Transcribed
by Sherry Dowden
Used
with permission on the Ogle GenWeb site
2008
Individual
tombstones
CAPT
J.G.
5
ILL MTD VOLS BL’K HAWK WAR
JOHN
WALTERS
ILL
MTD RANGERS, BL’K HAWK WAR
CORP’L
JAMES MILTON
5
ILL MTD VOLS BL’K HAWK WAR
ISAAC
PERKINS
5
ILL MTD VOLS BL’K HAWK WAR
DAVID
KREPPS
5
ILL MTD VOLS BL’K HAWK WAR
Z.
MINDINALL
5
ILL MTD VOLS BL’K HAWK WAR
T.
M. CHILDS
ILL
MTD RANGERS BL’K HAWK WAR
J.B.
PARRIS
ILL
MTD RANGERS BL’K HAWK WAR
JAMES
DOTY
ILL
MTD RANGERS BL’K HAWK WAR
GIDEON
MUNSON
ILL
MTD VOLS
INDIAN
WARS MAY 14, 1832
BIRD
W. ELLIS
ILL
MTD RANGERS INDIAN WARS MAY 14, 1832
JOSEPH
DRAPER
ILL
MTD VOLS INDIAN WARS MAY 14, 1832
West
side of monument
1832
– 1902
Captain
John G. Adams
Serg’t
John Walters
Corp’l
Bird W. Ellis
Corp’l
James Milton
Private
Isaac Perkins
Private
Joseph Draper
Private
David Kreeps
Private
Zadock Mendinall
Private
Tyrus M. Childs
Private
Joseph B. Farris
Private
James Doty
Scout
Gideon Munson
South
side of monument
The
presence of the soldier, statesman, martyr, Abraham Lincoln assisting
in the burial of these honored dead has made this spot sacred.
East
side of monument
In
memory of the Illinois Volunteers who fell at Stillman’s
Run May 14, 1832 in an engagement with Blackhawk and his warriors.
North
side of monument
Erected by the Battleground Memorial Association of Stillman
Valley, IL with funds appropriated by the 42nd General
Assembly of IL approved May 11, 1901.