Civil War Veteran.
Enlisted on 5/1/1862 as a Chaplain.
On 6/7/1862 he was commissioned into Field & Staff 49th Indiana Infantry.
He Resigned on 1/13/1863.
Rev. Hancock, born in Jacksboro, Ky., in 1823 into a family with roots in North Carolina.
As a 19th century Methodist preacher, Lemuel Morris Hancock was itinerant by calling, spending a couple of years in each stop as he moved west from Indiana to California. By the time he reached the promised land ~ Los Gatos ~
he had two years to live.
Never wealthy from his pastoral work, Rev. Hancock once did a stint as a steamboat clerk and tried to supplement his income by selling magazine subscriptions.
During the Civil War, he served as a chaplain with the Indiana 49th volunteers. With life expectancy low, he married four times. The third of his wives was Eliza Ann Gould.
A distinguished-looking man with a neatly trimmed beard, Hancock became the minister at Los Gatos Methodist Church in 1881. (It was not called United Methodist until 1968.)
On Dec. 12, 1882, the reverend officiated over the marriage of his daughter, Jennie Gould Hancock, to Jay P. Harter. A little more than two months later, the pastor was dead. He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.
In honor of their father and mother Eliza, Jennie and her older brother John donated two stained-glass windows to the church in the 1890s. One was named for Lemuel, one for Eliza, who had died in Kansas in 1869. Each carried the name in a banner placed near the center of the colorful 5-by-5 foot window.
The stained glass was installed in what was called "the white church," which, according to church records, was dedicated in 1889 and razed in 1968-69 to make way for a new social hall. The church's current sanctuary, which contains elegant stained glass from Germany, was built in 1964-65.
The surplus property from the white church, including stained glass and pews, wound up in various Los Gatos businesses. The Hancock windows found a home in the Gazebo Bar & Grill in Old Town.
Source: mercurynews.com Silicon Valley, posted on Sept.2,2012 by Scott Herhold.
Excerpted for this memorial by Janet Milburn #47529757
Enlisted on 5/1/1862 as a Chaplain.
On 6/7/1862 he was commissioned into Field & Staff 49th Indiana Infantry.
He Resigned on 1/13/1863.
Rev. Hancock, born in Jacksboro, Ky., in 1823 into a family with roots in North Carolina.
As a 19th century Methodist preacher, Lemuel Morris Hancock was itinerant by calling, spending a couple of years in each stop as he moved west from Indiana to California. By the time he reached the promised land ~ Los Gatos ~
he had two years to live.
Never wealthy from his pastoral work, Rev. Hancock once did a stint as a steamboat clerk and tried to supplement his income by selling magazine subscriptions.
During the Civil War, he served as a chaplain with the Indiana 49th volunteers. With life expectancy low, he married four times. The third of his wives was Eliza Ann Gould.
A distinguished-looking man with a neatly trimmed beard, Hancock became the minister at Los Gatos Methodist Church in 1881. (It was not called United Methodist until 1968.)
On Dec. 12, 1882, the reverend officiated over the marriage of his daughter, Jennie Gould Hancock, to Jay P. Harter. A little more than two months later, the pastor was dead. He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.
In honor of their father and mother Eliza, Jennie and her older brother John donated two stained-glass windows to the church in the 1890s. One was named for Lemuel, one for Eliza, who had died in Kansas in 1869. Each carried the name in a banner placed near the center of the colorful 5-by-5 foot window.
The stained glass was installed in what was called "the white church," which, according to church records, was dedicated in 1889 and razed in 1968-69 to make way for a new social hall. The church's current sanctuary, which contains elegant stained glass from Germany, was built in 1964-65.
The surplus property from the white church, including stained glass and pews, wound up in various Los Gatos businesses. The Hancock windows found a home in the Gazebo Bar & Grill in Old Town.
Source: mercurynews.com Silicon Valley, posted on Sept.2,2012 by Scott Herhold.
Excerpted for this memorial by Janet Milburn #47529757
Civil War Veteran.
Enlisted on 5/1/1862 as a Chaplain.
On 6/7/1862 he was commissioned into Field & Staff 49th Indiana Infantry.
He Resigned on 1/13/1863.
Rev. Hancock, born in Jacksboro, Ky., in 1823 into a family with roots in North Carolina.
As a 19th century Methodist preacher, Lemuel Morris Hancock was itinerant by calling, spending a couple of years in each stop as he moved west from Indiana to California. By the time he reached the promised land ~ Los Gatos ~
he had two years to live.
Never wealthy from his pastoral work, Rev. Hancock once did a stint as a steamboat clerk and tried to supplement his income by selling magazine subscriptions.
During the Civil War, he served as a chaplain with the Indiana 49th volunteers. With life expectancy low, he married four times. The third of his wives was Eliza Ann Gould.
A distinguished-looking man with a neatly trimmed beard, Hancock became the minister at Los Gatos Methodist Church in 1881. (It was not called United Methodist until 1968.)
On Dec. 12, 1882, the reverend officiated over the marriage of his daughter, Jennie Gould Hancock, to Jay P. Harter. A little more than two months later, the pastor was dead. He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.
In honor of their father and mother Eliza, Jennie and her older brother John donated two stained-glass windows to the church in the 1890s. One was named for Lemuel, one for Eliza, who had died in Kansas in 1869. Each carried the name in a banner placed near the center of the colorful 5-by-5 foot window.
The stained glass was installed in what was called "the white church," which, according to church records, was dedicated in 1889 and razed in 1968-69 to make way for a new social hall. The church's current sanctuary, which contains elegant stained glass from Germany, was built in 1964-65.
The surplus property from the white church, including stained glass and pews, wound up in various Los Gatos businesses. The Hancock windows found a home in the Gazebo Bar & Grill in Old Town.
Source: mercurynews.com Silicon Valley, posted on Sept.2,2012 by Scott Herhold.
Excerpted for this memorial by Janet Milburn #47529757
Enlisted on 5/1/1862 as a Chaplain.
On 6/7/1862 he was commissioned into Field & Staff 49th Indiana Infantry.
He Resigned on 1/13/1863.
Rev. Hancock, born in Jacksboro, Ky., in 1823 into a family with roots in North Carolina.
As a 19th century Methodist preacher, Lemuel Morris Hancock was itinerant by calling, spending a couple of years in each stop as he moved west from Indiana to California. By the time he reached the promised land ~ Los Gatos ~
he had two years to live.
Never wealthy from his pastoral work, Rev. Hancock once did a stint as a steamboat clerk and tried to supplement his income by selling magazine subscriptions.
During the Civil War, he served as a chaplain with the Indiana 49th volunteers. With life expectancy low, he married four times. The third of his wives was Eliza Ann Gould.
A distinguished-looking man with a neatly trimmed beard, Hancock became the minister at Los Gatos Methodist Church in 1881. (It was not called United Methodist until 1968.)
On Dec. 12, 1882, the reverend officiated over the marriage of his daughter, Jennie Gould Hancock, to Jay P. Harter. A little more than two months later, the pastor was dead. He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.
In honor of their father and mother Eliza, Jennie and her older brother John donated two stained-glass windows to the church in the 1890s. One was named for Lemuel, one for Eliza, who had died in Kansas in 1869. Each carried the name in a banner placed near the center of the colorful 5-by-5 foot window.
The stained glass was installed in what was called "the white church," which, according to church records, was dedicated in 1889 and razed in 1968-69 to make way for a new social hall. The church's current sanctuary, which contains elegant stained glass from Germany, was built in 1964-65.
The surplus property from the white church, including stained glass and pews, wound up in various Los Gatos businesses. The Hancock windows found a home in the Gazebo Bar & Grill in Old Town.
Source: mercurynews.com Silicon Valley, posted on Sept.2,2012 by Scott Herhold.
Excerpted for this memorial by Janet Milburn #47529757
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