HISTORY OF FORD COUNTY
G. A. R. POSTS.
There are in this county three posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, as follows:
LOTT POST, NO. 70, G. A. R.
This post was organized and mustered at Gibson November 3, 1879.
The following is the membership to February 28, 1884; Captains, J. H. Collier, Austin Crabbs, Willard Proctor. First Lieutenants, J. N. McVicker, Samuel Johnston, J. J. McCormack, Russell Puntney. Second Lieutenant, S. A. Armstrong. Sergeants, R. M. Smith, J. T. McClure, H. J. Ring, A. J. Ham. J. E. Collier, F. P. Wood, Fred Potts, George W. Preston, James Grant, Frank Du Close, J. S. Frederick. Corporals, S. J. LeFevre, W. H. Vreeland, W. B. Aaron, J. L. Mitchell, Mark Anthony, W. E. McMullen, S. S. Barnes, L. L. Garrett, F. M. Anderson, T. M. Bunch. Musicians, R. A. McClure, John Grove. Privates, H. M. Blacker, J. D. Bell, G. W. Haupt, S. A. Plank, Daniel Crummy, Charles Phillips, J. N. Vaughn, James Allen, J. D. Corbin, P. W. Dale, C. C. Houdyshell, O. O. Perrin, S. Emmons, H. E. Shearer, J. R. Lott, Ralph Mulvane, C. Ashby, W. T. Estes, William Day, J. M. Phillips, W. P. Jones, E. Barnabee, J. M. Burner, W. H. Simms, M. K. McDowell, J. M. Mitchell, F. C. McDowell, O. H. Damon, T. B. Strauss, J. W. Rinehart, P. H. Faught, A. Stratton, W. Bowen, J. G. Barker, M. W. Scott, W. Gilchrist, D. Baylor, L. L. Flora, J. S. Sawyer, Charles B. Payner (saddler), Elmer Ashby, J. W. Moore, D. S. Hall, V. G. Way, W. Ramey, J. H. Stathem, J. H. Arrowsmith, Nelson Smith, H. A. Grove, J. R. Gilchrist, John Joos, A. J. Cooper, S. Ross.
PIPER CITY POST, NO. 361, G. A. R.
List of members to February 28, 1884; officers 1884; F. O. Walrich, Commander; H. P. Beach, S. V. C; T. J. Sowers, J. V. C.; S. D. Culbertson, Surgeon; G. M. Williams, Adjutant; Ira W. Hand, Chaplain; W. Dick, O. D.; J. R. Rezner, O. G.; J. A. Montelius, Q. M.; D. W. Turney, S. M.; C. R. Jackson, Q. M. S. Members, Robert Hevener, James Healey, J. G. T. Luther, B. G. Church, J. S. Campbell, T. W. Eaton, Robert R. Farris, J. C. Moore, C. C. Crandell. Charles Litsy, D. Ritchie, W. P. Moore, D. H. Rodgers, B. H. Morrow, W. B. Miller, W. W. Coburn, W. T. Riggs, James Feeley, A. J. Long, J. McBride, J. Wagner, E. B. Beighle, C. Fable.
PAXTON POST, NO. 387, G. A. R.
Organized January 12, 1884. Membership to March 6, 1884: Officers, Colonel Charles Bogardus, Commander; M. H. Cloud, S. V. C.; W. C. Hutchison, J. V. C; T. M. King, Q. M.; C. M. Taylor, Chaplain; B. F. Mason, O. D.; John Swanson, O. G.; J. W. Ramsay, Adjutant; W. M. Wilson, S. M.; William Cramer, Q. M. S. Membership, G. L. Atkinson, A. H. Bridgeman, Charles Bogardus, J. M. Briney, G. W. Berdine, M. H. Cloud, William Cramer, M. Cramer, M. V. Davis, Stacey Daniels, W. C. Hutchison, Frederick Johnson, Theodore M. King, B. F. Mason, F. McFarland, Taylor Pyle, John A. Peterson, T. S. Peacock, J. W. Ramsay, John Swanson, Alfred Sample, C. M. Taylor, J. D. Wilson, Thomas Wier, W. M. Wilson, W. T. Westbrook, Henry Weaver.
Extracted 26 Oct 2016 by Norma Hass from History of Ford County, Illinois, Volume 1, pages 310-311.
