BE A DETECTIVE!
ONLY 2 VETERANS IN THIS 1887 PHOTOGRAPH OF A GATHERING OF THE
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED.
CAN YOU HELP IDENTIFY ANY OF THE OTHERS?
This precious image, shared by Delores Penkava, is Photo 558. John Lehman is identified by a geneolagist on Ancestry.com as the man on the far left, back. Lehman lived until 1941, and by that time was the last Civil War veteran in Pawnee County.
pvt. john henry lehman
Company F, 118th illinois infantry
1845-1941
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Corp. owen crisler
company g, 154th illinois infantry
1830 - 1910
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Would the real Owen Crisler please stand up? It's not so hard when you have the picture at the far right....
Back row, 8th from the left. |
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can you make out these
other veterans in the 1887 gar photo?0
here they are at other times in their lives, sometimes older, sometimes younger.
On the left is a picture, on the right is a slide show of crops of the gar picture
pvt. james d. longwell
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Is J. D. the guy on the far right in a top hat? The eye brows and nose look very close.
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2nd lt. adam allinson
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1st lt. c. h. norris
company g, 2nd nebr. cavalry
1836-1911 (51 years old at time of gar picture)
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pvt. peter gold
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One might think this man is a good choice -- but that looks like an officer's slouch hat, and Peter Gold was a Private. Is Peter Gold even in the picture? It's difficult to look past the bearded man to the clean shaven Peter Gold of this picture
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corp. samuel barnard
company i, 94th Ill Inf
1839-1890 (48 at time of gar picture, died )
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Barnard died 3 years after this picture was taken. He probably looked much the same as here, if he is in the picture.
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Is BARNARD the man in the top hat? J. D. Longwell looks the better candidate but take a look. The beard looks quite like the picture of Barnard to the left, so does the nose.
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pvt. eli Boone,
company a, 1st Ohio Cav
1834-1898 (53 years old at time of gar picture)
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Marcus M. Staples
Pvt., Co. D, 4th Missouri Cavalry
There are virtually no records of who belonged to the local G.A.R. post, but some Lincoln newspapers often reported Table Rock news. In 1899 and 1900 two such articles cited M. M. Staples as a newly-elected officer. Was he in the 1887 picture? I don't know, but look for him....
M. M. Staples eventually moved to Belleville, Kansas where he is buried, but we can nevertheless recognize and appreciate his service.
Here are two pictures provided by descendant Cynthia Staples, one of him in uniform and the other as an old man.
M. M. Staples eventually moved to Belleville, Kansas where he is buried, but we can nevertheless recognize and appreciate his service.
Here are two pictures provided by descendant Cynthia Staples, one of him in uniform and the other as an old man.
benjamin horton
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Photo 7768, Benjamin & Cornelia Horton family, shared by Susan Horton in 2019
A young M. M. Staples, at least 22 years before the 1887 group pictureLook for this young man at age 43.
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An older M. M. StaplesLook for this old man at age 43! He was 43 in 1887, but much older in this picture. He lived to be 76 years old, dying in 1922. Imagine someone halfway in age between the picture above and this one and look for that person.
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more types of clues
is the man on the left wilber perry, drummer for the 10th west virginia, who served time in the infamous libby prison in richmond ?
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Wilber Perry's grave in the Table Rock Cemetery was unmarked until 2016. When the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War dedicated a new military tombstone, many of Perry's descendants proudly attended. Sadly, none had ever seen a picture of him. Based on pictures and memories of Wilber's children from whom they had descended, those in attendance believed that the man on the left was most likely to be him. A contemporary newspaper account confirmed his attendance at the event.
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were thomas and james linn brothers, and if so, is this them?
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As of February 2018, we will rephrase this: Thomas and James Linn were cousins. Might this be them?
The relationship of the Linns was explained by Chuck Linn. There were three brothers involved - Seaman, John, and Richard Linn. Seaman was Chuck's great great grandfather, Richard was the father of James LInn who served in the 6th Iowa, and John was the father of Thomas Linn, who served in the 139th Illinois. |
thomas linn
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james linn
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were owen and anslum crisler brothers? owen is the man on the left. is this sgt. anslum crisler on the right?
pvt. owen crisler
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sgt. anslum crisler?
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