Luke C. Warren
Luke C. Warren was born on April 5, 1830, to John Warren and Catherine Collins. His father was a cabinet maker. According to one writer, his mother was a “lady of fine education,” and she “imparted to her children the knowledge which she had acquired.” By 1850, he was living in Jefferson, Indiana, in the household of John and Hannah Dyson.
 
He was working as a cabinet maker, and he owned $75 of real estate. He married their daughter Nancy Dyson on July 23, 1850, and they had at least six children: Amanda, born around 1851; John, born around 1855; Johetta, born around 1859; James, born around 1862; Omar, born around 1866; and Daisy, born around 1878. They settled in Pike, Indiana, and by 1860, Warren was working as a “master carpenter.”
 
He enlisted in the Union army on September 19, 1862, and he mustered in as a corporal in the 20th Indiana Light Artillery later that day. While he was away, he wrote love letters to his wife, noting that they “never knew how much we loved until we felt as though we were going to be separated.” The battery spent most of the war stationed in Tennessee, and Warren mustered out in Indianapolis, Indiana, on June 28, 1865.
 
Warren returned to Indiana after the war and resumed his work as a carpenter. Eventually, however, he became a minister, and he reportedly “baptized over 5,000 persons and organized and reorganized fifty-two congregations.” By 1880, the family was living in Cain, Indiana. They moved to Van Buren, Indiana, in the late 1800s, and by 1910, they were living in Veedersburg, Indiana. He died there of “mitral insufficiency” on October 17, 1911.
1887
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(1887)Warren, Luke C.1830-04-051911-10-17
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Corporal
  • Rank out: Corporal
  • Rank highest: Corporal
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 11

  • (6139) [writer] ~ Luke C. Warren to Nancy Warren, 19 May 1863
  • (6147) [associated with] ~ Jos. B. Morris to Henry B. Grant, 28 May 1864
  • (6148) [associated with] ~ Alexander Magruder Statement, 7 November 1864
  • (6149) [writer] ~ Luke C. Warren to Nancy Warren, 21 October 1864
  • (6150) [writer] ~ Luke C. Warren to Nancy Warren, 22 February 1865
  • (6151) [writer] ~ Luke C. Warren to Nancy Warren, 22 April 1865
  • (6152) [writer] ~ Luke C. Warren to Nancy Warren, 25 April 1865
  • (6153) [writer] ~ Luke C. Warren to Nancy Warren, 12 May 1865
  • (6154) [writer] ~ Luke C. Warren to Nancy Warren, 12 June 1865
  • (6155) [writer] ~ Luke C. Warren to Nancy Warren, 1865
  • (6156) [associated with] ~ Thomas B. Fairleigh Special Order, 7 July 1864

People - Records: 1

  • (1888) Warren, Nancy is the [wife of] (1887) Warren, Luke C.

Places - Records: 2

  • (379) [birth] ~ Indiana
  • (1505) [death] ~ Veedersburg, Van Buren County, Indiana

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (578) [enlisted] ~ 20th Indiana Light Artillery
SOURCES

1850, 1860, 1880, 1900, and 1910 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Indiana Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865; Indiana Death Certificates, 1899-2011, available from Ancestry.com; H. W. Beckwith, History of Fountain County (Chicago, IL: H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, 1881); Luke C. Warren to Nancy Warren, 19 May 1863, Nau Collection