Military Service: "Private, Lexington Wildcats, Company I, 14th Regiment N.C. Troops (4th N.C. Volunteers) Ezekiel was born in 1833 to Andrew and Margaret Hedrick Koontz. He worked as a farmer, and, on December 29, 1855, he married Sarah Hedrick. Ezekiel and Sarah would have two children, Martha (1856) and Mary (1859), before Ezekiel was conscripted on July 16, 1862. Ezekiel was listed as missing at Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862. No further records."
[The Civil War Roster of Davidson County, North Carolina, by Christopher M. Watford]
ACTUALLY, THERE IS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT EZEKIEL KOONTZ:
See the two articles below that I discovered recently:
"Deaths at the Hospital in this town -- We are indebted to Charles G. Lane, Esq., undertaker, for the following list of deaths, which occurred at the Hospital in this town, from which it will be seen that three of the number were rebels: -- Sept. 22 -- E. H. COUNTS, 14th North Carolina Reg't"
[Source--"Herald Torch and Light," October 10, 1862]
"Confederate Dead. -- Mr. Henry C. Mumms furnishes us with the following list of Confederate dead, whose bodies have been recovered during the week, up to Tuesday. he is still actively engaged in his work:
Alms-House Lot, Hagerstown
E. H. COUNCE, Co. I, 14th NC
[Source -- "Herald Torch and Light," August 19, 1874, Hagerstown, MD; article written at the time that the Confederate dead were being reinterred into the Washington Confederate Cemetery in Hagerstown, MD]
[The Civil War Roster of Davidson County, North Carolina, by Christopher M. Watford]
ACTUALLY, THERE IS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT EZEKIEL KOONTZ:
See the two articles below that I discovered recently:
"Deaths at the Hospital in this town -- We are indebted to Charles G. Lane, Esq., undertaker, for the following list of deaths, which occurred at the Hospital in this town, from which it will be seen that three of the number were rebels: -- Sept. 22 -- E. H. COUNTS, 14th North Carolina Reg't"
[Source--"Herald Torch and Light," October 10, 1862]
"Confederate Dead. -- Mr. Henry C. Mumms furnishes us with the following list of Confederate dead, whose bodies have been recovered during the week, up to Tuesday. he is still actively engaged in his work:
Alms-House Lot, Hagerstown
E. H. COUNCE, Co. I, 14th NC
[Source -- "Herald Torch and Light," August 19, 1874, Hagerstown, MD; article written at the time that the Confederate dead were being reinterred into the Washington Confederate Cemetery in Hagerstown, MD]
Military Service: "Private, Lexington Wildcats, Company I, 14th Regiment N.C. Troops (4th N.C. Volunteers) Ezekiel was born in 1833 to Andrew and Margaret Hedrick Koontz. He worked as a farmer, and, on December 29, 1855, he married Sarah Hedrick. Ezekiel and Sarah would have two children, Martha (1856) and Mary (1859), before Ezekiel was conscripted on July 16, 1862. Ezekiel was listed as missing at Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862. No further records."
[The Civil War Roster of Davidson County, North Carolina, by Christopher M. Watford]
ACTUALLY, THERE IS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT EZEKIEL KOONTZ:
See the two articles below that I discovered recently:
"Deaths at the Hospital in this town -- We are indebted to Charles G. Lane, Esq., undertaker, for the following list of deaths, which occurred at the Hospital in this town, from which it will be seen that three of the number were rebels: -- Sept. 22 -- E. H. COUNTS, 14th North Carolina Reg't"
[Source--"Herald Torch and Light," October 10, 1862]
"Confederate Dead. -- Mr. Henry C. Mumms furnishes us with the following list of Confederate dead, whose bodies have been recovered during the week, up to Tuesday. he is still actively engaged in his work:
Alms-House Lot, Hagerstown
E. H. COUNCE, Co. I, 14th NC
[Source -- "Herald Torch and Light," August 19, 1874, Hagerstown, MD; article written at the time that the Confederate dead were being reinterred into the Washington Confederate Cemetery in Hagerstown, MD]
[The Civil War Roster of Davidson County, North Carolina, by Christopher M. Watford]
ACTUALLY, THERE IS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT EZEKIEL KOONTZ:
See the two articles below that I discovered recently:
"Deaths at the Hospital in this town -- We are indebted to Charles G. Lane, Esq., undertaker, for the following list of deaths, which occurred at the Hospital in this town, from which it will be seen that three of the number were rebels: -- Sept. 22 -- E. H. COUNTS, 14th North Carolina Reg't"
[Source--"Herald Torch and Light," October 10, 1862]
"Confederate Dead. -- Mr. Henry C. Mumms furnishes us with the following list of Confederate dead, whose bodies have been recovered during the week, up to Tuesday. he is still actively engaged in his work:
Alms-House Lot, Hagerstown
E. H. COUNCE, Co. I, 14th NC
[Source -- "Herald Torch and Light," August 19, 1874, Hagerstown, MD; article written at the time that the Confederate dead were being reinterred into the Washington Confederate Cemetery in Hagerstown, MD]
Inscription
Burials in Hagerstown, MD, following the battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg:
"Alms-house lot, Hagerstown
E. H. Counce, Co. I, 14th NC"
See "The Bowie List," Anitetam
The bodies were reinterred to the Washington Confederate Cemetery in 1874 (see above)
Gravesite Details
Ezekiel was the brother of my 2nd great-grandfather, Philip H. Koontz
Family Members
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