Soldiers Headstones - 1884

ARROWSMITH

Posted By: Pat Ryan White (email)
Date: 11/4/2011 at 16:16:11

SOLDIERS HEADSTONES.

During the past year Miss Lizzie Arrowsmith has been at work to get from the government headstones for the soldier dead of the county whose graves are not already marked. The stones came last week and are distributed and in place in the different cemeteries of the city. There are some however, which belong in the country which have not yet been called for, and we therefore publish the list. There are thirty-five in all marked as follows:

Samuel Kirkpatrick, Co. - 4th Iowa cavalry.
Wm Smith, Co. D 4th Iowa cavalry.
John Wood, Co K 19th Iowa infantry.
Wm Doyle, Co H 4th Iowa cavalry.
D M Savage, Co E 4th Iowa cavalry.
E H Stubbs, Co G 4th Iowa cavalry.
John Laughlin, Co L 4th Iowa cavalry.
G W Fielding, Co L 4th Iowa cavalry.
Benj Ullery, Co A 4th Iowa cavalry.
C W Davis, Co I 4th Iowa cavalry.
Sensel Watts, Co G 4th Iowa cavalry.
D Dearduff, Co I 4th Iowa cavalry.
Lewis Alexander, Co K 68th U S C T.
Madison Alexander, Co H 55th U S C T.
Ed Hemmenway, 1st Iowa infantry.
Wm A Boyles, Co H 25th Iowa infantry.
Capt J B Ritner, 25th Iowa infantry.
J W Hare, Co E 6th Iowa infantry.
John W Evans, Co H 37th Iowa infantry.
Thos Lehew, Co G 11th Iowa infantry.
Jos Potter, Co E 1st Iowa cavalry.
James Hanley, Co B 11th Kentucky cavalry.
Sylvanus Hull, Co A 45th Iowa infantry.
W H Johnson, Co E 1st Iowa cavalry.
F M Daily, Co G 11th Iowa infantry.
H H Hicks, Co E 15th Iowa infantry.
J H Nevitt, Co F 35th Iowa infantry.
John Prier, Co K 25th Iowa infantry.
Chas A Viney, 1st Iowa battery.
J W Doan, Co B 6th Tennessee.
Wm Morfort, Co H 37th Iowa infantry.
Phillip Sutton, Co H 37th Iowa infantry.
Lieut E D Ketcham, Adj 4th cavalry.
H B McConkey, Co G 7th California.
A McCracken, Co I 17th Iowa infantry.

The stones are of Rutland, Vermont, marble, 3 inches thick and about 3 feet long. When set in the ground they will be about 15 inches high, making a very neat appearance. Miss Arrowsmith is certainly entitled to much credit for her untiring efforts in behalf of the departed "boys in blue".

['Free Press', Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, 29 May 1884, page 3]