The Honorable Thomas E. Hartman, Mayor, by Executive Order in the Year of Our Lord 2009, has decreed that a permanent Virtual Memorial be established on the pages of the Galva Website honoring those men and women, living and dead, from the City of Galva that have served or are serving their country in our nation’s armed forces.
Many of the veterans we honor here have only a tangential connection to our fair city. However slight the connection, circumstances dictated that many of those should receive their final resting place in our cemetery; hence, we are determined to honor their service on this page; we are determined to embrace them as Galvans; we are determined that they will not be forgotten.
Others served that were born, lived and perhaps even died within the corporate limits or our humble municipality but have their final resting place elsewhere: some in foreign lands, some in national cemeteries, others in cities and states that lay claim to them on their passing. All are sons of Galva, and we honor them on this page.
Those That Forfeited Life In Service To Their Country
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Honoring Those That Served and Those Serving…
A lone cannon stands guard at Shiloh, TN, where Galvan Ephraim Dunn, a corporal in the Union Army, perished on the field of battle during the Battle of Shiloh. You can learn more about the Battle of Shiloh and the Shiloh National Military Park on the National Parks Service Website.
Galvan Edward McKeon, Private, Company G, 112 IL US Infantry, perished 9 August, 1864 from wounds received at the Battle of Utoy Creek, Georgia, on 9 August, 1864.
Edward was buried in National Cemetery at Marietta, GA, in grave #5300, Section F.
We are eternally grateful for his sacrifice.
Alexander W. Albro
Ira Michael Alderman
James K. Alderman
Obediah J. Alderman
John H. Alexander
Peter E. Anderson
David L. Ash
John H. Ash
William P. Barnes
David E. Baronet
Francis D. Bates
Reuben F. Beals
Robert G. Bell
Isaac Berry
James D. Blood
David Boggs
Elijah Boggs
James E. Brekenridge
Edwin C. Brown
Erastus D. Brown
Francis Brown
William P. Bryson
Franklin Buckley
Stewart M. Butt
Henry Bush
Edward A, Cardiff
William F. Cardiff
Campbell D. Chollette
David C. Chollette
Dewitt C. Coates
Asbuty C. Cochran
Charles Collinson
Ziba Alden Cook
John Corkill
Robert Corkill
John Corlett
Jeffrey Cragan
T. W. Crawford
William Crawford
William H. Crissman
Orrin M. Cross
John Crow
Hiram King
Olof G. Krans
William H. Lacy
William H. Larson
William Leath
Ezra Litten
John Looney
Jediah Luce
Ezra S. Dean
Charles V. Dickinson
Robert A. Donnelly
William H. Dugan
William L. Duncan
Ephraim Dunn
William H. Dwire
Rollin H. Edgerton
William H. Elkins
John Emery
Michael N. Emery
William E. Emery
Peter Engstrom
Richard G. Espy
Daniel Ferrell
Elmer E. Fitch
Nelson Flansburg
Eli C. Furgeson
James B. Gaster
Charles G. Gibbs
Clayton Gibbs
Joseph P. Gibbs
S. J. Gibson
David Gillette
Isaac Grant
Hans Gree
William A. Grove, Dr.
James Grow
Levi Hager
Eric Hanson
Olof Hanson
John Hawkins
George W. Hempstead
James S. Herbert
George W. Hough
Royal A. Houghton
Hiram W. Hubbard
Mason Huffman
John Humphrey
Peter Ingberg
Peter H. Johnson
Swan Peter Johnson
Romeo W. Jones
Phillip Killey
Leeman Mallory
Olaf Mathews
Eli K. Mauck
Henry A. Mcbride
William Mcbride Jr.
John Mccabe
James Mccarney
Rufus H. Mckane
Edward Mckeon
Robert R. Mcmillan
Charles Mealman
Henry W. Mefford
Henry S. Middaugh
Thomas E. Milchrist
Frederick G. Miles
Allen Ford Miller
Morris C. Miller
George W. Mobrey
Lewis E. Morton
James H. Murray
Jonas Naslund
Homer A. Nichols
Arthur S. Nott
John Otterstrom
John O. Patterson
George W. Potter
Rufus H. Pratt
John H. Reed
William Porter Reed
Frank Reynolds
Charles Rockafellow
David A. Shaffer
Daniel W. Sheahan
John Nelson Sherman
Edward L. Short
Albert Shue
H. W. Shurtliff
William O. Shurtliff
William Shurtz
Charles Smith
Herman P. Smith
William E. Smith
Henry M. Soper
William Spaulding
Matarn Sphar
Isaac Sprouse
William D. Taggert
Warfield B. Todd
Thomas J. Townsend
James F. Vance
William H. Walker
Wiliam Waterson
Peter M. Wickstrom
Daniel A. Wilbur
Charles W. Williams
Frederick Winger
Edward P. Wright
Civil War – Unmarked But Not Forgotten
Information provided by the Illinois Veteran’s Commission dated 1 October, 1956, lists the following veterans of the Civil War that are buried in the Galva cemetery without a tombstone to mark the grave:
Ira Michael Alderman
David Baronett
Reuben F. Beals
Issac Berry
Peter Engstrom
Richard G. Espey
David Gillette
Hans Gree
George Hempstead
Royal A. Houghton
Hiram W. Hubbard
Peter H. Johnson
Jedian Luce
Olaf Mathews
George W. Mobrey
William H. Shurtliff
James Vance
If you would like to provide a headstone for one of these veterans, please call city hall at (309) 932-2555.
William Glacken’s depiction of the assault on San Juan Hill, overlooking Santiago, Cuba.
For more on the Spanish – American War, visit the Library of Congress website – The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War
In Good Company: “From North and South and East and West-From city, farm, and plain-Loud comes a cry will never rest-For vengeance unto Spain.”
–from “Remember the Maine” by N. A. Jennings and W. A. Phillips.
Our Spanish-American War Veterans
Henry County’s unit in this war consisted of Company B, Sixth Infantry, Illinois National Guard.
John Albro
George W. Boggs
Ira Cardiff
Horace A. Crain
W. E. Hanson
Karl Krans
Sam Mendel
Cliff Soper
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*Due to the sensitive nature of displaying the names of servicemen that have honorably served in what is commonly called the Global War On Terror (GWOT), the City of Galva will not publish the names of our warriors on this site until and unless we have received written permission from the servicemen and women involved in defending us from our sworn enemies.
Before such permission is granted, the City of Galva encourages each serviceman to contact their Public Affairs Office (PAO) to discuss the decision.
As permission is granted, names will be added. Until such time as they are published, the City of Galva wishes to thank you all for preventing what we dread.
When a man accomplishes something beyond his natural power, or beyond his years, or beyond the measure of people like him, or in a special way, or at a special place or time, his deed will have a high degree of nobleness, goodness, and justice….And the best part of a good thing is particularly good; as when Pericles in his funeral oration said that the country’s loss of its young men in battle was “as if the spring were taken out of the year”.
— Aristotle
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die….
A soldier, surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying.
He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape.
He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape.
He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.”
— Chesterton