 rancis Marion Warnock, as listed in "Jay County and The
War', posted elsewhere on the CHPS Jay County feature, was killed in action
in Baldwin County, Alabama, 5 April 1865, just 4 or 5 days before the end
of the Civil War and is buried in the Mobile National Cemetery. I have traveled
to Mobile and located his tombstone in the cemetery. He is my Great (2 times)
Uncle.
Francis Marion Warnock (1844-1865) was born in Noble Township, Jay County, and enlisted on August 10, 1862, in Company E, 89th Indiana Infantry Regiment. He was captured by the Confederates on September 24, 1864, at Mumfordsville, Kentucky. He recuperated at a Union Army hospital after being paroled. On April 5, 1865, and while carrying ammunition to skirmishers in battle at Fort Blakeley, Alabama, he was killed. On June 27, 1865, when his father Levi applied for pay and allowances due his son Francis M. Warnock, killed in a Civil War battle two months earlier, he was living in Jay County. Later that year, Levi Warnock moved to Kansas, settling at Eureka Lake. His wife, Susan Priscilla Jones and children joined him in 1867. While living at Ogden, Riley County, Kansas, he applied on September 24, 1867 for allowances made to survivors of deceased soldiers. Submitted by Norman D. Adam |
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