Served in various Missouri Regiments during the Civil War from 1861-1866. At one time as a full major. Lt. U.S.Army Quartermaster at Camp Douglas, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 1877. Retired as a Captain in the U. S. Army.
Gottwald Karl Heinrich Ludwig Szirkowski was born in Koblenz, Germany. He, his parents, and his grandparents came to St. Louis via Baltimore in the spring of 1834. His mother remarried twice after coming to America, her third husband being St. Louis newspaper publisher Eduard Warrens. Karl Heinrich married Elizabeth Adams in February 1858. Their first child, Eda, was born in Chester, Illinois in March of 1859 only one day before Karl Heinrich flattered his step-father by legally changing his name to Charles Henry Warrens. Charles Henry Warrens supported the Union when the Civil War broke out. He served as an officer with three separate groups of Missouri volunteers before being seriously wounded in late December 1862 during the abortive Chickasaw Bluff attack above Vicksburg, Mississippi. After recovering from his wounds, he served as a Michigan recruiter in the Veterans Reserve Corps, where their second child was born. After the war, Warrens got a commission in the regular Army. He served at Ft. McPherson, Nebraska, at Ft. Philip Kearney in the Dakota territories, at the Omaha Barracks, at Forts D. A. Russell and Laramie in Wyoming, and at Ft. Douglas, Utah. In February 1878, Ethyl Douglas Warrens was born at Ft. Douglas, the last of their eight children. Like her short-lived older sister, May Laramie, her middle name came from her birthplace. From October 1881 until May of 1883, Warrens was assigned to White River, Colorado. At that point, he and his family moved to the Cantonment on the Uncompaghre. Most, if not all, of the family became ill after arriving at the Cantonment. His wife, Elizabeth, died 30 July 1883 from mountain fever and was buried at Fort McPherson National Cemetery in Lincoln County, Nebraska. He took leave and then returned to the Cantonment in April 1884 and stayed until the end of June. During this leave he also found time to court and wed Margaret Goodin in St. Louis. Then on to the Vancouver Barracks in Washington until in December of 1884 he again reported sick. This was his last posting. He would be on duty for several months, report sick, and do this over and over again until he finally retired from the Vancouver Barracks on 29 September 1891. His ailments were constant and varied ranging from his incompletely-healed war wound, general nervous prostration from the death of his second wife, and piles. Warrens sent his daughter Ethyl Douglas Warrens to a finishing school in Massachusetts. Visiting her, he met one of her teachers, a German woman who became the third Mrs. Warrens and by whom he had a son in 1898. Warrens died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Oakland, CA and was buried in 1902 at the Presidio overlooking the Golden Gate.
Thanks to Lynn S. Watts and husband Cliff of Westborough, Massachusetts for this research.
6 of their 8 children (as known by Graylan Vincent in 2020):
Eda Marie (1859-1920)
Lily (1865-?)
Charles Eugene (1868-1938)
William Henry (1876-1938)
Ethel Douglas (1878-1950)
May Laramie (died young)
Gottwald Karl Heinrich Ludwig Szirkowski was born in Koblenz, Germany. He, his parents, and his grandparents came to St. Louis via Baltimore in the spring of 1834. His mother remarried twice after coming to America, her third husband being St. Louis newspaper publisher Eduard Warrens. Karl Heinrich married Elizabeth Adams in February 1858. Their first child, Eda, was born in Chester, Illinois in March of 1859 only one day before Karl Heinrich flattered his step-father by legally changing his name to Charles Henry Warrens. Charles Henry Warrens supported the Union when the Civil War broke out. He served as an officer with three separate groups of Missouri volunteers before being seriously wounded in late December 1862 during the abortive Chickasaw Bluff attack above Vicksburg, Mississippi. After recovering from his wounds, he served as a Michigan recruiter in the Veterans Reserve Corps, where their second child was born. After the war, Warrens got a commission in the regular Army. He served at Ft. McPherson, Nebraska, at Ft. Philip Kearney in the Dakota territories, at the Omaha Barracks, at Forts D. A. Russell and Laramie in Wyoming, and at Ft. Douglas, Utah. In February 1878, Ethyl Douglas Warrens was born at Ft. Douglas, the last of their eight children. Like her short-lived older sister, May Laramie, her middle name came from her birthplace. From October 1881 until May of 1883, Warrens was assigned to White River, Colorado. At that point, he and his family moved to the Cantonment on the Uncompaghre. Most, if not all, of the family became ill after arriving at the Cantonment. His wife, Elizabeth, died 30 July 1883 from mountain fever and was buried at Fort McPherson National Cemetery in Lincoln County, Nebraska. He took leave and then returned to the Cantonment in April 1884 and stayed until the end of June. During this leave he also found time to court and wed Margaret Goodin in St. Louis. Then on to the Vancouver Barracks in Washington until in December of 1884 he again reported sick. This was his last posting. He would be on duty for several months, report sick, and do this over and over again until he finally retired from the Vancouver Barracks on 29 September 1891. His ailments were constant and varied ranging from his incompletely-healed war wound, general nervous prostration from the death of his second wife, and piles. Warrens sent his daughter Ethyl Douglas Warrens to a finishing school in Massachusetts. Visiting her, he met one of her teachers, a German woman who became the third Mrs. Warrens and by whom he had a son in 1898. Warrens died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Oakland, CA and was buried in 1902 at the Presidio overlooking the Golden Gate.
Thanks to Lynn S. Watts and husband Cliff of Westborough, Massachusetts for this research.
6 of their 8 children (as known by Graylan Vincent in 2020):
Eda Marie (1859-1920)
Lily (1865-?)
Charles Eugene (1868-1938)
William Henry (1876-1938)
Ethel Douglas (1878-1950)
May Laramie (died young)
Served in various Missouri Regiments during the Civil War from 1861-1866. At one time as a full major. Lt. U.S.Army Quartermaster at Camp Douglas, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 1877. Retired as a Captain in the U. S. Army.
Gottwald Karl Heinrich Ludwig Szirkowski was born in Koblenz, Germany. He, his parents, and his grandparents came to St. Louis via Baltimore in the spring of 1834. His mother remarried twice after coming to America, her third husband being St. Louis newspaper publisher Eduard Warrens. Karl Heinrich married Elizabeth Adams in February 1858. Their first child, Eda, was born in Chester, Illinois in March of 1859 only one day before Karl Heinrich flattered his step-father by legally changing his name to Charles Henry Warrens. Charles Henry Warrens supported the Union when the Civil War broke out. He served as an officer with three separate groups of Missouri volunteers before being seriously wounded in late December 1862 during the abortive Chickasaw Bluff attack above Vicksburg, Mississippi. After recovering from his wounds, he served as a Michigan recruiter in the Veterans Reserve Corps, where their second child was born. After the war, Warrens got a commission in the regular Army. He served at Ft. McPherson, Nebraska, at Ft. Philip Kearney in the Dakota territories, at the Omaha Barracks, at Forts D. A. Russell and Laramie in Wyoming, and at Ft. Douglas, Utah. In February 1878, Ethyl Douglas Warrens was born at Ft. Douglas, the last of their eight children. Like her short-lived older sister, May Laramie, her middle name came from her birthplace. From October 1881 until May of 1883, Warrens was assigned to White River, Colorado. At that point, he and his family moved to the Cantonment on the Uncompaghre. Most, if not all, of the family became ill after arriving at the Cantonment. His wife, Elizabeth, died 30 July 1883 from mountain fever and was buried at Fort McPherson National Cemetery in Lincoln County, Nebraska. He took leave and then returned to the Cantonment in April 1884 and stayed until the end of June. During this leave he also found time to court and wed Margaret Goodin in St. Louis. Then on to the Vancouver Barracks in Washington until in December of 1884 he again reported sick. This was his last posting. He would be on duty for several months, report sick, and do this over and over again until he finally retired from the Vancouver Barracks on 29 September 1891. His ailments were constant and varied ranging from his incompletely-healed war wound, general nervous prostration from the death of his second wife, and piles. Warrens sent his daughter Ethyl Douglas Warrens to a finishing school in Massachusetts. Visiting her, he met one of her teachers, a German woman who became the third Mrs. Warrens and by whom he had a son in 1898. Warrens died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Oakland, CA and was buried in 1902 at the Presidio overlooking the Golden Gate.
Thanks to Lynn S. Watts and husband Cliff of Westborough, Massachusetts for this research.
6 of their 8 children (as known by Graylan Vincent in 2020):
Eda Marie (1859-1920)
Lily (1865-?)
Charles Eugene (1868-1938)
William Henry (1876-1938)
Ethel Douglas (1878-1950)
May Laramie (died young)
Gottwald Karl Heinrich Ludwig Szirkowski was born in Koblenz, Germany. He, his parents, and his grandparents came to St. Louis via Baltimore in the spring of 1834. His mother remarried twice after coming to America, her third husband being St. Louis newspaper publisher Eduard Warrens. Karl Heinrich married Elizabeth Adams in February 1858. Their first child, Eda, was born in Chester, Illinois in March of 1859 only one day before Karl Heinrich flattered his step-father by legally changing his name to Charles Henry Warrens. Charles Henry Warrens supported the Union when the Civil War broke out. He served as an officer with three separate groups of Missouri volunteers before being seriously wounded in late December 1862 during the abortive Chickasaw Bluff attack above Vicksburg, Mississippi. After recovering from his wounds, he served as a Michigan recruiter in the Veterans Reserve Corps, where their second child was born. After the war, Warrens got a commission in the regular Army. He served at Ft. McPherson, Nebraska, at Ft. Philip Kearney in the Dakota territories, at the Omaha Barracks, at Forts D. A. Russell and Laramie in Wyoming, and at Ft. Douglas, Utah. In February 1878, Ethyl Douglas Warrens was born at Ft. Douglas, the last of their eight children. Like her short-lived older sister, May Laramie, her middle name came from her birthplace. From October 1881 until May of 1883, Warrens was assigned to White River, Colorado. At that point, he and his family moved to the Cantonment on the Uncompaghre. Most, if not all, of the family became ill after arriving at the Cantonment. His wife, Elizabeth, died 30 July 1883 from mountain fever and was buried at Fort McPherson National Cemetery in Lincoln County, Nebraska. He took leave and then returned to the Cantonment in April 1884 and stayed until the end of June. During this leave he also found time to court and wed Margaret Goodin in St. Louis. Then on to the Vancouver Barracks in Washington until in December of 1884 he again reported sick. This was his last posting. He would be on duty for several months, report sick, and do this over and over again until he finally retired from the Vancouver Barracks on 29 September 1891. His ailments were constant and varied ranging from his incompletely-healed war wound, general nervous prostration from the death of his second wife, and piles. Warrens sent his daughter Ethyl Douglas Warrens to a finishing school in Massachusetts. Visiting her, he met one of her teachers, a German woman who became the third Mrs. Warrens and by whom he had a son in 1898. Warrens died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Oakland, CA and was buried in 1902 at the Presidio overlooking the Golden Gate.
Thanks to Lynn S. Watts and husband Cliff of Westborough, Massachusetts for this research.
6 of their 8 children (as known by Graylan Vincent in 2020):
Eda Marie (1859-1920)
Lily (1865-?)
Charles Eugene (1868-1938)
William Henry (1876-1938)
Ethel Douglas (1878-1950)
May Laramie (died young)
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