Re: Cornelius Potter and Fanny Ogle
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Cornelius Potter and Fanny Ogle
Priscilla Reinowski 4/01/00
Glenna-
Found you! This is same family. Cornelius Potter and son Lewis both served in Missouri during Civil War. Cornelius only served 60 days and was medically discharged from Company F, 23rd Missouri Volunteers. Lewis, a son, was a great grandfather of my husband and we did much research on this family in l985 and 1986. We have copies of Civil War Pension Records of both, as well as those of husbands of two of Christopher's daughters, Josiah Egnor and Christopher Wilson. Christopher C. Wilson served in Company A, 83rd Illinois Infantry (It is my error in copying that gave the eldest of the Potter daughters as a Mary. She was Nancy, of course, and so identified in the pension file and in a very old scrap of paper in a Potter Bible.)
Civil War Records of Cornelius say he was born 15 August 1808 in Knox County, Kentucky. Have been unable to determine parents or from whence his parents came, though there are several Thomas Potters, a William, a Uriah and a -?- Potter listed on the l808 Tax Records for Knox County, KY. According to Lincoln County, Kansas Mortality Records Cornelius died 7 June 1880 at Milo, Kansas. No cemetery records found. Affidavit from C.C. Wilson states Frances Ogle Potter, wife of Cornelius, died at his home in Stafford, Kansas 17 April 1887. I have photo of her tombstone.
Just south of the marker, which identifies her as the "mother of Mrs. C. C. Wilson and wife of Cornelius Potter" is a red granite marker of "WILSON, Mother Tressa J. 1832-1921, Father, Chris C. 1845-1922, Co. A 83rd Ill. V. Inf. & Co. E, 61st Ill V. Inf." There are other markers for Wilsons, Potter and Ogle in the cemetery that I recorded while there.
Priscilla
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Re: Cornelius Potter and Fanny Ogle
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Re: Cornelius Potter and Fanny Ogle
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