Granger, Trumbull P. 1847-1908

GRANGER, PIKE, VANRATON, OVERACKER

Posted By: Linda Linn (email)
Date: 1/20/2012 at 23:11:56

Hawarden Independent of April 16, 1908

Another Soldier Summoned

The ranks of the Grand Army of '61 to '65
are rapidly diminishing as one by one the brave boys of that great
internal strife answer to the roll call of the Captain on High. The
last to answer the summons is Trumbull Granger, who died at his home
in this city Sunday morning from the bursting of a blood vessel He was
stricken with paralysis several months ago]
and since that time was confined to the house. He was thought to be
improving and on Saturday walked part way downtown. His sudden death
Sunday morning came as a shock to his many old friends in this
community. The deceased was born near Waukeegan, III , Aug. 15, 1847.
When a mere boy he enlisted as a musician in the 21st Ohio Volunteers
on Oct. 1861, for three years and served until Sept. 21, 1802, when he
was discharged by Gen. Buel's order mustering out all regimental
bands. He at once re-enlisted in the 21st Ohio Battery of light,,
artillery, being at that time only 15 years of age.

He served all through the war and was given his final discharge July
21st, 1865, at Camp Cleveland Ohio. He came to Sioux county in 1872
and homesteaded near Ireton. For the past twenty years he has made his
home in Hawarden and was one of the well known members of Mansfield
Post of this city. The funeral was Held Monday at the Congregational
church, Rev. Westlake preaching the funeral sermon, after which the
old comrades of Mansfield post took charge and conducted the last sad
rites at the grave. He leaves a wife, one brother and one sister
besides many friends and comrades
to mourn his death.

Taps Have Again Sounded
Mansfield Post No. 159, Department of Iowa, I.
A. U ,are again, within one month, called upon to mourn the loss of
another comrade— Trumbull Granger, a musician in the 21st Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, who enlisted on the 19th day of September 1861,
and was mustered out on the 28th day of August, 1862, on order of Gen.
Buel. Comrade Granger re-enlisted and served until the close of the
war. He was a charter member of Mansfield Post of Hawarden and a
regular attendant when able to be present at meetings. Therefore be it
Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with the widow and friends of our
comrade who has passed on before to the Great Captain who has seen
that his tent was in line with Those of other brave comrades; and that
these resolutions be published in the Hawarden papers and spread upon
the minutes of this Post.
~By Order of Committee.
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Transcriber Notes:
(Found on Ancestry (work done by others) Trumbull Peter Granger born
6 Aug 1847 IL, died 12 April 1908 Hawarden IA, son of Joseph Granger
1815-1876 and Myra Ann Carpenter 1823-1860. Married Edna Pike born
1846 on 24 Dec 1868 they had one daughter Lora Ell Granger 1870. The
then married Martha Ellen Van Raton 1851-1926 on 13 Oct 1875 with one
child Clemens Granger, and third wife was Mary Overacker 1853 married
1894.)

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