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Fifth Class, on Muster Roll Captain Smullers Company for the year 1779

He served in the Lancaster County, PA Militia, 6th Class, 5th Company, 2nd Battalion under Capt. John Moore beginning December 25, 1781.

He took the Oath of Allegiance on November 3, 1778.

Listed on the muster-roll of Captain Adam Diller’s company of infantry in the Second Regiment, Second Brigade, Pennsylvania Militia, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Lutz, at York, PA. In service from Sept. 1, 1814, to March 5, 1815, from Lancaster County.

Listed on the muster-roll of Captain Adam Diller’s company of infantry in the Second Regiment, Second Brigade, Pennsylvania Militia, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Lutz, at York, PA. In service from Sept. 1, 1814, to March 5, 1815, from Lancaster County.

Civil War. He served in Company H, 79th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry September 16, 1861 – October 3, 1864

On the 1890 Veteran’s Schedule his Post Office Address is Reamstown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania and it makes the note “discharge burned.”

Enlisted in Co. A, 79th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 Sep 1861. Mustered out on 30 Sep 1863. Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, Sept 30, 1863.

Enlisted on February 9, 1864 and mustered into service February 12, 1864. Company A, 79th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry. Mustered out July 12, 1865.

Company E, 169th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry

Enlisted in Company G, Pennsylvania 5th Regiment in 1861. Enlisted in Company A, Pennsylvania 106th Infantry Regiment on 17 Aug 1861. Mustered out on 06 Feb 1863. He joined the 106 Pennsylvania Infantry as a private. In 1864 he was stationed at Ft. Kearny in Nebraska. He returned to Pennsylvania, married and had at least 3 children before returning to Gibbon, Nebraska where he died. The cause of death, as listed on the 1890 Veteran’s Schedule was vericose veins.

Served in Company I, Pennsylvania 2nd Regiment Artillery from 20 Apr 1861 to 24 July 1861.

Civil War. Enlisted in Company B, 17th Ohio Infantry on 24 Aug 1861. Mustered out on 16 Jul 1865. Most records show his name as Frederick Lisey. He came to the U.S. August 1, 1851 and was naturalized on November 4, 1889.

Company B, 17th Regiment Ohio Infantry

Enlisted Company K, 8th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry August 11, 1898. Discharged March 7, 1899.

Private, 14th Minnesota Infantry.

On his passport application in 1919 he listed his residence as Spokane, Washington and his occupation as Lawyer. He was going to Great Britain and France for YMCA work.

He was the great-grandson of Heinrich Hibschman, who served in the Revolutionary War, and his wife Catharine Leisey.

He enlisted on June 6, 1899. On the 1900 census he is serving as a private at Fort St. Michael in Alaska in Det. Co. F 7th Infantry. He arrived in Alaska in July, 1899. He served until June 5, 1902.

• June 6, 1902 to June 5, 1905 112th C.A.C. [Coast Artillery Company].
• March 31, 1908 to February 3, 1909 Gen. Serv. of Inf.
• December 9, 1908 promoted to corporal.
• June 29, 1909 to July 8, 1910 Gen Serv. of Inf.
• Honorably discharged on July 8, 1910.

U.S. Army, 1917-1919

Link to post about Sergeant Alvin Lewis Leisey, Sr.

• Battery D 11 Battalion 4 Regiment Field Artillery Replacement Draft Cp Jackson Summary Court to 7 Sept 1918
• 3 Battery Cp Jackson Summary Court Sept Automatic Replacement Draft to 29 Oct 1918
• Battery A 124 Field Artillery to Discharge Private American Expeditionary Forces 23 Sept 1918 to 24 May 1919.
• Honorable discharge 6 June 1919.

• 158 Depot Brigade to Discharge Corporal 1 May 1918.
• Honorable discharge 26 Aug 1918 to accept Commission as 2nd Lieutenant Infantry 26 Aug 1918 from United States Army 813 Pioneer Regiment, Infantry to Discharge Cp Sherman O; American Expeditionary Forces Defensive Sector.
• American Expeditionary Forces 15 Sept 1918 to 13 July 1919.
• Honorable discharge 14 July 1919.

He died when I was very young, my father said of gas from WWI. He supposedly served with a Seiberling during the war and became a rubber buyer after the war in South America. – Ray Leisy

• Enlisted in U.S. Marines, November, 1942.
• Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division.
• Wounded on Engebi Island on 2/20/1944.
• Discharged July 21, 1945.

Read his first hand account of World War II experiences.

Al Leisey Interview, The National WWII Museum

Mary Helen Abbott Leisey, upon graduation from Honey Brook High School in 1942 was accepted, following tests, to the School of Nursing at Coatesville Hospital in Coatesville, PA. She chose to join the Cadet Nurse Corps program in 1943, thus pledging to join the U.S. Military upon graduation and passing the Pennsylvania State Board Examinations with the degree of R.N. – Registered Nurse.

In February 1945, she was assigned to Deshon Army Hospital in Butler, PA where she cared for wounded men and women returned from the European Theatre of War.

• United States Navy: July 30, 1942 – December 2, 1945
• U.S. Sub Base Pearl Harbor
• He was a machinist’s mate at Pearl Harbor, he worked on boilers of submarines.

He worked after the war on boilers in churches around Wooster as a volunteer. (He was an ice maker by trade.) He died of asbestos poisoning in 1983. – Ray Leisy

• United States Army, WWII February 17, 1943 – January 31, 1946
• 549th Air Service Group
• North Africa, Italy

• He enlisted on September 15, 1943.
• Served in the U. S. Navy in the European Theatre Operations.
• He was listed on the muster roll of the U.S.S. L.S.T. 57 sailing from Southampton, England on October 12, 1944.
• He was listed on the muster roll of the U.S.S. Charles P. Cecil (DD835) on November 23, 1945.

As a sailor in the Navy, Meb fought in the Battle of Normandy. I remember him telling me that under heavy enemy gun fire, his LST was one of the few ships to escape safely after delivering troops, weaponry, and fighting vehicles to Omaha Beach. – Don Leisey

• 1074^th Signal Company of the Ninth Army Air Force: Nov 17, 1941-Sept 23, 1945.
• Battles: Tunisian, Naples-Foggia, Rome, Arno
• Decorations: American Defense Service Metal, European African Middle Eastern Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal.

• 1074^th Signal Company of the Ninth Army Air Force: Apr. 17, 1945 – Nov. 6, 1946.
• Medical Technician

Cadet Nurse Corps 1944-1947

U.S. Army

• U.S. Navy June 30, 1949 – April 6, 1953
• He was stationed in Oahu, Hawaii.
• After the war, he was a member of the VFW, American Legion, Cedar Lodge #430 F&AM, and Al Koran Shrine.

U.S. Air Force, 1959-1979

U.S. Air Force, 1974-1978

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Air Force, November, 1967 – August, 1974

• Air Force 1970-1974
• Air National Guard 1974-1979

• U.S. Army 1968 – 1970.
• Saw action in Vietnam.
• Drove an armored personnel carrier (APC).

U.S. Army

• U.S. Marine Corps
• Infantry Unit Commander, 1st Cavalry Division
• Killed in Action: December 2, 1969 – Phuoc Long, Vietnam.
• Medal of Honor Recipient

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