Object ID	2006.0008.076
Accession#	2006.0008
Object Name	Tumbler
Description	A commemorative tumbler from the Grand Army of the Republic featuring famous Civil War generals. This one has General Philip Sheridan etched into it.
Search Terms	G.A.R. Hall Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Union Army
Collection	Robert L. Hunker G.A.R. Collection
People	Hunker, Robert L. Marks, William Franklin Sheridan, Philip
Subjects	War Civil wars
Catalog date	03/28/2006
Catalog type	History
Collector	Robert L. Hunker
Count	1
Credit line	Robert L. Hunker
Dimensions	H-3.75 Dia-2.75 inches
Home Location	G.A.R. Hall Museum
Material	Glass
Notes	The Marks family is part of the genealogy and descendants of the Jacob Hout family. Hout's granddaughter Catherine Hout married Christopher Overly. Their eldest child, Margaret (Peggy), married John Marks (1818-1899), a Czechoslovakian immigrant. They resided near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania and their graves are extant in the Fairview Cemetery. They had twelve children, two of whom served in the Civil War: Emanuel, the eldest and William, their fifth child. Emanuel Marks was born in 1841 and died of "spotted fever" (typhus or cerebrospinal meningitis fever) during the Civil War. He is probably buried in an unmarked grave at Rectortown, Virginia. Further research is in progress on his death and grave site. William Marks served in the Civil War from February 26, 1864 to the end of the War in Company F of the Eleventh Regiment in the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry under the command of Colonel Richard Coulter and assigned to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac. The regiment served in the battles of Murfreesboro, Spotsylvania Court House, Seven Days, Battle of the Wilderness, Fredericksburg, Culpeper, Cold Harbor, and Appomattox Court House. After an honorable discharge, Marks returned to his farm near Acme, Pennsylvania where he spent the remainder of his life. He married Eliza Ann Myers (originally Moyer in German) and had seven children, one of whom was John Michael Marks, the father of Captain William Franklin Marks. Captain Marks and his wife Marie Boyle were Robert L. Hunker's half-uncle and aunt. They had no children and bequeathed the Civil War memorabilia to their nephew Robert L. Hunker. This information is from The Hout Family by Margaret Birney Pittis (1874-1965) whose family were coincidentally the first settlers of Ohio's Harrison County, adjacent to Robert L. Hunker's Gully Ridge Farm in Waynesburg. They came from Baltimore, Maryland to Brownsville, Deersville, New Philadelphia and Cody, Ohio. The writer was a successful and prominent businesswoman in Cleveland, Ohio, a first in her generation to succeed in a man's world. She never married and has no descendants. See The Hout Family, pages 397 (Birney - Pittis), 144 (Hout - Overly), and 148 (Overly - Marks). Further research is in process.
Provenance	From the William Franklin Marks collection. In 2001, he bequeathed it to his half nephew Robert Lewis Hunker and grandson of Captain Marks' mother, Dora Welshonse Brown Marks, wife of John Michael Marks. Robert L. Hunker, the founder of the Robert L. Hunker Historic Preservation Foundation placed it in the G.A.R. Hall Museum through the Hunker Historic Preservation Foundation.
Recfrom	Hunker G.A.R. Collection
Site	G.A.R. Hall Museum
Site #	31