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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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(From the Malvern Leader, 28 May 1886)
Thanks to Sharon Hofer for submitting this post.
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