Descendants of Jacob Daughenbaugh of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

Fig 1. The Final Stanza from “The Battle of Manassas”, a confederate war song by Susan Archer Talley, 1861. Written in the family bible of Mary Anne (Daughenbaugh) Williams.

“Yes glory to our noble dead as to our living and o’er them may our southern flag free proudly, long live our gallant Davis and honored ever be our Johnson and our Jackson own because god and lee and glory to the lord who was our strength and shield and clashed the tyrants boasted might on stern Manassas field, Mary A Daughenbaugh”.

The following is recorded from the family bible of Mary Anne “Annie” (Daughenbaugh) Williams, wife of John W. Williams and my third great-grandmother. The bible was passed down two more generations, when my grandmother had somehow managed to obtain a copy of excerpts from this bible that contained the Daughenbaugh family genealogy beginning with Annie’s father, Jacob Daughenbaugh. What remains most curious and raises many questions, based on the Confederate poem (above) that was written down in Annie’s diary, was that her husband John Williams enlisted for the Union Army while living in Kentucky.1 Were her Confederate sympathies known or is the document evidence that she had to keep her loyalties secret?

                                                                                                               1  “The  Battle  of  Manassas”  by  Susan  Archer  Talley.  Library  of  Congress,  http://memory.loc.gov/rbc/amss/as1/as100740/001a.tif  

1. Jacob 1 Daughenbaugh was born 18 August 1818 in Kittening, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.2 He married Maria (_) born 18 Oct 1823, who second married (_) Nuick and died 20 June 1906. The family is living in Franklin Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania and is occupation is listed as “colier”.3

Fig 2. Family of Jacob Daughenbaugh in Franklin Twp, Armstrong Co, Pennsylvania. 1850 US Federal Census. In 1860, the family is found living in Nelson County, Kentucky where Jacob worked as a charcoal burner and had to his name only 200 dollars.4 Jacob died 1 Aug 1865.5,6

Fig 2. Family of Jacob Daughenbaugh at Nelson Furnace, Nelson County Kentucky, 1860 US Federal Census. (A man named Jacob Daughenbaugh enlisted in the Pennsylvania Seventh Regiment of Volunteers and fought for Company H.7 Mid-war, the company was disbanded and Jacob was removed to the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry. His service record indicates he was a musician.

                                                                                                               2 Mary Ann (Daughenbaugh) Williams Family Bible. Copy obtained by Margarette Elizabeth Freeman circa 1990, now in possession of author. 3    4 1860 US Federal Census, Nelson Furnace (District No. 2), Nelson County, Kentucky, Roll M653_389, page 35, FHL film 803389. 5 Mary Ann (Daughenbaugh) Williams Family Bible. Copy obtained by Margarette Elizabeth Freeman circa 1990, now in possession of author. 6 National Archives and Records Administration. U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Index card for Jacob Daughenbaugh, Roll T288_111. 7 Muster Rolls of Pennsylvania Civil War Volunteer Soldiers, Seventh Regiment, Company H. Online at pacivilwar.com

His second wife, Harriet, widowed, applied for a widow’s pension on 2 Nov 1866 (application number 136619, certificate no. 175768).8 A year later a minor named “M. Ydn Blout” applied for a minor’s pension 12 Dec 1867 (app number 155492, certificate no. 111431).9

Fig 3. Family Birth Record of Jacob and Mariah Daughenbaugh, Family Bible of Mary Anne Daughenbaugh.

Children of Jacob and Maria Daughenbaugh:10

2. i. R.J.2 born 3 March 1839 3. ii. John born 18 Mar 1841 + 4. iii. William born 28 Feb 1843 5. iv. Mary Ann born 26 March 1845 +

                                                                                                               8 National Archives and Records Administration. U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Index card for Jacob Daughenbaugh, Roll T288_111. 9  National Archives and Records Administration. U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Index card for Jacob Daughenbaugh, Roll T288_111.  10 Mary Ann (Daughenbaugh) Williams Family Bible. Copy obtained by Margarette Elizabeth Freeman circa 1990, now in possession of author.

6. v.Barbara born 5 May 1847, died 25 Feb 1848 7. vi. Catharine born 28 Feb 1849, died 1 Mar 1849 8. vii. Emily born 30 Dec 1849, died 14 Aug 1866 9. viii. Eliza born 7 Dec 1852 10. ix. Jacob 27 Feb 1854 11. x. Martin 13 Oct 1856 12. xi. Margaret M 8 Aug 1858 13. xii. Mollie 30 Nov 1860 14. xiii. Alier M 13 Jan 1863

Fig 4. Family Deaths, Family Bible of Mary Anne Daughenbaugh.

3. John2 Daughenbaugh (Jacob1) was born 18 Mar 1841 in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. He married Eliza (_)He served in 62nd Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and hononrably

discharged on 13 Sep 1864.11 He worked as a merchant and was living in Putneyville, Mahoning Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania in the 1890 US Veterans Schedule.12 5. Mary Ann2 (Annie) Daughenbaugh (Jacob1) was born 26 March 1845 in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. She married John W. Williams in 1865. John was born circa 1842 in Anderson County, Kentucky.13 He volunteered for the Kentucky Fifth and was mustered into Company H.14,15 For three years, he fought and survived some of the Civil War’s most devastating battles. On 14 Sep 1864, the unit was disbanded and John Williams was discharged honorably.

                                                                                                               11  Soldiers  of  the  Pennsylvania  62nd  Regiment  of  Volunteers.  Online  at  http://www.icyousee.org/pa62d  12  Soldiers  of  the  Pennsylvania  62nd  Regiment  of  Volunteers.  Online  at  http;//www.icyousee.org/pa62d  13 Discharge Record of John W. Williams, Union, 5th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, Private, Company H. Microfilm M386 Roll 29, NARA. Copy held in Fletcher Family Archives. No John W Williams was found in the 1850 US Federal Census of Anderson County, Kentucky. 14 NPS, U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 (online), Provo, UT: Ancestry, 2007. 15 Discharge Record of John W. Williams, Union, 5th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, Private, Company H. Microfilm M386 Roll 29, NARA. Copy held in Fletcher Family Archives.

Fig 5. Discharge Record for John W. Williams, Kentucky Infantry Volunteers. “To whom it a l l may concern, Know ye that John W Williams, Private of Captain Norman B Hommgers, Company H, 5th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry Volunteers who was enrolled on the 3rd day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty one to serve three years during the war, was honorably discharged from service to the United States this fourteenth day of 1864 at Louisville, Kentucky by reason of expiration of term of service. Said John Williams was born in Anderson County, Kentucky is 22 years of age, 5 feet, 10 inches, light complexion, grey eyes, light hair, and by occupation, when enlisted a labourer. Given at Louisville, Kentucky this fourteenth day of September 1864.”16 He was eager to start a family and soon married Mary Ann “Annie” Daugenbaugh.17 Those who enlisted in the Kentucky Fifth were paid in land. The family moved to Bedford, Wayne County, Illinois and are found living there in the 1870 and 1880 US Federal Census. In the mid 1880s adventured further out west to Washington state. John W Williams is listed in the 1890 US Veterans Census as a resident of Harrington, Lincoln County, Washington.18 The document provides an interesting clue. The 1890 Veterans Schedule recorded not only the soldiers’ regimental information, but any injury he received from the war. For John W Williams, his disability is listed as “cattamah in head”.19

Fig 6. John W Williams in the 1890 US Veterans Schedule living in Harrington, Lincoln County, Washington and is next to my third great-grandfather and father in-law of John’s daughter Lizzie, Azrow Freeman.

Fig 7. John’s disability, “cattamah in head”.

                                                                                                               16  Discharge Record of John W. Williams, Union, 5th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, Private, Company H. Microfilm M386 Roll 29, NARA. Copy held in Fletcher Family Archives.  17 In the 1900 US Federal Census, John and Annie Williams declared their marriage year as 1865. 1900 US Federal Census, Spokane, Spokane, Washington, Roll 1751, page 1B, ED 0073, FHL microfilm 1241751. 18 1890 US Veterans Schedule, Yarwood District, Lincoln Co., Washington, Roll 108, ED 40, page 1. 19 1890 US Veterans Schedule, Yarwood District, Lincoln Co., Washington, Roll 108, ED 40, page 1.

The word cattamah does not appear to exist in the English language, so further research is needed as to what this term means.20 In 1900, John and Annie are living on Montgomery Avenue in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington.21

                                                                                                               20 Oxford Free English Dictionary. 21 1900 US Federal Census, Spokane, Spokane, Washington, Roll 1751, page 1B, ED 0073, FHL microfilm 1241751.