Newville Cemetery

John Luckett served in Company I of the 45^th U.S.C.T. He was born in Washington, Maryland around or before 1830, and married his wife, Mary Pattinson, on August 7, 1850, in Frederick County, Maryland.¹ In 1860, the two of them moved to Southampton, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a day laborer. At this point they also had two children, who are listed on the Federal Census as “M.A.” and “E.L.”.² Luckett was drafted on July 19^th, 1864, in Southampton Township, but then enlisted separately on August 15, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.