Macon-Tazewell County IL Archives Obituaries.....Knowles, Robert February 4, 1937
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Decatur Review, 5  Feb 1937,  pg 28
Robert Knowles, Vereran of Civil War, Dies at 94
G.A.R. In Charge of Funeral Services Sunday
  Funeral services for Robert Knowles, 94, Civil war veteran who died in the 
home of his son, Thomas E. Knowles, 988 West View street, at 11 a.m. Thursday 
after a two weeks illness will be held in the monson chapel at 2 p.m. Sunday.
  Rev. C. W. Flewelling will give the funeral sermon and veterans of the 
Dunham post G.A.R. will conduct the service.  Burial will be in the Salem 
cemetery.  Friends may call at Monson's.
  He was born near Springfield, Oct 12, 1942.  In 1861 he enlisted in Company 
C, Seventh Kansas volunteer cavalry and was in the Union army until the close 
of the Civil war in 1865.
  Soon after the war he went to Tazewell county where he married Miss 
Katherine Kemper.  She died May 17, 1924.  He came to Macon county in 1879 and 
operated a farm near Mt. Zion until a number of years ago.  He was a member of 
the Dunham post of the G.A.R.
  He leaves seven children: Mrs. Rachel Bowman, Robert A. , Thomas E., and 
Charles Knowles, all of Decatur.  Will H Knowles of Elwin, George Knowles of 
Macon, and Mrs. Mary Harris, Cedar Rapids, Ia.  There are five grandhcildren 
and 13 great grandchildren.  

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