WILLIAM KNECHT from Connectciut

KNECHT

Posted By: John E. Knecht (email)
Date: 5/28/2002 at 12:25:18

William John Knecht, youngest son of John and Dorothea (KURZ) Knecht was born October 6, 1866 in New Haven, Connecticut. Shortly after the death of his mother William left New Haven about 1900. It was rumored that William had moved out west but it is not known where?

Found in Civil War pension papers of John Knecht, father of William, is a letter from Merrill, Plymouth County, Iowa. This letter, from a Mrs. Frank Kowalski to the Pension Office in Washington DC, requested the address of John Knecht who served in the Civil War from New Haven. The accuracy of the data contained in this letter would suggest that it was obtained from a source who had knowledge and was familiar with this information? I believe the source of this information was William Knecht?

Frank Kowalski, this womens husband, worked as a carpenter as did William Knecht. Most of the carpenters, back in these days, traveled hundreds of miles in search of work building houses and barns. There is good reason to believe that William passed through Merrill and then moved on to another state? The reason Mrs. Kowalski wrote this letter may never be know, however, I believe it had something to do with William Knecht? Need any information on William Knecht!