David William Knauss

  Notater:

Special update a/o July 15, 2012:

I'm making direct parent relationship links for David Knauss per a SAC request from "Stone Reader." These links are made with the following cautions....

* A search on Ancestry.com for the parents of David Knauss turned up a very disturbing item. A joint headstone photo for a "Samuel H Knauss" and "his wife Anna" was posted to entries for them initially on one family tree in 2009. However, in looking at the headstone photo it clearly is NOT relevant to David's parents. The age inscriptions do not match what should be relevant for David's parents. Unfortunately, there are now upwards of about 14 different family trees that have attached that monument view photo to their entries for Samuel Knauss and Susannah Varner Knauss. BEWARE - that monument view is of another person named Samuel Harris and it was attached to that first family tree in error. Not sure why nobody caught that error a long time ago. I've put a comment in on one tree that the headstone shown is wrong, but the damage has been done to the accuracy of those trees.

I'm linking to the two memorials that "Stone Reader" suggested in the belief that they are accurate based on all other sources. That his parents were buried in separate cemeteries is consistent with the narratives that indicate Susannah died and was buried, then Samuel moved away to be near a brother in Harrison county.

* It appears from several sources that "William" was David's middle name, even though it doesn't appear on his headstone or obituary. Will use "William" based on recommendation from "Stone Reader" that it appears to be legitimate.
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Jefferson County Republican
Mar. 13, 1900
Page 4 col. 6

DAVID KNAUSS was born in Pennsylvania Sept. 18, 1822; Enlisted in Co. H, 15th Iowa Infantry Feb. 14, 1862; wounded in the shoulder at Shiloh and discharged at Corinth, Mississippi, for disability Sept. 24, 1862. Died at Marshalltown, Soldiers' Home, Mar. 8, 1900, and brought to Fairfield, Iowa, and buried in the City Cemetery Mar. 10, 1900; aged 77 years and 7 months, leaving a wife and one child to mourn…..(Also Ledger Mar. 14, 1900 Page 3, col. 2)

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Note: Married to Rhoda Nott Knauss/Bramer. Two of their young children, Jessie and Jackson, accidently drowned together in 1892 and are buried in Old Fairfield City cemetery. David Knauss was buried near them when he died in 1900.

The surviving son was Harry A Knauss.

  Begravelsesnotater:

David William Knauss
BIRTH18 Sep 1822
Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH8 Mar 1900 (aged 77)
Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa, USA
BURIAL
Old Fairfield Cemetery
Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa, USA
PLOTPG # 013
MEMORIAL ID79144491 · View Source