Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa
May 29, 1938

SURVIVING IOWA CIVIL WAR VETERANS

The Iowa G. A. R. department records list the following surviving civil war veterans in the state. As it is probable there are other civil war veterans now living in the state of which the department has no knowledge, this list may not be entirely complete.

By counties, the veterans are:

Adair -- Romanza A. Jackson, Lewis Lawson.

Adams -- Cyrus D. Cooper, Henry Dick, Samuel T. Kerns.

Appanoose -- Curry O. Reed, William J. Shuck, Edward Streepy.

Audubon -- John C. Bonwell, William H. Jay, Wesley H. Jay.

Benton -- Albert M. Stanger, Dr. William A. Vincent.

Black Hawk -- Henry Bray, Joseph Clingerman, Davis A. Finley, John C. Good, David Hallett, Joseph L. Holcomb, Cyrus M. Lichty, William H. Wilson, Peter Woodring, Henry Woore.

Boone -- John Boone, K. Latchaw, Frank Ritter.

Buchanan -- Geore W. Kays, Nathan Lanning.

Buena Vista -- Charles P. Matson.

Butler -- Thomas Anderson.

Calhoun -- Washington Grimes, Joseph I. Hipple, Roy D. Hipple, F. G. Patterson, J. W.Patterson, Elza Sanders.

Cass -- Albert Bishop, Charles Freeling, Robert M. Murray, Edwin Perry.

Cedar -- Blair Wolf.

Cerro Gordo -- Josehp C. Ready, Nathan G. Thorn, Rockwell Whipple, John R. Williams.

Cherokee -- William C. Marsh, Nicholas T. Wells.

Chickasaw -- John N. Coleman, Truvil Collins.

Clarke -- Hiram A. Wirick, Theodore F. Yetts.

Clinton -- John Avery, Thomas C. Bartow, Jacob W. Lieber.

Dallas -- Charles H. Curier, Isaac Hoch, Nye B. Hopkins, Albert Miller.

Davis -- Benjamin S. Armstrong, James K. P. England.

Decatur -- Jonas Hoffhines, James H. Pitman.

Delaware -- Thomas W. Sedgwick.

Des Moines -- Edmund B. Davis, Albert Murray.

Dubuque -- James A. Jackson, Almond E. Keen, Frank L. Quade.

Fayette -- John T. Gager, James M. Lisher.

Floyd -- William Gange, Lorenzo D. Huckins, William H. Kennedy, Eli M. Hutchinson.

Franklin -- L.J. Shreve.

Fremont -- Phineas H. Drake, William Hydinger, Larkin Miller, Francis M. Strait.

Greene -- G. M. D. Arch, Adnah D. Bullock, Robert G. Martin, George F. Mooney, Claudius Place.

Grundy -- Elias B. Emes.

Guthrie -- John Palmer.

Hancock -- Asabel A. Johnson, Llewellyn Lewis.

Harrison -- George M. Howe, Sylvester Pokett, Nicholas Yochum, Cyrus E. Cross.

Henry -- Joseph T. Ingrim, Joseph R. Coffin.

Jackson -- James H. Sutton.

Jasper -- Hugh A. Pease, Edward O. Williams, James K. Williams, William M. Cowman.

Jefferson -- Joseph Alverson, Francis M. Isenhart, John A. Smithline, Elliott P. Taylor, William H. Wilson, Henry Bacon, Michael France..

Johnson -- Joseph Bair.

Jones -- James S. Lawson, Mark H. Morse, Nelson Reade, James Spencer.

Keokuk -- James Williams, William H. Young, Robert Braden, Johnson Graves.

Lee -- Charles F. Dunn, John Drain, T. H. Goldsberry.

Linn -- Eugene Allen, Solomon B. Humbert, William J. Pentz, Andrew E. Yates, Harrison C. Bartleson, Samuel C. Beck, George S. Bushness, James H. Goodhue, John A. Gregg.

Lucas -- William Humphrey, Robert Killen, Henry A. Newhouse, Asa N. Callahan, Richard W. Dever.

Lyon -- George W. Lyon.

Madison -- Luke A. Smith, Aaron E. Cleveland, W. M. Doop.

Mahaska -- Jeremiah King, James Mateer, Robert H. Rhine, Jacob Watland, Henry A. White.

Marion -- John M. Lindsey, Robert A. Millen, Dennis Terry, James K. P. Van Fleet, William E. Vernon, W. H. H. Barker, Isaac Currant.

Marshall -- Sanford S. Hover, Charles L. Howard, Silas Parker, William H. Powers, David B. Sisk, Benjamin M. Crookshank, Alfred N. French, Benjamin E. Glass, Marvin T. Grattan.

Mills -- Marion T. Davis, Alfred D. French.

Mitchell -- Gayen Kennedy.

Monroe -- David C. Kenworthy, Harvey A. Bloomfield.

Montgomery -- David B. Miller, August Peterson, Israel M. Wickersham, Hiram Finley.

Muscatine -- Joseph H. Miller, Joseph N. Platt, Joseph Boston, James C. Corbin, August Eichoff, Fred Geisler.

O'Brien -- Jasper Marsh, James P. Martin.

Page -- John Humphrey, Charles Sim, Matthias Baker, Shelby Bertram, John M. Gudgel.

Plymouth -- Andrew Crouch.

Polk -- John C. Ash, Minor M. Avery, John Banks, John J. Bell, Philip Berger, Russell B. Bever, Harris Cole, A. T. Colson, John L. Gardner, Rollin E. Gardner, Peter J. Garver, John Geil, Joseph Geil, Jonathan C. Haynes, Shuball M. Hurt, Emerson Lovejoy, James G. McCoy, James M. McHargue, Thomas Milliken, Henry J. Miller, Jacob J. Neumann, James J. Nowels, John Skinner, Perry Sterret, Albert B. Walker.

Pottawattamie -- Sylvester Flummer, William H. Foster, Charles F. Hart, Lewis D. Lockwood.

Poweshiek -- George Billick, W. L. Johnson, Burdette A. Stowe, Charles Van Doren, Thomas J. Noll.

Ringgold -- Ferdinand B. Soles, Eugene B. Teal.

Sac -- William Moad, George Maths

Scott -- Cornelius Clark.

Sioux -- John H. Huyck, William H. Smith.

Story -- William Albright, William H. Butler, Charles Hamilton, Wilson T. Houghham, Fred C. Tilden.

Tama -- John Bard, Edward Douglas, James W. Willet.

Taylor -- Benjamin F. Akers, John W. Haigler, Daniel W. Stahl.

Union -- William R. Bell, George W. Lamasters, Emory P. Smyth.

Van Buren -- William Britenstein, Martin H. Corns, Eli W. McKinney.

Wapello -- Noah Albertson, Thomas J. Arihood, John W. Fuller, Charles King, Leander McCants, James P. McDonough.

Warren -- Charles Hester, Anthony Snyder.

Washington -- Lewis F. Singafoose.

Wayne -- William P. Allred, William H. Earnest, Fred Fisher, Perry W. Holcomb, Robert W. Huff, George A. Sens, Eli Smith.

Webster -- Thomas Ashton, Joseph W. Brundage, William R. Lindsley, Edwin R. Somer.

Winnebago -- Charles Sim.

Winneshiek -- Ancil O. Ash.

Woodbury -- Amos B. Adkison, Paul Fox, Michael Hawk, William J. Hudgel, Stephen A. Reed.

Following are veterans for whom no county is listed:

Walter H. Bell, E. S. Bowser, W. A. R. Davis, J. S. Dennis, Thomas Dent, Chester L. Dickinson, J. R. Fullerton, George W. Garten, P. L. Gimmel, H. M. Gray, E. L. Gregory, Charles H. Lingenfelter, James E. Manning, Sylvester Manship, George Matson.

Henry Mingals, William C. Moore, Samuel Morgan, Joseph Myers, Myron Perkins, William Pilgrim, Charles H. Purmort, LeRoy Remington, George R. Richards, Samuel Richards, Addison S. Ruby, John A. Schmidt, Michael Schaffer, David J Shannon, Edward J. Sheriff, Benjamin Shackly, Alpheus W. Simpkins and A. M. Smith.

~ Transcribed and Submitted by Nettie Mae Lucas, March 2021

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ONLY 299 LEFT ON IOWA ROLLS
Nelson, Risley Have Died This Year.

The ranks of the "boys in blue" of the Grand Army of the Republic are thinning fast -- many have died since last Memorial day.

Only 299 veterans of the civil war are now known to be living in Iowa, a mere remnant of the thriving G.A.R. ranks of 70,000 Iowans in the years following the capitulation of the south at Appomattox in 1865.

Nelson, Risley

Several of Iowa's most prominent survivors of the civil war have died since the 1937 Memorial day, including Oley Nelson of Slater, Ia., former national G.A.R. commander, and John P. Risley of Des Moines, Iowa, commander. 51 veterans have died since Jan. 1.

But despite their thinning ranks, the "boys in blue" will take part in numerous Iowa Memorial day observances today and Monday.

Soldiers Home.

At least five of the eight civil war veterans at the Iowa soldiers home at Marshalltown, Ia., will take part in the Memorial parade and services to to be held at the home Sunday and at Riverside cemetery Monday. Hundreds of civil war veterans once lived at the home.

Of the eight now there, the youngest is 90 and the oldest is 99. A special automobile, escorted by a group of Sons of Veterans, will transport the veterans during the holiday activities.

Of Iowa's 99 counties, there are 22 in whichthere are no longer any civil veterans known to the Iowa department. There are more than 30 other counties with not more than two known survivors.

~ Transcribed and Submitted by Nettie Mae Lucas, March 2021