Holliday - Mathias -CW
Source: THE SHELBY DEMOCRAT, Thursday July 11, 1935, Page 2 column 4
TAPS SOUNDED FOR CIVIL WAR VETERAN
Mathias Holliday, 86, Died at Fairland Saturday-Had Lived There Since 1931
Taps sounded for another of the few remaining Civil War veterans in Shelby county Saturday afternoon. Mathias Holliday, aged eighty-six, died at his home in Fairland following three years illness. He had been bedfast for the past year and his death resulted from a complication of diseases.
Funeral services will be held at the Fairland Methodist church at 9:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. Rev. Charles E. Query, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be made in the Linden cemetery in Montgomery county in charge of C.F. Fix & Son, funeral directors.
Mr. Holliday had lived at Fairland since June 6, 1931. He was born in White county on August 12, 1848, and was eighty-six years, ten months and twenty-four days of age.
He served as a drummer in the union forces while only fourteen years of age, and was a member of Company A, 63rd Regiment of Indiana Infantry. He enrolled February 18, 1863, served three years and was honorably discharged May 3, 1865. During his service as a drummer boy, he talked with Abraham Lincoln when the president was inspecting the army.
Mr. Holliday was married to Lydia Lee on January 20, 1929. Mrs. Holliday survives with five daughters and a son by a former marriage. They are Mrs. Allie Layton, of Chicago; Mrs. Hattie Simmons, Mrs. Flora Booher, Faye Dorsey and Mrs. Oris Fisher, of Lafayette, and William Holliday, of Iowa. He is also survived by two step-sons, Oddie Lee, of Fairland, and Robert Lee, of Tipton; two grandsons, Dr. Norman Booher, of Indianapolis, and Fred Fisher, of Lafayette, and several nieces and nephews.
The deceased was a member of the Christian Church at Linden.
Friends may call at the late home at any time.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 13 January 1899
Madison Township claims the youngest soldier of the war of the rebellion in the person of Matthias Holliday, who was born Aug. 12, 1848 and enlisted Feb. 1, 1862, being 13 years and six months old. He went in Co. A., 63rd Ind. Vol. as a drummer. He served three years and three months in the third brigade, third division of the 23d army corps, department of the Cumberland.