Prairie City 1919 Decoration Day

ADAMS, ADKINS, BADGER, BOOTH, BRAMMER, BROWN, BRYAN, BURNS, CONLEY, COTTRELL, COWMAN, DAFT, DANIELS, DEVRIES, DEWOLF, DINSMORE, ELLIOTT, FEATHERS, FRAZIER, FURNOY, GEORGE, GILBERT, GRAHAM, HANES, JOHNSON, JONES, KINGDON, LEEPER, MAY, MCCONNELL, MCLAUGHLIN, MCRAY, MEANS, MINOR, NORRIS, PARKER, PHEARMAN, PHELPS, POPE, PORTER, RAMSEY, RHODES, RICKETT, ROSEBORO, SCHUTTINGA, SCOTT, SHAFFER, SHEARER, SPRUCE, STALLCOP

Posted By: JCGS Volunteer
Date: 4/20/2018 at 16:05:34

Programme For Decoration Day
Services to be held Friday, May 30th, at 2:00 p.m. in City Park. Music by band, 1:30 p.m. Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, Mrs. Ella Yowell. Address, Rev. L. L. Weis. Formation for march to Waveland cemetery by Marshal of Day, H. H. Main. Exercises in memory of World War Heroes. Decoration of soldiers’ graves. Exercises at Unknown Monument.
(All school children are requested to meet at the school house at 2:30).
G.A.R. World War Veterans and W.R.C. meet at I.O.O.F. Hall, Daughters and Sons, Granddaughters and Grandsons at Mrs. Daft’s.
In case of inclement weather the exercises will be held at the American Theatre.
Everyone who can furnish flowers will please leave them at Mrs. Daft’s Thursday afternoon or early Friday morning.
The following are the names of those whose graves will be remembered with floral tokens.

West View Cemetery
Leonard May 65th Illinois Infantry Stephen Badger 87th Illinois Infantry
John P. Johnson 18th Iowa Infantry Levi Scott 5th Iowa Cavalry
Capt. R. L. McRay 23rd Iowa Infantry Foster Scott 9th Iowa Cavalry
A. E. McConnell 23rd Iowa Infantry Harry Scott 5th Iowa Cavalry
R. L. McConnell 23rd Iowa Infantry Chas. Scott Iowa Battery
Stephen West 23rd Iowa Infantry Albert Scott Indiana Infantry
Levi Spruce 23rd Iowa Infantry John A. Gilbert 22nd Kentucky Infantry
Elias Means 23rd Iowa Infantry John Thompson New York Infantry
Enoch Frazier 23rd Iowa Infantry Mason Adkins 2nd Conn. Artillery
W. A. Hanes 23rd Iowa Infantry Jerry Sullivan 33rd New York Infantry
A. T. Pope 28th Iowa Infantry Christian Rickett 22nd Iowa Infantry
Dexter George 14th Iowa Infantry Samuel Workman Co. E 168 Ohio Infantry
Virgil Stallcop 2nd Iowa Cavalry S. M. Jones 14th Iowa Infantry
John Thompson 4th Iowa Cavalry R. Shaffer Co. C 175 Ohio
Rob Stallcop 2nd Iowa Cavalry Harrison Gilbert 54th Kentucky Infantry
Seth Parker 5th California Infantry A. J. Wiggin 10th Iowa Infantry
G. T. Leeper 47th Illinois Infantry J. P. Turner 15th Penn. Cavalry
John Adams Ohio Infantry Alfred Porter 46th Ohio Infantry
George Graham 47th Penn. Infantry Samuel Rhodes Ohio Infantry
C. J. Woodard 15th Ohio Infantry Dr. J. N. Porter 137 Illinois Infantry

Waveland Cemetery
H. C. DeWolf 6th Ohio Cavalry W. H. Daft 47th Illinois Infantry
Wm. Strawn 31st Indiana Infantry C. M. Norris 5th Iowa Infantry
L. L. McLaughlin 33rd Iowa Infantry J. V. Yowell 8th Iowa Infantry
Wilson Ramsey 77th Penn. Infantry Henry Feathers 169 New York Infantry
Moses Cottrell 5th Iowa Infantry J. W. Dinsmore Co. C 22nd Iowa Infantry
Wm. Brammer 22nd Kentucky Infantry P. H. Van Slyck 3rd Iowa Cavalry
Daniel Shearer 14th Iowa Infantry Joseph Phearman 83rd Illinois Infantry
James A. Burnoy 11th Indiana Cavalry T. J. Cowman 3rd Iowa Infantry
John Cottrell 18th Iowa Infantry J. L. Minor 40th Iowa Infantry
Josephus Waggoner 8th Iowa Infantry Elias Burns 2nd Vermont Infantry
C. D. Wiggins 83rd Illinois Infantry Mrs. Margaret Kingdon Army nurse

Following are the surviving old soldiers of Prairie City:
Robert Daniels 3rd Missouri Cavalry W. H. Bryan 5th Kentucky Cavalry
Wick Elliott 3rd Iowa Cavalry S. F. Brown Co. G 17th Ohio Infantry
A. H. Phelps 3rd Iowa Cavalry J. W. Worley 18th Iowa Infantry
William M. Cowman 39th Iowa Thos. Conley Co. E. 17th Iowa Infantry

Following are the names of World War Veterans who will be remembered by floral tokens:
Edward DeVries Co. K 117th Infantry Rein Schuttinga Co. 10 Aviation Section
Frank Booth Co. A 59th Infantry Ralph Roseboro Co. F 56th Engineers
Source: Prairie City (IA) News; May 28, 1919, page 1