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Kenesaw Post
No. 77, Department of Illinois, Grand Army of the
Republic, was organized at Danville, Illinois, May 5,
1880, with the following list of charger members:
Abdill, E. C.
Allhands, F. M.
Beddow, Joseph
Black, J. C.
Brittingham, B.
Brower, H. O.
Brown, L. M.
Buy, Fred
Calhoun, W. J.
Clark, J. M.
Coffin, Edwin S.
Cook, B. F.
Coton, Charles
Coulter, C. M.
Cowan, Amos S.
Cowan, O. S.
Craft, W. H.
Dale, John W.
Deamude, D. C.
Dickson, G. W. |
Dillon, George
Drake, Charles H.
Draper, E. J.
Eakin, E. W.
English, James D.
Eoff, Charles D.
Ferguson, S. B.
Field, J. E.
Flynn, George W.
Graves, Thomas
Hall, Henry J.
Hall, Sam J.
Hanford, R. W.
Harrison, James D.
Hefley, B. R.
Holton, R. C.
Holsen, James
Hull, J. G.
Irick, Morris
Jewell, W. R.
Johnson, H. A. |
Jones, G. W.
Lane, John
Martin, A.
Martin, Park T.
Moore, Wm. J.
Newlin, Wm. H.
Olehy, Dennis
Outland, James A.
Payton, W. A.
Penwell, F. W.
Plasnick, H.
Pollock, Alex.
Shedd, W. E.
Slusser, John
Steen, E. D.
Taylor, W. H.
Tiffany, M. V. B.
Wilkinson, H. V.
Winter, Edwin
Wolford, M. J.
Woodmansee, J. H. |
The charter is signed by Edgar D. Swaim,
department commander, and attested by Charles E. Koch,
assistant adjutant general. Kenesaw Post has never
lapsed since its organization; it has included the names
of more than 600 comrades, many of whom are dead; others
have moved away and their history is lost. Many
others have cropped from the post because of infirmities
and feebleness due to disease and wounds contracted
while in their country's service, and to the ever
increasing infirmities of oncoming old age. The
present officers of the post are: J. W.
Whitmeyer, commander; W. H. Byram, senior
vice commander; P. F. Oliver, junior vice
commander; W. D. Johnson, officer of the day;
A. B. Elder, officer of the guard; W. H. Taylor,
chaplain; J. A. Williams, adjutant; W. B.
Scheffer, quartermaster; J. P. Burchit,
patriotic instructor. Trustees: J. P. Burchit,
P. F. Oliver, E. Cooley. Present membership is
over 100.
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