#3 Private Louis Oscar Theodore Corcellious
At the age of 19, on June 23, 1898, Louis Corcellious enlisted into Company M in Defiance where he served until he was mustered out with his company on May 24, 1899. Louis was Defiance born on January 23, 1879, and lived with his parents, (Johann) Peter and Magdalena Catharine Elizabeth (Arnst) Corcellous.
He had six siblings at home: Mary Catharine, Dora C., John Peter, Magdalena Elizabeth, Josephine and Fred Tilden.
On December 10, 1921, he married Angeline "Anna" Marihugh in Seneca County. This was a first marriage for Louis but a second marriage for Anna, who was the daughter of Henry Marihugh and Julia A. Radle. Her first marriage was to Andrew Jeffers. Louis was about 41 at the time of their marriage, and Anna about the same age. At the time of the marriage, Louis was working as a foreman at the Gray and White Company in Defiance. Also in 1921, his military pension was announced in the paper as $18 a month. Anna had at least one daughter, Nora, who would have been 17 at the time of her 2nd marriage.
Louis suffered an early death at the age of 58 in Defiance, Ohio. His obituary appeared in several Defiance papers in early April 1938. His death date was April 4, 1938:
"WAR VETERAN DIES SUDDENLY
Louis Corcellious, 58, Heart Attack Victim; Rites Wednesday
Louis Corcellious,58, Spanish-American war veteran, died suddenly at 1:15 a.m. today of a heart attack at his home, 226 Jackson Ave. Mr. Corcellious awakened his wife about a half hour before his death complaining of distress near his heart. She helped him into a chair and called a physician. Mr. Corcellious died shortly after the doctor arrived.
He had been suffering with heart trouble for about seven years and had been forced to retire because of his health.
He was born June 24, 1879, in Defiance. He worked in Tiffin for about nine years and in Kansas City for four years. He was employed by the Gray and White Company here for about 17 years as a poultry man, serving about 12 years of that time as foreman.
He was a member of Co. M. during the Spanish-American War. He held membership in the Wayne Camp and in the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The body is to be brought home from the Mansfield funeral home late today and taken back there at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Services will be held from the funeral home at 2 p.m. Wednesday with Rev. Rexford G. VanCourt officiating. Interment will be in Riverside Cemetery."
"Surviving are the widow, the former Miss Anna Marihugh, a step-daughter, Mrs. Nora Knepp, Toledo; a grandson, Billy Knepp, Toledo; two brothers, Fred and John, Edwardsburg, Michigan; two sisters, Mrs. Lena Lawrence, Kansas City, and Mrs. Josephine Killion, Defiance."
Other articles noted that the veterans conducted ritual military rites for Pvt. Corcellious, including a salute fired by the men of the VFW. Brad Chaffin played taps and a duet was sung by Mrs. Claude Root and Mrs. Jesse Bates. Pallbearers were all from Company M: Joseph Hasselschwardt, Henry Lewis, Gale Hale, Claude Shuman, Lemuel Sapp, and Charles White.
Louis's wife, Anna, lived until January 1959 and was living in Defiance on Jackson Street when she passed away at 79.
Defiance Crescent News, 19 January 1959, p.2,c.5
"Mrs. Anna M. Corcellious, 79, died Saturday at 8:15 pm. in Defiance City Hospital where she had been a patient since Jan. 5 when she fell in her home, 226 Jackson Ave. and fractured a wrist. Death was attributed to a stroke. She was born near Defiance on Nov. 21, 1879, a daughter of Henry and Julia Marihugh. She was reared here, lived in Toledo a number of years and then returned to Defiance where she had resided for a time. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Andrew B. Jeffers; her second husband, Louis Corcellious, and 11 brothers and sisters.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Fred (Nora) Knopp, and a grandson, William, both of Toledo. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxilliary, and a past president of the Spanish War Veterans Auxilliary. The funeral will be conducted Tuesday at 2 pm. at the Morris - Stick Mortuary by the Rev. Samuel Sedziol, First Baptist minister, burial will be in Riverside cemetery.
Dianne Kline, Researcher
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