Charles Soper was the son of Owen and Ann Soper. His wife was Mrs. Sarah E. Soper, whom he married in November of 1857.
"Owen Soper died in 1858 and his wife Ann Soper in 1867. They too sleep in our own 'Oak Hill' cemetery."
"Charles, the eldest son, enlisted at Lincoln's call for the second 300,000 soldiers, in Company D, of Michigan's 22d Volunteers, encamped on our fair grounds in this city. Sept. 4, 1862, they left Pontiac and marched south to join the army of the Cumberland."
"The draft drove many men nearly frantic, long before it actually took place; and the consequence was hired help was not to be depended upon, and some of the women had to work in the field as in early days. Charles Soper having let out his crops to be harvested after his departure they were [???], his wife moving home to her father's with her two children, a daughter of three years, and an infant son, six months old, to await his return, which never came. He died of sickness in hospital No. 1, April 22, 1863, and lies buried in the Union Soldiers' cemetery, at Nashville, Tenn.
Consequently the crops still stood where they were in the fields, until the wife, leaving the children with her youngest sister, she and her mother taking a lunch for their dinner with them, harnessed her horses to the wagon and with a double-box, drove out day after day, 3 miles to the farm and broke off corn 'till the wagon was filled, then drove back home, and took it into the barn and husked it out, to feed one beef and twenty-six hogs which were fattening for market, besides to feed other cattle."
See Union Soldier's Cemetery, Nashville, TN (Findagrave memorial # 3202075)
"Owen Soper died in 1858 and his wife Ann Soper in 1867. They too sleep in our own 'Oak Hill' cemetery."
"Charles, the eldest son, enlisted at Lincoln's call for the second 300,000 soldiers, in Company D, of Michigan's 22d Volunteers, encamped on our fair grounds in this city. Sept. 4, 1862, they left Pontiac and marched south to join the army of the Cumberland."
"The draft drove many men nearly frantic, long before it actually took place; and the consequence was hired help was not to be depended upon, and some of the women had to work in the field as in early days. Charles Soper having let out his crops to be harvested after his departure they were [???], his wife moving home to her father's with her two children, a daughter of three years, and an infant son, six months old, to await his return, which never came. He died of sickness in hospital No. 1, April 22, 1863, and lies buried in the Union Soldiers' cemetery, at Nashville, Tenn.
Consequently the crops still stood where they were in the fields, until the wife, leaving the children with her youngest sister, she and her mother taking a lunch for their dinner with them, harnessed her horses to the wagon and with a double-box, drove out day after day, 3 miles to the farm and broke off corn 'till the wagon was filled, then drove back home, and took it into the barn and husked it out, to feed one beef and twenty-six hogs which were fattening for market, besides to feed other cattle."
See Union Soldier's Cemetery, Nashville, TN (Findagrave memorial # 3202075)
Charles Soper was the son of Owen and Ann Soper. His wife was Mrs. Sarah E. Soper, whom he married in November of 1857.
"Owen Soper died in 1858 and his wife Ann Soper in 1867. They too sleep in our own 'Oak Hill' cemetery."
"Charles, the eldest son, enlisted at Lincoln's call for the second 300,000 soldiers, in Company D, of Michigan's 22d Volunteers, encamped on our fair grounds in this city. Sept. 4, 1862, they left Pontiac and marched south to join the army of the Cumberland."
"The draft drove many men nearly frantic, long before it actually took place; and the consequence was hired help was not to be depended upon, and some of the women had to work in the field as in early days. Charles Soper having let out his crops to be harvested after his departure they were [???], his wife moving home to her father's with her two children, a daughter of three years, and an infant son, six months old, to await his return, which never came. He died of sickness in hospital No. 1, April 22, 1863, and lies buried in the Union Soldiers' cemetery, at Nashville, Tenn.
Consequently the crops still stood where they were in the fields, until the wife, leaving the children with her youngest sister, she and her mother taking a lunch for their dinner with them, harnessed her horses to the wagon and with a double-box, drove out day after day, 3 miles to the farm and broke off corn 'till the wagon was filled, then drove back home, and took it into the barn and husked it out, to feed one beef and twenty-six hogs which were fattening for market, besides to feed other cattle."
See Union Soldier's Cemetery, Nashville, TN (Findagrave memorial # 3202075)
"Owen Soper died in 1858 and his wife Ann Soper in 1867. They too sleep in our own 'Oak Hill' cemetery."
"Charles, the eldest son, enlisted at Lincoln's call for the second 300,000 soldiers, in Company D, of Michigan's 22d Volunteers, encamped on our fair grounds in this city. Sept. 4, 1862, they left Pontiac and marched south to join the army of the Cumberland."
"The draft drove many men nearly frantic, long before it actually took place; and the consequence was hired help was not to be depended upon, and some of the women had to work in the field as in early days. Charles Soper having let out his crops to be harvested after his departure they were [???], his wife moving home to her father's with her two children, a daughter of three years, and an infant son, six months old, to await his return, which never came. He died of sickness in hospital No. 1, April 22, 1863, and lies buried in the Union Soldiers' cemetery, at Nashville, Tenn.
Consequently the crops still stood where they were in the fields, until the wife, leaving the children with her youngest sister, she and her mother taking a lunch for their dinner with them, harnessed her horses to the wagon and with a double-box, drove out day after day, 3 miles to the farm and broke off corn 'till the wagon was filled, then drove back home, and took it into the barn and husked it out, to feed one beef and twenty-six hogs which were fattening for market, besides to feed other cattle."
See Union Soldier's Cemetery, Nashville, TN (Findagrave memorial # 3202075)
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