Obit: Larkins, Charles H. (? – 1912)
Poster: Crystal Wendt
Email: Post4LincolnCoWi@aol.com

Surnames: Larkins, Hardgrove, Pier, Burns

---Source: Daily Commonwealth (Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wis.) Saturday, 11 May 1912, Page 8

---Larkins, Charles H. (? – 1912)

Dies at Merrill

Mrs. G. F. Hardgrove has received word of the death of her nephew, Charles Larkins which occurred at 10 o’clock this morning at Merrill, Wis. The young man was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Larkins and has visited in this city on several occasions.

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---Source: Daily Commonwealth (Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wis.) Thursday, 16 May 1912, Page 5

Was Groomsman for Col. C. K. Pier

Major Larkins, of Merrill, Visits the City

Buried Son in Milwaukee

Veteran Staff Officer of the 38th Wisconsin Enroute Home After Sad Mission.

Major and Mrs. C. P. Larkins, of Merrill, Wis., were in the city today, being enroute to their home after burying their son, Charles H. Larkins, at Milwaukee Monday. The young man, whose death occurred Saturday on cerebral meningitis, spent three and a half years in the navy, serving on the battleship “Minnesota.” A companion during his enlistment, John O’Dea, happened to be on leave of absence during the funeral and he attended the services in uniform. The services at Milwaukee were conducted by Father Francis Ryan and burial took place at Forest Home Cemetery.

While never a resident of Fond du Lac Major Larkins is well known here and his acquaintance numbers many of the pioneer residents of this city. Major Larkins was a major in the 38th Wisconsin Infantry serving on the staff with Col. C. K. Pier, of this city. His father was State Senator Charles H. Larkins, whose name is associated with the early constitutional progress of the state. He located in Milwaukee in 1836 and served several terms in the state legislature.

Major Larkins was an intimate friend of Col. Pier and at his marriage in this city to Kate Hamilton, he acted as groomsman. Major Larkins served three years in the Civil War and was discharged from the service in 1864 by a special order of the war department. On Jun 17, 1864, Major Larkins was wounded in the battle at Petersburg and being carried from the field to the position of the Fifth New Hampshire regiment was surprised to find himself in the care of another Major Larkins, who developed to be his cousin. After some time spent in a field hospital, Major Larkins was transferred to Washington, where he remained until able to proceed to Milwaukee. In 1865 he began practicing law in Milwaukee, and was one of the founders of the Wisconsin Legal News, a paper devoted to the interests of the legal profession. Major Larkins married Miss Mary A. Burns, a sister of Mrs. G. F. Hardgrove, of this city.