Little is known about Steve Conkle. He appears on the 1870
Livingston County, Kentucky census as S. Conkle, age 28 and born in
Pennsylvania. In his household are Lucy A., age 29 born Kentucky, John F., age
7 born Illinois and Josephine, age 1 born Kentucky. The 1880 census shows he
has more children - Luella, age 11, Leeoder, age 5 and Henry, age 1.
He is buried
in an abandoned cemetery near Smithland[1] and his tombstone is a government-provided
military monument reading "Co. A, 48 Illinois Infantry." Steve Conkle enlisted 1 September 1861 at New
Liberty, Illinois.[2]
His birth place is given as Laurel Hill, Pennsylvania, his age as 23 and his
description as dark hair, blue eyes and a light complexion. He was married when
he enlisted.
Two of
Steven Conkle's children, Henry L. Conkle and Louella Conkle White, are buried in Smithland Cemetery. Lucy Whorton
Conkle is buried in Edmonds Cemetery, Livingston County.
A search of the
Pennsylvania census records shows Steve Kunkle, age 14, on the 1850
Westmoreland County census. Also listed was Isaac Kunkle, age 18. Isaac
migrated to Hardin County, Illinois and married Cassandra Smith, sister to my great-grandfather, Reddick Smith. I do not know if they moved to Illinois
together, but while Isaac settled in Hardin County, Steve settled in neighboring Pope
County, Illinois. He married Lucy Ann Whorton in Pope County on 28 February
1861.[3] Seven
months later he enlisted in Co. A, 48th Illinois Infantry.
There are Conkle descendants today on both sides of the Ohio River.
There are Conkle descendants today on both sides of the Ohio River.
[1]
Livingston County, Kentucky Homemaker Clubs. Livingston County, Kentucky Cemeteries 1738-1976, (n.p., 1977), 42.
[2]
Illinois, Databases of Illinois Veterans Index 1775-1995 , Ancestry.com
(accessed 6 November 2015).
[3]
Judy Foreman Lee & Carolyn Cromeenes Foss. Pope County, Illinois Marriage Books A-E 1813-1877, Vol. 1 (Evansville, IN:
Evansville Bindery, 1990), 71.
Published 10 June 2016, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/
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