After dying 88 years ago, American Civil War veteran Peter Knapp finally laid to rest with full mili
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PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) -
A Civil War veteran will be laid to rest with full military honors Friday, 88 years after he died.
The cremated remains of Peter Knapp and his wife, Georgianna, sat in storage at a crematorium in Portland until a distant relative tracked them down.
Alice Knapp didn't start out looking for the remains. Instead, she was trying to track down a diary Peter Knapp kept during the war.
"I'm just floored at the attention this is getting. I'm very, in a sense, very humbled by the whole experience," she said. "All I wanted to do was get information and find the diaries."
Peter Knapp is the "third great-uncle" of her late husband, she said. The soldier began fighting for the Union during the Civil War and even spent months in a Confederate prison in Andersonville, GA.
After the war, he settled in Kelso and began operating sawmills. Peter Knapp died in 1924. His wife died a few years later. For reasons no one knows, their remains were never interred.
Alice Knapp, of Nehalem, has been researching the family's genealogy since the 1980s, an endeavor that's gotten easier thanks to the internet.
After a distant cousin, found online, mentioned Peter Knapp's diary, Alice Knapp's research led her to a crematorium where the remains were being held.
She said, "I just felt that, you know, if it was a relative of yours, if you suddenly discovered your relative was forgotten about at a mortuary somewhere, and had never been buried or no final arrangements made for them, wouldn't you want to bury them?"
The ceremony will be held April 13 at 3 p.m. in the Willamette National Cemetery.[/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.kptv.com/story/17406826/civil-war-veteran-to-be-laid-to-rest-decades-after-death?hpt=us_bn7[/url]
How do they go that long unchecked in storage...
Colonel Sanders?
[QUOTE=teh pirate;35563841]Colonel Sanders?[/QUOTE]
Pffft, of course not.
The Colonel fought for the south.
[QUOTE=imperialrock;35565013]Pffft, of course not.
The Colonel fought for the south.[/QUOTE]
Colonel Sanders was born in Indiana in 1890. Sorry :(
I know, it was a joke.
If I remember right my grandfather was part of the military precession for the last civil war soldier to die in the 50's.
[QUOTE=Zambies!;35576433]If I remember right my grandfather was part of the military precession for the last civil war soldier to die in the 50's.[/QUOTE]
In the 50s? That's nearly a hundred years after the war, the guy had to have been a toddler at the oldest in the 1860s to have died by then. Sure maybe not the 20s or 30s?
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;35563793]Reading the title made me think that a civil war veteran just died and was being buried. Then I realized I'm retarded.[/QUOTE]
If he really lived that long, that would've been awesome though.
But holy crap I'd imagine he'd look incredibly old if that was the case.
I've always wanted to know more of my family history, sadly I don't know anything further than my grandparents.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;35576635]In the 50s? That's nearly a hundred years after the war, the guy had to have been a toddler at the oldest in the 1860s to have died by then. Sure maybe not the 20s or 30s?[/QUOTE]
There were some young teens fighting if I recall, Powder monkeys, people who loaded cannons, were often very young boys.
[QUOTE=nox;35576776]I've always wanted to know more of my family history, sadly I don't know anything further than my grandparents.
There were some young teens fighting if I recall, Powder monkeys, people who loaded cannons, were often very young boys.[/QUOTE]
I read up, there were a few who may have died in the 50s. Most don't have proof, except for this man
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_Crump[/url]
An impressive life to have lived.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;35576635]In the 50s? That's nearly a hundred years after the war, the guy had to have been a toddler at the oldest in the 1860s to have died by then. Sure maybe not the 20s or 30s?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson[/url]
It's so crazy to realize that the Civil War wasn't so long ago in the grand scheme of things.
I'm really surprised they didn't figure this out.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;35576635]In the 50s? That's nearly a hundred years after the war, the guy had to have been a toddler at the oldest in the 1860s to have died by then. Sure maybe not the 20s or 30s?[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure it was the '50s, he was like a drummer boy or something.
[QUOTE=EmperorVagak;35576692]If he really lived that long, that would've been awesome though.
But holy crap I'd imagine he'd look incredibly old if that was the case.[/QUOTE]
It was probably The End
[QUOTE=Archonos 2;35577056]It's so crazy to realize that the Civil War wasn't so long ago in the grand scheme of things.
I'm really surprised they didn't figure this out.[/QUOTE]
Hell, the U.S.A's independence wasn't really all that long ago in the grand scheme of things. We've been around for about 240 years, whereas places like China go back 2,400 years.
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;35580776]Hell, the U.S.A's independence wasn't really all that long ago in the grand scheme of things. We've been around for about 240 years, whereas places like China go back 2,400 years.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but China has had several change of governments over those years, where as America has had the same government in power since the beginning.
China is more or less roughly 60 years old, by this standard.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;35580901]Yeah, but China has had several change of governments over those years, where as America has had the same government in power since the beginning.
China is more or less roughly 60 years old, by this standard.[/QUOTE]
I guess when you think of it that way, yeah that's true.
Holy shit he survived Andersonville. If you guys have seen the movie that place was fucking hell.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DOHgVj35MU[/media]
[sp]This obviously isn't the movie btw[/sp]
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