Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter XV Grand Army Post 1909
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CHAPTER XV CONTINUED.

GRAND ARMY POST



    Phil H. Sheridan Post, No. 72, Department of South Dakota, is located in the

city of Faulkton, in Faulk county. The first regular step toward effecting the

organization was at the time of holding the memorial service, heretofore

referred to in this history, on the 30th of May, 1884. Major Pickler was elected

commander of the post. Since its organization the names of one hundred and eight

veterans have been borne upon its rolls. Removals, death and other causes have

reduced that number to eighteen. The following worthy comrades have been elected

to the office of commander:



J. A. Pickler            Charles H. Gardner

M. S. McDearmon          John H. Shirk

M. Summy                 H. W. Bailey

Ernest Thiede            A. P. Cavit

George J. Jarvis         Joel Rush

John W. Hays             John Pafford

            A. J. Sprague



    After 24 years, in 1908, Major Pickler was again elected post commander.



    At an early day a lot was set aside in the Faulkton cemetery for soldiers of

the Civil War, in which the following have been laid to rest, and where, each

Memorial Day markers are set up and the stars and stripes wave over their

graves, viz:



Levi Morse             A. A. Morse

Henry M. Metz          James Cam

Adam Findeis           Henry Potter

Joel Rush              Solomon Trude

            Clark Rice



    Ere another twenty-four years shall have passed, the hall of the Faulkton

Grand Army Post and Woman's Relief Corps will cease to exist so far as its

present users are concerned, but as a memorial to its worthy dead may it ever
stand.



Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

19O9





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