Holland City News, May 20, 1915

Frank Hathaway, Who Spent A Year In Confederate Prison In Andersonville, Is Dead

Frank Hathaway, a veteran of the Civil War, died suddenly at his home about a mile north of Holland on the Grand Haven Road Sunday night. Mr. Hathaway was taken sick Sunday afternoon, and he died about 10 o’clock Sunday night. The deceased was 80 years old.

Mr. Hathaway was a member of the 8^th Michigan Cavalry, Company M, during the Civil War. He was taken prisoner by the Confederates about a year before the end of the war and was cast into the famous, or rather the infamous Andersonville prison, where hundreds and thousands of northern soldiers met their death from starvation or disease. Mr. Hathaway used to tell tales of horror of his year spent in Andersonville prison. While hundreds of fellow prisoners starved to death or died of disease, Mr. Hathaway managed to eke out an existence until the war ended. He was in the prison for over a year. Mr. Hathaway left the prison broken in spirit and a cripple. His maimed leg was received while he was in prison.

Mr. Hathaway came to this city soon after the close of the war and he has been a conspicuous figure on the streets of Holland.

He is survived by a daughter who lives in South Dakota.

(Mr. Hathaway is buried in Pilgrim Home Cemetery.)