MILITARY:  WAR OF 1812 SOLDIERS

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WAR OF 1812 SOLDIERS
Buried in Dallas County, Iowa

In Iowa, soldiers of our various wars have, placed at their gravesites, a metal marker in recognition
of military service.  Collecting the necessary information and placing the markers is the task of the
various county offices of the Soldiers Relief Commission.  It is the duty of Mr. Curtis Murphy,
Executive Secretary of the Dallas County Soldiers Relief Commission, Dallas County Courthouse, Adel,
Iowa to handle this service for Dallas County, Iowa.  He secures a copy of the information relative to
the veteran from the undertaker in charge of the burial.  He keeps a copy of this information in his
office and forewards a copy to the Armed Forces Graves Registration, a division of the Adjutant
General's Office, Des Moines, Iowa.  Mr. Murphy reports that in the 11 years that he has been in
office that he has visited all of the cemeteries in Dallas County in an effort to locate all of the
soldier's graves and see that a marker is in place.  Upon receipt of sufficient proof relating to the
burial of a veteran unknown to his office, Mr. Murphy indicates that marker will be placed at the
gravesite.  In visiting with Mr. Murphy one cannot help but feel tht his interest goes far beyond the
necessity of his office.  He has said that he would welcome correspondence with anyone interested in
soldier dead buried within the county and would, "help it anyway that I can".  He reports that he has
on file the records of over 700 Civil War soldiers including some of those who served in the
Confederate Army.  His redors have a varying amount of information from those listing only the date of
death or burial and cemetery, to those of great detail concerning the soldier.  He was kind enough to
furnish the following information from his files concerning the soldiers of the War of 1812:

ARMSTON, Martin, b 27 Aug 1784, Indiana; inducted 12 Mar 1812; served as a Captain in the Ohio
Militia, d 30 Dec 1864, buried Harper Cemetery, Redfield, Iowa.  Wife Elizabeth Atchison Parson, dau.
Frances Elizabeth, dau. May Jan Clark, son Elliott.  According to the record the information
concerning the family was obtained from a family Bible.

HOYT, William, buried 16 Feb 1877, Violet Hill Cemetery, Perry, Iowa.
PEEL, Richard, d 27 Jan 1873, 88 yrs at death, buried Xenia Cemetery, Des Moines Township.
WELKER, Andrew,b 3 Dec 1789, d 25 Mar 1868, buried Spillers Cemetery, Union Township.