Birth: Unknown
Death: Unknown
Location: Lot 31, Section 7, Outside the Old Cemetery
Grand Island (Nebraska) Daily Independent Monday, 30 December 1907, page 1
THREE DEATHS AT SOLDIERS’ HOME SINCE SATURDAY.
Otto H. Hohmann died Saturday evening of general debility. He was taken to the hospital on Monday last. The deceased had served forty-seven months as a private of Company A. [sic]. He was a native of Germany and lived to be 86 years of age. He was admitted to the Home in 1889. He spent the past summer with a daughter at Salt Lake and had intended to remove there as soon as he secured his next pension. He was a good, kindly old man, one it was a pleasure to be acquainted with. He had friends in Wood River who came last evening and took the remains to that place for burial. His daughter from Salt Lake will be present at the funeral.
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He served in the Civil War in the 21st Missouri Infantry, Company A. Enlisted July 15, 1861 mustered out April 19, 1866∼Otto was born in Prussia (Germany), married Margaret, and started a family there. He came to the USA in the early 1850s. He served on the Union side of the Civil War in the 21st Missouri Infantry. He later moved to Hall County, Nebraska, where him and his wife divorced. The gravestone of Otto is just to the left of the entrance to the cemetery.