Capt. Davis A. Luckhart and Catharine Stear

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Husband Capt. Davis A. Luckhart ^{1 2}

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           Born: 21 Mar 1841 - West Mahoning Twp, Indiana Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Jacob Lukehart (1810-1863/1864) 3
         Mother: Lena Davis (1816-1887) 2 3 4

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       Marriage: 1865 1

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Wife Catharine Stear ⁵

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            AKA: Catharine Steer 1
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         Father: John Stear (      -      ) 5
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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Davis A. Luckhart

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Civil War: he was in company A, 61st Pa. vols. for three years and three months; went out as private; promoted to 2d lieutenant Dec. 15, 1864; to 1st lieutenant March 2, 1865, and to captain May 20, 1865, for bravery in action.

He was reared on a farm and attended the common schools of his native township. Leaving school, he learned the trade of carpenter, which he followed until the breaking out of the Civil War. On August 21, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Co. A, 61st regiment, Pa. Vols., and was discharged with the rank of captain, and in command of the company, at Pittsburgh, on June 28, 1865. He participated in all the principal battles of the Army of the Potomac, and was successively promoted until he was commissioned captain of his company. He was wounded four times while in the Union service. His first wound was received when he was a private, at the battle of Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862, where a musket-ball fractured one of the bones of his left arm, which in the later years has become paralyzed from the effects of that injury. He was next slightly wounded in the side, at Fredericksburg, by a shell, while serving as a corporal in the color guard of the regiment. He passed safely through several battles until the wilderness fights came, in which, on the 24th of May, he had one of his little fingers split open by a minie ball. His fourth and last wound was received at Winchester, where, on the 19th of September, 1864, he was struck on the left leg by a piece of shell while serving as first lieutenant. He was never in the hospital but twice, had several hair-breadth escapes and his life was once saved by a frying-pan in his knapsack intercepting a bullet that otherwise would have reached his heart.
After the close of the war he returned home, but in October, 1865, he removed to Missouri, where he resided in Morgan County until 1876. While in Missouri he was engaged in teaching school, milling and farming. In the centennial year he returned to his native county, where he worked at his trade for several years. In 1879 he was appointed postmaster at Smicksburg, in West Mahoning township, which office he filled until October, 1885. The succeeding year he was elected justice of the peace, and held that office till the autumn of 1887, when he resigned to accept the county treasurership, to which he had been elected by the Republican party. He entered upon the duties of the latter office January 2, 1888.
He was a member of the Lutheran church, and lieutenant-colonel of Encampment
No. 11, Union Veteran Legion.

1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 416.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 125.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 846.

4 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 446.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 126.