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- OCCUPATION: boatman (at time of enlistment), laborer (in 1870, 1890 census)
1870 census, pg 323, Eldred Twp, Charles (Knose in index) 27, laborer $200,
Catharine 37, William 1/12 (born May)
1880 census, pg 10/3/187/#76/89, EldredTwp, Charles 37 (laborer), Catholine 47,
William E 10, James D 4, Henry C 6, Isaac F 3
1890 census, Eldred Twp, Charles (laborer) 45, Catherine _, James 18, laborer
1890 veterans list, Haas, Charles Knerr, C/50, 9 Sep 1861 - 29 Sep 1864
disability - Dyspepsia and Lung ___ ?
1900 census, #107, W Eldred, Charles Knarr Dec 1843, M31, farm laborer (servant living with Daniel H Smith and Susan)
1900 census Catherine?
1910 census, Soldiers and Sailors Home, Erie PA, Charles Knarr, 66, M 44 yrs, 4/4 kids, born PA, able to speak English,occupation P.S.S.H.
Eldred Twp, #21/25, (Catharine 79, with James M. Knerr,Sr.)
married 42 years, (4 children/4 alive), speaks only German
(Charles lived briefly in Stoudtsville, PA in 1912)
MILITARY: Used last name of Knarr. Served in:
Co F, 5th Regiment PA Infantry. Apr 20, 1861 - Jul, 1861
Co C, 50th Regiment PA Infantry. Aug 14, 1861 - Sep 29, 1864
Co C, 29th Regiment PA Infantry. Nov 12, 1864 - Jul 10, 1865
Muster rolls show Charles AWOL each summer, possibly to work farm.
Mustered out Sep 29, 1864. (muster rolls on hand)
Co C, 50th had Isaac, George, Benjamin, and Charles Knarr serving together
Description from military records: 5'6.5" tall, fair complexion, gray eyes,
brown hair.
Married by Jacob Hepler, according to Civil War pension records
Pension application was once denied for "vicious habits" during the war. He
was treated for venereal disease during the Civil War.
Family story: Charles left his wife after getting his pension for approximately 20
years, then came back to his wife. He and his wife lived with different families
membersat different times. The story goes that they eventually got back
together. They sat together on the porch at James Knerr's house and made
up. Then they spent their last few years together, living in a small house that
was then builtfor them on the property (near the creek?).
Charles also was to have survived the war, but got shot in (outside?) a bar on
the way back from the Civil War. I also heard the shooter was a rebel. When
Charles was around later in life, he complained of his injury, and according to
relatives, he would have hisgrandson Jack Knerr pick out the BB's that came
to the surface with a knife (so it must have been a shotgun wound).
It's odd that his pension applicationmakes no reference to either a wound or a
disability because of it. Probablysince there was no record in his service record of
a real war time wound, it wouldn't have done any good bringing it up. But clearly,
everyone in the family seems to have known that Charles was shot in a bar related
incident on the way back.
My Great Aunt Sue [Knerr] told me she had vague recollections of Charles. She
said the young boys would tease him but he'd say "you laugh, but people
will remember me..."
Pension form of 1 Apr 1915 has this info:
married Catharine Maurer 15 Mar 1868, by Jacob M Hepler (later a copy of
certificate was made for pension file)
married at Church of God, Hepler (Bethel) Church
he and wife never married before
living now with wife
children are:
Wm E Knarr May 2nd 1870
James M Knarr November 17th 1871
Henry C Knarr December 13th 1873
Isaac F Knarr January 25th 1876
Some account of the 50th Regiment ison pg 129 of Beer's History of Schuylkill
County (bio of Samuel Losch)
Since Charles as at the Soldier's and Sailor's home in 1910, the records there
may have information:
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/rg19.htm
Cause of Death: of apoplexy
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1843 - 1916 (72 years)