NEWS FLASH: TODAY FROM SEC OF STATE OF IL CIVIL WAR VETS RECORDS Muster and descriptive roll of company I, 49th Inf #36 Jerome Knapp, private, age 45,5ft10in, Sandy hair, gray eyes, light complected, married, CHAIRMAKER, born VT,joined Nov 1, 1861 at Ashley,IL enrolled by JLMcClurkon(?), for 3 years, mustered into service Dec 3l, 1861 at Camp Butler(Springfield,IL) by Capt.WATSON. Residence Tamaroa, Perry Co, Illinios. Killed in battle at Shiloh Tennessee April 7, 1862 † † † born 1816, Married Mary Charlotte Johnson on Dec25, 1842 Tamaroa, IL Children:George W; Alamada; John Henry; Scinthia E.;Jacob Ira;WM Calvin; Newton Issac; Lucy Jane. == We had always heard that he was a barrel and bucket maker also and made his own bicks to build chimneys, using a jk in the mold. traveled far and wide making, baking, laying chimney bricks. Perry Co, IL census has him born in OH, but we always heard it was VT.