Post by Lawtonka on Apr 22, 2006 16:12:29 GMT -6
Photographed October 1996. I did not have to travel too far from home to get this one. He is buried in Marion, North Carolina in Red Oak Cemetery on HWY 321 on the way in to town. The cemetery is very near his old home. His wife, Missouri Ann served as a Laundress at Fort Abraham Lincoln and is the widow of 1stSergt. Edwin Bobo of Company C.
His army records reflect the spelling Knipe, but as you can see on the grave markers his family spells it Kanipe. My bet is the clerk who filled out his enlistment papers dropped the K thinking it should not be pronounced, i.e. Knife - nife
