From the Civil War Pension File: On letterhead of the “Government Hospital for the Insane, Washington, DC" it states that George Baucherich, late of Co. E, 18th Penna. Volunteer Infantry, died in this hospital on April 4th, 1904.

The family story was that George was buried in Arlington Cemetery. However, a phone call to Arlington with very helpful staff found no George. George's name is also found as "George Bachoritch," as the family eventually adopted this spelling, but he enlisted as George Baucherich and so his pension documents are found under that name.

A request for a death certificate to the District of Columbia vital statistics office with the spelling of George Baucherich with the death date of April 4, 1904 was unsuccessful. This spelling was used as it is the same as the letter noting the death from the Government Hospital.

George is on the 1870 and 1880 U.S. Censuses for Marshall County, Kansas. In 1860 he lived in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. I have been unable to find him on the 1900 census. He was originally from Germany.

According to family stories he was so grief stricken after the death of his wife in 1886 he sent his younger sons to live with relatives. No one knows what happened between 1886 and 1890.

In Oct 1890 he was in the Veteran's Home in Topeka, Kansas. In 1891 he was transferred to the Western Branch, National Home for D.V.S. in Washington, D.C. In July 1892, he was discharged from the home in D.C. He must have been readmitted, because in June 1896, he was transferred from D.C. back to Topeka, Kansas. Sometime between 1896 and his death he was transferred back to D.C. where he died and the letter regarding his death from the Government Hospital for the Insane was submitted to his pension file to terminate his pension.

It does not seem likely that his body was shipped back to Kansas in 1904. It seems more likely he was buried in the D.C. area.