Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Knowles, Daniel April 4, 1905
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Virginian-Pilot April 5, 1905
                        DANIEL KNOWLES DIES IN HOSPITAL
           Was Veteran of the Merrimac and Survivor of Mexican War.
Daniel Knowles died suddenly at the Norfolk Protestant hospital at 2 o'clock 
yesterday afternoon after an illness of two days. He was in the 77th year of his 
age. The deceased was well known in this city where he had resided all his life. 
He was a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars and served on the Merrimac with 
the United Artillery, of which he was a first sergeant and later a lieutenant, 
and was gunner for the nine-inch Dalghren gun during the Merrimac’s engagement 
with the federal fleet in Hampton Roads and was wounded in the fight of that 
vessel with the Monitor. The funeral will take place from H. C. Smith's funeral 
apartments, No. 179 Bank street, at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon.
Only on Saturday Mr. Knowles announced his candidacy for keeper of cemeteries.

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