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Vol. 28 No. 1 March 2017

IndIana GenealoGIst

Documenting Family Oral History Indiana Veterans in the South Dakota GAR Vincennes Left Letters Harvey A. Kirk of Morgan County Monroe County’s Ralph B. Carter Floyd County Naturalizations Notices from Hancock and

Montgomery Counties

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CONTENTS

4 Editor’s Branch

5 Documenting Family Oral History: David L. and Jennie Osborne of Indianapolis and Minneapolis, by Barb LaFara

12 Indiana Civil War Veterans Who Were Members of the GAR in South Dakota, Part One by David C. Bailey Sr.

West Central District32 “Eph Popped Partridges” (Montgomery County, 1891)

32 Notes from Oak Grove (Montgomery County, 1891)

East Central District33 Common School Graduates (Hancock County, 1892)

33 High School Graduates in Greenfield (Hancock County, 1882)

Southwest District34 Letters Left at the Vincennes Post Office, 11 July 1877, submitted by Marlene Polster

South Central District35 A History of Harvey A. Kirk of Morgan County, by Patricia A. Dow

39 Ralph B. Carter of Monroe County: A Man of Many Talents, by Randi Richardson

43 Naturalizations in Floyd County Court Records, Part Three, by Nancy Strickland

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“ONCE A HOOSiEr... AlWAyS A HOOSiEr”

For “Once a Hoosier,” researchers are urged to submit details of former Hoosiers—people who were born before 1930, who were in Indiana for some por-tion of their lives, and who died in another state.

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In 2015 the “Once a Hoosier...” and “...Always a Hoosier” projects were brought online as a blog. Ancestor submissions are now accepted at http://oahblog.indgensoc.org/submit-your-ancestor/. The editor is Teresa Kahle.

Editor’s Branch

Like many of you, I am armed with my family’s stories of our ancestors: A Confederate army veteran who must have been attacked somewhere while carrying his inheritance, since he never made it home to Florida after mustering out. The Swedish immigrant who promptly changed his surname from Olson or Nelson upon arrival in Chicago. A first-generation American disowned by her Jewish immigrant parents for marrying outside their faith. Or the abandoned wife in the old country who turned to a witch in order to convince her husband, an ocean away, to return.

So often these tales are prefaced by some variation of “Your great-aunt always said...” or “I heard that...” In the intervening generations, family stories twist and turn. As researchers and as keepers of our histories, we have to be careful about what we take for granted as true. Barb LaFara encountered just such a case with her great-grandfather, a widower who, it was claimed, met his second wife at the Minneapolis orphanage where he had temporarily placed his young children. As she explains in this issue, document-ing that simple family legend led to some surprising results and raised new questions about her great-grandparents’ experiences and motivations.

Also in this issue, Patricia Dow and Randi Richardson each contribute a biography of a resident who helped shape south central Indiana. David C. Bailey presents another in a series of articles on Hoosier Civil War veterans who were members of the Grand Army of the Republic, this time in South Dakota. Part Three of Nancy Strickland’s series on naturalizations in Floyd County court records rounds out the issue.

Welcome to a new year of Indiana Genealogist! Do you have a story you’d like to share? Contact me at [email protected]. I look forward to hearing what your research brings.

Rachel

On the cover: David L. and Jennie (Warbington) Osborne in 1917 with several of their grandchildren. From left, Lois LaFara, Kenneth Osborne, Irene Osborne and Glen Fithian with Collie. (Courtesy the LaFara Family Archive).

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DOCumENTiNg FAmily OrAl HiSTOry: david L. and JEnniE osBornE of indianapoLis and MinnEapoLis

Barb LaFara

When I was growing up, I heard family stories that were repeated frequently and therefore taken as fact. I am now a genealogy enthusiast and have learned that citing sources to document the life events of an ancestor is very important. To that end, I have set out to find supporting sources for my family oral history. One story often shared is that of my paternal grandmother’s parents and how they met.

My great-grandfather, David Louis Osborne (1848–1942), was a widower with two young sons, Louis (1878–1961) and Rollin (1880–1964), when he married Marzella “Jennie” Warbington (1857–1918) in Minneapolis on 27 May 1886. According to the family narrative, in 1886, David was working in Minneapolis as a wallpaper hanger (his lifelong career) and had placed his sons in an orphanage. Jennie was working at that same orphanage as a teacher. David met Jennie when visiting his sons, they hit it off, and they got married right away. David then was able to take his sons from the orphanage, since he now had a wife to look after them while he worked. It seemed a neat little story illustrating some of the difficulties of the late nineteenth century for a widower with children and no nearby family.

The task I set myself was to document the key points of the story. I decided to start the pro-cess with the most essential fact, the place and date of marriage: Minneapolis, 27 May 1886. I went online to FamilySearch and found an entry for the marriage record in an index.1 An index is an acceptable secondary source, but in this case I wanted a primary source. Armed with the book and page numbers for the actual record, I decided to check the Minnesota Historical Society’s web site (www.mnhs.org) for a digitized image and discovered their Library Guide for Vital Records. From there, I found the “Marriage Records” page and a list of counties. Minneapolis is in Henne-pin County, and according to the society’s web site, those records are stored in the archive labeled SAM447, with more than three hundred reels of microfilmed marriage certificates. The collection guide indicated that 1886 marriages could be found on reels 8 and 9 of the microfilm. Now that I knew the location, reel number, volume number, and page number, all that was left was to get a copy of the certificate.

Unfortunately, the microfilm was not (yet) digitized. Since I had no plans to visit Minneapolis, this called for a Random Act of Genealogical Kindness, or RAOGK. If you are unfamiliar with the Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness web site (www.raogk.org), I suggest checking it out. It is a great resource for finding other genealogy enthusiasts willing to do local lookups. Using the site’s

1 D. L. Osborne and Jennie M. Warbinten, 27 May 1886, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, in “Minnesota Marriages, 1849–1950” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDDQ-HJV : accessed 4 June 2016); citing FHL microfilm 1,380,426.

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directory, I found a volunteer who regularly visited the Minnesota Historical Society’s library. I contacted the volunteer with my request, and three days later I received an email with an image of my great-grandparents’ marriage certificate attached.2

Next on my list was to find the orphanage where the boys were placed and my great-grand-mother worked as a teacher. I figured there would not be too many orphanages in Minneapolis during the mid-1880s. If I located my great-grandmother or great-grandfather in the Minne-apolis city directory, I could surmise one, or both, lived near the orphanage and could narrow my search. I went online to Ancestry, navigated to the collection of Minneapolis city directories for the years 1883 through 1887, and browsed to my target surnames. I found no one named Warbington or other similar name, but I did find David L. Osborne, paper hanger, in two of the city directories, 1886 and 1887.3 I had expected to find David in earlier directories since his first wife, Susie Dennis, had died in 1883.4 I knew David was living in Indianapolis at the time of

2 Certificate of marriage, Hennepin County, Minnesota, no. 00310380, D. L. Osborne and Jennie M. Warbinton, 27 May 1886, Marriage Certificates, 1853–1996, Minnesota Historical Society, SAM447, reel 8, volume 31, page 380.

3 Entry for D. L. Osborne, Minneapolis City Directory for 1886–7 (Minneapolis: Johnson, Smith, and Harrison, 1886), 609, in “U.S. City Directories, 1822–1995” database; digital image, Ancestry (http://interactive.ancestry.com/1540/30946_148240-00580: accessed 26 June 2016); entry for David L. Osborne, Minneapolis City Directory for 1887–8 (Minneapolis: Harrison and Smith, 1887), 754, in “U.S. City Directories, 1822–1995” database; digital image, Ancestry (http://interactive.ancestry.com/1540/30946_148267-00787: accessed 26 June 2016).

4 Memorial no. 137794538 for Susie Alethia Dennis Osborne (1857–1883), Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana; Find a Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=137794538 : accessed 26 October 2014).

David and Jennie Osborne, c. 1917 (Courtesy the LaFara Family Archive)

Marriage Certificate for David L. Osborne and Jennie Warbington, 27 May 1886, Minneapolis, Hennepin County

(Minnesota Historical Society)

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Susie’s death, so when did he go to Minneapolis and place the boys in the orphanage? I decided to check the Indianapolis city directories, also at Ancestry, and found him in 1884 and 1885.5 Then, I thought to look for Warbington in the Indianapolis directories. There Jennie was, in the 1886 directory: Jennie Warbington, “attendant, Orphan Asylum.”6 (I also found Jennie’s brother Joseph Warbington at 24 Hutchin’s Block.7) This information from the city directories made a big chink in the story told by my family. My great-grandmother had worked at an orphanage in Indianapo-lis, not Minneapolis; my great-half-uncles, when boys, most likely were in that same orphanage in Indianapolis, not Minneapolis; and my great-grandparents most likely met in Indianapolis, not Minneapolis.

According to the 1885 Indianapolis city directory, David lived at 317 E. St. Clair.8 If this home still existed, it would be 627 E. St. Clair, now a parking lot next to the Indianapolis Professional Firefighters Local 416 Union Hall at 748 Massachusetts Avenue. Using the intersection of St. Clair Street and Massachusetts Avenue as a starting point, I decided to look for an orphanage nearby. The Indiana State Library has several old maps of Indianapolis in its collections, and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has digitized versions posted in their online digital library. Using the 1887 Sanborn map, I quickly discovered the Indianapolis Orphan Asy-lum (IOA) was located at the northeast corner of Home (now East Thirteenth Street) and College Avenue.9 This location is now below the interchange of I-70 and I-65 and is less than a mile from where David was living in 1885. Doing a simple online search, I learned that the IOA became the Children’s Bureau, and their records are archived with the Indiana Historical Society (IHS). My next stop was the IHS’s online collections (www.indianahistory.org). By browsing their collec-tion guide for the Children’s Bureau records, I identified BV 3680, Record of Children Admitted to IOA 1885–88, as the likely place to search for David’s sons, Louis and Rollin Osborne. The archives are not digitized, so this was another case that required a visit to view the original mate-rials. However, this time I was making a trip to Indianapolis to visit family and could go to the IHS library myself.

5 Entry for David L. Osborne, R. L. Polk and Co.’s Indianapolis Directory for 1884 (Indianapolis: R. L. Polk & Co.), 470, in “U.S. City Directories, 1822–1995” database; digital image, Ancestry (http://interactive.ancestry.com/2469/10868693: accessed 20 July 2016); entry for David L. Osborne, R. L. Polk and Co.’s Indianapolis Direc-tory for 1885 (Indianapolis: R. L. Polk & Co.), 462, in “U.S. City Directories 1822–1995” database; digital image, Ancestry (http://interactive.ancestry.com/2469/10877117: accessed 20 July 2016).

6 Entry for Jennie Warbington, R. L. Polk and Co.’s Indianapolis City Directory for 1886 (Indianapolis: R. L. Polk & Co.), 722, in “U.S. City Directories, 1822–1995” database; digital image, Ancestry (http://interactive.ancestry.com/2469/10859176: accessed 20 July 2016).

7 Entry for Joseph W. Warbinton, R. L. Polk and Co.’s Indianapolis City Directory for 1886 (Indianapolis: R. L. Polk & Co.), 722, in “U.S. City Directories, 1822–1995” database; digital image, Ancestry (http://interactive.ancestry.com/2469/10859176: accessed 20 July 2016).

8 Entry for David L. Osborne, R. L. Polk and Co.’s Indianapolis Directory for 1885, 462.9 Insurance Maps of Indianapolis, Indiana (New York: Sanborn Map and Publishing Co., 1887), vol. 2, map 70; digi-

tal image, IUPUI University Library (http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SanbornJP2/id/714: accessed 12 September 2016).



Above: The Indianapolis Orphan Asylum c. 1890. (Courtesy of Indiana Historical Soci-ety, P0411, Box 5, Folder 4)

Right: The location of the Orphan Asylum is shown on the 1887 Sanborn map at the northeast corner of College and Home (now E. 13th) (Indianapolis Sanborn Map #70, 1887, Indianapolis Sanborn Map and Baist Atlas Collection, IUPUI University Library)

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Upon arriving at IHS, I registered at the research desk and made my request for the materials. The box was brought up and a large bound volume was removed for my inspection. Among the entries recorded in the bound volume I found the following:

June 9 [1885]

Louis Osborn age 6 years, Raliegh age 5 have received today. They have brought by Mrs. Miller 188½ E. Washington St. Their mother is dead. Their father will pay $1.00 per week for each of them.10

This was a “wow!” moment for me. No doubt these were David’s sons, Louis and Rollin, and I recognized the address of Mrs. Miller. David had lived at 188½ East Washington Street in 1881.11 I later checked the 1885 Indianapolis city directory and found Mrs. Miller to be Euphemia Miller, widow and landlady at 188½ E. Washington Street.12 It seems David had remained friends with his former landlady. Or perhaps he was again renting rooms on Washington Street in June 1885. Nonetheless, Mrs. Miller was helping him with his boys. Had she been caring for Louis and Rol-lin since their mother’s death in June 1883? A check of additional IHS records for the orphan asylum covering 1883 and 1884 did not turn up any mention of the Osborne boys. Between the death of their mother and admission at the IOA, who cared for Louis and Rollin while their father worked? Another search of the records told a different story, one I had not expected.

Again I returned to FamilySearch, where I found a marriage record for David L. Osborne in 1884.13 The names of the groom’s parents, William and Harriet, left no doubt this was my great-grandfather. Now this was a part of the story I had never heard: My great-grandfather had been married to another woman during a portion of those intervening years between the death of his sons’ mother and marriage to my great-grandmother Jennie Warbington. David and Luella Pres-sell (1861–1910) married on 13 February 1884, eight months after the death of his first wife.14 Presumably, the new Mrs. Osborne was caring for the boys while their father worked, but, as shown above, in June 1885 they were placed in the IOA. What happened? I found the answer by searching the newspaper archive at Newspapers.com. In May 1885 the twenty-four-year-old Mrs.

10 Record of Children Admitted to IOA, 1885–88, BV 3680, p. 3, first entry; Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis.11 Entry for David L. Osborne, R. L. Polk and Co.’s Indianapolis Directory for 1881 (Indianapolis: R. L. Polk & Co.,

1881), 420, in “U.S. City Directories, 1822–1995” database; digital image, Ancestry (http://interactive.ancestry.com/2469/10776785: accessed 20 October 2016).

12 Entry for Mrs. Euphemia W. Miller, R. L. Polk and Co.’s Indianapolis Directory for 1885 (Indianapolis: R. L. Polk & Co.), 462, in “U.S. City Directories 1822–1995” database; digital image, Ancestry (http://interactive.ancestry.com/2469/10877093: accessed 15 October 2016).

13 David L. Osborne and Luella B. Pressell, 13 February 1884, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, in “Indiana, Marriages 1780–1992” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFDC-ZK7: accessed 3 December 2016), citing FHL microfilm 382,748.

14 Ibid.



Osborne made an initial filing for divorce.15 In December 1885 David and his wife of less than two years made the final filing for divorce.16 The December newspaper item mentions two boys being in the IOA. The divorce was final on 4 February 1886.17

In the IOA bound volume at the Indiana Historical Society, I found the following entry:

Feb. 27 [1886]

Louis & Raleigh Osborne were taken this evening by Mrs. Miller at their father’s request.18

Did my great-grandfather move to Minneapolis after removing his sons from the orphan asy-lum? Or did he stay in Indianapolis and court Jennie Warbington? I have not been able to find evidence to support either possibility. As David is listed in the 1886 Minneapolis city directory, he must not have stayed long in Indianapolis after the divorce was final.19 But why Minneapolis? Minneapolis was undergoing tremendous growth during the 1880s; no doubt wallpaper hangers were in demand in a growing city. Maybe David went there simply because of a job opportunity. I have also wondered about Jennie’s motivations. Was marriage to a man she had a short acquain-tance with preferable to being single and employed? What about her employer? Was it scandal-ous that she was marrying the father of two of her charges? Did her family approve or disapprove of her marrying a man with two young children and a recent divorce? Jennie’s parents lived in Shelby County, Ohio, where she was raised, and it is likely they knew very little about David. Jen-nie’s older brother Joseph, on the other hand, was living in Indianapolis and probably knew more about David’s circumstances.20 In the end, Jennie was old enough, nearly thirty, to decide for her-self. Nonetheless, an elopement to Minneapolis may have seemed prudent for the couple.

A closer look at the marriage certificate reveals “DL Osborne of the county of Hennepin in the state of Minn” and “Jennie M Warbinton of the county of Indianapolis state of Indiana.”21 Perhaps David went to Minneapolis on his own, and Jennie and the boys went later, but before 27 May. According to the marriage certificate, the ceremony was performed by the Reverend David Mor-gan. Rev. Morgan’s church was the Methodist-Episcopal Church at the corner of Twenty-Fourth Street and Twenty-Third Avenue South, just a couple blocks south from where David was living

15 “Town Notes,” Indianapolis News, 18 May 1885, p. 4, col. 2, (https://www.newspapers.com/image/?spot=5118037: accessed 1 May 2016).

16 “Divorce Matters,” Indianapolis News, 25 December 1885, p. 3, col. 3 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/?spot=7096869: accessed 19 October 2016).

17 “City News,” Indianapolis News, 4 February 1886, p. 3, col. 1 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/?spot=4176722: accessed 30 Jan 2016).

18 Record of Children Admitted to IOA 1885–88, BV 3680, p. 9, fourth entry; Indiana Historical Society.19 Entry for D. L. Osborne, Minneapolis City Directory for 1886–7, 609.20 Entries for Jennie Warbington and Joseph W. Warbinton, R. L. Polk and Co.’s Indianapolis City Directory for 1886,

722.21 D. L. Osborne and Jennie M. Warbinton, certificate of marriage, no. 00310380, 27 May 1886, Hennepin County,

Minnesota, in Marriage Certificates, 1853–1996, SAM447, reel 8, vol. 31, p. 380; Minnesota Historical Society.


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(2007 22½ Avenue South).22 The witnesses were two neighbor ladies, Mrs. and Miss Graber of 2019 Twenty-Third Avenue South.23 This suggests to me that David had been in the neighborhood long enough to establish a relationship with the local church and neighbors.

David and Jennie stayed in Minneapolis just about a year, long enough for the birth of their first child, before returning to Indianapolis to raise their family and live out the rest of their lives. The little house the Osbornes lived in at 2007 22½ Avenue South in Minneapolis is still standing! The address is now 2007 Milwaukee Avenue. Located in an historic district, the house was reha-bilitated during the 1970s.

I will probably never know the exact date of or motivation for the move to Minneapolis, but considering the new facts not included in the family narrative, my guess is David relocated to Minneapolis before the divorce was final and established a home for his future wife and boys. Mrs. Euphemia Miller, and probably Jennie, provided a home for Louis and Rollin in Indianapolis until they could go to their father in Minneapolis. Finding sources to document this particular family story led me to discover several facts that had been lost, or ignored, over the years. The details of the original story were found to be inaccurate, but the heart of the story was confirmed in the sources.

Barb LaFara is originally from Indianapolis and now resides in Cape Coral, Florida. She describes herself as an ‘arm-chair’ genealogist since nearly all of her research is done using online resources. Barb enjoys collaborating with others; contact her via her website, barblafara.com.

22 Entry for Rev. David Morgan, Minneapolis City Directory for 1886–7 (Minneapolis: Johnson, Smith, and Har-rison, 1886), 562, in “U.S. City Directories, 1822–1995” database; digital image, Ancestry (http://interactive.ances-try.com/1540/30946_148240-00533: accessed 22 October 2016). Also, entry for D. L. Osborne, Minneapolis City Directory for 1886–7, 609.

23 Entry for Mrs. Emily Graber, Minneapolis City Directory for 1886–7 (Minneapolis: Johnson, Smith, and Harri-son, 1886), 338, in “U.S. City Directories, 1822–1995” database; digital image, Ancestry (http://interactive.ances-try.com/1540/30946_148240-00297: accessed 22 October 2016).



indiana civiL War vEtErans Who WErE MEMBErs of thE Gar in south dakota, part onE

David C. Bailey, Sr.

This is the fourth in a series of articles that use records of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and other military sources to track the postwar westward movements of Indiana’s Civil War veterans. The first dealt with Indiana Civil War soldiers who were members of the GAR in Colorado and Wyoming.1 The second dealt with Indiana veterans who were members of the GAR’s Department of California.2 The third covered Indiana soldiers who joined the GAR in Oregon.3

The GAR was the largest veterans’ organization to appear after the conflict. During its active years, the GAR had a significant influence on politics, law, and social programs in the United States. The GAR in South Dakota was organized on 27 February 1884. At one time or another there were 164 posts within the department. Virtually any town of appreciable size had a func-tioning post.4

GAR records can be very useful in tracking the postwar movements of Union Civil War veter-ans. Unfortunately, many original records from local posts have been lost, and only a few post and departmental records were published. Those that were tend to be difficult to locate. This article is based on a compilation of GAR post records resulting from thirty years’ work by Alice B. Muller of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She was stenographer-secretary for the Department of South Dakota and preserved much of the early history of the GAR in South Dakota. Her collection of records was compiled and published by the South Dakota State Department of History in 1932.5 Recently

1 David C. Bailey, Sr., “Indiana’s Civil War Soldiers in the Colorado and Wyoming GAR, Part 1,” Indiana Genealo-gist 22:1 (March 2011): 2–9; Indiana’s Civil War Soldiers in the Colorado and Wyoming GAR, Part 2,” Indiana Genealogist 22:2 (June 2011): 56–65; and “Indiana’s Civil War Soldiers in the Colorado and Wyoming GAR, Part 3,” Indiana Genealogist 22:3 (September 2011): 102–13. The second part of this article will appear in the June 2017 issue of Indiana Genealogist.

2 David C. Bailey, Sr., “Indiana Civil War Soldiers Who Were Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Depart-ment of California,” Indiana Genealogist 23:3 (September 2012): 5–33.

3 David C. Bailey, Sr., “Indiana Civil War Soldiers Who Were Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Depart-ment of Oregon,” Indiana Genealogist 24:2 (June 2013): 5–26.

4 Stuart C. McConnell, Glorious Contentment: the Grand Army of the Republic, 1865–1900 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992); Robert B. Beath, History of the Grand Army of the Republic (New York: Bryan, Taylor, 1889); Albert E. Smith, Jr., “Department of South Dakota: Post Names and Locations (1–100),” The Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies: A Guide to Resources in the General Collections of the Library of Con-gress (http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/gar/appendix/sd1.html); Albert E. Smith, Jr., “Department of South Dakota: Post Names and Locations (101–155),” The Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies: A Guide to Resourc-es in the General Collections of the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/gar/appendix/sd2.html); and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Grand Army of the Republic Records Project (http://www.garrecords.org/).

5 Alice B. Muller, “A History of the Department of South Dakota Grand Army of the Republic,” South Dakota His-torical Collections, 26:1 (1932).

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images of many of surviving original records from the Department of South Dakota have been made available on FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2239227).

The following information of interest to genealogists is provided for each soldier, if available:

• Birth: Date (from burial records, grave markers, or age at enlistment) and location• Service: A brief summary of the soldier’s service record; service in multiple units is

included. Rank at the veteran’s severance from the service with a specific unit is indicated. (Note: This means that if a soldier enlisted as a sergeant and was promoted to captain, only the latter rank is given. Conversely, if a soldier enlisted as a corporal, but was later reduced to the ranks, his rank is shown as private. Finally if an officer was promoted but never mustered in at the higher rank, only the earlier rank is given.) Other service high-lights such as instances of brevet promotions are also noted.

• Death: Date and location • Burial: Cemetery and either city or county• Miscellaneous: Membership in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United

States (MOLLUS, a veteran’s organization for officers)

It is also important to note what this list is not. It is not a complete list of Indiana Civil War veterans who resided at one time or another in the area covered by the Department of South Dakota. While the GAR was the largest Civil War veterans’ organization, not all veterans belonged to it. Whether due to political reasons, absence of a conveniently located local post, or other rea-sons, some veterans chose not to join. This is also not a complete list of Indiana veterans who were members of the GAR in the Department of South Dakota over the entire period of the orga-nization’s existence. This list is based on post rosters that are for the most part snapshots of the membership at a distinct point in time. Other veterans may have been members, but moved or relocated prior to the dates of the underlying rosters. Others may have migrated to South Dakota and joined the local GAR at other times. Finally, the completeness of information provided for each post varies greatly. In some cases complete post rosters are provided. In others only a list of then current officers or charter members is given.

The Department of the Dakota Territory was initially organized on 27 February 1884. After South Dakota achieved statehood in 1889, a separate Department of North Dakota was created in 1890, and the original department was renamed the Department of South Dakota. The current article deals only with those posts from the original department that were located in South Dako-ta. It is interesting to note that while South Dakota was the final destination for many of these vet-erans on their postwar migration, quite a few kept migrating westward. In addition, a significant number ultimately decided to return home to Indiana or saw their remains relocated there.

Veterans in tHe soutH Dakota gar


kilpatrick post no. 4 (huron, south dakota)John B. Carter: born 1831; residence Bartholomew County, Indiana; sergeant, Co. K, Thir-

teenth Indiana Infantry; died 1903; buried Riverside Cemetery, Huron, South Dakota.6

Justus B. Coomer: residence LaGrange, Indiana; private, Co. C, 100th Indiana Infantry; pri-vate, Co. C, Twelfth Indiana Cavalry; died 22 February 1922 at Hot Springs, South Dakota; buried Riverside Cemetery, Huron, South Dakota.7

William S. Demaree: private, Co. H, Thirty-Eighth Indiana Infantry; died 1 January 1910 at Rochester, Minnesota; buried Riverside Cemetery, Huron, South Dakota.8

John D. Eversole: residence Orange County, Indiana; private, Co. B, Twenty-Fourth Indiana Infantry; died 6 February 1914; buried Mount Peace Cemetery, St. Cloud, Florida.9

Samuel A. French: residence Randolph County, Indiana; private, Co. F, 134th Indiana Infan-try; died 15 August 1922 at Wessington, South Dakota; buried Riverside Cemetery, Huron, South Dakota.10

Thomas D. Hall: residence Knox County, Indiana; corporal, Co. B, Fourteenth Indiana Infan-try; died 10 May 1914 at Hot Springs, South Dakota.11

Jacob E. Huffman: born 1840; residence Jarvis, Indiana; private, Co. F, Forty-Fourth Indi-ana Infantry; private, Co. A, Thirteenth Indiana Infantry; died 21 December 1908; buried Butler Cemetery, Butler, Indiana.12

6 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana (Indianapolis: Alexander H. Conner, 1865–69), 4:253; memorial no. 87177644 for John B. Carter, Riverside Cemetery, Huron, Beadle County, South Dakota, Find a Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/).

7 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:550, 7:238; entry for Justus B. Coomer (1863) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1471019), citing NARA microfilm T289; entry for Judson B. Coomer (1922) in “South Dakota, Death Index, 1905–1955” database, Ancestry (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8659); entry for J. B. Coomer (1922), Riverside Cemetery, Huron, Beadle County, in “Cemetery Record Search” database, South Dako-ta Historical Society (https://apps.sd.gov/dt58cemetery/).

8 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:214; entry for William S. Demaree (1916) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 54194076 for Pvt. William Scott Demaree, Riverside Cemetery, Huron, Beadle County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

9 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:544; entry for John D. Eversole (1914) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 14130472 for Sgt. John D. Eversole, Mount Peace Cemetery, Saint Cloud, Osceola County, Florida, Find a Grave.

10 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:359; entry for Samuel A. French (1909) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; entry for Samual French (1922), River-side Cemetery, Huron, Beadle County, in “Cemetery Record Search” database, South Dakota Historical Society.

11 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:275; entry for Thomas D. Hall (1907) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch.

12 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:374, 4:257; entry for Jacob E. Huffman (1909) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 992229819 for Jacob E. Huffman, Butler Cemetery, Butler, DeKalb County, Indiana, Find a Grave.


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Loren G. King: private, Co. C, Seventy-Fifth Indiana Infantry; corporal, 158th Co., Second Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps; corporal, Co. F, Fifth Veteran Reserve Corps; died 21 May 1916 at Parker, South Dakota; buried Rosehill Cemetery, Parker, South Dakota.13 (See also Post 17.)

William A. Lyon: private, Co. K, Fifty-Eighth Indiana Infantry; died 6 September 1910; bur-ied Riverside Cemetery, Huron, South Dakota.14

Clark Osborn: born about 1838 in Indiana; residence LaPorte County, Indiana; private, Co. H, 109th Indiana Infantry; private, Co. B, 138th Indiana Infantry; died 10 June 1916 at Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota; buried Riverside Cemetery, Huron, South Dakota.15

Ai Sherman: residence Franklin County, Indiana; wagoner, Co. B, Thirty-Seventh Indiana Infantry.16

Hiram Sowles: residence Fish Creek, Indiana; private, Co. A, 129th Indiana Infantry.17

George h. thomas post no. 5 (redfield, south dakota)Joel Beckner: born 14 August 1837; private, Fifth Independent Battery, Indiana Light Artil-

lery; died 29 December 1922 at Redfield, South Dakota; buried Grant View Cemetery, Greeley, Iowa.18

ransom post no. 6 (Mitchell, south dakota)James L. Anderson: sergeant, Co. A, Sixty-Seventh Indiana Infantry; sergeant, Co. G, Twenty-

Fourth Indiana Infantry; died 21 March 1923 at Hot Springs, South Dakota.19

13 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:220; entry for Loren G. King, “Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database,” National Park Service (https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm); entry for Loren J. King (1916) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 49367064 for Lorane G. “Loren” King, Rosehill Cemetery, Parker, Turner County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

14 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:671; entry for William A. Lyon (1907) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 96093509 for William A. Lyon, Riverside Cemetery, Huron, Beadle County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

15 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:683, 7:406; entry for Clark Osborn (1926) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; entry for Clark Osborn (1916), Riverside Cemetery, Huron, Beadle County, in “Cemetery Record Search” database, South Dakota Histori-cal Society; digital image of record for Clark Osborn, no. 3416, Battle Mountain Sanitarium, in “U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866–1938” database, Ancestry (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1200).

16 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:175.17 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:273.18 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:710; entry for Joel Beckner (1890) in “United States Civil

War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 49277676 for Joel Beckner, Grant View Cemetery, Greeley, Delaware County, Iowa, Find a Grave.

19 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:71; entry for James L. Anderson (1907) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch.



Francis Flint: residence York Centre, Indiana; sergeant, Co. B, 100th Indiana Infantry.20

John Hammitt: born 1843; residence Bear Creek, Indiana; sergeant, Co. B, Thirty-Fourth Indiana Infantry; died 5 April 1922 at Indianapolis, Indiana; buried Estates of Serenity, Marion, Indiana.21

Harrison J. Hole: residence Castleton, Indiana; private, Co. I, Twenty-Sixth Indiana Infantry; died 20 May 1924 at Richland Center, Wisconsin; buried Richland Center Cemetery, Richland Center, Wisconsin.22

Brison LaRue: born about 1843 in Indiana; residence New Trenton, Indiana; private, Co. H, Sixty-Eighth Indiana Infantry; died 29 May 1910 at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Sol-diers at Marion, Indiana; buried Marion National Cemetery, Marion, Indiana.23

Philip Lucas: born about 1845 in Indiana; private, Co. A, Eighty-Second Indiana Infantry; private, Co. F, Twenty-Second Indiana Infantry; died 12 May 1915 at Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota; buried Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell, South Dakota.24

20 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:548.21 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:115; entry for John Hammitt (1922) in “United States

Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 82230800 for Sgt. John William Hammitt, Estates of Serenity, Marion, Grant County, Indiana, Find a Grave.

22 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:607; entry for Harrison J. Hole (1907) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 103467124 for Harrison J. Hole, Richland Center Cemetery, Richland Center, Richland County, Wisconsin, Find a Grave.

23 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:98; entry for Brison La Rue (1907) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 75614724 for Pvt. Brison Larue, Marion National Cemetery, Marion, Grant County, Indiana, Find a Grave; digital image of record for Brison Larue, no. 10576, Marion Branch, “U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866–1938” database, Ancestry.

24 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:508, 6:324; entry for Philip Lucas (1890) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 102361526 for Philip Lucas, Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell, Davison County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; digital image of record for Phillip Lucas, no. 2390, Battle Mountain Sanitarium, in “U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866–1938” database, Ancestry.

Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota, taken by W. S. Tanney ca. 1912.


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James McKinley: born 24 May 1844; residence Elkhart County, Indiana; private, Co. D, 136th Indiana Infantry; died 13 March 1909; buried Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell, South Dakota.25

Arthur J. Parshall: private, Fifth Independent Battery, Indiana Light Artillery; corporal, Co. F, Eighth Veteran Reserve Corps; died 15 November 1919 at Vancouver, Washington; buried Fort Vancouver Military Cemetery, Vancouver, Washington.26 (See also Post No. 43.)

Ira Pingrey (Pingry): born about 1839; residence Valparaiso, Indiana; private, Co. K, Elev-enth Ohio Infantry (three months); private, Co. F, Twenty-Third Indiana Infantry; died 15 Octo-ber 1905 in Davison County, South Dakota; buried Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell, South Dako-ta.27

Andrew G. Pringle: born 1842; residence Lake County, Indiana; private, Co. G, Twelfth Indiana Cavalry; died 26 January 1923 at Edinburg, Texas; buried Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell, South Dakota.28

25 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:390 (in Co. K); entry for James McKinley (1909) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 98241516 for James McKinley, Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell, Davison County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

26 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:712; entry for Arthur J. Parshall, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database, National Park Service; entry for Arthur S. Parshall (1919) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 20018233 for Arthur James Parshall, Fort Van-couver Military Cemetery, Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, Find a Grave.

27 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:532; entry for Ira Pingry (1880) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1866, vol. 1 (Akron, OH: 1893), 253; memorial no. 113027033 for Ira Pingry, Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell, Davison County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; entry for Ira Pingry (1905) in “South Dakota, Death Index, 1905–1955” database, Ancestry.

28 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:245; entry for Andrew G. Pringle (1923) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 60430248 for Andrew Gil-bert Pringle, Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell, Davison County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, https://www.loc.gov/item/2007662775/)



Samuel J. Shane: born 1845; sergeant, Co. F, Thirtieth Indiana Infantry; died 18 February 1925 at Mount Vernon, South Dakota; buried Mount Vernon Cemetery, Mount Vernon, South Dakota.29

George Shoup: private, Co. B, Fourth Indiana Cavalry.30

John W. Wiley: born 5 Jun 1841; private, Co. D, Seventy-Ninth Indiana Infantry; died 20 Sep-tember 1927 at Mitchell, South Dakota; buried Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell, South Dakota.31

Milton Wright: born about 1829 in Dearborn County, Indiana; first sergeant, Co. A, Third Indiana Cavalry; died 16 October 1889 at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Mil-waukee, Wisconsin; buried Wood National Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.32

phil kearney post no. 7 (Yankton, south dakota)William Henry Harrison Beadle: born 1 January 1838 at Howard, Parke County, Indiana;

residence Rockville, Indiana; captain, Co. A, Thirty-First Indiana Infantry; lieutenant colonel, First Michigan Sharpshooters; major, First Veteran Reserve Corps; major, Third Veteran Reserve Corps; brevetted lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brigadier general; member Wisconsin Com-mandery MOLLUS; died 13 November 1915 at San Francisco, California; buried Riverside Cem-etery in Albion, Michigan.33 (See also Post No. 22.)

Samuel A. Boyles: born 1841; residence Martin County, Indiana; first lieutenant, Co. E, Eigh-teenth Indiana Infantry; died 4 January 1919 at Yankton, South Dakota; buried Shiloh Cemetery, Ireland, Indiana.34

29 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:28; entry for Samuel J. Shane (1925) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 67652656 for Samuel J. Shane, Mount Vernon Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Davison County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

30 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:248. 31 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:282; entry for John W. Wiley (1870) in “United States

Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 96726074 for John Westby Wiley, Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell, Davison County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

32 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:409; entry for Milton Wright (1909) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 2931378 for Milton Wright, Wood National Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Find a Grave; digital image of record for Milton Wright, no. 204, Northwestern Branch, in “U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Sol-diers, 1866–1938” database, Ancestry.

33 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 2:303; entry for William H. H. Beadle, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database, National Park Service; entry for William H. H. Beadle (1871) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; Michigan Adjutant General, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861–1865, vol. 44 (Kalamazoo, MI: Ihling Bros. & Everhard, 1905), 1; Rog-er D. Hunt and Jack R. Brown, Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue (Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, 1990); Robert G. Carroon and Dana B. Shoaf, Union Blue: The History of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 2001).

34 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 2:163; entry for Samuel A. Boyles (1907) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 50507909 for Samuel G. Boyles, Yankton City Cemetery, Yankton, Yankton County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.


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James Buchanan: residence Clayton, Indiana; private, Co. C, Seventieth Indiana Infantry.35

John House: residence Howesville, Indiana; private, Co. F, Thirty-First Indiana Infantry.36 (See also Post No. 8.)

George C. James: born about 1845 in Indiana; residence Noble, Indiana; private, Co. D, Sev-enth Indiana Cavalry; died 2 January 1931 at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Sawtelle, California; buried Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, California.37

Louis F. Michel: residence Rush County, Indiana; private, Co. C, Sixteenth Indiana Infantry; died 5 May 1916 at Lesterville, South Dakota.38

Thomas J. Pickett: residence Vigo Country, Indiana; private, Co. C, 133rd Indiana Infantry; died 21 November 1912; buried Yankton City Cemetery, Yankton, South Dakota.39

Edmund H. Underwood: residence Lagrange, Indiana; corporal, Co. D, Twelfth Indiana Cav-alry; died in Okmulgee, Oklahoma.40

Lewis M. Yeatman: residence Indianapolis, Indiana; first lieutenant, Co. D, Nineteenth Indi-ana Infantry; private, Co. I, 142nd Indiana Infantry; died 19 April 1927 at Yankton, South Dakota; buried Yankton City Cemetery, Yankton, South Dakota.41

Miner post no. 8 (vermillion, south dakota)Daniel H. Cotton: residence St. Joseph County, Indiana; corporal, Co. H, Twelfth Indiana

Cavalry; died 1901; buried Union Cemetery, Wakonda, South Dakota.42

John House: residence Howesville, Indiana; private, Co. F, Thirty-First Indiana Infantry.43 (See also Post No. 7.)

35 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:122.36 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:45.37 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:106; entry for George C. James (1889) in “United States

Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 3720692 for George C. James, Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, Find a Grave; entry for George C. James, no. 33638, Pacific Branch, in “U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866–1938” database, Ancestry.

38 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:315 (as corp., Co. F); entry for Lewis F. Michael (1909) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch.

39 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:341; entry for Thomas J. Pickett (1912) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 50509801 for Thomas J. Pickett, Yankton City Cemetery, Yankton, Yankton County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

40 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:240; entry for Edmund H. Underwood (1907) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch.

41 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 2:171, 7:456; entry for Lewis M. Yeatman (1907) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; digital image of headstone applica-tion for Lewis M. Yeatman (1928) in “U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925–1963” database, Ancestry (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2375), citing NARA microfilm publication M1916.

42 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:243; entry for Daniel H. Cotton (1901), Union Cemetery, Wakonda, Clay County, in “Cemetery Record Search” database, South Dakota Historical Society.

43 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:45.



stephen a. hurlburt post no. 9 (Elk point, south dakota)Justice A. Wallace: born 1842; residence Daviess County, Indiana; private, Co. C, Sixth Indi-

ana Infantry (3 months); musician, Co. G, Forty-Second Indiana Infantry; died 1892; buried Elk Point Cemetery, Elk Point, South Dakota.44 (See also Post No. 78, in Part Two.)

Edward D. Woods: born 1837; residence Spencer County, Indiana; corporal, Co. K, Twenty-Fifth Indiana Infantry; died 22 June 1914 at Elk Point, South Dakota; buried Elk Point Cemetery, Elk Point, South Dakota.45

Joe hooker post no. 10 (sioux falls, south dakota)William H. Brewer: born 1842; residence Greenwood, Indiana; private, Co. D, Seventeenth

Indiana Infantry; died 26 November 1931 at Hot Springs, South Dakota; buried Woodlawn Cem-etery, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.46

Henry Breslin: residence Goshen, Indiana; private, Co. A, Twenty-First Indiana Infantry; pri-vate, Co. A, First Indiana Heavy Artillery; died 24 August 1905; buried Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.47

Robert W. Crane: private, Second Independent Battery, Indiana Light Artillery; died 20 Octo-ber 1915 at Houston, Texas.48

Augustus Loneus: born 28 Aug 1842; residence South Bend, Indiana; sergeant, Co. F, Twenty-Ninth Indiana Infantry; died 3 February 1917 at Sioux Falls, South Dakota; buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.49

James W. Murphy: residence Lexington, Indiana; private, Co. K, Sixty-Sixth Indiana Infantry; private, Co. I, Fifty-Ninth Indiana Infantry.50

44 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:5, 5:319; memorial no. 102254462 for Justus Alfred Wallace, Elk Point Cemetery, Elk Point, Union County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; entry for Justus A. Wallace (1892), Elk Point Cemetery, Elk Point, Union County, in “Cemetery Record Search” database, South Dakota His-torical Society.

45 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:585; entry for Edward D. Woods (1914) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 39442545 for Sgt. Edward Dolph Woods, Elk Point Cemetery, Elk Point, Union County, Find a Grave.

46 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:353; entry for William H. Brewer (1907) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 141485241 for William H. Brewer, Woodlawn Cemetery, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; entry for William H. Brewer (n.d.), Woodlawn Cemetery, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, in “Cemetery Record Search” database, South Dakota Historical Society.

47 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:448; memorial no. 23016361 for Henry Breslin, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; entry for Henry Breslin (1905) in “South Dakota, Death Index, 1905–1955” database, Ancestry.

48 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:698; entry for Robert W. Crane (1916) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch.

49 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:668; entry for Augustus Loneus (1917) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 44763980 for Augustus Loneus, Woodlawn Cemetery, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

50 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:691, 6:70.


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William H. Russell: residence Ripley County, Indiana; private, Co. F, Thirty-Fifth Indiana Infantry; died 20 August 1914 at Sioux Falls, South Dakota.51

Eli T. Spencer: born about 1848 at Hamilton, Ohio; residence Moore’s Hill, Indiana; private, Co. A, 146th Indiana Infantry; died 27 June 1933 at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Sol-diers, Sawtelle, California.52

Thomas J. Wohlford: born 1844; residence Orange County, Indiana; corporal, Co. F, Forty-Seventh Indiana Infantry; died 1920; buried Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Armour, South Dakota.53 (See also Post No 51, in Part Two.)

James J. Wolf: private, Co. A, Sixty-Ninth Indiana Infantry; died 30 March 1928; buried State Veterans Home Cemetery, Hot Springs, South Dakota.54

51 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:145; entry for William H. Russell (1916) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch.

52 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:505; entry for Eli T. Spencer (1892) in “United States Civ-il War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; digital image of record for Eli T. Spencer, no. 28524, Pacific Branch, in “U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866–1938” database, Ancestry.

53 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:440; memorial no. 125354132 for Thomas J. Wohlford, Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Armour, Douglas County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; entry for Thomas J. Wohlford (1920), Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Armour, Douglas County, in “Cemetery Record Search” database, South Dakota Historical Society.

54 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:103; entry for James J. Wolf (1907) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 22059482 for James Joseph Wolf, State Veterans Home Cemetery, Hot Springs, Fall River County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

Unidentfied soldier of the Thirty-Fourth Indiana. (Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,

https://www.loc.gov/item/2012648987/)



General Lyon post no. 11 (canton, south dakota)Benjamin F. Hancock: residence Spencer, Indiana; first lieutenant, Co. I, Nineteenth Indiana

Infantry; sergeant, Co. B, First Indiana Heavy Artillery.55

John H. Huff (Hoff): residence Middlebury, Indiana; private, Co. E, Seventy-Fourth Indiana Infantry; private, Co. K, 136th Indiana Infantry; private, Co. D, 152nd Indiana Infantry.56

canby post no. 12 (Miller, south dakota)James A. Arnot: born 7 November 1846; residence Delphi, Indiana; private, Co. A, Forty-

Sixth Indiana Infantry; died 12 August 1933; buried Moscow Cemetery, Moscow, Idaho.57

Thomas J. Bell: residence Logansport, Indiana; private, Co. D, Forty-Sixth Indiana Infantry; died 24 July 1917 at Portland, Oregon; buried Multnomah Park Cemetery, Portland, Oregon.58

John P. Frazee: born 1842; private, Co. B, Second Indiana Cavalry; died 24 May 1925 at Bar-rington, Illinois; buried Evergreen Cemetery, Barrington, Illinois.59

Basil F. Hite: residence Grant County, Indiana; musician, Co. I, Twelfth Indiana Infantry (one year); private, Co. A, Fifth Indiana Cavalry; died 17 February 1921 at Sacramento, California; buried Sacramento City Cemetery, Sacramento, California.60

Albert A. Manning: born 1840; residence Bluffton, Indiana; private, Co. H, Forty-Seventh Indiana Infantry; died 16 November 1913 at Chicago, Illinois; buried GAR Cemetery, Miller, South Dakota.61

55 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 2:174, 4:452.56 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:206, 7:390, 599.57 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:413; memorial no. 9261083 for James Anderson Arnot,

Moscow Cemetery, Moscow, Latah County, Idaho, Find a Grave.58 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:418; memorial no. 47369621 for Thomas J. Bell, Mult-

nomah Park Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, Find a Grave; digital image of record card for Thomas J. Bell, no. 4610, in “United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907–1933” data-base, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1832324), citing NARA microfilm publication M850.

59 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:299; entry for John Frazee (1911) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 66915571 for John P. Frazee, Evergreen Cemetery, Barrington, Cook County, Illinois, Find a Grave.

60 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:213, 6:456; entry for Basil F. Hite (1921) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 139660526 for Basil F. Hite, Sacramento City Cemetery, Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, Find a Grave.

61 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:443; memorial no. 102547559 for Albert Augustus Man-ning, GAR Cemetery, Miller, Hand County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; digital image of record card for Albert A. Manning, no. 50549, in “United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907–1933” database, FamilySearch; entry for A. A. Manning (1913) in “Cook County, Illinois, Deaths Index, 1878–1922” database, Ancestry (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2552).


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John McMurtry: residence Tippecanoe County, Indiana; second lieutenant, Co. H, Tenth Indiana Infantry; died 7 November 1917 at Wessington, South Dakota; buried Wessington Cem-etery, Wessington, South Dakota.62 (See also Post No. 115, in Part Two.)

James H. Snoddy: residence Marion County, Indiana; private, Co. H, Eleventh Indiana Infan-try; died 6 October 1908; buried GAR Cemetery, Miller, South Dakota.63

Tilghman Stone: born 1841; residence Wabash, Indiana; private, Co. F, Eighth Indiana Infan-try; died 18 June 1927 at South Dakota State Soldiers’ Home at Hot Springs, South Dakota; buried Burdette Cemetery, Burdette, South Dakota.64 (See also Post No. 53, in Part Two.)

John H. White: residence Johnson County, Indiana; private, Co. G, 132nd Indiana Infantry; died 24 July 1917 at Miller, South Dakota; buried GAR Cemetery, Miller, South Dakota.65

Sylvester S. Winters: residence Stockton, Indiana; private, Co. A, Fifty-Ninth Indiana Infan-try; died 5 August 1880; buried GAR Cemetery, Miller, South Dakota.66

sully post no. 13 (pierre, south dakota)Francis M. Anderson: born about 1847 at Danville, Illinois; residence Vermilion County,

Indiana; sergeant, Co. D, Seventh Indiana Cavalry; died 12 February 1925 at Yankton, South Dakota. (Postwar he served as a sergeant, Co. H, Seventeenth United States Infantry.)67

John Connor (Conner): private, Co. A, Seventeenth Indiana Infantry.68 (See also Post No. 52.)John Dickson: residence Lake County, Indiana; bugler, Co. G, Twelfth Indiana Cavalry.69

62 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 2:72; entry for John McMurtry (1918) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 90150218 for John Simp-son McMurtry, Wessington Cemetery, Wessington, Hand County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

63 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:71; entry for James H. Snoddy (1908) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 95842365 for James Heny Snoddy, GAR Cemetery, Miller, Hand County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

64 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:120; entry for Tilghman Stone (1927) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 50952654 for Tilghman Howard Stone, Burdette Cemetery, Burdette, Hand County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

65 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:334; entry for John H. White (1917) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 103146772 for John H. White, GAR Cemetery, Miller, Hand County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; digital image of record card for John H. White, no. 53781, in “United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907–1933” database, FamilySearch.

66 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:675; memorial no. 103120785 for Sylvester S. Wingers, GAR Cemetery, Miller, Hand County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; entry for Sylvester S. Winters (1880), GAR Cemetery, Miller, Hand County, in “Cemetery Record Search” database, South Dakota Historical Society.

67 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:105; entry for Francis M. Anderson (1925) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; digital image of enlistment regis-ter entry for Francis M. Anderson (29 June 1872) in “U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798–1914” database, Ancestry (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1198), citing NARA microfilm publication M233.

68 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:446.69 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:244.



Uriah D. Jaqua: born 30 June 1829; residence Lowell, Indiana; sergeant, Co. I, Seventy-Third Indiana Infantry; died 5 March 1907; buried Maplewood Cemetery, Valparaiso, Indiana.70

Henry Louis Notmeyer: private, Co. H, Fifty-Second Indiana Infantry; buried Riverside Cemetery, Pierre, South Dakota.71

W. Terrell Pattison: born 1845; residence Marion County, Indiana; private, Co. D, 132nd Indiana Infantry; died 14 November 1928 at Washington, DC; buried Crown Hill Cemetery, Indi-anapolis, Indiana.72

William P. Wimmer: residence Bellmore, Indiana; first lieutenant, Co. H, Twenty-First Indi-ana Infantry; captain, Co. H, First Indiana Heavy Artillery; died 27 April 1901 at Gettysburg, South Dakota; buried Riverside Cemetery, Pierre, South Dakota.73

c. c. Washburn post no. 15 (Egan, south dakota)William Coalter (Coulter): residence Evansville, Indiana; private, Co. A, 143rd Indiana

Infantry; died 4 November 1920 at Rochester, Minnesota; buried Lakewood Cemetery, Minne-apolis, Minnesota.74

George R. Laird: residence Mendon, Michigan; private, Co. B, 128th Indiana Infantry; died 23 December 1934; buried Hillside Cemetery, Egan, South Dakota.75

J. h. carleton post no. 17 (parker, south dakota)Loren G. King: private, Co. C, Seventy-Fifth Indiana Infantry; corporal, 158th Co., Second

Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps; corporal, Co. F, Fifth Veteran Reserve Corps; died 21 May 1916 at Parker, South Dakota; buried Rosehill Cemetery, Parker, South Dakota.76 (See also Post No. 4.)

70 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:195; memorial no. 100394701 for Uriah Drake Jaqua, Maplewood Cemetery, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, Find a Grave.

71 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:559; memorial no. 94091107 for Henry L. Notmeyer, Riv-erside Cemetery, Pierre, Hugh County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

72 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:330; entry for W. Terrell Pattison (1928) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 31624478 for W. Terrell Pattison, Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, Find a Grave.

73 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 2:198; entry for William P. Wimmer (1901) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; digital image of record card for William P. Wimmer (1901) in “Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879–1903” database, Ancestry (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1195), citing NARA microfilm publication M1845.

74 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:459; entry for William Coalter (1920) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 101263973 for William Coalter, Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, Find a Grave; digital image of record card for William Coalter, no. 10853, in “United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907–1933” database, FamilySearch.

75 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:257; memorial no. 55513974 for George Reuben Laird, Hillside Cemetery, Egan, Moody County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

76 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:220; entry for Loren G. King, Civil War Soldiers and Sail-ors Database, National Park Service; entry for Loren J. King (1916) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension


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robert anderson post no. 19 (aberdeen, south dakota)Luke A. Burke: residence Poseyville, Indiana; captain, Co. D, Ninety-First Indiana Infantry.77

John Foster: residence Goshen, Indiana; private, Co. I, Seventy-Fourth Indiana Infantry.78

Samuel Jaques (Jacques): residence Newville, Indiana; first sergeant, Co. F, Forty-Fourth Indiana Infantry; died 15 June 1923 at Glenburn, North Dakota; buried Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.79 (See also Post No. 45.)

Homer E. Lewis: born 15 June 1848 at Terre Haute, Indiana; residence Terre Haute, Indiana; private, Co. E, 124th Indiana Infantry; died 2 November 1928 at Danville, Illinois; buried Spring Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Danville, Illinois.80

George F. Miller: residence Carroll County, Indiana; private, Co. D, 154th Indiana Infantry; died 9 July 1919 at Minneapolis, Minnesota.81

George W. Norton: born 1837; private, Third Co., Indiana Legion; died 6 November 1920 at Ipswich, South Dakota; buried Green Mound Cemetery, Leola, South Dakota.82 (See also Post No. 147, in Part Two.)

Martin Punches: residence LaGrange County, Indiana; private, Co. G, Thirtieth Indiana Infantry; died 7 September 1894; buried State Veterans Home Cemetery, Hot Springs, South Dakota.83

General James shields post no. 22 (Madison, south dakota)William Henry Harrison Beadle: born 1 January 1838 at Howard, Parke County, Indiana;

residence Rockville, Indiana; captain, Co. A, Thirty-First Indiana Infantry; lieutenant colonel, First Michigan Sharpshooters; major, First Veteran Reserve Corps; major, Third Veteran Reserve Corps; brevetted lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brigadier general; member Wisconsin Com-

Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 49367064 for Lorane G. “Loren” King, Rosehill Cem-etery, Parker, Turner County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

77 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 2:113.78 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:212.79 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:374; entry for Samuel Jaques (1890) in “United States

Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 123444582 for Samuel W. Jaques, Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, Find a Grave.

80 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:189; memorial no. 31841499 for Homer E. Lewis, Spring Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, Find a Grave; entry for Homer E. Lewis (1928) in “Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916–1947” database, Ancestry (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2542).

81 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:626; entry for George F. Miller (1920) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch.

82 Entry for George W. Norton (1921) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 134350711 for George W. Norton, Green Mound Cemetery, Leola, McPherson Coun-ty, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

83 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:30; memorial no. 21936120 for Martin L. Punches, State Veterans Home Cemetery, Hot Springs, Fall River County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; entry for Martin L. Punches (1894), State Veterans Home Cemetery, Hot Springs, Fall River County, in “Cemetery Record Search” database, South Dakota Historical Society.



mandery MOLLUS; died 13 November 1915 at San Francisco, California; buried Riverside Cem-etery in Albion, Michigan.84 (See also Post No. 7.)

Isaac N. Van Doren: residence Miami County, Indiana; private, Co. B, Thirteenth Indiana Infantry; private, Bean’s Independent Co., Minnesota Citizen Soldiers; first lieutenant, Co. F, Sec-ond Minnesota Cavalry; died 27 September 1896 at Los Angeles, California; buried Sierra Madre Cemetery, Sierra Madre, California.85

John Westfall: residence Jay County, Indiana; private, Co. H, 100th Indiana Infantry; died 19 December 1921 at Sioux City, Iowa.86

84 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 2:303; entry for William H. H. Beadle, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database, National Park Service; entry for William H. H. Beadle (1871) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; Michigan Adjutant General, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861–1865, 44:1; Hunt and Brown, Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue; Car-roon and Dana Shoaf, Union Blue: The History of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

85 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:240; entry for Isaac N. Van Doren, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database, National Park Service; entry for Isaac N. Van Doren (1890) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; Board of Commissioners, Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars, 1861–1865, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (St. Paul, MN: Pioneer Press Co., 1891), 781; digital image of record for Isaac N. Van Doren (1894) in “U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925–1963” database, Ancestry.

86 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:559; entry for John Westfall (1907) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch.

1883 map view of Madison, South Dakota (Library of Congress Geography and Maps Division, https://www.loc.gov/item/75696574/)


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William Whitmore: born 1828; residence St. Joseph County, Indiana; wagoner, Co. B, Forty-Eighth Indiana Infantry; died 13 February 1909; buried Graceland Cemetery, Madison, South Dakota.87

George h. stevens post no. 23 (howard, south dakota)Joseph Barker: residence Boone County, Indiana; private, Co. G, Fifty-Fifth Indiana Infantry;

private, Co. A, 139th Indiana Infantry; died 6 November 1917 at Tonkawa, Oklahoma; buried Tonkawa IOOF Cemetery, Tonkawa, Oklahoma.88

Alfred M. Burk: residence Putnam County, Indiana; second lieutenant, Co. B, Forty-Third Indiana Infantry.89 (See also Post No. 32.)

Benjamin F. Kirk: private, Seventeenth Independent Battery, Indiana Light Artillery; died 8 April 1920 at Marshalltown, Iowa.90

John P. McGrew: residence Montgomery County, Indiana; corporal, Co. I, Eleventh Indiana Infantry (three months); captain, Co. D, Eleventh Indiana Infantry; died 17 September 1919 at Washington, DC.91 (See also Post No. 127, in Part Two.)

William J. Runyan: residence Ashland, Indiana; private, Co. G, Eighty-Fourth Indiana Infan-try; died 24 April 1918 at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Danville, Illinois; buried Danville National Cemetery, Danville, Illinois.92

Henry Shoemaker: born 1839; residence Middletown, Indiana; private, Co. E, Eighth Indiana Infantry; died 27 July 1905 at Anderson, Indiana; buried Saunders Cemetery, Daleville, Indiana.93

87 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:451; memorial no. 101310416 for William Whitmore, Graceland Cemetery, Madison, Lake County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; digital image of record card for Wil-liam Whitmore, no. 41280, in “United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907–1933” data-base, FamilySearch.

88 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:623, 7:416; entry for Joseph Barker (1917) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 309557744 for Joseph J. Barker, Tonkawa IOOF Cemetery, Tonkawa, Kay County, Oklahoma, Find a Grave.

89 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 2:424.90 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:753; entry for Benjamin F. Kirk (1908) in “United States

Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch.91 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 2:79, 4:71.92 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:365; entry for William J. Runyon (1907) in “United States

Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 10197074 for Pvt. William J. Runyan, Danville National Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, Find a Grave.

93 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:118; entry for Henry Shoemaker (1883) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 87291012 for Henry Shoe-maker, Saunders Cemetery, Daleville, Delaware County, Indiana, Find a Grave.



Mcarthur post no. 25 (Woonsocket, south dakota)John L. Cupp: born 1836; residence Carroll County, Indiana; private, Co. A, Ninth Indiana

Infantry (three months); sergeant, Co. K, Second Indiana Cavalry; died 6 June 1911; buried Long Beach Municipal Cemetery, Long Beach, California.94

General John sedgwick post no. 26 (salem, south dakota)Polk Turner: born 1846; private, Co. K, Ninety-First Indiana Infantry; died 5 May 1913 at

Forestville, Minnesota; buried Forestville Cemetery, Forestville, Minnesota.95

John a. dix post no. 30 (highmore, south dakota)Edgar E. Barnes: residence Washington, Indiana; corporal, Co. E, Twenty-Seventh Indiana

Infantry; died 10 November 1925 at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Sawtelle, California; buried Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, California.96

Benjamin F. McCutchen: residence Manchester, Indiana; private, Co. F, Eighth Indiana Infan-try; died 10 June 1925 at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Leavenworth, Kansas; buried Maple Grove Cemetery, Wichita, Kansas.97

John H. Reynolds: residence Granville, Indiana; private, Co. B, Eighty-Fourth Indiana Infan-try.98

Edward s. Mccook post no. 31 (hurley, south dakota)Horace Deyo: residence Delphi, Indiana; private, Co. A, Forty-Sixth Indiana Infantry; died

31 May 1905 at Bringhurst, Indiana; buried Zion Citizens Cemetery, Bringhurst, Indiana.99

94 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:38, 5:289; entry for John Cupp (1911) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 9624642 for John Leonard Cupp, Long Beach Municipal Cemetery, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, Find a Grave.

95 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:496; entry for Polk Turner (1913) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 62827813 for Polk Turner, For-estville Cemetery, Forestville, Fillmore County, Minnesota, Find a Grave.

96 Digital image of record for Edgar E. Barnes, no. 15503, Pacific Branch, in “U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866–1938” database, Ancestry; entry for Edgar E. Barnes (1888) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 3687511 for Edgar E. Barnes, Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, Find a Grave.

97 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:120; entry for Benjamin T. McCutchen (1883) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 33264299 for Benja-min Franklin McCutchen, Maple Grove Cemetery, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, Find a Grave.

98 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:358.99 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:413; memorial no. 125599177 for Horace H. Deyo,

Zion Citizens Cemetery, Bringhurst, Carroll County, Indiana, Find a Grave; entry for Horace Henry Deyo (31 May 1905), in “Indiana Deaths, 1882–1920” database, Ancestry (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7834).


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Meade post no. 32 (Gettysburg, south dakota)Alfred M. Burk: residence Putnam County, Indiana; second lieutenant, Co. B, Forty-Third

Indiana Infantry.100 (See also Post No. 23.)Robert B. Carr: residence Henry County, Indiana; first lieutenant, Co. A, Thirty-Sixth Indi-

ana Infantry; died 14 April 1920 at Lebanon, South Dakota; buried Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, South Dakota.101

Samuel Woodard Cosand: residence Thorntown, Indiana; private, Co. D, Seventy-Second Indiana Infantry; died 1 October 1908; buried Gettysburg Cemetery, Gettysburg, South Dakota.102

Charles W. Dean: born 15 July 1844; residence Lake County, Indiana; private, Co. K, Twenti-eth Indiana Infantry; died 7 June 1921 at Lewistown, Montana; buried Highland Cemetery, Great Falls, Montana.103

Peter Klein: born 1839; artificer, Sixth Independent Battery, Indiana Light Artillery; died 19 December 1913 at Gettysburg, South Dakota; buried Gettysburg Cemetery, Gettysburg, South Dakota.104

John Sendren: born 11 October 1830; private, Co. A, Thirty-Second Indiana Infantry; died 19 February 1912; buried Crown Hill Cemetery, Sedalia, Missouri.105

Augustus Topp: born about 1846 in Indiana; private, Fifteenth Independent Battery, Indiana Light Artillery; died 13 October 1899 at Chicago, Illinois; buried Rosehill Cemetery and Mauso-leum, Chicago, Illinois.106

t. o. howe post no. 33 (hitchcock, south dakota)Oliver H. Dimmitt: residence Tippecanoe County, Indiana; private, Co. H, Tenth Indiana

Infantry; died 21 January 1920 at Los Angeles, California; buried Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.107

100 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 2:424.101 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 2:355; entry for Robert B. Carr (1909) in “United States

Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 78468714 for Lieut. Robert B. Carr, Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Potter County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; entry for Robert B. Carr (1920) in “South Dakota, Death Index, 1905–1955” database, Ancestry.

102 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:169; entry for Samuel W. Cosand (1908) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 21313866 for Samuel Woodard Cosand, Gettysburg Cemetery, Gettysburg, Potter County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

103 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:445; entry for Charles W. Dean (1907) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 463188864 for Charles Wesley Dean, Highland Cemetery, Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana, Find a Grave.

104 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:712; memorial no. 78025176 for Peter Klein, Gettysburg Cemetery, Gettysburg, Potter County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.

105 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:77; memorial no. 116081937 for John Sendren, Crown Hill Cemetery, Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, Find a Grave.

106 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:746; memorial no. 128626430 for Augustus Topp, Rose-hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, Find a Grave; entry for Augustus H. Topp (1899) in “Cook County, Illinois, Deaths Index, 1878–1922” database, Ancestry.

107 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:167; entry for Oliver H. Dimmitt (1920) in “United



Mckenzie post no. 34 (chamberlain, south dakota)Louis J. Disborough (Disbrow): residence Guilford, Indiana; private, Co. K, Twenty-Sixth

Indiana Infantry; private, Co. H, Fifth Ohio Cavalry; died 23 March 1926 at Plainville, Indiana. (Postwar he served as a private, Co. L, Second United States Cavalry.)108

George W. Tipton: residence Northfield, Indiana; private, Co. F, Fortieth Indiana Infantry.109

reno post no. 35 (kimball, south dakota)Ezekiel H. Ames: residence Monmouth, Indiana; corporal, Co. I, Eighty-Ninth Indiana Infan-

try; died 27 August 1906 in Brule County, South Dakota; buried Bijou Hills Union Cemetery, Bijou Hills, South Dakota.110 (See also Post No. 93, in Part Two.)

George Miller: residence Valparaiso, Indiana; private, Co. B, 151st Indiana Infantry. (Note: Pension records indicate he also served in the Mexican War.)111

Alonzo Selby: residence Tunnelton, Indiana; private, Co. G, Fourth Indiana Cavalry; died 24 July 1923 at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Danville, Illinois; buried Dan-ville National Cemetery, Danville, Illinois.112

General haskins post no. 40 (Gary, south dakota)Austin L. Thompson: born 21 August 1841; residence Merrillville, Indiana; private, Co. E,

151st Indiana Infantry; died 28 November 1919 at Hobart, Indiana; buried Hobart Cemetery, Hobart, Indiana.113

States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 9622553 for Oliver H. Dimmitt, Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Los Angeles County, Calfornia, Find a Grave.

108 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:610; entry for Louis J. Disborough (1926) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; digital image of enlistment register entry for Louis J. Disborough (30 June 1867) in “U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798–1914” database, Ances-try; Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1866, vol. 9 (Akron, OH: Werner Printing and Lithography Co., 1891), 282.

109 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:262.110 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:451; memorial no. 26757286 for Ezekiel H. Ames, Bijou

Hills Union Cemetery, Bijou Hills, Brule County, South Dakota, Find a Grave; entry for Ezekiel H. Ames (1906) in “South Dakota, Death Index, 1905–1955” database, Ancestry.

111 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:580; entry for George Miller (1890) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch.

112 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:257; entry for Alonzo Selby (1923) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 62788461 for Alonzo Selby, Danville National Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, Find a Grave.

113 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:585; entry for Austin L. Thompson (1930) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 76186165 for Austin L. Thompson, Hobart Cemetery, Hobart, Lake County, Indiana, Find a Grave.


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Edward Welch post no. 41 (White, south dakota)George Headley: residence Dearborn County, Indiana; private, Co. F, Thirty-Seventh Indiana

Infantry.114

General sheridan post no. 43 (Geddes, south dakota)Arthur J. Parshall: private, Fifth Independent Battery, Indiana Light Artillery; corporal, Co.

F, Eighth Veteran Reserve Corps; died 15 November 1919 at Vancouver, Washington; buried Fort Vancouver Military Cemetery, Vancouver, Washington.115 (See also Post No. 6.)

Mark T. Post: born about 1847 in Hamilton County, Ohio; residence Deerfield, Indiana; pri-vate, Co. E, Eighty-Fourth Indiana Infantry; died 2 March 1931 at Monowi, Nebraska; buried Alford Cemetery, Monowi, Nebraska. (Postwar he served as a private in Co. H, Seventh United States Cavalry.)116

ralph Ely post no. 45 (columbia, south dakota)Polikarp Dinger: born 1836; private, Co. D, 150th Indiana Infantry; died 22 April 1922 at

Long Beach, California; buried Sunnyside Cemetery, Long Beach, California.117

Samuel Jaques (Jacques): residence Newville, Indiana; first sergeant, Co. F, Forty-Fourth Indiana Infantry; died 15 June 1923 at Glenburn, North Dakota; buried Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.118 (See also Post No. 19.)

Philip Rudisill: residence Greencastle, Indiana; private, Co. E, First Indiana Heavy Artillery; died 16 August 1914 at Hot Springs, South Dakota; buried State Veterans Home Cemetery, Hot Springs, South Dakota.119

114 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:181.115 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:712; entry for Arthur J. Parshall, Civil War Soldiers and

Sailors Database, National Park Service; entry for Arthur S. Parshall (1919) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 20018233 for Arthur James Parshall, Fort Van-couver Military Cemetery, Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, Find a Grave.

116 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 6:363; entry for Mark T. Post (1910) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; digital image of enlistment register entry for Mark T. Post (15 August 1866) in “U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798–1914” database, Ancestry; memo-rial no. 57202766 for Mark Townsend Post, Alford Cemetery, Monowi, Boyd County, Nebraska, Find a Grave.

117 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 7:568; entry for Polikarp Dinger (1890) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 15165863 for Pvt. Polikarp Dinger, Sunnyside Cemetery, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, Find a Grave.

118 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 5:374; entry for Samuel Jaques (1890) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 123444582 for Samuel W. Jaques, Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, Find a Grave.

119 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 4:463; entry for Philip Rudisill (1891) in “United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861–1917” database, FamilySearch; memorial no. 22059303 for Philip Rudis-ill, State Veterans Home Cemetery, Hot Springs, Fall River County, South Dakota, Find a Grave.



West Central DistriCt

“Eph poppEd partridGEs” (MontGoMErY countY, 1891)

“Eph Miers was tried this morning for shooting quails after the law protecting them began to be enforced. The case was conducted before Judge Snyder, Courtney appearing for the defense and Moffett for the State. Levi Martin was the prosecuting witness and after hearing the evidence the court decided that Eph was guilty as charged in the indictment and fined him $1 and costs. The costs will amount to about $80. Young Buchanan, who was indicted for the same offense, was turned loose.” (Crawfordsville Daily Journal, 6 April 1891, page 3)

notEs froM oak GrovE (MontGoMErY countY, 1891)

“Miss Helen Mount returned to Coate’s college Monday.William Boyers has gone to Ladoga to attend the Spring term of school there.Mrs. Nancy Hooper is quite sick with the grip with but little hope of her recovery.J. H. Stewart and S. T. Miller started on the rounds assessing Franklin township property

Thursday.Quite a lot of slat fencing is being erected in this neighborhood improving very much the

looks of the landscape thereby.An immense crowd of friends attended the funeral of Miss Louie Young on Easter Sunday.

Rev. McMaster officiated and the interment was made at the Shannondale cemetery.We confess to a scarcity of news. We do not like the confession in so public a way either, fear-

ing that it might be derogatory to us as a community. But when a correspondent is expected to write a letter ‘crisp and good enough to eat,’ with nothing to start on he has a right to complain. Two headed calves and the like, when they make their debut into the commonplaceness of this world, choose Yankeetown or some other place in which to live. Menageries don’t travel through here and no wild animals escape that we know of. Men and women keep to the ‘even tenor of their ways’ to a monotonous degree. But for pure, undefiled respectability we take the cake.” (Crawfordsville Daily Journal, 7 April 1891, page 4)

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East CEntral DistriCt

coMMon schooL GraduatEs (hancock countY, 1892)

“The following is a list of the pupils who succeeded in making passing grades at the examina-tion of March 19, 1892:

Blue-River Township.—Rollo Harold, B. S. Binford, A. E. Hamilton, and O. J. Binford.Brown Township.—Effie Thomas, Ben Gundren, Weston Somerville, John W. Foland, Walter

Welborn and J. O. Fort.Buck-Creek Township.—Katie A. Harvey, Maud Cly, Walter Stoner and Anna M. Frost.Center Township.—Anna M. Frost [sic]Green Township.—Frank Lewark and Laura Murfin.Sugar-Creek Township.—Nellie Furry and Kate Caraway.Vernon Township.—Bertha Pope, C. F. Jeffers, Calvin Apple, Wm. W. Apple, M. A. Beagle,

George Teal, M. E. Craig, Jennie Pope and Della Smith.Fortville.—Ollie Geer, Mollie E. Rash, Jennie Baker, John Rash, Fred Hardin, Julia Calahan

and A. Hare.New Palestine.—Maud Nichols, John Waggoner, Edna Burkhart, Maggie A. Scott and Nellie

Kirk.Those desiring to do so can write again at the Greenfield High School Building, April 30,

1892.

Quitman Jackson, County Supt.”(Greenfield Republican, 21 April 1892, page 1)

HigH SCHOOl grADuATES iN grEENFiElD, HANCOCk COuNTy, 1892

“There is an unusually large class this year, and it is a good one. Commencement exercises will be held at Masonic Hall on Thursday evening May 12th. The following is a list of the graduates; Frankie Comstock, Ora Dill, May Duncan, Edwin Glascock, Jennie Goble, Elijah Henby, Nerva Jessup, Inez Martin, Lettie Millikan, Fannie Moulden, Clara Offutt, Deemie Patterson, Eldon Robb, Ida Steele, Leroy Scott, Albert Tague, Vinnie Wood, and Mollie Young.” (Greenfield Republi-can, 21 April 1892, page 1)


SouthweSt DiStrict

LEttErs LEft at thE vincEnnEs post officE, 11 JuLY 1877

Submitted by Marlene Polster

The following list of letters remaining in the Vincennes Post Office was published in the Vin-cennes Western Sun on 13 July 1877, page 3. If not retrieved within a month, letters would be sent to the Dead Letter Office.

Ladies’ ListAckerhart MaryAlexander Nancy LBaker Mrs Sam’lClark Mrs MDollinger MaryDean NoraDean KatieFoster Martha JFarrand MagGrove AdaGreason CharlotteHunt Mrs J WHumphrey Mrs NHardesty ClaraJenkins CeliaJordon Rebecca JLewis SarahLafin JosephineLittlejohn BettieMcBride LieuMeroz Madam (Regis.)McDonnell Mary AnnMcArthur JaneMemering MaggieOrr Mrs JohnOmelia MolliePurry MaryReel Sarah E

Scott MaggieSprings HarrietSmith MaggieSchuler DoraSteeg Ada V TWiliams JaneWatson Marie D—2

Gentlemen’s ListAnderson LewisAston Fluma MArd R JBuecker LBoyer L RBenhome JohnBoleman JohnBerner HenryBatette FrankCrews AlbertChany S SCorry H FDexter J HDuckworth AlvinDunkle GeoEckhouse SFowler B FGraham GeoHall Oakhurst EHouse Elli

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South Central DiStriCt

Horn MichaelHess MosesHenry R EHoltzhaues JHolt AndrewJohnson AbnerKothe F WKolthoff GeoKirk R MLupton J HLane SamLander BenMills ThomasNewcom SamPatterson EdwardPetts DavidRay RichmonRawson G W

Ress GeorgeRyan JamesShawhan & BoonshotSpillman AlbertShuler J DSimms WinthropeSmily JacobStuckmiere FredSnyder W RStewart JasperTurbett JasWeichel WmWelton AlfredWilliams ClintWilkerson Wm R

W. N. Denny, P.M.

A HiSTOry OF HArvEy A. kirk OF mOrgAN COuNTy

Patricia A. Dow

Harvey A. Kirk, born 27 September 1857 in Jefferson Township, Morgan County, Indiana, to Daniel R. and Martha Ellen (Dow) Kirk, was the third son and fourth child born into a family that would eventually have thirteen children. Harvey’s great-grandfather, Daniel Kirk, was born in Virginia and had moved to Nelson County, Kentucky, by the time he married in 1798. On 1 March 1799 William Henry Kirk, Harvey’s grandfather, was born in Washington County, Ken-tucky, the sixth of nine children. By 1835 William Henry was in Shelby County, Indiana, where his wife, Elizabeth (Depew) Kirk, passed away on 4 July 1835. William Henry died 21 September 1865 in Morgan County, Indiana, and was buried at Hall, Indiana. Daniel R. Kirk, born 1 Octo-ber 1828 in Shelby County, Indiana, married Martha Ellen Dow on 7 December 1851 in Morgan County, Indiana.1 The family had traveled from Virginia to Kentucky then southern Indiana

1 Michael Krieger, Judy Day Krieger, and Christopher Krieger, The Descendants of Daniel Kirk (Provo, UT: n.p., 1987).



before coming to Morgan County. The seventh generation of the Kirk family continues to reside in Morgan County, Indiana.

The Kirks lived in rural areas and were farmers and landowners. Daniel R. Kirk owned six hundred acres of land in Jefferson Township, Morgan County, Indiana. His father-in-law, Nathan Dow, had been a pioneer in Morgan County and had also settled in Jefferson Township. William Henry Kirk, Harvey’s grandfather, had settled in Gregg Township, Morgan County, where he farmed.

In 1908 Harvey was featured in Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Repre-sentative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity:

Harvey A. Kirk is a well known citizen of Morgan County, where he has spent his life. He was reared on the farm in Jefferson township, and was educated in the district schools. His interests have always been centered in agriculture, and he has been very successful in all its branches. Married at the age of twenty-one, for the succeeding ten years he operated rented land, and then purchased the 230 acres which constitute his present valuable and attractive home. Here Mr. Kirk has a handsome, commodious residence and other build-ings necessary for the conducting of large operations, his improvements equaling any in the locality.

On April 18, 1878, Mr. Kirk married Miss Maggie Johnston, daughter of William and Elizabeth (White) Johnston, and twelve children were born to this union, namely: Charles, Mattie and Hattie (twins), Harry, James, Myrtle, Ida, Alice, Clarence, Clara and two [sons] who died in infancy. In politics Mr. Kirk is a Republican. Both he and his wife belong to the Christian Church, in which he is a deacon, at Martinsville. Mrs. Kirk’s parents came from South Carolina to Indiana about 1840, and settled in Monroe County, where the father died aged about sixty-five years. The mother resided in Bloomington until her death, Sept. 3, 1903, at the age of eighty years. Mr. and Mrs. John-ston had four children; Mrs. Kirk; Cassie, wife of C. A. Junkin, of Monroe county; Alice, widow of Frank Marlin, of Bloomington; and Ida, who married Charles Brown, of Monroe county, and died April 5, 1904.2

Harvey and his son Clarence Glen Kirk worked for the Bradford brothers who owned what is known as Bradford Woods outside of Martinsville in Clay Township, Morgan County, Indiana. They worked in the sand pits where sand was hauled by horse and rail cars to be used on roads and in making bricks. The Bradfords bought the first gasoline-powered tractor in Morgan County and chose Clarence to operate the tractor.

2 Commemorative and Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity (Chi-cago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1908), 1136–37.

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Detail of Gregg and Jefferson Townships. Some of Daniel Kirk’s land is shown in northeast Jefferson Town-ship, bordering the White River. (W. W. Richie’s Map of Morgan County, Indiana [Philadelphia: 1875]; Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4093m.la000160)



Harvey cut timber from the hill behind his house and slid the logs down the steep slate hill to the road. He farmed with draft horses and raised pigs, which were slaughtered for meat for the family. Skinning the pigs, cutting up the meat, smoking hams and bacon, and rendering the lard was a family affair. Milk cows were kept for milk and cream for the family, and they churned but-ter. Wool was sheared and spun from their sheep to make yarn for clothing.

Fireplaces and wood or coal stoves were used to heat homes. Harvey and his family cut and corded their own wood. Cooking in the Kirk home was done on a stove fueled by wood. Harvey and Maggie had a summer kitchen behind their home where cooking and canning were done in the summertime so the house would stay cooler. These stoves had one end with a built-in well to hold water to heat. When the water was heated it was put in a big round metal tub and people took turns bathing. In the summer, sometimes they would go to the creek or White River nearby to bathe. Harvey had dug a well, and there was a hand pump to pull the water out of the well so they didn’t have to carry water from the creek or pull the water up in buckets from the well like the pioneers had done. Most rural areas did not have electricity when Harvey was a child and young man, so houses were lighted with kerosene lamps or candles made from tallow.

Babies and toddlers wore dresses. Most clothing was homemade. Women’s dresses covered their ankles and men’s pants were buttoned, not zipped. Families raised most of their own food. Flour and sugar were purchased from small stores, or flour was ground from the wheat that was raised and taken to a gristmill to be ground. Vegetables that were grown were stored in cellars underground, dried, canned, or pickled. Meat was often dried, pickled, or cured in smokehouses and canned. Harvey had a smokehouse. Milk was stored in a nearby creek or springhouse, an area where cold water could be contained to set the milk in to keep it from spoiling and away from animals.

Harvey walked to a one-room schoolhouse. All grades were taught by the same teacher. Har-vey started school during the Civil War. In Indiana the Supreme Court had invalidated the sec-tion of the law that authorized townships to levy a tax to support schools. Only after the Civil War were public schools restored. In 1869 schools were opened for African Americans. They were allowed in some white schools in 1877, but no compulsory education law was passed in Indiana for anyone until 1897.3 The Kirk family could all read and write by Harvey’s generation. Several of Harvey’s daughters became schoolteachers.

Products were moved long distance either by horse and wagon or by flatboats on the river. When trains began to replace the boats, the closest one to Martinsville in 1860 was the Monon that ran through Bloomington, Indiana. Eventually, tracks were built running though Martinsville to Mooresville past Harvey’s house in Clay Township. Clarence Kirk stated he had sometimes taken one of the railroad handcars and ridden it to Martinsville.

Harvey was born just before the Civil War and lived through World War I, when rations such as sugar and gasoline were limited. He was too young to serve in the Civil War and was too old to be drafted for World War I. He died on Christmas Eve 1934 at home. He had lived to see gaso-

3 William E. Wilson, Indiana: A History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966).

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line tractors come into limited use and cars and motorbikes into common use for transportation. Ladies’ dresses had gone from being floor length to just below the knee, and men’s pants now had zippers. Wringer-type washing machines were being used instead of washboards to wash cloth-ing. Oil heating stoves and electricity had been put in many homes. Crank telephones (with a crank on the side of the telephone that people used to turn in long and short turns to call another person) had come to the rural areas, where party lines were used. Harvey did not sign on with the telephone company. He and his family built and maintained their own party phone line and con-nected to each others’ homes, according to his granddaughter Ruth Rawlins Hammans. Several of Harvey’s children lived within a mile of his house.

raLph B. cartEr of MonroE countY: A mAN OF mANy TAlENTS

Randi Richardson

Ralph B. Carter,1 who may be best remembered as the man behind the Smithville News, was in reality a man of many talents who wore many hats throughout his lifetime.

He was the son of Wilford Carter, a native of Jackson County, Indiana, who was once among the best-known citizens of Smithville. When Wilford was yet a young man, only twenty, his father died, leaving the family in limited circumstances. With much hard work, Wilford paid off the family farm and, in 1848, commenced business in Dudleytown, Jackson County.2

The following year Wilford married Sarah Powell. After fathering three children, he settled with his family in the newly established town of Smithville about 1857.3 There he purchased 160 acres, opened a general store, and served four terms as a justice of the peace.

Sarah died on 15 March 1870. A few months later, Wilford married again. His second wife was Martha McCormick, a young widow. Together with Martha, Wilford had two additional chil-dren, Mary Maude, who eventually married Dr. J. E. Luzadder, and Ralph B., who was born on 8 February 1876.4

In early December 1895, after a lingering illness, Wilford died of cancer. He was seventy-two years of age and had lived in Monroe County for more than forty-five years. His remains were

1 The accompanying photo of Ralph Carter, in company with two others, was sent to the Bloomington (IN) Daily Herald Telephone by Mrs. Pearl Litz and became part of a daily series titled “Yesteryear” that was published in the newspaper from the late 1940s through the 1950s and possibly later. This particular photo, published on an unidentified date in the early 1950s and identified as part of Yesteryear No. 216, is archived in a notebook consist-ing of “Yesteryear” articles at the Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana.

2 Charles Blanchard, ed., Counties of Morgan, Monroe & Brown, Indiana (Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., 1884), 659. 3 Ibid.4 Ibid.



taken to Seymour for interment.5 Martha, age sixty-six, died of cancer in 1898 and was laid to rest beside her husband. Ralph, who was not yet twenty when his father died, took over the family business.6 About this time he began publishing Smithville’s first newspaper, the Name It and Take It, in the store once owned by his father.

He was not, however, a merchant for long. Sometime in 1900 he sold the store’s stock of goods to Taylor Roberts, and his interest turned to telephones. A switchboard was installed in the store, and Ralph continued to operate the telephone system and publish his newspaper until the build-ing was completely destroyed by fire in 1901. The only item rescued from the fire was the switch-board.7 Arson was suspected as the cause of the fire.

On Christmas Day 1904, Ralph married Alma Ross, a native of Smithville and the daughter of Wilson Ross, who was, like Ralph’s late father, a well-known merchant.8 The published announce-ment of the marriage noted that Ralph was the proprietor of the Monroe County telephone lines that encompassed the entire south portion of the county. It seems likely that his business obliga-tions kept the honeymoon brief, as it was noted that the happy couple boarded a train for India-napolis immediately after the wedding but was at home in Smithville by 1 January.

In 1905 Ralph sued Taylor Roberts and his associate in order to collect the money due him from the sale of the store.9 Roberts, who was reportedly a prominent citizen residing in Hancock

5 Bloomington (IN) Telephone, 10 December 1895, p. 4.6 Bloomington (IN) Telephone, 24 June 1898, p. 1.7 This news item, without a source, dated 18 October 1901, was found in the Smithville Community File at the

Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana.8 Bloomington (IN) Telephone, 23 January 1937, p. 1. 9 Bloomington (IN) Evening World, 1 June 1905, p. 1.

(Left) Photo of Carter from the Bloomington Daily Telephone, published ca. 1950s. (Center and right) Carter’s World War I draft registration card, created shortly before his death.

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County, came to Monroe County with a team of ponies that Ralph attached. Roberts was arrested, and during the course of the trial, he was charged with burning the store.

A few years later, on 10 August 1908, Ralph’s commitment to keeping the citizens of Smithville well informed was again made apparent when the Seymour Republican reported that Ralph was the associate editor of the “new” Smithville News, published weekly.10 The information was reiter-ated by the census enumerator in 1910, who noted that Ralph’s occupation was that of “printer and telephone.”11 By that time, Ralph and Alma were the parents of two children, Drusala, age three, and Robert J., age two. Three boarders who worked at the telephone company made the Carter household in Clear Creek Township complete.

Family and business weren’t Ralph’s only area of interest. He also played in the Smithville band. His area of specialty was the clarinet.12 And when the dome of Bloomington’s nearly new courthouse began to leak in 1913, he took the needed repairs upon himself with the help of Hom-er Eads and Silas Siscoe.13 About that same time he was also responsible for fixing the courthouse clock after a number of experts failed to make it work.

Ralph continued to work on the courthouse clock whenever repairs were needed. In July 1916 the Bloomington Daily Telephone noted that Ralph was the “high chief operator of the town clock.” That same newspaper account also identified Ralph as the “principal owner of the Citizens [Tele-phone] Company” in Ellettsville. A later article in the Telephone noted that Carter had during his lifetime also operated a grocery and built a pike.14

With the base of his operations in Ellettsville, he undoubtedly found it advantageous to live closer to the town. Therefore it wasn’t too surprising to learn in 1918 that he had left Smithville and located his family in the 800 block of Atwater in Bloomington, where, according to the news-paper, he could “participate in the doings of a real city.”15

On 12 September 1918, not long after he moved to Bloomington, Ralph, aged forty-two years, registered for the draft. America was at war with Germany, and the draft registration mandated in 1917 for men between the ages of twenty-one to thirty-one was amended in 1918 to include all men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five. Based upon his age, Ralph was excluded from the first draft but required to register for the second draft.

According to the registration information that he provided, Ralph lived at 802 Atwater, and his occupation was manager of the Monroe County Telephone Company. The registrar noted

10 Seymour (IN) Daily Republican, 10 August 1908, p. 4.11 1910 U.S. census, Monroe County, Indiana, pop. sch., Bloomington City, Bloomington Twp., ED 133, p. 5A,

dwell. 61, fam. 63, Ralph B. Carter; digital image, Ancestry (accessed 23 August 2016). 12 Bloomington (IN) Daily Telephone, 6 February 1911, p. 1.13 Bloomington (IN) Daily Telephone, 16 May 1913, p. 114 Bloomington (IN) Daily Telephone, 14 May 1918, p. 1.15 Ibid.



on the reverse side of the card that Ralph was a short man of medium build with blue eyes, light brown hair, and a “crippled back.”16

Ralph was never called upon to serve his country. Perhaps his “crippled back” made him unfit, or, perhaps, his health was already failing. On 9 November 1918, less than two months after reg-istering for the draft, Ralph died. According to his obituary, his death was caused by “influenza followed by meningitis trouble,” thus making him a statistic in the flu epidemic that resulted in an estimated ten thousand deaths in Indiana from September 1918 to February 1919.17 Graveside funeral services were held for him at Rose Hill Cemetery.18

Alma was left to mourn her loss with four young children to raise as a single parent. Drusala and Robert had been joined by Max and Ross. In 1930 the enumerator found Alma, age forty-seven, living in a home that she owned at 403 N. Dunn in Bloomington. Her daughter and son-in-law, Drusala and Rolland Fifer, along with Robert, Max, and Ross, lived with her. The house was valued at $7,500 and the family had the luxury of a radio. Rolland worked as a cook at a fra-ternity.19

When Alma was yet relatively young, only fifty-four, she died at her home, 404 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, on 22 January 1937. She, too, was a victim of the flu but had been in poor health for some time due to heart disease. Her obituary noted that her late husband, Ralph, was for many years “operator of an independent telephone company in the south part of the county,” installed the first telephones at Smithville, operated the Smithville exchange for many years, and later opened other small exchanges.20

Alma was buried by the side of her husband in Rose Hill. She was survived by all four of her children: Ross Carter, an employee of the Daily Telephone; Robert Carter, 103 Vermilya Avenue; Max Carter of Cincinnati; and Mrs. Roland Fifer of Louisville.21

Randi Richardson is the South Central District director for IGS.

16 Ralph B. Carter, serial no. 317, order No. 367, Monroe County, Indiana, Draft Board, in “World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918” database; digital images, Ancestry (accessed 21August 2016), citing “World War I Selective Services System Draft Registration Cards,” NARA microfilm publication M1509, no specific roll cited.

17 Bloomington (IN) Evening World, 8 November 1918, p. 1; Ralph Burford Carter, death certificate no. 40615; digi-tal image, Ancestry (accessed 21 August 2016), citing Indiana State Board of Health, Death Certificates, 1900–2011, microfilm, Indiana Archives and Records Administration (this was the only source that provided Ralph’s middle name as opposed to an initial); “Indiana,” The Great Pandemic: The United States in 1918-1919, United States Department of Health and Human Services (http://www.flu.gov/pandemic/history/1918/your_state/midwest/indiana/index.html: accessed 21 August 2016).

18 Bloomington (IN) Evening World, 11 November 1918, p. 4.19 1930 U.S. census, Monroe County, Indiana, pop. sch., Bloomington City, Bloomington Twp., ED, 53-8, p. 3A,

dwell./fam. 67, Alma Carter; digital image, Ancestry (accessed 21 August 2016). 20 Bloomington (IN) Telephone, 23 January 1937, p. 1.21 Ibid.

http://www.flu.gov/pandemic/history/1918/your_state/midwest/indiana/index.html

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NATurAlizATiONS iN FlOyD COuNTy COurT rECOrDS, part thrEE

Nancy Strickland

The naturalization records transcribed below (the third in a planned series) are indexed in An Index to Indiana Naturalization Records Found in Various Order Books of the Ninety-Two Local Courts Prior to 1907 (Indianapolis: Family History Section, Indiana Historical Society, 1981).1 They are noted as being in Volume B of the Circuit Court Records. The volume is now labeled as A-1.

Kehl, Henry15 October 1832p. 295

Henry Kehl produced in open Court the following declaration towitState of Indiana Henry Kehl, a native of France of the age of forty three } Sct years makes the following declaration in order to becomeFloyd County a citizen of the United States of America viz that he left Havre De

Grace on the 27th day of April 1828 and arrived in the United States at the City of New Orleans about the 6th day of July following that he has resided within the state of Indiana for four years last past where it is bonafide his intention to reside. That he hereby renounces all allegiance [sic] to any foreign Prince Potentate State or Sovereignty whatever and particularly Lewis Phillippe King of France of whom he is a subject. Henry Kehl

Sworn to in open Court October 15, 1832.H. Scribner Clk

Melling, Edward28 October 1835p. 502

Be it remembered that on this day Edward Melling personally appeared in open Court and applies to be admitted a Citizen of the United States of America pursuant to an act of Congress entitled an Act to establish a uniform rule of naturalization and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that Subject and also an act entitled An act in addition to an act to establish an uni-form rule of naturalization & to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that Subject and he having

1 For Part One, see the September 2016 issue of Indiana Genealogist. For Part Two, see the December 2016 issue.



taken upon himself to Support the Constitution of the United States and that he does absolutely renounce and entirely abjure all allegiance to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever and particularly to Leopold Grand Duke of the Grand Dukedom of Baden in Germany whereof he is a subject. And the said Edward Melling having produced evidence to the Court of three Years residence in the United States of America as by said Acts he is required to do & of his being well disposed towards the government thereof & of his having made a declaration of his intentions to become a Citizen according to law. It is therefore considered by the Court now here that said Edward Melling be and he is accordingly admitted a Citizen of the United States of America-----

Mercer, Robert18 May 1831p. 241

Robert Mercer an alien filed the following declaration towitState of IndianaFloyd CountyRobert Mercer an alien and native of England of the County of Lancashire owing by birth

allegiance to the King of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain Ireland and all its [ ], aged thirty years by occupation a shoe maker states and gives this Court to understand and prays that his statement may be entered of record that he left England in the month of November 1829 and landed in the United States on the 2nd day of February 1830, that he has ever since resided in the United States and eleven months in the States of Indiana where it is his intention permanently to reside, he further states that it is bonafide his intention to become a Citizen of the United States and to renounce all allegiance to any King Prince, Potentate State or Sovereignty whatsoever more especially his allegiance to William the fourth King of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland his heirs and successors and to settle and reside in that part of the United States known by the name of the State of Indiana. Robert Mercer

Sworn to in open Court May 17, 1831. H. Scribner Clerk

Mercer, Robert9 May 1835p. 494

Be it remembered that on this day Robert Mercer personally appeared in open Court and applied to be admitted a Citizen of the United States of America pursuant to the Act of Con-gress entitled an act to establish a uniform rule of naturalization and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject and also of an act entitled an act in addition to an act to establish a uniform

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rule of naturalization & to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject and he having taken upon himself the oath to support the Constitution of the United States and that he does absolutely renounce and entirely abjure all allegiance to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever and particularly to [blank] whereof he is a subject. And the said Robert Mercer having produced evidence to the Court of five years residence in the United States of America as by said acts he is required to do and of his being well disposed toward the government thereof & of his having made a declaration of his intentions to become a Citizen according to law. It is therefore Considered by the Court now here that the said Robert Mercer be & he is accordingly admitted a Citizen of the United States of America. ~~~

Moore, Joseph2 October 1827p. 81

Joseph Moore personally appeared in Court & filed a declaration of his intention to become a Citizen of the United States in the following words To wit Floyd Co Court Oct Term 1827

State of IndianaFloyd CountyJoseph Moore an Alien and native of England Of the County of Cambridgshire owing by birth

allegiance to the King of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland aged Thirty One years by Occupation a labourer states and gives this Court to understand & prays that his statement

Robert Mercer became a citizen on 9 May 1835.



may be entered of Record that he left England in the month of November 1815 & landed in the United States on the Thirteenth day of the month of June following that he has ever since resided in the United States and Seven years in the State of Indiana where it is his intention permanently to reside. He likewise States that it is bonafide his intention to become a Citizen of the United States and to renounce all allegiance to any King Prince Potentate State or Sovereignty whatsoever more especially his Allegiance to George the Fourth King of the United Kingdoms of Great Brit-ain and Ireland His Heirs & successors and to settle and reside in that part of the United States Known by the State of Indiana.

Joseph MooreSworn to and subscribed in open Court Oct. 2, 1827~~H. Scribner Clk

Moore, Joseph19 October 1830p. 213

Be it remembered that Joseph Moore personally appeared in open Court and applied to be admitted a Citizen of the United States of America pursuant to the directions of the Act of Con-gress Entitled “An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization & to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject” and also of an act entitled “An act in addition to an act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization & to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject” & he hav-ing taken upon himself the oath to support the Constitution of the United States and that he does

Joseph Moore declared his intention to become a citizen on 19 October 1830.

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absolutely “& entirely renounce & abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any Foreign Prince, Poten-tate, State or Sovereignty whatever & particularly to William the Fourth King of Great Britain, Ire-land and all its dependencies whereof he is a subject. And the said Joseph Moore having produced evidence to the Court of three years residence in the State of Indiana & five years residence in the United States of America as by said acts he is required to do & also of his being well disposed toward the Government thereof and of his having made a declaration of his intentions to become a citizen according to law. It is therefore considered by the Court now here that the said Joseph Moore be & he is hereby accordingly admitted a Citizen of the United States of America.

Plaiss, John18 April 1832p. 289

John Plaiss produced in open Court the following declaration towitState of IndianaFloyd CountyJohn Plaiss a native of Germany of the age of thirty eight years makes the following declara-

tion of his intentions in order to become a citizen of the United States of America that is to say that he was born in Wertemburgh on the 30th day of Sept 1793 that he sailed from Amsterdam in the year 1817 and arrived in the port of Philadelphia on the 2nd day of Nov. of the same year that he has resided in this State for the last four years, that he hereby renounces all allegiance to any foreign prince, Potentate State or Sovereignty whatever & particularly to the Government of Germany whereof he is a subject and that it is bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States of America.

John Plaiss~~~~ ~~~~Sworn to in open Court April 18th, 1832. H. Scribner Clerk

Nancy Strickland is the Floyd County genealogist.

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