Saturday, January 18, 2014

A Case for the Charitable

MR. EDITOR:  I desire to call the attention of the public to the case of Mrs. Adolphus Knocke, corner of Rock Island and Second streets.  Her husband and two sons have been in the army of the U. S. as volunteers since January, 1862, and have not yet been paid off by the U. S.  The family are actually suffering for food.  Some generous persons, who are able, should provide her the means of living until her husband and sons are paid off.

G. E. HUBBELL.


We had thought there was a committee appointed in our city, to see that the families here of those fighting the battles of our country did not suffer in their absence.  It seems that we were mistaken.  It should be done immediately; and is the meantime the family mentioned above should not be permitted to suffer.  We mentioned her case to a lady of our acquaintance on receipt of the above not, who said that she had visited them once but it seems they are now in actual and immediate want.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 20, 1862, p. 1

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