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From: (John A. Bing)
Subject: [MORAVIAN] Re: PML Search Result matching Miksch
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 04:56:07 GMT
References: <200104050011.SAA03285@pml.rootsweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <200104050011.SAA03285@pml.rootsweb.com>




Mary Ann,
I have one Amos MIKSCH in my data bank who is a likely
candidate for the Amos of your posting.

This Amos is the son of John Frederick MIKSCH and Elizabeth HUBER.
Both parents born in PA and died in Gnadenhutten, he in 1837 and she
in 1853.
Amos was the 7th of 9 children, b 1816 and d 1901. He married in 1843
to Salome Keller. My records show they had two children, Julia, b
1866 and lived in Wellman Iowa. Also Edward b 1858.

I also have an Anna Viola MIKSCH b in 1865 in Tuscararus Co OH. She
married Warwick Shaw and lived in Illinois. She did extensive
genealogy work including DAR application 240099 in 1931. She died in
1950 and her genealogy records are lost.

There is certainly circumstantial evidence these are the two MIKSCHs
you are looking for, but, sorry, I have no data to support the
relationships.

John Bing

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:11:45 -0600, you wrote:

>I have been following the Miksch information with interest as I have
>a letter from the Civil War, sent to inform my gr, gr, grandmother,
>Mary Ann FENNER WALTER, that her brother, Charles Francis FENNER,
>had been killed in battle near Santa Fe. The sender of the letter
>was Amos Miksch. I also have an earlier letter (1861) from Charlie
>to his sister,in which he says at one point, "Tomorrow Ame and I
>leave for the West to seek our fortunes." This letter was sent
>from New Haven, Iowa and I wonder if "Ame" refers to Amos Miksch.
>
>Does anyone know where this Amos Miksch would fit in? Charles
>F."Charlie" Fenner was b.15 Feb 1838, and died 28 March 1862
>on his sister's birthday. He was born in Tuscarawas County
>Ohio where his sister continued to live until her death. I have
>a feeling that Charlie and Amos had been friends for some time and
>may possibly be related.
>
>Also, in a tiny notebook that belonged to Mary Ann FENNER WALTER's
>daughter, Aline Josephine WALTER, who lived in Gnadenhutten, Ohio
>all her life, is a list of letters written between 1916-1926; the
>name Anna Miksch appears frequently - apparently she and Aline
>maintained a regular correspondance until shortly before Allie's
>death. Any insight regarding the connections between these two
>families?
>
>Following is the text from the letter sent by Amos Miksch:
>
>
>> San Jose. New Mexico
>> March 30th 1862
>>
>> Dear Brother Charlie was killed on the 28th of March
>> in battle. He was shot in the left side - he lived some
>> six or seven hours when he died like a brave man and true
>> to this country to the last. He was buried on the field of
>> battle. The place of battle was Scotchery Canion some
>> twenty miles from Santa fe, we left Fort Rincon on
>> the 22nd of March for Santa fe and on the 26th the advance
>> of our forces fought a battle on the same ground that
>> the last one was. Charlie was in it and came out with
>> out being hurt; he was full of hope - he came to see me
>> in our camp that night and we had a long talk together.
>> The rebels lost the first day - sixty killed and 16
>> prisoners. We lost five men, four private and one
>> Lieutenent. On the 28th we lost thirty killed and fourty
>> wounded; the Rebels lost some 200 and 100 wounded. We
>> had ...............had over 2000.
>>
>> Charley¹s belongings Co. D Captain Downing
>> 1st Regiment, Col Volentier
>> Fort Rincon New Mexico
>>
>>
>> Charleys trunk is in Denver City
>>
>> Mr. Amos C. Miksch
>> Fort Rincon, New Mexico
>> Com B 1 Reg. Col. Volentier
>
>
> [ NOTE:In addition to the omission in the
>> last line of the letter, it was
>> difficult to read the words for:
>> the fort - Rincon, Rindon, Reridon??
>> the canyon - Scotehery, Scotchesy, Salehey??
>> Also, a few capital letters and punctuation
>> marks were added to make reading easier.
> Otherwise I tried to post the letter as
> closely to the origial as possible.]
>
>Mary Ann Begland
>Penfield, NY (grew up in Gnadenhutten OH)
>>


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