was later spelled consistently as STENDER by the family.

Girard Stander/Stender was the son of Frank Bernard "Barney" Stander/Stender and Catherine E. Fisher, both born in Germany. Catherine Stender died in St. Joseph, Marshall County, W.Va., in 1906. Barney had died in Putnam County in 1890, and both are buried at St. Joseph Cemetery, Marshall County, presented on this website, along with other members of their family. Girard's grave has not been located.

Without the mother's pension index card, this soldier would have been lost in history.