Name: laharpemax -- Descendants of the Vincent and Knowles Families of Sussex County, Delaware

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Fernando J. Knowles: Birth: 10 JAN 1865 in Hancock County, Illinois. Death: 5 DEC 1930 in 907 Parallel St., Atchison, Atchison County, Kansas


Sources
1. Title:   Civil War Pension File for Fernando Isaac Knowles, # 123773
2. Title:   1850 Census, Illinois, Scott County
Page:   5
3. Title:   Muster and Descriptive Rolls of Company A, Twentieth Infantry Regiment of Illinois Volunteers
4. Title:   Civil War Pension Index
5. Title:   Roll of Honor, Civil War Union Soldiers, Vol IX
Page:   121
6. Title:   Nationwide Gravesite Locator
7. Title:   Henderson County Genealogy Website (www.usgennet.org/usa/il/county/henderson/newspaper/1864draft.htm), Civil War Draft
8. Title:   Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900
9. Title:   Marriage Affidavit, State of Illinois

Notes
a. Note:   There is some confusion in the records regarding the name of Fernando Isaac Knowles. Most of the confusion stems from the fact that capital J and capital I were often written similarly during the time he lived. Thus, he appears in several records as Fernando J. Knowles. This confusion is clarified by a record entitled "Claim for Minor's Pension", which is part of his Civil War Pension file. In this record, his name is originally written as Fernando J. Knowles. Marks are made over the J to indicate it is not correct and Isaac is written above the J. In the 1850 Census, the family of Fernando lived in Winchester, Scott County, Illinois. There is no Fernando listed in the household of his parents, Philip W. and Nancy Knowles. There is an Isaac listed with a middle initial that is difficult to interpret. It may be an F. In this same census, two of Fernando's brothers are listed by their middle names. Philip Thomas is listed as Thomas and Manlove Jacob is listed as Jacob M. None of the other siblings are listed by their middle names. The fact that two of them are listed by their middle names instead of first names suggests that they may have done that with Fernando as well, and Isaac is Fernando Isaac. The age given for Isaac is the age Fernando would have been. There was further confusion about his name when Fernando was drafted in the Army during the Civil War. The Henderson County Genealogy Website provided a list of men drafted into the Union Army taken from a newspaper article dated Nov. 24, 1864. Isaac F. Knowles is listed. The " Muster and Descriptive Rolls of Co. A, 29th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers" lists him as Ferdinand Knowles. All later records in his Civil War Pension file refer to him as Fernando. It appears the Army had trouble determining that Ferdinand Knowles and Fernando Knowles were the same person. The details provided in the record for Ferdinand Knowles and the records for Fernando Knowles make it clear that they are the same person. In spite of this, a record found in the Civil War Pension file with the heading "Adjutant General's Office" dated Aug. 29, 1868, acknowledges the military service of Fernando Knowles and then notes: "Name not borne on any Muster Rolls of Co. 'A's or Regt. The name Fernando Knowles does not appear."
  While his three brothers enlisted in the Army during the Civil War in 1862, Fernando was drafted Oct. 18, 1864. Fernando was married at the time and his wife was pregnant. His son was born January 10, 1865. Fernando went into a military hospital in South Carolina in March of 1865 due to thyphoid fever and died a couple of months later. It appears unlikely that he got to see his son.

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