| Object ID |
2004.0011.001 |
| Accession# |
2004.0010 |
| Object Name |
Warmer, Hand |
| Description |
Sterling silver man's hand warmer, with the word "Platinum" on the front and "MADE IN JAPAN" on the back of the top lid, which also has the image of an eagle. Used by a Japanese soldier during the Second World War with Japan. Robert L. Hunker's uncle, William Marks, was a captain in this war. The warmer was taken from a dead Japanese soldier and given to Captain Marks who bequeathed it to Robert L. Hunker. |
| Search Terms |
Handwarmers
Marks Family
World War II
Japan |
| Collection |
Brown - Marks Family Collection |
| People |
Marks, Captain William |
| Subjects |
Hands |
| Catalog date |
07/27/2004 |
| Catalog type |
History |
| Collector |
Marks Family |
| Dimensions |
H-4 W-2.75 inches |
| Event |
World War II |
| Found |
Collection of Captain William Franklin Marks |
| Home Location |
G.A.R. Hall Museum |
| Made |
Japan |
| Material |
Metal, Sterling Silver |
| 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).
See "Related Items" for the other Civil War items bequeathed by Captain Marks.
Further research is in process. |
| Owned |
Last owned by Captain William Marks, Half-Uncle of Robert L. Hunker |
| Place of Origin |
Japan |
| Provenance |
In possession of the Marks family until it was bequeathed in 2001 to Robert L. Hunker, the half nephew of Captain William Marks. |
| Recfrom |
Marks - Brown Collection |
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