Fallen Heroes 1883

JOHNSON, SCHUMACHER, BROWN, JONES, BURLINGAME, PERRIN, THOMAS, WHITMEYER, DUTCHER, BENNETT, HALL

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 4/19/2017 at 12:38:45

The Clinton Age, Clinton, Iowa, June 1, 1883

SOLIDER, REST
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Thy Warfare O’er
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Sleep the Sleep That Knows No Breaking
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Dream of Battlefields, No More
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Where Sleep the Brave
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A committee of veteran from the Gen. Baker Post G. A. R., visited the cemetery Tuesday evening and placed floral decorations upon the graves of the following named fallen heroes;
Henry Johnson, 14th Wis,
Lieut. McDill, 27th Iowa
Fred Schumacher*
George McDowell, 26th Iowa
- Brown*
- Jones*
O. F. Burlingame, 26th Iowa
N. Perrin, 2d Iowa
Lieut. Whitmeyer*
±J. P. Bennett, Quartermaster L. J. Woodward, 104th Ill.

On Wednesday the following graves in Hess Cemetery were decorated;
C. A. Thomas, 26th Iowa
F. A. Dutcher, 26th Iowa
Heary Hall, 7th Iowa

*The names of the regiments in which these heroes served have not been learned.
±One years ago Capt. J. P. Bennett with a small squad of veterans preformed the ceremony of decorating the graves of the solider dead, and this year his surviving comrades remember and place floral offerings upon his grave.