William Funk

In 1860 he was about 43 years old, a forgeman at Howard in Centre County, PA. He gave his age as 37 when he enlisted there on 16 August 1861, and he mustered into service as a Private in Company A, 45th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 or 10 September in Harrisburg.

He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, and was probably buried nearby.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 and 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave; he's not listed among the burials in Antietam National Cemetery by name, but may have been reinterred there as an unknown about 1867.

Thanks to descendent Nancy Bowes Schick for the poke to look more carefully at Private Funk and for information about his birth.

He married Elizabeth "Lib" Bowes (1824-1894) in 1844 and they had 7 children between 1846 and 1860.

c. 1817 in PA

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD