Charlevoix Co MI
OBITUARIES

WILLIAM ISAACS belonged to the Swan Creek – Black River bands near Saginaw. He enlisted in Company K at Isabella on May 19, 1863. He fought in Virginia in some of the fiercest battles of the war. He was twice wounded. Once by gunshot in the right leg; The second time by a cannon ball that literally dropped between his legs! It did not explode, but dirt thrown into his face injured his eyes, nearly blinding him. After the war he married and had children. His descendants still live in the Saginaw area. William Isaacs moved north at the end of his life and worked in lumber camps with John Jacko. He died in 1907 and was buried in the Potters Field section. No one ordered a gravestone.
Obituary: Another old face returned to the Sharpshooters on 4 November (1864) Pvt John Isaacs of the Indian company reached the regiment after a hiatus of 17 months. He and his brother William had enlisted in May 1863, but John deserted a month later. William served honorably in the regiment and was wounded in the fight of June 17 (1863) John had some long explanations to make to quite a few people. Evidently he succeeded, for he served with the regiment until his discharge."

JOHN JACKO grew up on the Leelanau peninsula near Northport. He enlisted in Company K on February 14, 1865. Sent to the front as a “replacement”, he fought in the last battles of the war. His father, Jacko Penaiswanquot, had earlier joined Company K. Unfortunately, the father was captured, the infamous Andersonville Prison, and died there of starvation and disease. The son may have joined the army to take his fathers place. John Jacko survived the war, moved to the Charlevoix area, married and raised a family. He died in 1907 and was buried in the back row of the veterans section. No one ordered a gravestone.
Obituary: "Jacko is dead ! Jacko, the famous Indian of the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, 2d Division, 9th Corps, as he was fond of telling everybody, has gone to the happy hunting grounds. He was well known in Charlevoix. He was a $12 pensioner and a member of the GAR but was very fond of firewater. Jacko died at an Indian lumber camp. The Boyne Citizen gives the following particulars: He had been complaining last week of feeling sick and indications point to the fact that he was suffering from pneumonia. The last time he was about the camp was Saturday afternoon, when he went to the "shack" of David Paul and went to bed. He stayed in this "shack' all Sunday and last night Paul went to bed in the same bunk with him This morning he lay with his feel across Paul, when the latter got up to go to work and he noticed nothing peculiar in him. Later he called at the "shack" again and discovered that Jack was dead "
Charlevoix Sentinel Thur-April 25, 1907-front page.

JOEL O. KING, 73, Wrightstown, Wisc. died Tuesday in Green Bay after a long illness. He was born Sept.7, 1884 in Charlevoix Mich. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the DeWane funeral home, Wrightstown with burial in Riverside Cemetery, the Rev. I. Wegner retired pastor of St. John's Lutheran DePere, officiating. Survivors include the wife, two daughers, Mrs. Robert Hatch, Wrightstown and Mrs. Tressa Denk, Chicago, one son Philo of Chicago; two brothers, Walter of Sacramento CA and Sam of Phoenix; two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Tilker Milwaukee and Mrs. Rosenberger, Citrus Hts., CA. (Appleton Post Crescent - 24 July 1958)

ROBERT S. MARX - Funeral services are planned Thursday for Judge Robert S. Marx, 71, attorney and founder of the Disabled American Veterans who died Tuesday after a heart attack at his summer home in Charlevoix Mich. Marx was widely known in the depression 30's for legal work untangling the finances of midwest banks in receivership. The DAV was organized after his service in WW I. An infantry captain in France he was wounded seriously just one day before the armistice.