Showing posts with label Kehler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kehler. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

The Resurrection of Hersa C.

More from the Rocky. On April 5 1865, the paper carried a notice of the wedding of Silas Soule and Hersa Coberly.



[RMN, April 5, 1865, p. 2.]

Kehler was the chaplain of the 1st Colorado. The notice is conspicuous in its blatant misspelling of the bride's name. Maybe the creative speller hopes to provide a little cover for his paper's having reported the same woman's death at the hands of marauding Indians in August of the preceding year:


[RMN, Special Edition, August 18, 1864.]