IN MEMORIUM

"Grandma" Sarah, wife of Jonathan Buffum; "Mother" Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Eby; Mesdames Robison, Parmenter, Buffum, Bowman, Kenworthy, Walton, Wells, Thompson, Spencer, Jones, Shuck, Kane, Hill, Freeman, Vanderveer, Moore, Ballard, Boney, Ekstrom, Parker, Johnson, Gardner, Britton.

It would take a page to name them all, the self sacrificing wives and mothers, brave, noble, Christian women. Their eulogies are in their abiding influence, the reverence for their memories. Mrs. Andrew J. Moore went to her sick husband, a soldier in Company B, Sixty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil war. The company carried a flag presented by the ladies of Andalusia. Mrs. Moore took the flag from the staff and wore it as an underskirt beyond the lines when the regiment was captured at the surrender of Harper's Ferry. The tattered flag is in the Memorial Hall, in the courthouse, at Rock Island.

 

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