The son of Scottish-born Thomas & English-born Jane (Gaylor) McKennon, he married widow Sarah M. Louden, née Liddick, ca. 1858, fathering Daniel N. (b. 03/23/60), Sarah Elnora (b. 10/27/62, d. 11/05/82), Emma Jane (b. @1865 - married James B. Davenport, Charles Barrall, and James Chapman), and Benjamin Eli (b. 02/18/68). He is not found in the 1860 census but is in the 1863-65 draft registration as a laborer residing in Watts Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania, but is listed as "McAnon."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-four in Harrisburg February 24, 1864, mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. I, 46th Pennsylvania Infantry, but deserted at Resaca, Georgia, to date May 13, 1864, during the Atlanta campaign. On August 4, 1904, he applied for a disability pension but did not receive it because of the outstanding desertion charge. He asserted that he had been captured at New Hope Church, Georgia, then held in "a negro camp 4 mos. with broken limb occasioned by fall trying to escape," and added an undocumented honorable discharge date of July 9, 1865. The 1863-65 draft registration claims he first had served with a nine-month regiment presumably in 1862, but no evidence of that has yet been found.
In 1916, he was living in Shickshinny and in 1923, in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, where he died. He also reported 1828 as his birth year.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-four in Harrisburg February 24, 1864, mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. I, 46th Pennsylvania Infantry, but deserted at Resaca, Georgia, to date May 13, 1864, during the Atlanta campaign. On August 4, 1904, he applied for a disability pension but did not receive it because of the outstanding desertion charge. He asserted that he had been captured at New Hope Church, Georgia, then held in "a negro camp 4 mos. with broken limb occasioned by fall trying to escape," and added an undocumented honorable discharge date of July 9, 1865. The 1863-65 draft registration claims he first had served with a nine-month regiment presumably in 1862, but no evidence of that has yet been found.
In 1916, he was living in Shickshinny and in 1923, in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, where he died. He also reported 1828 as his birth year.
The son of Scottish-born Thomas & English-born Jane (Gaylor) McKennon, he married widow Sarah M. Louden, née Liddick, ca. 1858, fathering Daniel N. (b. 03/23/60), Sarah Elnora (b. 10/27/62, d. 11/05/82), Emma Jane (b. @1865 - married James B. Davenport, Charles Barrall, and James Chapman), and Benjamin Eli (b. 02/18/68). He is not found in the 1860 census but is in the 1863-65 draft registration as a laborer residing in Watts Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania, but is listed as "McAnon."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-four in Harrisburg February 24, 1864, mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. I, 46th Pennsylvania Infantry, but deserted at Resaca, Georgia, to date May 13, 1864, during the Atlanta campaign. On August 4, 1904, he applied for a disability pension but did not receive it because of the outstanding desertion charge. He asserted that he had been captured at New Hope Church, Georgia, then held in "a negro camp 4 mos. with broken limb occasioned by fall trying to escape," and added an undocumented honorable discharge date of July 9, 1865. The 1863-65 draft registration claims he first had served with a nine-month regiment presumably in 1862, but no evidence of that has yet been found.
In 1916, he was living in Shickshinny and in 1923, in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, where he died. He also reported 1828 as his birth year.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-four in Harrisburg February 24, 1864, mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. I, 46th Pennsylvania Infantry, but deserted at Resaca, Georgia, to date May 13, 1864, during the Atlanta campaign. On August 4, 1904, he applied for a disability pension but did not receive it because of the outstanding desertion charge. He asserted that he had been captured at New Hope Church, Georgia, then held in "a negro camp 4 mos. with broken limb occasioned by fall trying to escape," and added an undocumented honorable discharge date of July 9, 1865. The 1863-65 draft registration claims he first had served with a nine-month regiment presumably in 1862, but no evidence of that has yet been found.
In 1916, he was living in Shickshinny and in 1923, in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, where he died. He also reported 1828 as his birth year.
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