Military History
Shelby County, Indiana
This is Robert Carlton Milburn, 1 of 20 selectees from Shelby County
going to
Ft. Harrison July 8, 1941 (Tuesday).
Contributed by Bob Gordon
The Shelbyville Democrat
Tuesday, June 1, 1915
Page 1
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MEMORIAL ADDRESS
ON SUNDAY, JUNE 6
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Soldiers of Fairland Community
To Be Honored in Special Services
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REV. JOHN SKEEN TO SPEAK
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Meeting Will Be Held at Baptist Church ---
All Soldiers and Friends Invited ---
News of a Week from Saints' Rest.
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Rev. John Skeen,
of Franklin, pastor of the Baptist church here, has very kindly volunteered his
services to deliver the regular memorial address that usually precedes
Decoration Day, but was not delivered as has been the former custom. He
will address the ex-soldiers and the general pubic at the Baptist church here on
Sunday, June 6, at 10:30 a.m. All are cordially invited to hear this
eloquent divine and soldiers' friend on this occasion. A general turnout
of the ex-soldier element and sons of the veterans is especially requested.
J.
M. Ensminger will accept the thanks of the writer for recent
favors. "Mack's" friendship for a friend is a marked feature of
the jolly farmer and stockman.
Miss
Lucile Carey, who is attending the Indianapolis Teachers' College,
returned Saturday to visit her parents, and returned Monday to resume her
studies.
Young man, you will discover that the large part of the fighting equipment of
life is grit -- "sand," if please. Find the grindstone and
hold yourself against it until you have developed an edge that will cut
something.
Carey
& Ensminger arrived from the west with a load of horses and mares
for the local trade and have other consignments in contemplation in the near
future.
The Big Four railway has resumed the work of laying new steel rails thru town and
on east.
Mrs.
Mary F. West, of Cincinnati, is the guest of relatives here.
Tombstones have been ordered for the following: ex-soldiers: Harvey
Lamb, Co. L, 18th U.S. Inf.; John A. Lamb, Co. F, 19th Ind.
Inf.; Ira Snider, Co. L, 18th U.S. Reg. The government
tombstones will be shipped to Fountaintown and consigned to R. L. Nave,
applicant.
Mrs.
Lou Rommel and son, Carey, will leave her home in
Benton county, June 1, for a visit to Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Cook,
of Memphis, Tenn.
Dr.
Wells has completed the establishment of his steam heating plant in
his home, and is now invulnerable to a siege of Gen. Jack Frost.
John
J. Totten, the stock king, went to Cincinnati Sunday to make a sale of
a large consignment of cattle to the Buckeye dealers of the Queen City on the
beautiful Ohio.
The decoration of the
graves of the nation's heroes in Fairland cemetery was tenderly observed by
their friends Sunday, despite the weather, where they peacefully sleep unmindful
of the twilight or the dawn.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
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MEXICAN WAR
Company H, Shelby Riflemen.
Company E, Shelbyville Hards.
Linked with permission from the publisher, Jerry Mounts.
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War has ever been the way of settling great tribal and national differences, even from the first advent of men on this globe. With all that advanced thinkers, philosophers, theorists and non-combatants may have to offer against war, thus far no great progress has been achieved among the people of uncivilized and civilized, yes and Christian nations, save by the use of the sword and gun. That the day may come when all swords shall be beaten into plow shares or pruning hooks, is to be hoped. The idea of settling difficulties beftween contending forces, states and nations, by means of cool, deliberate arbitration, has come now-a-days to assume a hopeful outlook, and will no doubt, sooner or later, obtain in the minds of the great nations existing on this earth.
The first of the great conflicts in this country after the organization of Shelby county, was that known in history as the Mexican war, from 1846-48. Shelby county proved her loyalty in that short but decisive struggle. Two companies were raised and mustered into United States service for that war from Shelby county. The first of such companies left for the front in June, 1846. This was Company H, of the Third Indiana Regiment of Volunteers. Its officers were Voorhis Conover, captain; Samuel McKinsey, first lieutenant; William Aldridge, second lieutenant, and Jonathan Keith, third lieutenant. It was a full company and served one year. It was in no large engagements, save the battle of Buena Vista. It returned home in July, 1847. Another company was at once organized by Lieutenant McKinsey, who was chosen captain. But little, at this late date, can be learned of the movements of this company, as the war soon ended after they reached Mexico.
At the date of April 8, 1909, there were at least three Mexican soldiers still surviving and living in Shelby county --- William Elliott, of Shelbyville; Henry M. Ensley, of Fairlaind, and Benjamin Boon, of Fairland. All are over eighty years of age.
History of Shelby County, Indiana, Edward Chadwick, 1909, page 98.
Copied by Phyllis Miller Fleming
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