Last Soldiers in Iowa by County
Last Union Soldiers in Iowa by County 
and Chronological Order

*  Find-a-Grave record                                                

Adair County - Lewis Lawson - Company C, 137th Illinois Infantry * 


Adams County - Darius P. Kerns - Company F, 83rd Illinois Infantry * 

 

Allamakee County - D’Estaing Harrington - Company C, 13th U. S. Infantry *

 

Appanoose County - Edward Streepy - Company I, 36th Iowa Infantry *

 

Audubon County - John C. Bonwell - Company A, 175th Ohio Infantry *

 

Benton County - William A. Vincent - Company A, 152nd New York Infantry *

 

Black Hawk - Henry A. Bray - Company F, 76th Illinois Infantry *

 

Boone County - Benjamin F. Ritter - Company K, 9th Iowa Infantry *

 

Bremer County - Martin L. Stebbins - Company F, 1st Iowa Cavalry *

 

Buchanan County - George W. Kays - Company A, 41st Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Buena Vista County - Charles P. Matson - Company B, 44th Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Butler County - Thomas Anderson - Company G, 133rd Pennsylvania Infantry *

 

Calhoun County - Lewis W. Grimes - Company D, 45th Iowa Infantry *

 

Carroll County - John A. Hood - Company D, 51st Indiana Infantry *

 

Cass County - Adnah D. Bullock - Company A, 1st New York Light Artillery *

 

Cedar County - Martin W. Johnson - Company C, 15th Ohio Infantry *

 

Cerro Gordo County - Rockwell Whipple - Company E, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry *

 

Cherokee County - Nicholas T. Wells - Company K, 40th Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Chickasaw County - John N. Coleman - Company G, 44th Illinois Infantry * 

 

Clarke County - Theodore F. Yetts - Company K, 129th Indiana Infantry *

                                                           - Company K, 116th Indiana Infantry

 

Clay County - Frederick P. Pettygrove - Company C, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Clayton County - Edwin W. Stanton - 3rd Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Clinton County - John Avery - Company B, 140th Illinois Infantry *

 

Crawford County - Myron E. Rowe - Company D, 1st Michigan Light Artillery *

 

Dallas County - Charles S. Curler - Company I, 192nd New York Infantry *

 

Davis County - Benjamin S. Armstrong - Company E, 3rd Iowa Cavalry *

 

Decatur County - Jonas Hoffhines - Company C, 88th Ohio Infantry *

 

Delaware County - Thomas N. Sedgwick - Company B, 44th Illinois Infantry *

 

Des Moines County - Edmund B. Davis - Company E, 25th Iowa Infantry *

 

Dickinson County - Gifford S. Robinson - Company H, 115th Illinois Infantry *

 

Dubuque County - Frank L. Quade - Company G, 8th Iowa Cavalry *

 

Emmet County - George W. Albee - Company E, 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry *

 

Fayette County - John T. Gager - Company B, 105th Illinois Infantry *

 

Floyd County - William J. Gange - Company I, 5th Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Franklin County - Levi L. Conner - Company C, 172nd Ohio Infantry *

 

Fremont County - Phineas H. Drake - Company M, 11th Illinois Cavalry *

 

Greene County - Robert G. Martin - Company D, 188th Ohio Infantry *

 

Grundy County - Horace B. Kelly - Company K, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Guthrie County - John T. Palmer - Company G, 51st Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Hamilton County - Elon N. Lee - Company G, 134th Illinois Infantry *

 

Hancock County - Llewellyn Lewis - Company C, 16th Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Hardin County - Amariah T. Chandler - Company H, 10th Massachusetts Infantry *

 

Harrison County - Sylvester Pokett - Company C, 1st Nebraska Cavalry *

 

Henry County - Joseph T. Ingrim - 2nd Iowa Light Artillery *

 

Howard County - Ira C. Wheeler - Company G, 47th Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Humboldt County - Charles H. Lingenfelter - Company D, 23rd Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Ida County - Paul Fox - Company A, 116th Indiana Infantry *

 

Iowa County - Francis M. Isenhart - Company C, 75th Illinois Infantry *

 

Jackson County - James H. Sutton - Company E, 12th Tennessee Cavalry *

 

Jasper County - Elliott P. Taylor - Company M, 4th Iowa Cavalry *

 

Jefferson County - Joseph H. Alverson - Company F, 3rd Iowa Cavalry *

 

Johnson County - Ebenezer G. McMurray - Company A, 185th Ohio Infantry *

 

Jones County - Mark H. Morse - Company F, 31st Iowa Infantry *

 

Keokuk County - James M. Williams - Company K, 139th Indiana Infantry *

 

Kossuth County - John H. Grover - Company H, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Lee County - John Drain - Company A, 67th U.S. Colored Troops *

 

Linn County - George S. Bushnell - Company E, 46th Iowa Infantry *

 

Louisa County - John F. Heins - 1st Missouri Engineers *

 

Lucas County - William Humphreys - Company A, 119th Ohio Infantry *

                         - Robert Killen - Company F, 37th Kentucky Infantry * 

 

Lyon County - George W. Lyon - Company A, 11th Illinois Infantry *

 

Madison County - Aaron E. Cleveland - Company E, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry *

 

Mahaska County - Henry A. White - Company H, 184th New York Infantry *

 

Marion County - Robert A. Millen - Company A, 33rd Iowa Infantry *

 

Marshall County - David B. Sisk - Company H, 147th Illinois Infantry *

 

Mills County - Marion T. Davis - 4th Iowa Infantry (released - too young) *

                                                    - Tabor Blues (State Militia) 

                                                    - Silver Creek Cavalry Rangers (State Militia)

 

Mitchell County - Charles W. Mills - Company I, 98th New York Infantry *

 

Monona County - Theodore S. Baker - Company G, 22nd Iowa Infantry *

 

Monroe County - Harvey A. Bloomfield - Company G, 21st Missouri Infantry *

 

Montgomery County - Hiram Finley - Company A, 14th Iowa Infantry *

 

Muscatine County - Charles F. Regnier - Company H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery *

 

O’Brien County - James P. Martin - Company H, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery *

 

Osceola County - Thomas O. Wilbern - Company C, 153rd Illinois Infantry *

 

Page County - John M. Gudgel - Company K, 148th Illinois Infantry *

 

Palo Alto County - Franklin E. Jones - Company K, 49th Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Plymouth County - Andrew J. Crouch - Company G, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry *

 

Pocahontas County - William A. Marther - Company H, 8th Iowa Infantry *

 

Polk County - Jacob J. Neuman - Company I, 148th Illinois Infantry *

 

Pottawattamie County - Sylvester E. Flummer - Company K, 118th Indiana Infantry *

 

Poweshiek County - Charles Van Doren - Company B, 155th Illinois Infantry *

 

Ringgold County - Harrison R. Crecelius - 2nd Congressional District Indiana Volunteers *

 

Sac County - George Matson - Company E, 82nd Illinois Infantry *

 

Scott County - John M. Thumm - 12th Ohio Light Artillery *

 

Shelby County - William J. Blair - Company I, 7th Iowa Infantry *

 

Sioux County - John H. Huyck - Company E. 134th Illinois Infantry *

 

Story County - Charles C. Hamilton - Company I, 152nd New York Infantry *

 

Tama County - James W. Willett - USS Springfield *

 

Taylor County - Benjamin F. Akers - Company A, 22nd Iowa Infantry *

 

Union County - Chester L. Dickenson - Company I, 6th Michigan Heavy Artillery *

 

Van Buren County - Eli W. McKinney - Company K, 45th Iowa Infantry *

 

Wapello County - Michael P. Franz - Company A, 20th Iowa Infantry *

 

Warren County - Charles Hester - Company I, 148th Illinois Infantry *

 

Washington County - Lewis F. Sigafoose - Company K, 22nd Iowa Infantry *

 

Wayne County - William H. Earnest - Company D, 189th Ohio Infantry *

 

Webster County - William R. Lindsley - Company H, 49th Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Winnebago County - Andrew N. Brones - Company I, 43rd Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Winneshiek County - Ancil O. Ash - Company E, 47th Wisconsin Infantry *

 

Woodbury County - Michael J. Hawk - Company I, 78th Ohio Infantry *

 

Worth County - Homer Doolittle - Company H, 49th Wisconsin Infantry *  

 

Wright County - James T. Jackson - Company D, 36th Wisconsin Infantry *

    Centennial Edition, Muscatine Journal
                                                                                                                         Muscatine, Muscatine, Iowa
                                                                                                                                                   May 31, 1940

Fewer than 100 Veterans of Civil War Survive in Iowa

          Des Moines -- (AP) -- This year, for the first time since the "boys in blue" came marching home in '65, there are fewer than 100 Civil war veterans in Iowa. State G.A.R. headquarters here today listed 95 veterans of the war between the states as still living in Iowa, in contrast to the 76,000 who answered the call of Lincoln from 1861 to 1865.
          The average age of these men is 94.2 years. The youngest is 90; the oldest, 101. Membership in the Iowa department of the Grand Army of the Republic exceeded 20,000 at its peak about 1890. Now there are 45 counties without even one Civil war veteran still living.
          Most of the remaining counties have only one. Only Cerro Gordo (Mason City), Dubuque, Lucas (Chariton), Marshall, Muscatine, Page (Shenandoah, Clarinda), Mahaska (Oskaloosa), and Polk (Des Moines), have more. Muscatine has three remining, two in Muscatine and one in West Liberty.
         Ten counties lost their G.A.R. member in the past 12 months. A year ago, there were 145 Civil war veterans in Iowa, living in 64 counties.
          James W. Willett of Tama, elected state commander of the G.A.R. at the 1939 encampment, died May 13, while still in office.
          At the latest official report, March 31, the Grand Army of the Republic listed 2,655 members in the United States, with deaths reported at the rate of 100 per month. There were 52,192 widows of Civil war veterans living on March 31.

         Counties without any Civil war veterans living are:  Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cedar, Chickawaw, Clay, Clayton, Crawford, Delaware, Dickinson, Emmet, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, Hardin, Henry, Howard, Ida, Iowa, Jackson, Kossuth, Lee, Louisa, Lyon, Madison, Mitchell, Monona, Monroe, Osceola, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Sac, Scott, Shelby, Tama, Union, Winnebago, Worth and Wright.

        The list and age of veterans reported by state G.A.R. Headquarters follows, by counties:

Appanoose - Byron D. Bates, 93, Cincinnati, Ia.; Edward Streepy, 95, Udell, Ia.
Audubon - John C. Bonwell, 97, Gray, Ia.; William H. Jay, 94, Audubon, Ia.
Benton - Dr. William A. Vincent, 93, Belle Plaine, Ia.
Black Hawk - Henry Bray, 96, Waterloo, Ia.
Boone - Frank Ritter, 94, Boone, Ia.
Buchanan - George W. Kays, 92, Independence, Ia.
Buena Vista - Charles P. Matson, 93, Storm Lake, Ia.
Cass - A.D. Bullock, 94, Atlantic, Ia.; Edwin Perry, 92, Cumberland, Ia.
Cerro Gordo - Nathan G. Thorn, 90, Mason City, Ia.; Rockley Whipple, 100, Mason City, Ia.; John R. Williams, 94, Mason City, Ia.
Cherokee - Nicholas T. Wells, 94, Marcus, Ia.
Clarke - Hiram A. Wirick, 94, Osceola, Ia.; Theodore Yetts, 94, Hopeville, Ia.
Clinton - John Avery, 94, Clinton, Ia.; Jacob W. Liebler, 96, Calamus, Ia.
Dallas - Charles S. Curler, 91, Perry, Ia.
Decatur - Jonas P. Hoffhines, 99, Leon, Ia.; James H. Pitman, 95, Leon, Ia.
Des Moines - Edmund B. Davis, 96, Burlington, Ia.
Davis - Benjamin S. Armstrong, 95, Bloomfield, Ia.; William J. Shuck, 98, Bunch, Ia.
Dubuque - James H. Jackson, 96, Dubuque, Ia.; A.E. Keen, 92, Dubuque, Ia.; Frank L. Quade, 93, Dubuque, Ia.
Fremont - Larkin Miller, 94, Hamburg, Ia.; Phineas H. Drake, 96, Tabor, Ia.
Greene - Robert G. Martin, 91, Rippey, Ia.
Guthrie - John Palmer, 96, Bayard, Ia.
Hancock - Llewellyn Lewis, 94, Klemme, Ia.
Harrison - Sylvester Pockett, 91, Dunlap, Ia.; Cyrus E. Cross, 93, Mondamin, Ia.
Humboldt - Charles H. Lingenfelter, 98, Dakota City, Ia.
Jasper - Elliott P. Taylor, 94, Newton, Ia.
Jefferson - Joseph H. Alverson, 95, Batavia, Ia.; John A. Smithline, 93, Fairfield, Ia.
Johnson - Ebenezar S. McMurray, 95, Iowa City, Ia.
Jones - James S. Lawson, 92, Olin, Ia.; Mark H. Morse, 98, Wyoming, Ia.
Keokuk - James Williams, 93, Sigourney, Ia.
Linn - Samuel J. Beck, 92, Cedar Rapids, Ia.; George S. Bushnell, 91, Cedar Rapids, Ia.
Lucas - William Humphreys, 96, Chariton, Ia.; Robert Killen, 96, Lucas, Ia.; Henry A. Newhouse, 93, Lucas, Ia.
Mahaska - Jacob Watland, 96, New Sharon, Ia.; Henry A. White, 93, University Park, Ia.; Henry T. White, 95, Oskaloosa, Ia.
Marion - William H.H. Barker, 99, Harvey, Ia.; Robert A. Millen, 93, Melcher, Ia.
Marshall - Benjamin M. Crookshank, 94, Marshalltown, Ia.; and Joseph R. Coffin, 94, James H. Firman, 91, Peter Garver, 96, Sylvester           Manship, 92, Silas Parker, 101, and David B, Sisk, 94, all of the Iowa Soldiers' home.
Mills - David M. Taylor, 93, Malvern, Ia.
Montgomery - Hiram Finley, 98, Stanton, Ia.; Joseph E. Kenworthy, 92, Grant, Ia.
Muscatine - August Eichoff, 93, Muscatine, Ia.; Joseph H. Miller, 92, Muscatine, Ia.; Charles F. Regnier, 95, West Liberty, Ia.
O'Brien - James P. Martin, 92, Sutherland, Ia.
Page - Matthias Baker, 95, Shenandoah, Ia.; Shelby S. Bertram, 96, Shenandoah, Ia.; John M. Gudgel, 92, Shenandoah, Ia.; Charles               Sinn, 90, Clarinda, Ia.
Plymouth - Andrew Crouch, 91, Le Mars, Ia.
Polk - John C. Ash, 97; Russell B. Bever, 96; Harrison Cole, 91; John S. Merriam, 95; James McHargue, 95; J.J. Neuman, 93; T.J. Noll,           95; and Alvin Smith, 96, all of Des Moines, Ia.
Pottawattamie - Sylvester Flummer, 93, Council Bluffs, Ia.
Poweshiek - Charles Van Doren, 94, Grinnell, Ia.
Ringgold - H.H. Crecelius, 93, Redding, Ia.
Sioux - John H. Huyck, 93, Hawarden, Ia.
Story - Charles Hamilton, 100, Ames, Ia.
Taylor - Benjamin F. Akers, 97, Gravity, Ia.
Van Buren - Eli W. McKinney, 95, Bentonsport, Ia.
Wapello - Michael France, 95, Ottumwa, Ia.
Warren - Charles Hester, 94, Indianola, Ia.; Anthony Snyder, 93, Lacona, Ia.
Washington - Lewis Sigafoose, 96, Washington, Ia.
Wayne - William H. Earnest, 91, Seymour, Ia.
Webster - William R. Lindsley, 98, Fort Dodge, Ia.
Winneshiek - Ancil O. Ash, 91, Decorah, Ia.
Woodbury - Michael Hawk, 93, Sioux City, Ia.
ONLY NINE IOWA VETERANS OF CIVIL WAR STILL LIVING 

Des Moines (May 1945). ---(AP)--- Ten, or more than half, of the state's Civil War veterans still living last May ---nearly 80 years after the conflict --- have died since then, Miss Amy Noll, secretary of the Iowa Grand Army of the Republic, said. 

Average age of the nine still living is 98. They are: Harrison R. Crecelius, Redding, 97; Michael Franz, Ottumwa, 100: Charles H. Lingenfelter, Dakota City, 103; James P. Martin, Sutherland, 97; Ebenezer G. McMurray, Iowa City, 100; Robert A. Millen, Melcher, 98; Frank L. Quade, Dubuque, 98; David Sisk, Marshalltown, 96; and John M. Gudgel, Shenandoah, 97. 

Those who died during the last 10 months were: 

John Avery, Clinton; Ancil O. Ash, Decorah; Andrew W. Crouch, LeMars; William H. Earnest, Seymour; Charles Hester, Indianola; George R. Martin, Rippey; Frank Ritter, Boone; Eiliott P. Taylor, Newton; Henry A. White, University Park; and John H. Burlingame, Evanston, Illinois.
                         Chronological Order of Last Soldiers
 
1932/03/01 - Kossuth County - John H. Grover - age 93  
1933/07/09 - Winnebago County - Andrew N. Brones - age 88  
1934/08/10 - Worth County - Homer Doolittle - age 93  
1935/07/11 - Allamakee County - D'Estaing Harrington- age 91
1935/08/02 - Grundy County - Horace B. Kelly - age 93  
1935/08/02 - Palo Alto County - Franklin E. Jones - age 91  
1936/03/03 - Shelby County - William J. Blair - age 89 
1936/03/10 - Wright County - James T. Jackson - age 91 
1936/05/28 - Dickinson County - Gifford S. Robinson - age 93 
1936/06/22 - Osceola County - Thomas O. Wilbern - age 88  
1937/01/19 - Howard County - Ira C. Wheeler - age 87  
1937/02/07 - Pocahontas County - William A. Marther - age 90  
1937/05/10 - Crawford County - Myron E. Rowe - age 90 
1937/09/27 - Franklin County - Levi L. Conner - age 91 
1937/11/14 - Louisa County - John F. Heins - age 96
1938/01/02 - Hardin County - Amariah T. Chandler - age 100  
1938/01/04 - Emmet County - George W. Albee - age 92 
1938/02/09 - Clay County - Frederick P. Pettygrove - age 97 
1938/02/27 - Bremer County - Martin L. Stebbins - age 92 
1938/03/11 - Cedar County - Martin W. Johnson - age 95 
1938/04/01 - Clayton County - Edwin W. Stanton - age 90  
1938/04/18 - Mitchell County - Charles W. Mills - age 90  
1938/05/09 - Hamilton County - Elon N. Lee - age 97 
1938/06/29 - Delaware County - Thomas N. Sedgwick - age 97  
1938/10/07 - Jackson County - James H. Sutton - age 95 
1938/11/26 - Butler County - Thomas Anderson - age 94 
1938/12/17 - Iowa County - Francis M. Isenhart - age 97  
1939/01/07 - Madison County - Aaron E. Cleveland - age 92  
1939/03/07 - Chickasaw County - John N. Coleman - age 94 
1939/04/19 - Carroll County - John A. Hood - age 96 
1939/07/29 - Adams County - Darius P. Kerns - age 95
1939/09/19 - Calhoun County - Lewis W. Grimes - age 94  
1939/11/09 - Sac County - George Matson - age 93  
1939/11/24 - Fayette County - John T. Gager - age 99
1939/12/11 - Ida County - Paul Fox - age 92  
1939/12/30 - Union County - Chester L. Dickenson - age 92  
1940/01/01 - Floyd County - William J. Gange - age 102
1940/01/10 - Monroe County - Harvey A. Bloomfield - age 98  
1940/02/02 - Lyon County - George W. Lyon - age 100    
1940/02/28 - Lee County - John Drain - age 96  
1940/04/01 - Adair County - Lewis Lawson – 98
1940/04/26 - Buchanan County - George W. Kays - age 93 
1940/05/06 - Scott County - John M. Thumm - age 94  
1940/05/08 - Henry County - Joseph T. Ingrim - age 95  
1940/05/13 - Tama County - James W. Willett - age 94  
1940/08/13 - Davis County - Benjamin S. Armstrong - 95  
1940/09/29 - Poweshiek County - Charles Van Doren - age 95  
1940/10/22 - Decatur County - Jonas Hoffhines - age 100  
1940/10/30 - Buena Vista County - Charles P. Matson - age 93 
1940/11/16 - Woodbury County - Michael J. Hawk - age 95  
1940/12/07 - Mills County - Marion T. Davis - age 93 
1941/01/05 - Hancock County - Llewellyn Lewis - age 95  
1941/01/25 - Lucas County - Robert Killen - age 97  
1941/01/25 - Lucas County - William Humphreys - 96 
1941/03/17 - Taylor County - Benjamin F. Akers - age 98  
1941/04/08 - Story County - Charles Hamilton - age 101  
1941/04/14 - Cerro Gordo County - Rockwell Whipple - age 101 
1941/05/30 - Des Moines County - Edmund B. Davis - age 97  
1941/06/23 - Clarke County - Theodore F. Yetts - age 94 
1941/10/11 - Cass County - Adnah D. Bullock - age 95 
1941/10/23 - Webster County - William R. Lindsley - age 98 
1942/01/20 - Muscatine County - Charles F. Regnier - age 96  
1942/02/10 - Sioux County - John H. Huyck - age 95  
1942/09/18 - Keokuk County - James Williams - age 95  
1942/12/01 - Guthrie County - John T. Palmer - age 98
1942/12/11 - Monona County - Theodore S. Baker - age 96  
1942/12/13 - Appanoose County - Edward Streepy - age 98 
1943/03/10 - Pottawattamie County - Sylvester E. Flummer - age 97  
1943/03/25 - Montgomery County - Hiram Finley - age 101  
1943/04/14 - Cherokee County - Nicholas T. Wells - age 97 
1943/04/20 - Benton County - William A. Vincent - age 96 
1943/05/08 - Black Hawk - Henry A. Bray - age 99 
1943/09/25 - Washington County - Lewis F. Sigafoose - age 99  
1943/09/29 - Jefferson County - Joseph H. Alverson - age 99  
1943/10/03 - Audubon County - John C. Bonwell - age 100 
1943/11/21 - Polk County - Jacob J. Neuman - age 97  
1943/12/07 - Harrison County - Sylvester Pokett - age 95  
1943/12/25 - Jones County - Mark H. Morse - age 102  
1943/12/29 - Linn County - George S. Bushnell - age 94  
1944/01/05 - Dallas County - Charles S. Curler - age 95  
1944/04/03 - Fremont County - Phineas H. Drake - age 100  
1944/06/05 - Jasper County - Elliott P. Taylor - age 98 
1944/06/21 - Boone County - Francis Ritter - age 98 
1944/06/28 - Warren County - Charles Hester - age 98  
1944/06/29 - Clinton County - John Avery - age 96  
1944/08/30 - Greene County - Robert G. Martin - age 95  
1945/01/11 - Plymouth County - Andrew J. Crouch - age 95  
1945/02/20 - Mahaska County - Henry A. White - age 100  
1945/03/04 - Wayne County - William H. Earnest - age 96  
1945/03/08 - Winneshiek County - Ancil O. Ash - age 96  
1945/05/10 - Dubuque County - Frank L. Quade - age 98 
1945/05/11 - Humboldt County - Charles H. Lingenfelter - age 103  
1945/06/17 - Wapello County - Michael P. Franz - age 100  
1945/12/14 - Ringgold County - Harrison R. Crecelius - age 98  
1946/02/22 - Van Buren County - Eli W. McKinney - age 98
1946/06/06 - Marshall County - David B. Sisk - age 102  
1947/01/04 - Marion County - Robert A. Millen - age 99 
1947/03/22 - Page County - John M. Gudgel - age 99  
1948/06/20 - Johnson County - Ebenezer G. McMurray - age 103  
1949/09/20 - O’Brien County - James P. Martin - age 101  
The Last of The G. A. R. - Farewell

A hundred dashing soldier boys, of Lincoln’s Army true,
Came home again in sixty-five, their peacetime jobs to do.

They came to Hancock County, when our prairie lands were new.
As pioneers they broke the sod and built homes for me and you.

But now their working days are o’er, these men who wore the blue;
The last to go to the Great Beyond was Klemme’s comrade “Lew.”

Lew Lewis reached age ninety-five, and then he passed away,
His spirit joined the camp above, we honor now his clay.

The Stars and Stripes he loved so well are draped upon his bier,
The Legion Boys, with rifles poised, salute their comrade dear.

Farewell, beloved soldier boy, farewell, our good friend “Lew,”
We bow our heads as the ‘bugler boy', blows ‘final taps’ for you.

dedicated to Lew Lewis, Last Soldier of Hancock County
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