The son of William & Mary Eliza (Cook) Cart, in 1860 he was a blacksmith living in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 11" tall and had dark hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of twenty-one in Carlisle July 25, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 15 as a private with Co. G, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, and, despite his tender years, promoted to sergeant January 1, 1863. He honorably discharged with his company May 21, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the still overstated age of twenty in Carlisle at Carlisle January 4, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Battery D, 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (112th Pennsylvania). Promoted to corporal February 27, 1864, to sergeant May 3, 1865, and to 1st sergeant October 18, 1865, he honorably discharged with his company January 29, 1866. Note that he never served with the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers as claimed in the attached obituary.
After the war, he worked as a farmer, bartender, police chief, and clerk. In his marital life, he forged a relationship with the McCleaster sisters, cohabiting first with Margaret and later with her sister, Anastasia. Both women "bore reputations of being prostitutes," a term freely and at times unfairly applied in that era to women whose behavior deviated from generally acceptable puritanical limits. Although his obituary claims he resided in Cumberland County all his life, Frank and Anna lived together in Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado, for some years before returning to Pennsylvania. (Margaret burned to death, and Anna died in the Harrisburg Insane Asylum on November 6, 1894.) Frank then married a third McCleaster sister - Katherine "Kate" - June 26, 1896, in Camden, New Jersey, and fathered Anna G. (b. 03/07/88 [sic] - married Raymond Spangler - some opined without firm evidence that she really was Anastasia's daughter). He also fathered Mary Elizabeth (b. 12/16/01), a club-footed girl who attended Scotland School for Civil War orphans before she grew old enough to marry Harry B. Zimmerman). Kate struggled with alcoholism but eventually overcame her addiction.
In 1895, the 5' 11" Frank Cart weighed a mere 135 lbs. He died at the reported age of 69-4-20 from "seple [?] cancer" with "necrosis in bones of legs" a contributing factor.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of twenty-one in Carlisle July 25, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 15 as a private with Co. G, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, and, despite his tender years, promoted to sergeant January 1, 1863. He honorably discharged with his company May 21, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the still overstated age of twenty in Carlisle at Carlisle January 4, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Battery D, 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (112th Pennsylvania). Promoted to corporal February 27, 1864, to sergeant May 3, 1865, and to 1st sergeant October 18, 1865, he honorably discharged with his company January 29, 1866. Note that he never served with the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers as claimed in the attached obituary.
After the war, he worked as a farmer, bartender, police chief, and clerk. In his marital life, he forged a relationship with the McCleaster sisters, cohabiting first with Margaret and later with her sister, Anastasia. Both women "bore reputations of being prostitutes," a term freely and at times unfairly applied in that era to women whose behavior deviated from generally acceptable puritanical limits. Although his obituary claims he resided in Cumberland County all his life, Frank and Anna lived together in Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado, for some years before returning to Pennsylvania. (Margaret burned to death, and Anna died in the Harrisburg Insane Asylum on November 6, 1894.) Frank then married a third McCleaster sister - Katherine "Kate" - June 26, 1896, in Camden, New Jersey, and fathered Anna G. (b. 03/07/88 [sic] - married Raymond Spangler - some opined without firm evidence that she really was Anastasia's daughter). He also fathered Mary Elizabeth (b. 12/16/01), a club-footed girl who attended Scotland School for Civil War orphans before she grew old enough to marry Harry B. Zimmerman). Kate struggled with alcoholism but eventually overcame her addiction.
In 1895, the 5' 11" Frank Cart weighed a mere 135 lbs. He died at the reported age of 69-4-20 from "seple [?] cancer" with "necrosis in bones of legs" a contributing factor.
The son of William & Mary Eliza (Cook) Cart, in 1860 he was a blacksmith living in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 11" tall and had dark hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of twenty-one in Carlisle July 25, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 15 as a private with Co. G, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, and, despite his tender years, promoted to sergeant January 1, 1863. He honorably discharged with his company May 21, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the still overstated age of twenty in Carlisle at Carlisle January 4, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Battery D, 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (112th Pennsylvania). Promoted to corporal February 27, 1864, to sergeant May 3, 1865, and to 1st sergeant October 18, 1865, he honorably discharged with his company January 29, 1866. Note that he never served with the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers as claimed in the attached obituary.
After the war, he worked as a farmer, bartender, police chief, and clerk. In his marital life, he forged a relationship with the McCleaster sisters, cohabiting first with Margaret and later with her sister, Anastasia. Both women "bore reputations of being prostitutes," a term freely and at times unfairly applied in that era to women whose behavior deviated from generally acceptable puritanical limits. Although his obituary claims he resided in Cumberland County all his life, Frank and Anna lived together in Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado, for some years before returning to Pennsylvania. (Margaret burned to death, and Anna died in the Harrisburg Insane Asylum on November 6, 1894.) Frank then married a third McCleaster sister - Katherine "Kate" - June 26, 1896, in Camden, New Jersey, and fathered Anna G. (b. 03/07/88 [sic] - married Raymond Spangler - some opined without firm evidence that she really was Anastasia's daughter). He also fathered Mary Elizabeth (b. 12/16/01), a club-footed girl who attended Scotland School for Civil War orphans before she grew old enough to marry Harry B. Zimmerman). Kate struggled with alcoholism but eventually overcame her addiction.
In 1895, the 5' 11" Frank Cart weighed a mere 135 lbs. He died at the reported age of 69-4-20 from "seple [?] cancer" with "necrosis in bones of legs" a contributing factor.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of twenty-one in Carlisle July 25, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 15 as a private with Co. G, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, and, despite his tender years, promoted to sergeant January 1, 1863. He honorably discharged with his company May 21, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the still overstated age of twenty in Carlisle at Carlisle January 4, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Battery D, 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (112th Pennsylvania). Promoted to corporal February 27, 1864, to sergeant May 3, 1865, and to 1st sergeant October 18, 1865, he honorably discharged with his company January 29, 1866. Note that he never served with the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers as claimed in the attached obituary.
After the war, he worked as a farmer, bartender, police chief, and clerk. In his marital life, he forged a relationship with the McCleaster sisters, cohabiting first with Margaret and later with her sister, Anastasia. Both women "bore reputations of being prostitutes," a term freely and at times unfairly applied in that era to women whose behavior deviated from generally acceptable puritanical limits. Although his obituary claims he resided in Cumberland County all his life, Frank and Anna lived together in Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado, for some years before returning to Pennsylvania. (Margaret burned to death, and Anna died in the Harrisburg Insane Asylum on November 6, 1894.) Frank then married a third McCleaster sister - Katherine "Kate" - June 26, 1896, in Camden, New Jersey, and fathered Anna G. (b. 03/07/88 [sic] - married Raymond Spangler - some opined without firm evidence that she really was Anastasia's daughter). He also fathered Mary Elizabeth (b. 12/16/01), a club-footed girl who attended Scotland School for Civil War orphans before she grew old enough to marry Harry B. Zimmerman). Kate struggled with alcoholism but eventually overcame her addiction.
In 1895, the 5' 11" Frank Cart weighed a mere 135 lbs. He died at the reported age of 69-4-20 from "seple [?] cancer" with "necrosis in bones of legs" a contributing factor.
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