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A document of extraordinary historical
interest was discovered by Dr. R. B. Tubbs of Emerson recently
when he found the muster roll of the Silver Creek Cavalry
Rangers, organized under Chapter 84, Laws of the Regular
Session of Tenth General Assembly of the State of Iowa.
The roll had the names of the seventy
members [and] officers of the group, all of whom gave their
post office addresses as either White Cloud or Glenwood. Most
of them lived in the central and eastern townships of the
county.
Only one member, as far as can be
determined, is still living today. M. Taylor Davis, who gave
his age as 18, was the only one on the roll who is still here
today. Mr. Davis, who was but 14 at the time, did not get to
go with the company as it went on south for training as his
father intervened and obtained his discharge when his real age
was discovered. (Since Taylor Davis was born in 1847 the
departure of this unit must have been about 1861 C. M.)
The company had one gala day before
leaving when it was reviewed with others at a parade on the
present site of the Malvern cemetery. Canons were fired, flags
waved and the populace stirred to a fervor of emotional
patriotism.
Names of the company members (some of the
names are obviously misspelled)
- Abel, Charles
- Abel, D. C.
- Aistrope, Thomas
- Aistrope, Walter
- Allen, A. B.
- Allison, J. R.
- Armstrong, James
- Baldwin, William J.
- Bozarch, W.
- Briggs, A. W.
- Bryant, Jas.
- Bundock, Jas. M.
- Burkhimmer, A.
- Burroughs, William
- Byers. William
- Cary, Abel
- Cary, Crawford
- Cary, David
- Cary, Ezry
- Cary, John
- Chesterson, James
- Converse, W. F.
- Coy, John W.
- Darlin, Washington
- Davis, Stephen
- Davis, Taylor
- Downer, William
- Dyson, William
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- Eaton, Nathan
- Eaton, William
- Fowler, J. G.
- Foxworthy, Jas.
- Hagmar, George
- Hammond, A. J.
- Handen, Andrew J.
- Harrison, John W.
- Haryan, Daniel
- Hicks, John B.
- Hoche, William
- Holmes, John C.
- Hoyt, Silas
- Hughes, Jas. E.
- Johnson, W. R.
- Judy, Levi
- Kerney, Nathan
- Lang, David
- Lang, John
- Lawson, William G.
- Logan, J. W.
- Madden, Mac
- McCord, William
- McDowal
- McFarlin, Irvin
- McKnight, T.
- Miller, Perry
- Montgomery, Silas
- Morse, Alphin
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- Oowner, Fred
- Pitzer, Samuel
- Raines, A. W.
- Raines, William
- Robins, Lewis
- Roche, Ezra
- Shepard, Henry
- Shuman, Daniel
- Slonaker, Henry
- Starr, M.
- Stringfield, C. C.
- Summers, W. G.
- Summers, H. W.
- Summers, J. N.
- Tipton, Saul
- Tubbs, D. T.
- Tubbs, Lewis W.
- Voylar, C.
- Watson, C.
- Weaver, William
- Whitfield, D. W.
- Wilson, T. M.
- Wineburg, Ed
- World, Amos
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