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Book Title: History Of Gove County, Kansas, Part II

CHAPTER X
WAR RECORD

  Gove county sent no soldiers to the Civil War, for the sufficient reason that
the county was not laid out or named till several years after that conflict was
over, and there was not during that time a single white man in our county. When
settlers came, fifteen or twenty years after the Civil War, a large proportion
of them were veterans of that conflict. Their number varied with the years, for
the veterans came and went as the population rose or fell. A census of the Union
veterans taken in the years 1900 to 1904 shows about seventy of them in the
county at that time. Charles A. Nichols Post of the Grand Army of the Republic
at Gove City was a flourishing organization for forty years. But the Grim Reaper
has taken the veterans one by one. Seventeen of them are buried at Gove City,
thirteen at Grainfield, eleven at Grinnell, nine at Quinter and nine at other
cemeteries in the county. Charles A. Nichols Post has lost its charter as the
members were mustered out by death. Only three of its members survive. John R.
Cooper lives in Colorado, Robert S. Kim is in the National Soldiers Home, and A.
J. Mitchell is the only one now living in Gove county.

  Our county owes much to the industry, the good sense and the sturdy
Americanism of these old soldiers. They were the leaders in the difficult and
discouraging work of pioneering, and it is largely due to them that this is now
a tamed, civilized and prosperous community instead of a desert waste "haunted
by beasts and forsook by men" as it was a half century ago. Below is given the
names of the Union veterans who helped to settle Gove county and make it what it
is today. Here are men who will be remembered as having been prominent in
farming, in business and in civic affairs and as the founders of families well
known in the county to this day.

Civil War Veterans
  Oliver W. Abbott, M. A. Ackley, Charles W. Adams, Eli Alberts, Henry Alberts,
A. H. Anderson, Conrad Appel, James Archbold.

  T. H. Bacon, B. F. Bartlett, H. H. Benson, J. W. Benson, A. W. Berry, J. J.
Bigbee, George Bingaman, George Blackwill, J. W. Blackwill, M. E. Boles, W. A.
Bolster, L. Bornt, T. N. Bray, John H. Brown, C. M. Burr, Stephen Burris.

  Richard C. Cahill, Chauncy Calloway, David Carlton, G. M. Chambers, H. P.
Colgrove, Wm. B. Colwell, John Comstock, Jackson Cook, Jeptha D. Cook, John L.
Cook, John R. Cook, John R. Cooper, John Crippen, J. E. Criswell, Joseph Crow.

  Marion Dargitz, Isaac Derr, John DeSantos, W. S. Dotson.

Andrew Easton, Harrison Eaton, A. S. Eldred, T. R. Epps.

  Perry Fellers, John J. Fisher, Wm. Fleener. John H. Fosdick, Wm. Fowler, W. E.
Frint, Carlos Fuller.

  Jacob Gabler, Thomas Gallion, Wm. Grooms, H. J. Groves, Patrick J. Gubbins,
August Guschewsky, Robert Guy.

  A. W. Harper, W. A. Harper, T. C. Hartwell, H. H. Henderson, G. W. Henry, John
Hogan, Emanuel Hoisinger, William Hubbell, Henry A. Hurlbert, J. F. Hyskell.

  J. W. Jameson, John H. Jones.

  R. S. Kim, Thomas Kirtley, James T. Knight, George Kreigh.

  John Lafferty, William Latham, Joseph Lengel, Frank Lewis, Joseph Lines, B. B.
Loomis, A. J. Lyon.

  D. J. Mallory, F. W. Martin, A. F. Massy, James Mather, C. D. Mathews, D. S.
Maxwell, Isaac Miller, John H. Miller, A. J. Mitchell, M. V. Mitchell, John
Morgan, W. B. Munns.

  D. McAnderson, Wm. McBride, J. B. McClanahan, John McCollister, T. M.
McDonald, John W. McGinnis, J. J. McMains, E. McRitchie.

  Charles A. Nichols, Benjamin Nickerson, Charles Noble, Samuel B. North.

  U. W. Oblinger, Stewart Orr.

  E. H. Parsons, I. B. Peck, Jeremiah Peck, C. E. Peirce, Andrew Peirsee, J. N.
Perry, Gus Peterson, Levi Phillips, E. R. Pilcher, George Platt.

  Lyman Raymond, J. H. Redifer, Asa Rice, W. Richards, M. P. Roberts, A. M.
Robertson, C. Rupson, R. S. Russell.

  H. Schafer, Samuel G. Schafer, Michael Schartraw, J. Shelly, Preston Shipp,
William Simpson, P. Sloey, J. J. Smith, Nathan Smith, Van Smith, William Smith,
H. C. Spalding, E. H. Spencer, George K. Spencer, W. H. Spicer, T. B. Spielman,
J. E. Springer, W. W. Stocking, Daniel Stout, A. K. Straley, O. P. Summers.

  N. E. Terrill, Louis F. Thomas, Jordan Tinsley, William Tipton, C. H. Towsley,
I. N. Trollinger, Daniel Turner, J. M. Tyler.

  W. D. Ure.

  George W. VanMarter, John H. Vanover, Leonard Verhoeff.

  John Wahl, S. O. Wanzer, J. Q. A. Weller, O. C. Wells, Uriah Welton, E. N.
Wert, A. West, R. L. West, E. Whismore, Milo W. Whitcomb, Joseph Whitehair, O.
A. Widney, W. W. Wiggins, Jacob W. Williams, Guy Wing, Jacob Woodcock, Calvin
Workman, William Wright, M. O. Wrighter.

  C. S. Yetman.

  In addition to the Union veterans, Gove county has had three sturdy pioneer
citizens who wore the Confederate gray —S. S. Reynolds, D. F. Bowman and Major
Armstrong—all of whom are now deceased.

  When the call went forth in 1898 for volunteers for the war with Spain James
A. Stoner, Llewelyn Pearde and Joseph Crow of Gove county enlisted in Company I,
Twenty First Kansas, and Harry Burr and Pleasant Harper, temporarily out of the
county, enlisted in other states. If a thorough search of the war records were
made it may be that we could find other boys from our county, but we are sure of
the names given above. We feel no need for apology, there were some counties in
Kansas which failed to furnish any recruits at all, but the circumstances under
which that army was enlisted were such as to keep our number down to a minimum.
Very short notice was given; it was announced that on a certain day in May
recruits from a number of counties, including Gove, would be received at Hays
almost a hundred miles away. It turned out to be a week of almost continuous
rain and bottomless mud. Even under such handicaps the lads from Gove county
appeared at Hays in numbers large enough to have formed a small platoon—only to
go down under the veto of an army surgeon. Men were turned down for the most
trifling physical defects imaginable. One who was rejected that day passed the
army examination nineteen years later and served in the World War. Another
passed the examination for the regular army several years after being rejected
at Hays. The truth seems to be, that the government was embarrased by the rush
of martial young men all over the land to join the colors. The President of the
United States had called for one hundred thousand volunteers and six hundred
thousand offered themselves, so the large majority of them had to be rejected.
Never before was a body of men subjected to so rigid an examination, and the
army which marched away in 1898 to whip Spain was as near physical perfection as
an army can hope to be.

  Of the boys who were accepted for service, Harry Burr was sent to the
Philippines. Pearde, after his period of enlistment expired, reenlisted in the
regulars and was also sent overseas. And Jimmy Stoner was stricken with typhoid
in the fever-ridden army camp at Chickamauga, Georgia, and came home to die at
his home at Quinter, Sept. 24, 1898,—first of our boys to give his life in the
service of his country.

  Gove county may well point with pride to the record made in the World War. The
civilian population upheld and aided the government to the limit in every
way—Liberty Loans, Red Cross and everything, else. And the figures show that we
exceeded our quota by ten per cent in the number of men we sent To the Colors.
Besides the number taken in the draft there were a number of volunteer
enlistments and more than a dozen who were in the regular army at the opening of
the war or who joined the regulars before the draft began to work. The boys from
Gove county saw service in largest numbers in the Eighty Ninth, Eighty Eighth,
Tenth and Thirty Fifth Divisions, but they were found in many other units and
while in the training camps they were scattered all the way from the Presidio in
California to Camp Johnston in Florida. By far the largest part of them served
in the Army branch of the service, but there were five in the Navy and eight in
the Marines.

  Below is given the list of those who entered the service from Gove county—with
some misgivings, for I fear the roll is not complete. It has been no easy task
to compile this list; the records of the County Draft Board are available, but
are not complete; neither are the records of the Adjutant General's office at
Topeka, as they frankly admit. I fear that some one has been left off the list.

  It will be noted that in several instances two brothers, or three brothers,
from the same family were in the service at the same time. We have the names of
a considerable number of lads born and raised in Gove county who served in the
World War but whose names cannot be put on our list because they had at that
time ceased to be residents of our county and are accredited to other counties
in Kansas or to other states (for instance, the two sons of S. S. Reynolds and
the two sons of F. B. Strong.)

  Of the World War dead, Gove county contributed ten—Cummings, Fink, Harvey,
Hoeb, Johnson, Scott, Seiple, Stittsworth, Verhoeff, Ure. Of these Grant Ure is
claimed by Sheridan county and his name is inscribed upon the World War monument
which the citizens of that county have erected at Hoxie; but he is put on our
roll because he is credited to Gove county on the Adjutant General's records and
his body is buried at Grainfield. The names of Eric Cummings and Charlie Harvey
are inscribed on the monument which the State Teachers' College at Hays has
raised to its students who made the Supreme Sacrifice. No attempt is made here
to list those who received wounds in France, but they are not a few.

  Most of our men served in the ranks, but we must not omit to mention that five
of them received commissions as officers—W. D. Clark, Eric Cummings, W. B.
Davidson, J. H. Rinehart and Guy H. Winslow. 

The World War

  Floyd D. Adams, Frank E. Anderson.

  Jacob W. Barr, Ross Beamer, Arthur E. Beaver, Eurle F. Beckner, Will H.
Behrns, Charles G. Beicher, Bennie G. Beougher, Emery B. Beougher, Glen D.
Beougher, Clifford J. Bland, Forrest O. Bland, Jean H. Bland, Earl A. Bingaman,
Ernest J. Boesch, Eugene W. Borah, John E. Borah, Orrin B. Boyer, Samuel L.
Boyer, Niley S. Bray, Wallace Brooks, Leslie L. Brown, Edmund M. Burnett,
Gilbert Burns, Harold D. Burns, William H. Burris, Verne W. Butler.

  Allan W. Cheney, Orval M. Chenoweth, Silas E. Clark, William D. Clark, Harold
P. Cole, Artie Cook, Pierce R. Cookson, Charles W. Cooper, Floyd L. Cooper, John
R. Cooper, David E. Copeland, Matheny J. Cope-land, Frank B. Cox, Raymond G.
Crippen, William M. Crownover, *Eric Cummings.

  Harry H. Dahna, William B. Davidson, John E. Davis, Earl W. Davis, Floyd E.
Dazey, Seraphine Depperschmidt, Louis A. Deves, Patrick J. Donahue, William E.
Donahue, Frank R. Dufford.

  Martin W. Eastlack, Edward J. Easton, Forrest J. Eaton, Ralph Eaton, Samuel S.
Ebbert, Ralph C. Eller, George A. Ely, Chester Embree.

  *Charles A. Fink, George W. Ford, Elwood C. Forney, William E. Friend, Chester
A. Fritts, Darwin L. Fullmer.

  Winfield Gallion, LaFayette Goodman, Nolan Goodman, Harold P. Greene, Leroy L.
Gregg.

  William J. Haines, Christian S. Haldeman, Charles C. Hall, Don C. Hall, Roy R.
Hamilton, Samuel E. Hamilton, Hobart Haney, Walter Ha-ney, Andrew Hansen, Cecil
D. Harper, W. P. Harrington, Frank Harsh, *Charles Harvey, George Heier,
*Charles R. Hoeb, Leo J. Hoff, Fred B. Holloway, George J. Homm, Clifford P.
Houser, William M. Howard, C. E. Hullet, Leo Hullet.

Benjamin F. Jamison, John E. Jamison, Noah D. Jamison, George W. Jennings,
*Charles D. Johnson, Clifford W. Jones, Hiram W. Joy.

  Theodore A. Katt, Verne E. Kinzie, Sam M. Kirkland, Charlie L. Kline, Jesse L.
Kline, Carl R. Knott, Charles H. Knudsen.

  Urless R. Lanham, Arthur M. Layton, Pius Leiker, Roy E. Lewis, John F.
Lindquist, Samuel W. Long, Isaac W. Love.

  William F. Maginness, Leigh H.. Main, George Malsam, Frank Mark,; Henry
Martin, Tolbert S. Martin, Hilary E. Mather, Earl Maxwell, Hugh E. Melroy,
George L. Mendenhall, Adam Meyer, George A. Meyer, Mike W. Meyer, Jack V.
Miller, Raymond H. Milroy, Lloyd Mitchell, Howard E. Moore, Lewis Muhlenkamp.

  Ralph McCalmant, Ray McDonald, Cash C. McNay.

  Walter E. Nation, Edd Naylor, Claude E. Nemeyer, Charles W. Norton.

  Kasper Ochs, Lester H. Ohls, Charles A. Orten.

  Robert J. Parish, William L. Peace, Ray B. Phelps, Donald L. Porter, Jay D.
Porter, August E. Priefert, Glen I. Purdum.

  Earl Rachau, Samuel N. Rainer, Dan Rebarchek, Benjamin Richardson, Clarence S.
Richardson, Robert W. Richardson, Alex W. Riley, John H. Rinehart, Valie L.
Robertson, George C. Roemer, Lem Roemer, William F. Roemer, Don A. Romesburg,
Francis E. Ruch, Abner Rush, Merle Ruttan.

  David Schaible, Joseph B. Schamber, Carl Schikowsky, Ernest Schikowsky, Arthur
Schultz, *George M. Scott, *Ivan Seiple, Carl R. Sensenbaugh, Merle E. Shirkey,
Ned L. Shirley, Stanley S. Simpson, Ruhl Sites, Asa M. Smith, Fred J. Snart,
Harvey E. Snyder, Lewis O. Snyder, William H. Snyder, W. H. Spena, Elza M.
Staples, Hobart A. Staples, Cecil W. Starr, Earl A. Stranaud, William A.
Stevenson, *George H. Stittsworth, Erasmus F. Strickler, Fred G. Stubbs, Joseph
W. Suiter, Joseph L. Surmeier, George A. Sut-cliffe, Harley Swain.

  Charles H. Terrell, Earl L. Terrell, Harry T. Tholen, Lorin W. Timmons, Frank
F. Tomanek, George H. Trible, Ernest R. Trimmer, Loyd J. Tustin, Ralph M. Tuttle.

  *Grant Ure, Fred B. Ury.

  Guy Van Marter, Roy Van Marter, *Leonard Verhoeff.

  Luther E. Wade, Clarence H. Wakefield, James H. Walkinshaw, Andrew Weber,
Wilsie B. Wells, Warren T. Welton, Jewell West, Robert A. White, Arthur C.
Williams, Clarence H. Williams, Neal Winningham, Guy H. Winslow, Benjamin M.
Wooters, Loran Wright, Floyd S. Wrighter.

  Nicholas Zerr, Theodore Zimmermann.

  The folks at home planned a reception for the boys when they returned from the
War. They came straggling back one at a time as they got their discharges, and
it was not till almost a year after the Armistice that it was concluded that
they were all back, and the party was given— an outdoor picnic in a grove near
.Gove City, Sept. 1, 1919. It was a very enjoyable affair with speech-making, a
dinner and a brass band. The citizens committee did itself proud. But there was
a certain feeling of disappointment, because the Boys in Khaki did not come out
in greater numbers to the reception given in their honor. The lads who whipped
the Kaiser are a modest lot, and many of them preferred to stay at home that day
instead of turning out to be lionized.

  Two posts of the American Legion were organized in the county, in 1920. The
Fink-Harvey-Seiple Post at Quinter surrendered its charter after a few seasons,
but the George M. Scott Post at Gove City is in a thriving condition, with a
present membership of sixty. The Legion has fallen heir to the traditions of the
G. A. R. and taken over the special work of that organization in the celebration
of Decoration Day on the 20th of May in each year. And then, the Legion has its
Armistice Day, our latest national holiday, November 11, the day when the World
War ended in victory for the American arms.

  The record may well be taken as a guarantee that the citizens of Gove county
will do their part at any time, if the country should ever become involved in
another war and need defenders.

  NOTE—The following names of Civil War veterans are to be added to those given
above: Nathan H. Burkhead, L. D. Bulla, Hudson Chapman, T. S. Coppock, D. C.
Farnsworth, George M. Grubb, John Heckman, Thos. Hindman, Peter McFarland, G. W.
Poorman, Uriah Probasco. There were posts of the G. A. R. at Grainfield in 1887
and 1888, at Buffalo Park from 1885 to 1892 and at Alanthus from 1889 to 1892.



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