Unsourced Death: March 2, 1897, Hunt, Johnson Co. AR
MARRIAGE
Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957, index and images, FamilySearch
Name: Charles W Rickard
Marriage Date: 16 Feb 1872
Marriage Place: , Franklin, Arkansas, United States
Age: 37
Birth Year (Estimated): 1835
Residence Place: Franklin, Arkansas
Spouse's Name: Elisabeth Harger [Elizabeth Sturgeon Cannon Harger]
Spouse's Age: 39
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1833
Spouse's Residence Place: Franklin, Arkansas
Page: 58
GS Film number: 1034243
Digital Folder Number: 004401662
Image Number: 00676
Note: Elizabeth was married twice before Rickard
Divorced sometime between 1872-1880: (per 1880 census record; Elizabeth’s status: Divorced)
There was another marriage, where a child named Alice was born, but I do not have any other information.
OTHER
Historian: Michael Mendoza:
Charles Wesley Rickard was 64 when he wrote the letter to his daughter, Alice, who had asked him to write about his war experience. He was a 15-year-old Iowa farm boy, he wrote, when “a great desire came over me to go to the war. My parents were loathe to give their consent, and so I made life miserable for them until they finally gave in.” In 1862, he enlisted as a Union fifer because he was too young to serve as a private. “I had never seen a fife before,” Rickard wrote. “But I could use a rifle, and I was bound to go as something.” When the fighting began, he was in the thick of it. Three years later and all of 18 years old, he remembers noting how very young the new replacement troops looked.
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