The son of Edward & Louisa (Holt) Givens, in 1850 he was living with his family in Lower Windsor Township, York County, Pennsylvania, but in 1860 was a farmer residing, still with his family, in Rapho Township, Lancaster County. He stood 5' 5" tall and had light hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg, Franklin County, January 1, 1864, mustered into federal service at Blue Springs, Tennessee, April 21 as a private with Independent Battery B, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, and honorably discharged with the battery October 12, 1865, at Victoria, Texas. He is in the company descriptive list and the company register by his middle name.
He left Pennsylvania after his discharge and never returned. He married Berks County-born Christina Krapff in 1871 in Abilene, Kansas. (The pension office kept misspelling Christina's name "Christiana," which frustrated her because she kept notifying them and no one would change it. She gave up and began signing it that way.) Their children were Louvesia Anna (b. 01/01/73, d. 01/08/73), Lenus Franklin (b. 05/11/74), Emery Elmer (b. 09/06/78), Albert Lee (b. 11/02/82), Charles Irwin (b. 10/17/87, d. 11/22/91), and Laura Bell (b. 08/27/91). In 1890, he applied for his pension from Missouri, but entered the soldiers' home at Los Angeles on February 15, 1896, and discharged the following October 5. He died from stomach cancer.
He also reported 1847 as year of birth. He explained a gunshot wound to the right hand and abdomen as an accident in Abilene, Kansas, in 1887 when he fell and his sidearm discharged. (Unless he carried a double action revolver, the pistol had to have been cocked at the time. Thus, his explanation of an accidental discharge is questionable.)
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg, Franklin County, January 1, 1864, mustered into federal service at Blue Springs, Tennessee, April 21 as a private with Independent Battery B, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, and honorably discharged with the battery October 12, 1865, at Victoria, Texas. He is in the company descriptive list and the company register by his middle name.
He left Pennsylvania after his discharge and never returned. He married Berks County-born Christina Krapff in 1871 in Abilene, Kansas. (The pension office kept misspelling Christina's name "Christiana," which frustrated her because she kept notifying them and no one would change it. She gave up and began signing it that way.) Their children were Louvesia Anna (b. 01/01/73, d. 01/08/73), Lenus Franklin (b. 05/11/74), Emery Elmer (b. 09/06/78), Albert Lee (b. 11/02/82), Charles Irwin (b. 10/17/87, d. 11/22/91), and Laura Bell (b. 08/27/91). In 1890, he applied for his pension from Missouri, but entered the soldiers' home at Los Angeles on February 15, 1896, and discharged the following October 5. He died from stomach cancer.
He also reported 1847 as year of birth. He explained a gunshot wound to the right hand and abdomen as an accident in Abilene, Kansas, in 1887 when he fell and his sidearm discharged. (Unless he carried a double action revolver, the pistol had to have been cocked at the time. Thus, his explanation of an accidental discharge is questionable.)
The son of Edward & Louisa (Holt) Givens, in 1850 he was living with his family in Lower Windsor Township, York County, Pennsylvania, but in 1860 was a farmer residing, still with his family, in Rapho Township, Lancaster County. He stood 5' 5" tall and had light hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg, Franklin County, January 1, 1864, mustered into federal service at Blue Springs, Tennessee, April 21 as a private with Independent Battery B, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, and honorably discharged with the battery October 12, 1865, at Victoria, Texas. He is in the company descriptive list and the company register by his middle name.
He left Pennsylvania after his discharge and never returned. He married Berks County-born Christina Krapff in 1871 in Abilene, Kansas. (The pension office kept misspelling Christina's name "Christiana," which frustrated her because she kept notifying them and no one would change it. She gave up and began signing it that way.) Their children were Louvesia Anna (b. 01/01/73, d. 01/08/73), Lenus Franklin (b. 05/11/74), Emery Elmer (b. 09/06/78), Albert Lee (b. 11/02/82), Charles Irwin (b. 10/17/87, d. 11/22/91), and Laura Bell (b. 08/27/91). In 1890, he applied for his pension from Missouri, but entered the soldiers' home at Los Angeles on February 15, 1896, and discharged the following October 5. He died from stomach cancer.
He also reported 1847 as year of birth. He explained a gunshot wound to the right hand and abdomen as an accident in Abilene, Kansas, in 1887 when he fell and his sidearm discharged. (Unless he carried a double action revolver, the pistol had to have been cocked at the time. Thus, his explanation of an accidental discharge is questionable.)
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg, Franklin County, January 1, 1864, mustered into federal service at Blue Springs, Tennessee, April 21 as a private with Independent Battery B, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, and honorably discharged with the battery October 12, 1865, at Victoria, Texas. He is in the company descriptive list and the company register by his middle name.
He left Pennsylvania after his discharge and never returned. He married Berks County-born Christina Krapff in 1871 in Abilene, Kansas. (The pension office kept misspelling Christina's name "Christiana," which frustrated her because she kept notifying them and no one would change it. She gave up and began signing it that way.) Their children were Louvesia Anna (b. 01/01/73, d. 01/08/73), Lenus Franklin (b. 05/11/74), Emery Elmer (b. 09/06/78), Albert Lee (b. 11/02/82), Charles Irwin (b. 10/17/87, d. 11/22/91), and Laura Bell (b. 08/27/91). In 1890, he applied for his pension from Missouri, but entered the soldiers' home at Los Angeles on February 15, 1896, and discharged the following October 5. He died from stomach cancer.
He also reported 1847 as year of birth. He explained a gunshot wound to the right hand and abdomen as an accident in Abilene, Kansas, in 1887 when he fell and his sidearm discharged. (Unless he carried a double action revolver, the pistol had to have been cocked at the time. Thus, his explanation of an accidental discharge is questionable.)
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