OCCGS Civil War Veterans Project Veteran's Information Veterans Name: George Herman LUTZ Birth Date: March 1844 Location: Prussia Death Date: 8 August 1897 Location: Orange County, California Buried at (Cemetery): Santa Ana Cemetery Plot Location: IOOF NL GPS Coordinates: N33° 46' 13.06659" W117° 50' 23.25232" (DMS) Datum: NAD83. Coordinates are +/- 1.00 feet of the grave location. Side Served: Union Rank: Private Company: D Unit: 15th Heavy Artillery Regiment State: New York Occupation: Miner Family Information Parents – Father: Unknown Birth Date/Location: Germany Death Date/Location: Unknown Mother: Unknown Birth Date/Location: Germany Death Date/Location: Unknown Spouse: Pauline Bach Birth Date/Location: October 1854, Prussia Death Date/Location: Unknown Marriage Date/Location: 31 July 1875, Gilpin County, Colorado Orange County California Genealogical Society - Civil War Veterans Project - OCCGS.com © 2012 Children – Name: Emma Lutz Birth Date/Location: 17 February 1876, Colorado Death Date/Location: 3 July 1886, Gilpin County, Colorado Name: Fritz Lutz Birth Date/Location: abt. 1877, Colorado Death Date/Location: Unknown Name: George Lutz Birth Date/Location: 27 August 1878, Colorado Death Date/Location: 17 July 1886, Gilpin County, Colorado Name: Harman H. Lutz Birth Date/Location: 3 September 1880, Colorado Death Date/Location: 2 February 1881, Gilpin County, Colorado Name: Pauline Lutz Birth Date/Location: 20 December 1882, Colorado Death Date/Location: 15 July 1886, Gilpin County, Colorado Name: Eliza Lutz Birth Date/Location: abt. 1883, Colorado Death Date/Location: Unknown Additional Information Member of Sedgwick Post No 17, GAR Enlisted in Company D, 15th New York Heavy Artillery 9 January 1865 at Tarrytown, New York, mustered out 22 August 1865 at Washington D.C. After the war, George apparently served in the U.S. Army in Company C, 15th Infantry, Company A, 17th Infantry and Company A, 35th Infantry. Photograph of tombstone for G H Lutz, Fairhaven Memorial Park, Orange County, California taken by Charles Lewis Beal, 1/20/2007. Used with the permission of Charles Beal. Sources Orange County California Genealogy Society Quarterly Journal, XVIII, #2, June 1981 – Roll of Honor for the Sedgwick Post No 17 GAR. “Pioneers in Blue and Gray”, Civil War Veterans in Orange County by Gordon Bricken, First Edition, The Bricken Press, Santa Ana, California, Copyright 2009 National Archives and Records Administration. U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Record for George Hermann Lutz Orange County California Genealogical Society - Civil War Veterans Project - OCCGS.com © 2012 Historical Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Record for G Herman Lutz 15th New York Artillery Heavy Soldier Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year 1893, Volume 14 132nd New York Infantry Soldier Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year 1893, Volume 37 Ancestry.com. Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Record for George Hermann Lutz Ancestry.com. Web: Western States Marriage Index, 1809-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Record for George Lutz Findagrave.com, searchable database of cemeteries with tombstone inscriptions, memorials and photographs  Memorial 20286471, Created by Dave H, Record for Emma Lutz  Memorial 20286406, Created by Dave H, Record for George Lutz  Memorial 20286500, Created by Dave H, Record for Harman H Lutz  Memorial 20286433, Created by Dave H, Record for Pauline Lutz Ancestry.com. Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Record for Paulina A. Lutz Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.  Russell, Gilpin County, Colorado; Roll T9_90, Page 55D, ED: 050, Family 582, Record for George H. Lutz National Archives and Records Administration. Schedules of the Colorado State Census, 1885. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M158, 8 rolls.  Gilpin County, Colorado;Roll T158_4, Family 540. Record for George H. Lutz Orange County California Genealogical Society - Civil War Veterans Project - OCCGS.com © 2012