Dated 1878, this check drawn from the Gettysburg National Bank was to pay $25 to Jeremiah Culp from the account of David Kendlehart.

Jeremiah Culp operated a carpenter shop at 141 York Street, Gettysburg. Jeremiah was the son of John Culp and Elizabeth Harbaugh. Jeremiah was married to Rebecca Howell. His carpenter shop was used as an operating room (the carpenter’s bench made a good operating table) during and after the battle and had a pile of arms and legs outside under the window.

David Kendlehart was born in 1813 in Gettysburg to immigrant parents from Hanover Germany, John and Elizabeth Kendlehart. The family lived on Baltimore Street.  At a young age David Kendlehart apprenticed as a Shoemaker. At the time of the battle he owned a boot and shoe store. When the Confederates first arrived in Gettysburg on June 26, as President of the city council he and his friend Alexander Buehler met with the Confederate commander, General Early who demanded from the borough of Gettysburg 60 barrels of flour, 7,000 pounds of pork or bacon, 1,200 pounds of sugar, 600 pounds of coffee, 1,000 pounds of salt, 40 bushels of onions, 1,000 pairs of shoes, 500 hats, or $5,000 in money. It was impossible to comply, but they would open the stores in town to the Confederates to supply what they could. On July 4, David Kendlehart and George Arnold made their way to General Meade’s headquarters to notify him of that the Confederates had left town. The Kendlehart family remained in Gettysburg after the war. David and Eliza Kendlehart are interred in the Evergreen Cemetery.  [jet] [PH:L]

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