David Warner Niswonger

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer living with his parents and 9 siblings on their farm near Pitsburg in Darke County, OH. Afterward an apprentice harness maker, he enlisted in Delaware County, IN and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Private in Company K, 19th Indiana Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was discharged for disability from wounds on 8 April 1863. He enlisted again, on 30 January 1864, as a Private in Company B of the 110th Ohio Infantry, and was captured at Monocacy, MD on 9 July. He mustered out on 2 June 1865.

He returned to the harness making trade in Darke County, OH, and opened his own shop there in 1867. In 1871 he became a carpenter and was in that trade at Pitsburg to 1893. He also served his community as township assessor, clerk, and on the school board for several terms each, and lived there for the rest of his life.

Service basics from the Indiana Adjutant General1 and the Ohio Roster.2 Personal details from family genealogists, Hobart's History of Darke County, Ohio (Vol. II, 1914), the US Census of 1860-1920, and the Veteran's Census of 1890. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Olwine (1847-1920) in May 1867 and they had 10 or 11 children.

01/06/1843; Darke County, OH

04/08/1925; Pitsburg, OH; burial in Mote Cemetery, Pitsburg, OH