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Submitted: 9/18/16 • Approved: 5/25/23 • Last Updated: 5/28/23 • R1154946-G0-S3
Company H 43rd Tennessee Infantry
Civil War Confederate
January 22, 1845 - 1929
*Obituary
WCHS Flashback Vol. 11, No. 3
KANTZ, Luke L. – Our father, Luke L. Kantz, was born January 22, 1845 in McMinn County, Tennessee. His mother, Mrs. Amanda E. (Dill) Kantz, was born in Gettysburg, Pa., June 24, 1818. L.L. Kantz received his literary education at Hiwassee College, Tennessee. In 1863 he enlisted in Co. G, 43rd Tennessee Infantry and served throughout the war. He was in the battles of Baker’s Creek and Big Black River and was among those captured at Vicksburg. After returning from the war, he studied law and was admitted to the bar at Athens, Tennessee in 1866. In 1867 he moved to Washington County, Arkansas. In 1870 he married Martha J. Skillern. She died in 1887 and is buried in Son’s Chapel cemetery near our home. Our father was a member of the Methodist Church and the Masonic fraternity. He survived our mother by 42 years. He died in 1929.
*Obituary (News Article)
Fayetteville Democrat
Thursday, March 14, 1907
L.L. Kantz put this office under obligation to him today by promising a gallon of cherries as soon as the trees get large enough to bear. He has just finished setting out 1500 cherry trees and 500 of them will bear this year if weather permits. This looks like a good many cherry trees but the experiment will no doubt prove a profitable one. Here’s hoping so, anyway.
*Obituary
Arkansas Countryman
Thursday, January 10, 1929
KANTZ, Luke Lee - Veteran Passes Over - Luke L. Kantz, another of the grand old men of Washington county, a Confederate veteran, a good neighbor and a kind friend, passed to his reward last week. His body was buried in the Son's Chapel cemetery in the presence of friends who mourn his passing.
Pallbearers were: Active - John Skillern, Aleuin Eason, John Smith, Mike Flynn, Hal Cravens and C.A. Mulholland.
Honorary: Hugh Reagan, R.J. Wilson, Hugh Dinsmore, D.C. Ambrose, J.N. Tillman, Charles Watson and F.S. Root.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Wm. Sherman, pastor of the Central Methodist church of this city.
Mr. Kantz was in the battle of Bakers Creek and Big Black River and was captured at Vicksburg. He studied law and practiced for a time. Surviving are five children: Mrs. Mattie Kantz Powell of California; Mrs. Mary Kantz Ambrose of San Angelo, Texas; Misses Willie and Nell Kantz, both of this place and Fred Kantz, also of Fayetteville.
*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Monday, January 7, 1929
(First Page of newspaper missing) Luke L. Kantz (Continued from Page 1) - one of the most enterprising, wide-awake farmers of Washington County, was born January 22, 1845 in McMinn County, Tennessee, one of five children of Frederick A. Kantz and Mrs. Amanda Dill Kantz. His father was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1812, son of a Frenchman and Miss Margaret A. Dunbar, a Scotchwoman. Mrs. Kantz, mother of the deceased, was born in Gettysburg in 1818. Three years after the death of her husband, Mrs. Kantz Sr., moved to Washington County.
Luke L. received his literary education in Hiwassee College and in 1863 enlisted in Company G, 43rdTennessee Infantry, Confederate States Army and served throughout the remainder of the war.
He was in the battle of Baker's Creek and Big Black River and was captured at Vicksburg. After returning from the war he began the study of law and was admitted to the bar in Athens, Tennessee in 1866. He practiced a short time in Kingston and in 1867 moved to Washington County where he practiced part of the time and taught school, later engaging in farming which he continued until his death.
In 1870 he married Miss Martha J. Skillern, a native of east Tennessee, born August 5, 1846, who died May 23, 1880. Surviving are their five children: Mrs. Mattie Kantz Powell (Mrs. George) of California; Mrs. Mary Kantz Ambroise (Mrs. C.D. Ambrose, Jr.) of San Angelo, Texas; Misses Willie and Nell Kantz, both of this place and Fred Kantz, also of Fayetteville.
He leaves also one brother, Taylor Kantz, a grandson, William M. Powell of California, and a number of nieces and nephews including Mrs. W.H. Cravens, Mrs. Nell Wilson Jones, now seriously ill at City Hospital, Hugh Wilson, Mrs. Hal Cravens, of this place, Mrs. Guy Taylor of Mount Comfort and Mrs. Margaret Kantz Freed of Denver, Colorado, besides several great nieces and nephews and other relatives.
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