First Decoration Day Zanesville, Ohio 31 May 1870
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First Decoration Day Zanesville, Ohio 31 May 1870
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FIRST DECORATION DAY
ZANESVILLE, OHIO
31 MAY 1870
The following article appeared in The Zanesville Daily Courier, Tuesday Evening 31 May, 1870. It was the city's first Decoration (Memorial) Day Celebration. I reprint the entire article; because, it list all the known soldier dead of Zanesville up to May 1870, that were buired here. It is a fitting Tribute to our Memorial Day Celebration's of 2003.
Never perhaps, within the recollection of our citizens and never since Zanesville has had a history, was an occasion like unto that celebrated yesterday and never was an occasion more heartily approved, and the efforts of those who had taken the first steps towards the consumation more gloriously and more nobly seconded. The people without distinction, without partizan feeling or prejudice, without regard to creed or color, united by a common bond of sympathy to do honor to the fallen brave of our National fame who sleep in the cemeteries about us, or to be remembered where they fell on distant fields of glory. There seemed to have been an almost unanimous and common agreement to make Decoration Day a memorable one in the history of our city. The morning opened up beautiful and sunrise was ushered in with the firing of minute guns that awakened the drowsy city to life. Putnam Hill thundered with sound, where a squad of artillery men under command of Captain John W Wallace had charge of a piece of artillery which they handled magnificently and fired regularly during all the after part of the day as well as during the morning and at regular intervals during the forenoon.. The business houses generally cflosed at noon. Many of the large shops and manufacuring establishments did not start up in the morning and others closed at noon. Main Street was profusely decorated with flags its entire length, while many residences on the cross streets displayed the National Flag. By twelve o'clock people began to throng Main Street and before one o'clock it was almost impossible to move along the pavements for the throng of people, or through the streets for the carriages.
The Procession
At two o'clock the procession was formed on Main Street, by Gen G F Wiles Marshall of the Day and his efficient asistant Marshall's, Capt, C C Goddard, Capt J P Springer, Capt Joseph T Gorsuch, Maj W S Harlan, Col H D Munson, Sgt Michael Henry and Ensign Joe R Thomas. The procession as formed was headed by Bauer's Silver Cornet Band, then Martial Band, followed by a company of soldiers under command of Mr T A Nevitt. In advance of the company was borne the old flag of the 78th, given to that regiment by the ladies of this city; also a regimental flag belonging to the same regiment. Next in the procession was a squad of horsemen, Then came the Decorating Committee consisting of the following young ladies dressed in white accompanied by the gentlemen coaches. The Ladies were: Misses, Ella Wiles, Anna Ross, Clara Guthrie Lillie Haver, Carrie Porter, Ada Story, Mary Leggett, Kate Cassell, Lucy Stansbery, Julia Potwin, Hattie Eastman, Mollie Porter and Katy Granger. The Gentlemen were Messr, Fletcher, Burwell, Haver and Legg. Then came the carriages containing the Decoration Committee appointed by the public meeting consisting of the following named ladies and gentlemen: Mrs Wheeler, Mrs Silvey, Miss Ella Wiles, Miss Lucy Hazlett, Miss Lizzie Gilbert, Miss A E Slack, Miss Ella Evans, Miss Ada Story, Miss Lizzie Ross, Mrs B F Hirsch, Miss Julia Munson, Miss Anna Clark, Mrs Col M Churchill. The Gentlemen, Gen S Thomas, G W Tarrance, J C Douglas, Sam Haver, C C Wiles, H L Korte, George W Legg, George Beardsley, Col G D Munson and Capt C C Goddard. Then followed a carriage containing the soldiers of the War of 1812; this followed by a carriage containing the orators of the day, Judge M M Granger and Gen W H Ball; then followed the clergy of the city in carriages, also carriages containing the Mayor, Council and other officer's of the town of Putnam; Mayor, Council and officers of the town of West Zanesville, officers of the county, School Boards of Zanesville, Putnam and West Zanesville. Then a number of carriages containing the widows and orphans of deceased soldiers followed by a procession of carriages, buggies etc of citizens........The first cemetery was Woodlawn, where Judge Granger gave remarks.....Here follows the list of graves decorated at Woodlawn, Thomas Cox, Col USA, Capt Wm Berkshire Co K 97th OVI, Major B C G Reed 174th OVI, Lieut Farnk Lank Co F 62nd OVI, Capt D B Monroe Co A 62nd OVI, Capt John C hazlett Bat D 5th Art, Sgt Frank Porter Co B 78th OVI, George H Mathews Co B 78th OVI, C R Wiles Co B 78th OVI, Wm H Wiles Co B 15th OVI, George J Potts QMS 95th OVI, Lewis P Haver Co E 3rd OVI, Henry Dozer, Co B 78th OVI, Henry Ely Co E 19th OVI, John Chapman Co K 97th OVI, Henry Bishop Co E 11th, Indiana, James Palmer, Navy, John Jones 78th OVI, Greenberry Honecutt (colored), Charles Neusom, (colored), Joseph Osmond, Co B, 78th OVI, Frank Fracker, Sgt, 78th OVI, J B Thomas, Co K 78th OVI,, Wm Lenhart, Navy, B V H Safford, Co E 3rd OVI, Jacob Y Smith, Co B 159th ONG, Milton Chapman Co A 19th OVI, Henry Ellis Co E 19th OVI, Leatherman: James M Cleland 2d Va Cav; David Hetzel, Co, B 159th OBG, Gen J Van Horn, 1776, Maj Jefferson Van Horn, Mexican War, Solomon Sturges, 1776, E Sturges, 1776, Major Horace Nye, 1812, Samuel Belnap, 1812, Ira Belnap, 1812, Ambrose Josselyn, Navy 1812, Jeremiah Elder, 1812, William Welles, Indian War, Daniel Coverse, Indian War; William Moore, Indian War, W S Gilbert, US Coast Survey.
When the graves had all been decorated the procession reformed and marched to the Zanesville Cemetery (Greenwood) arriving there about 4 o'clock.
The list of Soldiers and Sailors buried in the Zanesville Cemetery are: Herrick Blue, Gunboat Service, Louis R Green, Capt US Vols, Ernest F Schaubhut, Co D, NYI, Benjamin Compton Co E 3rd OVI, Isaac Priest Co K , 19th OVI, Wm H Taylor, Co B 46th OVI, Henry Ragor, Co A 122nd OVI, Newton Cockerel Co A, 122nd OVI, George Rowles, 62nd OVI, Thomas Fulkerson, Co A 122nd OVI, Wm Langen Co B 21th OVI, Isaac Lee, Co C 78th OVi, Norval Greenland, Co E 19th OVI, Frank Greenland, Co B 24th OVI, Wm J McCallister, Co D 78th OVI, John Anthony, 97th OVI, Henry Morgan, Rufus W Criswell, Henry A Bainter, Co C 122nd, OVI, Milton Atkinson, Co B 24th OVI, Thomas W Hope, 1st OHIO Hv'y Artillery, George Hahn Co K 62nd OVI, Edward Jennings Co E 1st OVI, Orlando P Brockway Capt US Colored Troops, Charles Haupman, 19th OVI, Samuel Wingle, Joseph A Cook, John Krauer, Co K, 122nd, OVI, John Randall Co K 122nd OVI, Henry McKenzie, 1812, Soldier, John A Reynolds Co F 62nd OVI, Thomas E Ross Lt Co A 78th OVI, Col John R Baird US Vols,Wm Beake, 62nd OVI, Josiah Johnson 18th US Regt, Benjamin Pritchard Co B 24th OVI, Curtiz J Morgan Co K 19th OVI, D J Culbertson Capt Co D 159th OVI, George Hall 5th US Colored Troops, Frederick Lentz, Lt, Co E 19th OVI, Gordon Huntington Co E 19th OVI, , John mcMulkin US Navy, Edward Hilliard Lt, Co I 122nd OVI, Louis L Cox Capt, Co K 97th OVI, Samuel L Wheeler, Capt, Co B 24th OVI,Robert L Wheeler Lt, Co 24th OVI, Edward Wheeler, Co E 3nd OVI, R A Sutton, 1812 Soldier, Wm Hattan Co F 122nd OVI, Harper Caldwell, James Caldwell, US Telegraph Corp, Dr A W Shipley US Medical Corps, J Stanley Cochran Lt, Co E 19th OVI, , James P Bailey Co K 97th OVI, Valentine Smeltzer, 1812 Soldier,, G Stahley 9th OVC, F Marion Story, Oliver C Story, Jeremiah Norris, W Norris, Co F, 78th OVI, S Barrett US Colored Troops, Albert Langon Co E 195th OVI, Washington Brookover, 159th OVI, James Cochran Soldier of 1812, Co John Hall Soldier of 1812, Louis Grigsby Soldier 1812, James Male Co B 24th OVI, John Stulock Co A 16th OVI, Jeremiah Miller OVC, UNKNOWN SOLDIER, John Downer 78th OVI, Charles W Geeson 2nd W Va Cav, James Lindsey Co A 122nd OVI, Lewis Jordon, 62nd OVI, Sharnon Wilson, Co B 3rd OVI, Total 77.
Then to the Catholic Cemetery (location not specified) The soldier dead buried there: John McElroy Co A 16th OVI,, Henry Ratcliff, Co E 19th OVI, John Spaulding Co K 97th OVi, John Durant, Co K 19th OVI, Phillip Hofer, Co D 13th OVI, James Hofer, Co D 13th OVI.
The procession then reformed and returned to the city. The occassion passed off without a single incident in any way involving life and the day will long be remembered by those who participated.
ZANESVILLE, OHIO
31 MAY 1870
The following article appeared in The Zanesville Daily Courier, Tuesday Evening 31 May, 1870. It was the city's first Decoration (Memorial) Day Celebration. I reprint the entire article; because, it list all the known soldier dead of Zanesville up to May 1870, that were buired here. It is a fitting Tribute to our Memorial Day Celebration's of 2003.
Never perhaps, within the recollection of our citizens and never since Zanesville has had a history, was an occasion like unto that celebrated yesterday and never was an occasion more heartily approved, and the efforts of those who had taken the first steps towards the consumation more gloriously and more nobly seconded. The people without distinction, without partizan feeling or prejudice, without regard to creed or color, united by a common bond of sympathy to do honor to the fallen brave of our National fame who sleep in the cemeteries about us, or to be remembered where they fell on distant fields of glory. There seemed to have been an almost unanimous and common agreement to make Decoration Day a memorable one in the history of our city. The morning opened up beautiful and sunrise was ushered in with the firing of minute guns that awakened the drowsy city to life. Putnam Hill thundered with sound, where a squad of artillery men under command of Captain John W Wallace had charge of a piece of artillery which they handled magnificently and fired regularly during all the after part of the day as well as during the morning and at regular intervals during the forenoon.. The business houses generally cflosed at noon. Many of the large shops and manufacuring establishments did not start up in the morning and others closed at noon. Main Street was profusely decorated with flags its entire length, while many residences on the cross streets displayed the National Flag. By twelve o'clock people began to throng Main Street and before one o'clock it was almost impossible to move along the pavements for the throng of people, or through the streets for the carriages.
The Procession
At two o'clock the procession was formed on Main Street, by Gen G F Wiles Marshall of the Day and his efficient asistant Marshall's, Capt, C C Goddard, Capt J P Springer, Capt Joseph T Gorsuch, Maj W S Harlan, Col H D Munson, Sgt Michael Henry and Ensign Joe R Thomas. The procession as formed was headed by Bauer's Silver Cornet Band, then Martial Band, followed by a company of soldiers under command of Mr T A Nevitt. In advance of the company was borne the old flag of the 78th, given to that regiment by the ladies of this city; also a regimental flag belonging to the same regiment. Next in the procession was a squad of horsemen, Then came the Decorating Committee consisting of the following young ladies dressed in white accompanied by the gentlemen coaches. The Ladies were: Misses, Ella Wiles, Anna Ross, Clara Guthrie Lillie Haver, Carrie Porter, Ada Story, Mary Leggett, Kate Cassell, Lucy Stansbery, Julia Potwin, Hattie Eastman, Mollie Porter and Katy Granger. The Gentlemen were Messr, Fletcher, Burwell, Haver and Legg. Then came the carriages containing the Decoration Committee appointed by the public meeting consisting of the following named ladies and gentlemen: Mrs Wheeler, Mrs Silvey, Miss Ella Wiles, Miss Lucy Hazlett, Miss Lizzie Gilbert, Miss A E Slack, Miss Ella Evans, Miss Ada Story, Miss Lizzie Ross, Mrs B F Hirsch, Miss Julia Munson, Miss Anna Clark, Mrs Col M Churchill. The Gentlemen, Gen S Thomas, G W Tarrance, J C Douglas, Sam Haver, C C Wiles, H L Korte, George W Legg, George Beardsley, Col G D Munson and Capt C C Goddard. Then followed a carriage containing the soldiers of the War of 1812; this followed by a carriage containing the orators of the day, Judge M M Granger and Gen W H Ball; then followed the clergy of the city in carriages, also carriages containing the Mayor, Council and other officer's of the town of Putnam; Mayor, Council and officers of the town of West Zanesville, officers of the county, School Boards of Zanesville, Putnam and West Zanesville. Then a number of carriages containing the widows and orphans of deceased soldiers followed by a procession of carriages, buggies etc of citizens........The first cemetery was Woodlawn, where Judge Granger gave remarks.....Here follows the list of graves decorated at Woodlawn, Thomas Cox, Col USA, Capt Wm Berkshire Co K 97th OVI, Major B C G Reed 174th OVI, Lieut Farnk Lank Co F 62nd OVI, Capt D B Monroe Co A 62nd OVI, Capt John C hazlett Bat D 5th Art, Sgt Frank Porter Co B 78th OVI, George H Mathews Co B 78th OVI, C R Wiles Co B 78th OVI, Wm H Wiles Co B 15th OVI, George J Potts QMS 95th OVI, Lewis P Haver Co E 3rd OVI, Henry Dozer, Co B 78th OVI, Henry Ely Co E 19th OVI, John Chapman Co K 97th OVI, Henry Bishop Co E 11th, Indiana, James Palmer, Navy, John Jones 78th OVI, Greenberry Honecutt (colored), Charles Neusom, (colored), Joseph Osmond, Co B, 78th OVI, Frank Fracker, Sgt, 78th OVI, J B Thomas, Co K 78th OVI,, Wm Lenhart, Navy, B V H Safford, Co E 3rd OVI, Jacob Y Smith, Co B 159th ONG, Milton Chapman Co A 19th OVI, Henry Ellis Co E 19th OVI, Leatherman: James M Cleland 2d Va Cav; David Hetzel, Co, B 159th OBG, Gen J Van Horn, 1776, Maj Jefferson Van Horn, Mexican War, Solomon Sturges, 1776, E Sturges, 1776, Major Horace Nye, 1812, Samuel Belnap, 1812, Ira Belnap, 1812, Ambrose Josselyn, Navy 1812, Jeremiah Elder, 1812, William Welles, Indian War, Daniel Coverse, Indian War; William Moore, Indian War, W S Gilbert, US Coast Survey.
When the graves had all been decorated the procession reformed and marched to the Zanesville Cemetery (Greenwood) arriving there about 4 o'clock.
The list of Soldiers and Sailors buried in the Zanesville Cemetery are: Herrick Blue, Gunboat Service, Louis R Green, Capt US Vols, Ernest F Schaubhut, Co D, NYI, Benjamin Compton Co E 3rd OVI, Isaac Priest Co K , 19th OVI, Wm H Taylor, Co B 46th OVI, Henry Ragor, Co A 122nd OVI, Newton Cockerel Co A, 122nd OVI, George Rowles, 62nd OVI, Thomas Fulkerson, Co A 122nd OVI, Wm Langen Co B 21th OVI, Isaac Lee, Co C 78th OVi, Norval Greenland, Co E 19th OVI, Frank Greenland, Co B 24th OVI, Wm J McCallister, Co D 78th OVI, John Anthony, 97th OVI, Henry Morgan, Rufus W Criswell, Henry A Bainter, Co C 122nd, OVI, Milton Atkinson, Co B 24th OVI, Thomas W Hope, 1st OHIO Hv'y Artillery, George Hahn Co K 62nd OVI, Edward Jennings Co E 1st OVI, Orlando P Brockway Capt US Colored Troops, Charles Haupman, 19th OVI, Samuel Wingle, Joseph A Cook, John Krauer, Co K, 122nd, OVI, John Randall Co K 122nd OVI, Henry McKenzie, 1812, Soldier, John A Reynolds Co F 62nd OVI, Thomas E Ross Lt Co A 78th OVI, Col John R Baird US Vols,Wm Beake, 62nd OVI, Josiah Johnson 18th US Regt, Benjamin Pritchard Co B 24th OVI, Curtiz J Morgan Co K 19th OVI, D J Culbertson Capt Co D 159th OVI, George Hall 5th US Colored Troops, Frederick Lentz, Lt, Co E 19th OVI, Gordon Huntington Co E 19th OVI, , John mcMulkin US Navy, Edward Hilliard Lt, Co I 122nd OVI, Louis L Cox Capt, Co K 97th OVI, Samuel L Wheeler, Capt, Co B 24th OVI,Robert L Wheeler Lt, Co 24th OVI, Edward Wheeler, Co E 3nd OVI, R A Sutton, 1812 Soldier, Wm Hattan Co F 122nd OVI, Harper Caldwell, James Caldwell, US Telegraph Corp, Dr A W Shipley US Medical Corps, J Stanley Cochran Lt, Co E 19th OVI, , James P Bailey Co K 97th OVI, Valentine Smeltzer, 1812 Soldier,, G Stahley 9th OVC, F Marion Story, Oliver C Story, Jeremiah Norris, W Norris, Co F, 78th OVI, S Barrett US Colored Troops, Albert Langon Co E 195th OVI, Washington Brookover, 159th OVI, James Cochran Soldier of 1812, Co John Hall Soldier of 1812, Louis Grigsby Soldier 1812, James Male Co B 24th OVI, John Stulock Co A 16th OVI, Jeremiah Miller OVC, UNKNOWN SOLDIER, John Downer 78th OVI, Charles W Geeson 2nd W Va Cav, James Lindsey Co A 122nd OVI, Lewis Jordon, 62nd OVI, Sharnon Wilson, Co B 3rd OVI, Total 77.
Then to the Catholic Cemetery (location not specified) The soldier dead buried there: John McElroy Co A 16th OVI,, Henry Ratcliff, Co E 19th OVI, John Spaulding Co K 97th OVi, John Durant, Co K 19th OVI, Phillip Hofer, Co D 13th OVI, James Hofer, Co D 13th OVI.
The procession then reformed and returned to the city. The occassion passed off without a single incident in any way involving life and the day will long be remembered by those who participated.