Augustus H. Funck

He came to America with his family in 1846; his father Christian was a cabinet maker. They first lived in Castle Garden, NY, then, from 1849, in Bristol, CT. He learned carpentry and cabinet making, and was a clockmaker from 1851 to 1855. He and his brother William then worked as carpenters in Minnesota for 5 years.

He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 22 July 1862, his 26th birthday.

He was wounded in the foot action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was captured on 20 April 1864 at Plymouth, NC and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA, then Florence, SC. He was discharged on 23 June 1865.

He and his father's opened C. Funck and Son, a furniture making shop and store in 1865 in Bristol, and later expanded to caskets and undertaking. In 1880 he was still in the furniture business in Bristol, and was President of the company from 1888 to his death in 1911. In 1886 he built a new 4 story building for the business on Prospect Street - which is still in operation (2022) as the Bristol Furniture store.

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880, and a history of the Funk Funeral Home. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Maria Sophia Harcke (1841-1882) in September 1865 in Bristol, and they had at least 10 children. He married again, Anna B. Ziegler Fell (-1940) in September 1885 in Bristol, and they had a son Harold.

His brother Henry (b. 1843) was also in Company K and died while a prisoner at Florence, SC in February 1865.

07/22/1836; Neuhaus, Lower Saxony, GERMANY

03/24/1911; burial in West Cemetery, Bristol, CT