(Evening Herald, Frackville Edition, June 4, 1976)
	Jacob Pauly, veteran of many Civil War battles, in uniform Frances (Bender) Pauly Elizabeth (Pauly) Kelly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Pauly Sr. and grandmother of Emma (Burdess) Wolfe who still lives here.     Jacob Pauly Sr. was born in Essgen, Germany, December 17, 1838. He came to America as a youth and settled in Minersville. He was married to Frances Bender Pauly, born December 4, 1848 in Berge, Prussia and died at the age of forty-five on April 8, 1891.       The family of Jacob Pauly is listed on the first census of Frackville in 1880. They lived at 23 South Lehigh Avenue, the present site of the Jacob Stief Shoe Repair Shop. Mr. Pauly is listed in the Frackville Business Directory from 1889 to 1897 as the proprietor of the Depot House opposite the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad Depot. This building is located to the rear of the Bohard Building on East Frack Street. Nicholas Irwin was next owner of this hotel.       Mr. Pauly was a First Defender with the longest Civil War service recorded in the anthracite region. On the same day upon which the news was flashed to Schuylkill County that the South had opened a great conflict at Fort Sumpter, he pledged himself to enlist. When the recruiting office opened in response to Lincoln's call for volunteers, his name was among the first on the roll. He enlisted April 20, 1861 in Co. E. Fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry and was one of the famous band of First Defenders who were rushed to the defense of the National Capitol.       His ability was immediately recognized in the ranks and on August 23, 1861 he was advanced to sergeant. At the expiration of his first term, he was honorably discharged on July 24, 1861. He immediately re-enlisted in Co. D.V.I. and served until the last shot in the war was fired. He received his honorable discharge on September 1, 1865, at Murfreesboro.       Sergeant Pauly served in many battles. The first was at Cross Keys. Others were Freeman's Ford, Waterloo Bridge, Sulphur Springs, Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Van Hatchie, Franklin Tennessee, Black Horse, and Nashville, Tennessee. During one battle he leaped forward with a small band of his troops and, as the tide of the battle suddenly changed, was completely surrounded by Confederate troops. When another Union advance came, he was recaptured in another sortie.       The government twice commended him for his bravery. The instances are mentioned in the Government records by this Chronicle from the War Department. Mr. Pauly when a Sergeant leaped into a river and rescued a pair who were sinking. At another time he held off a Confederate attack on a bridge spanning a small stream until Union ammunition stores were removed to safety. He was commended for both of these actions, and one military writer has mentioned the bridge incident in a review of the War.       Mr. Pauly was a member of the John S. Meredith Post No.485, G.A.R, His name and Civil War record is listed in the book, "Personal War Sketches, Grand Army of the Republic" presented to Post 485 by Col. George Brown, Charles Wagner, Mrs. Leonora Meredith, Samuel Burchill and Alexander Scott. It was later presented to the Frackville Schools and kept in the office of W.R. Trautman and is now in the collection of the Frackville Public Library.       Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Pauly Sr. were the parents of John N, Mrs. (Katie) Henry Gottschall, Mrs. (Mary F.) Pat Stephens, Franklin, George, Lawrence J, Jacob, Lewis, and Mrs. (Elizabeth) Kelly. Mr. Pauly died February 23, 1916 at the age of 77.       John N. Pauly was married to Minnie Wier and was a liquor and beer agent at the Pauly homestead at 23 South Lehigh Avenue. He was listed in the Frackville Business Directory from 1894 to 1926 and was the local distributor for Yuengling. He used a horse and wagon and had a delivery service. Many residents remember delivering manure to the residents because everyone grew their own vegetable gardens. In later years, his sons Clarence and John, sold cars and had their showroom at the family homestead on Lehigh Avenue. Mary Francis (Pauly) Stevens, well known in town. The Pauly men: (front from left) John, Frank, Jacob Sr., (center) Louis, (rear) Jacob Jr., Lawrence, George.      Frank Pauly remained single and lived with the Gottschall family. Lawrence Pauly who still resides in Pottstown was a slate picker at Madeira Hill Company and then time keeper at Lawrence Colliery unit it went out of existence. He was married to the former Mary Schragen.       George J. Pauly was born in 1882 and was a corporal in the Chemical Warfare Service in World War I. He was married to Nellie McCormick and died in 1923. His daughter, Mrs. Frances Klitch is still living in Frackville.       Jacob Pauly, Jr. was married to Elizabeth Schragen and died during the Flu epidemic in 1918. He and his brother Larry were married to the Schragen sisters.       Louis P. Pauly was born in Frackville in 1889. His mother died when he was two years of age. He attended St. Joseph's School for boys and learned the carpentry trade. He was a contractor and built many of the houses in town. He was also employed as a fire marshal for the H.D. Bob Company on the corner of Broad Mountain Avenue and Oak Street. He moved to Philadelphia in 1940 and was foreman on the construction of the Bulletin Building and the Fairless Steel Company in New Jersey. He was married to Anna V. Gillispie who died on October 20, 1964. Mr. Pauly died January 26, 1970. His daughter Mrs. (Mary F.) Daniel P. Collins is proud to be residing in one of the houses he built at 16 North Centre Street. Other children of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pauly are: Mrs. Ruth (Pauly) Wolf, Louis Pauly Jr., and Joseph Pauly.