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John W. McAninch (1841-1930), Putnam County, Indiana; 1930 Obituary |
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John W. McAninch was born in Indiana in 1841, third son and third child of Elisha and Basheba |
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(Scott) McAninch, grand-son of Samuel and (Mary) Polly (Skidmore) McAninch [from Kentucky |
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to Hendricks County, Indiana], and great-great-grand-son of Daniel McAninch, one of the two |
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original McAninch pioneers in Kentucky [Daniel, born 1750-1755, (northern) Ireland] [Note 4]. |
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John W. died in 1930, with a biographical obituary published in the local newspaper [Note 1]. |
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OBITUARY / John W. McAninch, son of Elisha and Basheba Scott McAninch, was born |
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near Mt. Meridian Dec. 6, 1841; died Aug.30, 1930; age 88 years, 8 months and 24 days. |
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He was the third child of a family of ten boys and one girl, though the last to depart. |
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His grandfather, Samuel McAninch, came from Kentucky to this state in an early day, locating |
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near Stilesville. Uncle John, as he was affectionately called by his neighbors and friends, |
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grew to manhood receiving the rudiments of an education as offered in that day. [Notes 2, 3] |
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When he came to manhood, the dark and ominous clouds of war were bearing down on this |
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fair land of ours. The youth of the North were answering the call of the great war president, |
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Lincoln, and our subject, as he has told the writer of these lines, felt his father's family should |
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do its part and it seemed he could go. So he and his brother Milton enlisted in Co. E, 78th Inf. |
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He served his time, came home and re-enlisted Feb. 27, 1864 . . . [in] Co. B, 59th Ind. Inf. |
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His captain being Jesse M. Lee, who in later years became Major-General in the U.S.A. |
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He was attached to Gen. Logan's division of General Sherman's army. Seeing service at |
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Resaca and Marietta, Georgia, around Atlanta and the March to the Sea, engagements about |
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Savannah and South Carolina and Northward until the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. |
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Finally he took part in the Grand Review of the Army in Washington at the close of the war. |
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He delighted in recounting his experiences of those days, especially was he happy in relating |
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his religious conversion which took place on a mountain in the Southland. His good Christian |
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mother gave him a small Testament to take with him when he left for war. He did not feel he had |
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a place in which to carry it. But she insisted and he took it with him. When all looked dark to him |
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and he did not know whether he would ever see his home folks again; one morning while on a |
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mountain he saw the Lord and was keenly conscious of a new life. His conversion grew brighter |
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to him as the years passed. |
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Coming home from the war he was married to Nancy Jane Allee, Nov. 21, 1865. To this union |
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were born nine children: Alpha, deceased; William A., Cora B., Josephine, Reuben H., Fred L., |
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Jas.E., Lottie, who died at the age of two years, and Grace. He is survived by the good wife who |
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has walked with him down the pathway of life almost 65 years. Also 19 living grandchildren and |
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14 living great-grandchildren survive him. These all will cherish his memory, ever remembering |
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his fatherly advice, and how he rejoiced with them when success came their way, and sorrowed |
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with them in times of adversity. |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XX n.4 / Oct. 2012 / Frank McAninch, Editor / page 2012-45 |