Charles W. Secrist married Nancy A. Long in 1857 in Rockingham, Virginia.
They were the parents of Henrietta M. Virginia Secrist (Mrs. Charles Boyers) and Alice Mary Secrist (Mrs. Edmund Armentrout).
Though there are a few known burials of men of this name, Nancy's Pension Application is specific about his date of death and does not match any of the known burial locations.
This Charles W.'s death took place on the day that Confederate General Jubal Early's troops crossed the Potomac River and captured Hagerstown, Maryland. But there was also intense fighting in Virginia as General Robert E. Lee's soldier's fought to keep Ulysses S. Grant out of Richmond.
On Nancy's Pension Application she reports that Charles died of the scurvy. That would lead us to believe he was at one of the encampments near Harrisonburg, or perhaps had even been sent to his parents' home to die, as some of the young men were. There are many Secrists buried right in the cemetery where his wife Nancy is buried alongside her second husband Noah James Landes, and Noah's first wife Anna Ermin, who died not that many years after Charles, in 1870. So it is very possible Charles might have been buried in the Mount Pleasant Church of the Brethren Cemetery in Harrisonburg.
Of course Nancy's sworn and witnessed statement could be slightly wrong on dates, considering that it wasn't filled out until 1909, and Charles could have been the young man who died as a POW in Oct of 1863/64. Each transcribed record is suspect, without an original to study.
After the war, as many Confederate soldier bodies as could be located, were moved from their hurried burial locations to cemeteries paid for by special non-federal groups and private parties - family and friends. Special groups were formed to travel around inquiring of locals who might know locations of burials. It is documented that many people who happened to be instrumental in identifying the burials for the families were the blacks who had been slaves who had lived in the local areas near the battles.
by Lila Cole
They were the parents of Henrietta M. Virginia Secrist (Mrs. Charles Boyers) and Alice Mary Secrist (Mrs. Edmund Armentrout).
Though there are a few known burials of men of this name, Nancy's Pension Application is specific about his date of death and does not match any of the known burial locations.
This Charles W.'s death took place on the day that Confederate General Jubal Early's troops crossed the Potomac River and captured Hagerstown, Maryland. But there was also intense fighting in Virginia as General Robert E. Lee's soldier's fought to keep Ulysses S. Grant out of Richmond.
On Nancy's Pension Application she reports that Charles died of the scurvy. That would lead us to believe he was at one of the encampments near Harrisonburg, or perhaps had even been sent to his parents' home to die, as some of the young men were. There are many Secrists buried right in the cemetery where his wife Nancy is buried alongside her second husband Noah James Landes, and Noah's first wife Anna Ermin, who died not that many years after Charles, in 1870. So it is very possible Charles might have been buried in the Mount Pleasant Church of the Brethren Cemetery in Harrisonburg.
Of course Nancy's sworn and witnessed statement could be slightly wrong on dates, considering that it wasn't filled out until 1909, and Charles could have been the young man who died as a POW in Oct of 1863/64. Each transcribed record is suspect, without an original to study.
After the war, as many Confederate soldier bodies as could be located, were moved from their hurried burial locations to cemeteries paid for by special non-federal groups and private parties - family and friends. Special groups were formed to travel around inquiring of locals who might know locations of burials. It is documented that many people who happened to be instrumental in identifying the burials for the families were the blacks who had been slaves who had lived in the local areas near the battles.
by Lila Cole
Charles W. Secrist married Nancy A. Long in 1857 in Rockingham, Virginia.
They were the parents of Henrietta M. Virginia Secrist (Mrs. Charles Boyers) and Alice Mary Secrist (Mrs. Edmund Armentrout).
Though there are a few known burials of men of this name, Nancy's Pension Application is specific about his date of death and does not match any of the known burial locations.
This Charles W.'s death took place on the day that Confederate General Jubal Early's troops crossed the Potomac River and captured Hagerstown, Maryland. But there was also intense fighting in Virginia as General Robert E. Lee's soldier's fought to keep Ulysses S. Grant out of Richmond.
On Nancy's Pension Application she reports that Charles died of the scurvy. That would lead us to believe he was at one of the encampments near Harrisonburg, or perhaps had even been sent to his parents' home to die, as some of the young men were. There are many Secrists buried right in the cemetery where his wife Nancy is buried alongside her second husband Noah James Landes, and Noah's first wife Anna Ermin, who died not that many years after Charles, in 1870. So it is very possible Charles might have been buried in the Mount Pleasant Church of the Brethren Cemetery in Harrisonburg.
Of course Nancy's sworn and witnessed statement could be slightly wrong on dates, considering that it wasn't filled out until 1909, and Charles could have been the young man who died as a POW in Oct of 1863/64. Each transcribed record is suspect, without an original to study.
After the war, as many Confederate soldier bodies as could be located, were moved from their hurried burial locations to cemeteries paid for by special non-federal groups and private parties - family and friends. Special groups were formed to travel around inquiring of locals who might know locations of burials. It is documented that many people who happened to be instrumental in identifying the burials for the families were the blacks who had been slaves who had lived in the local areas near the battles.
by Lila Cole
They were the parents of Henrietta M. Virginia Secrist (Mrs. Charles Boyers) and Alice Mary Secrist (Mrs. Edmund Armentrout).
Though there are a few known burials of men of this name, Nancy's Pension Application is specific about his date of death and does not match any of the known burial locations.
This Charles W.'s death took place on the day that Confederate General Jubal Early's troops crossed the Potomac River and captured Hagerstown, Maryland. But there was also intense fighting in Virginia as General Robert E. Lee's soldier's fought to keep Ulysses S. Grant out of Richmond.
On Nancy's Pension Application she reports that Charles died of the scurvy. That would lead us to believe he was at one of the encampments near Harrisonburg, or perhaps had even been sent to his parents' home to die, as some of the young men were. There are many Secrists buried right in the cemetery where his wife Nancy is buried alongside her second husband Noah James Landes, and Noah's first wife Anna Ermin, who died not that many years after Charles, in 1870. So it is very possible Charles might have been buried in the Mount Pleasant Church of the Brethren Cemetery in Harrisonburg.
Of course Nancy's sworn and witnessed statement could be slightly wrong on dates, considering that it wasn't filled out until 1909, and Charles could have been the young man who died as a POW in Oct of 1863/64. Each transcribed record is suspect, without an original to study.
After the war, as many Confederate soldier bodies as could be located, were moved from their hurried burial locations to cemeteries paid for by special non-federal groups and private parties - family and friends. Special groups were formed to travel around inquiring of locals who might know locations of burials. It is documented that many people who happened to be instrumental in identifying the burials for the families were the blacks who had been slaves who had lived in the local areas near the battles.
by Lila Cole
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