Angelina Anderson and Ephraim Confare

EPHRAIM CONFARE was born in July, 1838 in Ohio, and died in 1913.⁴⁵⁶ He is buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Knightstown, Henry, Indiana.⁴⁵⁶

He married ANGELINA ANDERSON on May 31, 1865 in Henry County, Indiana.⁸⁷⁹⁰ She was born November 17, 1843 in Hancock County, Indiana,⁴⁹³¹ and died April 23, 1925 in Knightstown, Henry, Indiana.⁴⁹³¹ She is buried in Glen Cove Cemetery, Knightstown, Henry, Indiana.^{216, 4931}

Children of ANGELINA ANDERSON and EPHRAIM CONFARE:

1. LUNA BELLE CONFARE, b. August 7, 1866, Knightstown, Henry, Indiana;⁴⁹³¹ m. LUTHER SCOTT WELBORN on October 22, 1903 in Marion County, Indiana²⁴¹; d. October 12, 1957, Rush Memorial Hospital, Rush County, Indiana.^{220, 216, 1084, 4931}

Military Service

Obituaries

Knightstown Banner, January 24, 1913¹⁰⁸⁷

Death of Ephriam Confare.

The death of Captain Ephriam Confare removes another of the grand army who marched to victory under the flag of our fathers.

He was one of the Second Indiana Battery, and, with others of the Knightstown boys who enlisted in sixty-one, served as a private until promoted a lieutenant and finally captain in the second Missouri Light Artillery service. They served under Gen. Fremont's army of the Southwest and were active in all the campaigns in Missouri, Indian Territory, and Arkansas. The battery was in some seventeen engagements—marched over ten thousand miles and suffered all the hardships incident to army life in a sparsely settled country, then the western border of civilization.

He resigned his position and returned to Knightstown in 1864, where he engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. He was:one of the promoters in the organization of the Knightstown Burial Case Company and remained with it until his removal to the Northwest, then being sought out by active men of the times for the development of a great:empire, and the building of great cities along the Puget Sound country. He settled in Tacoma as the most promising of all the Sound cities—beautiful for situation and the objective point of many transcontinental railroads. In a few years he returned to Indianapolis and his native state. He engaged in business where he remained all the past years and until his death Thursday, last.

In young manhood he was married to Angie Anderson, of this place. They raised one child, Luna, now the wife of Lieut. Luther S. Welborn, of the United States army.

Of some twenty-five boys who enlisted it the Second Indiana Battery, so far as known, only White Heaton, Alonzo Hinshaw, who was captured in the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and was a prisoner in a Confederate camp in Texas for several months, George Clutch and Ross Bennett are all that remain of the boys recruited here as they gather in their reunions. The number grows less as the years go by and ere long the Second Indiana Battery will only be remembered in history.

The remains of Mr. Confare were brought here Saturday for burial and laid to rest in Glencove cemetery.

SENEX.

Knightstown, Jan. 20, 1913.

Knightstown Banner, May 1, 1925¹⁰⁸⁸

Death of Mrs. Angeline Confare

Mrs. Angeline Confare, aged 82 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Luna Welborn, Pine and Harrison streets, last Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. She was the widow of Eph. Confare, a well known citizen of Knightstown, who died in 1913. Mrs. Confare fell about two years since and broke her hip, but evan at her advanced age she recovered from the effects of the injury, which was considered remarkable. Death was the result of a complication of diseases. Mrs. Confare was well known in Knightstown and her death is mourned by many warm-hearted friends. Funeral services for Mrs. Confare were held from the Welborn home on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. William Carson, of Indianapolis, former pastor of the local Presbyterian church. Burial was at Glencove cemetery in charge of C. F. Baxter, undertaker.