Mills County, Iowa
Silver Creek Cavalry Rangers
1861-1862
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.
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 Silver Creek Cavalry Rangers Company members, some are misspelled.
| Abel, Charles | Dyson, William | Miller, Perry |
| Abel, D. C. | Eaton, Nathan | Montgomery, Silas |
| Aistrope, Thomas | Eaton, William | Morse, Alphin |
| Aistrope, Walter | Fowler, J. G. | Oowner, Fred |
| Allen, A. B. | Foxworthy, Jas. | Pitzer, Samuel |
| Allison, J. R. | Hagmar, George | Raines, A. W. |
| Armstrong, James | Hammond, A. J. | Raines, William |
| Baldwin, William J. | Handen, Andrew J. | Robins, Lewis |
| Bozarch, W. | Harrison, John W. | Roche, Ezra |
| Briggs, A. W. | Haryan, Daniel | Shepard, Henry |
| Bryant, Jas. | Hicks, John B. | Shuman, Daniel |
| Bundock, Jas. M. | Hoche, William | Slonaker, Henry |
| Burkhimmer, A. | Holmes, John C. | Starr, M. |
| Burroughs, William | Hoyt, Silas | Stringfield, C. C. |
| Byers. William | Hughes, Jas. E. | Summers, W. G. |
| Cary, Abel | Johnson, W. R. | Summers, H. W. |
| Cary, Crawford | Judy, Levi | Summers, J. N. |
| Cary, David | Kerney, Nathan | Tipton, Saul |
| Cary, Ezry | Lang, David | Tubbs, D. T. |
| Cary, John | Lang, John | Tubbs, Lewis W. |
| Chesterson, James | Lawson, William G. | Voylar, C. |
| Converse, W. F. | Logan, J. W. | Watson, C. |
| Coy, John W. | Madden, Mac | Weaver, William |
| Darlin, Washington | McCord, William | Whitfield, D. W. |
| Davis, Stephen | McDowal | Wilson, T. M. |
| Davis, Taylor | McFarlin, Irvin | Wineburg, Ed |
| Downer, William | McKnight, T. | World, Amos |
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