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From: "Bill and Carole Pyles" <>
Subject: [MDGARRET] Charles Friend, 3rd Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade, Company D
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 22:33:58 -0500
References: <20040402231453.19057.qmail@web13205.mail.yahoo.com>


Charles Asbury Friend was after the
Captain of the boat that brought Isreal
Freind and his family back to Maryland
from Missouri. Source: Indian Blood by
Evelyn Guard Olsen, p 114.

Charles served in the Civil War in Co.
D, 3rd Maryland Potomac Home Brigade.
Interred at Sang Run. Source: Glades
Star, Vol 3, No 5, p 101.

Charles is listed in 1900 census of
Garrett Co, MD, dwelling 31, family 31,
head of household, born Dec 1837, age
63, married 32 years, born in MD, father
born in MD, Mother born in MD.,
occupation, farmer, able to read, write,
and speak English. Owns a mortgage free
farm, no 31.

Charles is listed in 1910 census of
Garrett Co,, head of household, age 72,
widowner, born in my father in US,
mother in MD.

Bill Pyles, Titusville, FL

----- Original Message -----
From: "Art Grady" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] Charles Friend,
3rd Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade,
Company D


> That sounds just as likely as anything
else I have
> come across. I will check into it
carefully. Thanks
> very much!
>
> Art
>
> --- wrote:
> > Art,
> >
> > Perhaps you can't find much on him
because of
> > looking for the Friend surname
> > instead of Frantz.
> >
> > In Hoye's p. 232-233 it speaks about
the Frantz
> > families. " . . . among them
> > Georg Frantz, who arrived at
Philadelphia, Sept. 30,
> > 1732, on the ship
> > "Dragon" from Rotterdam; he was
probably the
> > immigrant ancestor of the Frantz
> > families of Garrett County."
> >
> > "There was a George Frantz listed in
bucks County,
> > PA, census of 1790, as
> > head of family of five, but we have
no definite
> > account of the family in PA
> > until abt 1800, when a Frantz was
settled in
> > Friend's Cove, Bedford, Co., PA.
> > Three of his children were John,
Joseph and
> > Johnathan, all of whom came over the
> > State Line into Western Allegany
County."
> >
> > "John Frantz settled on Mill Run jus
t South of the
> > Province Line," "... John
> > had 16 children, all or nearly all
of who left
> > Maryland. In his will, dated
> > 26th Feb., 1842 and probated 10th
Nov. 1846, he left
> > his personal estate, a room
> > and $60 annually to his wife,
Catherine; his
> > plantation of 288 acres to his
> > son, Levi, he was to pay an annuity
to the widow and
> > $100 each to the other
> > heirs. In the will he also named
children--John,
> > Mary (m. Peter Fike), Solomon,
> > Emanuel, Joseph, William, Samuel,
Hun, Catherine,
> > Charles, Caniel, Huldah."
> >
> > This was the only Charles listed in
these pages.
> > Maybe some clues here. I
> > understand that frequently men of
the Civil War left
> > the war to go home to farm.
> > Maybe such was Charles's story.
October would have
> > been after the harvest. I
> > would think there would be lots to
do before winter
> > set in.
> >
> > Lois Hetrick Stewart
> >
> > Does anyone have any information on
Charles Friend
> > who
> > was in the 3rd Regiment, Potomac
Home Brigade,
> > Company
> > D? Most of this brigade seems to be
from
> > Allegany/Garrett area. He mustered
in May 1862 and
> > ia
> > listed as deserted October 1862.
Who was he related
> > to and did he ever get back to
Allegany/Garrett area
> > if he was from there?
> >
> >
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