JACOB KANTRINER

Corporal, Company "I" 15th West Virginia Infantry

Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty

1860 Marshall County Census
CANTRINER (1649)
Jacob...31-wm...shoemaker...Wurtemberg
Elisabeth...35-wf...Wurtemberg
Mary...3-wm...VA Caroline...1-wf...VA

Service Record: Joined for duty & enrolled at Moundsville on Aug. 25, 1862; mustered in on Oct. 11, 1862 at Wheeling. “Wounded in action at Snicker’s Ford, Va. July 18, 1864 and left in Enemy’s hands.” “Died July 25, 1864 in a Field Hospital.”

Jacob was a shoe maker, and his parents were Theophilus and May or Mary, according to the marriage record. Widow was Elizabeth Pfister Kantriner, a resident of Beeler’s Station, Marshall County, when she applied for a pension in September 1864. She said they had married in Wheeling on March 26, 1855.

In the 1860 census of Marshall County, Jacob Cantriner, 31, and Elizabeth, 35, both born in Wurttemberg, were the parents of Mary, 3, and Caroline, 1.

The widow named 3 daughters in her pension claim: Hannah Caroline, b 1858; Susannah, b 1861; Frances, b 1863.


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