Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Kockel, Samuel 1843 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Samuel Kockel, Civil War veteran, of Mount Hope, Sedgwick county, Kan., was
born July 14, 1843, in Stark county, Ohio. His father was Isaac Kockel, a native
of Pennsylvania. The ancestry on both sides of the family is traced to Holland.
A great-great-grandfather of Mr. Kockel fought in the Revolutionary War and was
at the battle of Brandywine. The father of Mr. Kockel moved from Pennsylvania to
Ohio in an early day and first located in Massillon. After a residence there of
ten years he moved to Defiance county, Ohio, and lived there up to the time of
his death in 1884, his wife having died in 1847. Samuel Kockel obtained a
limited education in the public schools of Ohio, and began his career as a farm
laborer in Ohio, which pursuit he followed until 1860. In that year he moved
from Defiance county to Allen county, Indiana, and remained there one year, when
he returned to Defiance county, Ohio. In the spring of 1861 Mr. Kockel enlisted
in Company F, Forty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was sent to Camp
Dennison, where the regiment remained two months, thence to Cincinnati, Ohio,
where the regiment took a steamer for Paducah, Ky., where it was equipped for
service. The regiment was then ordered to Pittsburg Landing, and was one of the
advance regiments that arrived on that famous battlefield, where it fought for
two days and nights without intermission, and followed up the rebel retreat
clear to Corinth, fighting every inch of the way. From Corinth the regiment was
sent to Memphis, Tenn.; thence to Holly Springs, Miss.; thence up the Yazoo
river to Arkansas Post; thence up the Mississippi river to Miliken's Bend;
thence back to Vicksburg, Miss.; fought in the engagements of Magnolia Hills,
Champion Hills and Black River Bridge, and back to Vicksburg. After some
expeditions from Vicksburg the regiment was ordered to New Orleans and was in
the fight on Red river at Mansfield, La. Mr. Kockel was taken prisoner there and
was sent to Fort Tyler, Tex., and was exchanged in 1865. He went back to New
Orleans and received a thirty days' furlough to return home. After the
expiration of his furlough he reported at New Orleans and was sent to Galveston,
Tex.; from there to Pensacola, Fla.; then to Houston, Tex.; then to Galveston,
from which point the regiment was sent to Columbus, Ohio, and was discharged. In
the battle of Shiloh Mr. Koekel received two severe wounds. He was a brave
soldier and remained in the service until the close of the war. After his
discharge he returned to Defiance county, Ohio, and on March 29, 1868, was
married to Miss Eliza Hanna, of that county. Of this union two children were
born, both of whom are now deceased. After his marriage Mr. Koekel removed to
Ford county, Illinois, where he farmed two years and then moved back to Ohio and
farmed there for eight years. He then sold his property and in 1878 moved to
Sedgwick county, Kansas, and bought 160 acres of railroad land, which he has
occupied ever since and brought to a high degree of cultivation. Mr. Koekel has
been a successful farmer. In 1895 he removed to Mount Hope, where he now lives
in his own beautiful residence.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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