A Family Heirloom

Henry's Powder Horn

A powder horn that came down the family with the saw. The label on it — “Henry J. Krotzer, 26 Sept 1833” — is a modern one, written and applied by his great-great-grandson Steven Scott Krotzer so the horn would never be parted from its owner's name. It has been kept alongside the Krotzer saw for as long as anyone remembers, two heirlooms handed down the same line of hands.

Henry J. Krotzer's powder horn
The Label

A name, and a date that checks out

The label reads “Henry J. Krotzer, 26 Sept 1833” — the birthdate on record for Henry J. Krotzer, the Union soldier of Company F, 67th Pennsylvania Infantry who carries this family's direct line through the Civil War. It is not Henry's hand. Steven Scott Krotzer wrote it and put it on the horn so that whoever holds it next will know whose it was. The horn itself carries no inscription that we know of; its connection to Henry rests on the family's own account of how it was handed down.

Close-up of the label reading Henry J. Krotzer, 26 Sept 1833
Kept Together

Found Alongside the Saw

The horn has traveled with the family saw for as long as anyone remembers — two objects from the same man, passed down together rather than separately. See the saw's own six generations of carved initials on its page.