This is from pages 100-102. Deem's History of Butler County, Mo. by David Bruce Deem, reprinted 1985 by: Stinson Press, Poplar Bluff, Mo. Deem's History of Butler County "The Grand Army of The Republic" This frateral organization is nation-wide and confines its members to honorably discharged soldiers of the Civil War and previous wars and organized to promote a spirit of fraternity and good feeling and to socially benefit the Veterans of the Civil War. R. H. McCook Post G. A. R. was established in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at Ferguson Hall in October 1883. The first officers elected were Post Commander J. K. Leech (County Superintendent of Schools) ; S. V. C., John W. Ingram ; J. V. C., William Dildley ; Q. M. ; Richard Mey ; Chaplin, C. F. Weber ; O. D., J. J. T. Davidson ; O. G., Gustav Schornau ; Surgeon, C.A. King ; Post Adjt., I. M. Davidson. James K. Leech and T. J. Davidson were selected as delegates to the Sedalia convention. The post on opening had twenty-two members, with a large list of applications for memberhip, and was composed of representative citizens of all classes and professions and business men of the city. Thier first meetings were held in the Ferguson Hall on the first anf third Thursday evening of each month. Their membership being resticted to Union soldiers, did not permit such a large membership, but from the institution of R. H. McCook Post in 1883 until the memberhip died out, it was a force in promoting a spirit of fraternity and good feeling. They mixed and mingled with the veterans of the Blue and the Gray, and on every occasion did everything in their power to bring about a feeling of brotherly love between both the Blue and the Gray, and on all public occasions they met socially and gave to each other that feeling that all was over between th North and the South and that all were brothers and under one common flag. This organization flourished and was conspicuous on Decoration Day, the $th of July, and on all patriotic occasions until, gradually the members dying, about 1915, the Post as an organization ceased to function and now there is but one of the Grand Army living. While the Grand Army was functioning in Butler county, such men J. K. Leech, John W. Ingram (of Neelyville) J. T. Davidson, I. M. Davidson, Horace F. Horton. Ira B. Timmons, J. H. Haney, H. H. Jolly, Capt. S. A. Hogue (of Harviell), George Gnau, Nicholas Robinson, W. H. Wilson and others were leaders and gave their time,unsparingly to promoting a spirit of good will and fraternity between the Blue and the Gray. The last surviving members of the G. A. R. who gave their full support were Ira B.Timmons, Louis Ackerman and George Gnau, who to the last held up the banner, and only gave to the grim reaper, death. Long may their memory linger as loyal to the flag. The following is a list of the old soldiers of Butler county. Aber, Geo. W. Foust, John Aber, J. W. Fee, E. E. Ackerman, Louis Fox, Levi Albright, Adelbert M. Francier, Michael Allen, Geo. D. Forbes, F. M. Blattner, Wm. (col.) Fields. George Barnes, John Fairless, W. C. Burkett, Martin Graham, Moses Brewer, Robert Gunter, Henry Brown, Henry M. Galleon, Wm R. Baumgardner, John P. George, Thomas J. Bacon, Wm. S. Gnau, Geo. Brown, John M. Haney, J. H. Best, Christian Horton, H. P. Barker, Joel C. Hudson, B. W. Barton, Ben F. Howard, J. D. Bennett, Reuben Hill, Absolom Brown, James Holt, Drury Brown, Wm. C. Hogue, S. A. Cap. Boardman, R. Harmon, Michael Byrkett, Martin Harris, Joseph Boles, Ben Hornbeck, Francis M. Case, Joseph P. Hitchcock, Luther C. Cheeseman, Elmer Hultzman, Jas. H. Cullom, Jas. T. Hammonds, Joseph H. Casebolt, John Hersey, John K. Conrad, Jas. A. Hines, Charles Counts, Ezekiel Hicks, Wm. M. Clayton, Wm. H. Holt, Roscoe Clark, John Hinrichs, Chas. F. Chancey, Wm. F. Helms, M. W. Dickens, Hardy C. Hays, Daniel Drake, Jesse Irvin, Andrew J. Denby, Geo. B. Inman, Shadrach Dunn, Jas. H. Jolly, H. H. Denison, Jacob James, James M. Davidson, I. M. Johnson, Jas. H. Davis, E. B. Johnson, Joseph (Col) Everhart, Solomon Jones, Martin L. Everett, Robert Kittrell, Lemuel C. King, Blees T. Rogers, Thomas F. Kessler, Frank Scott, Jas. P. Keelant, Albert Skidmore, John (Mexican) Lloyd, Martin Starks, William Lookebill, Peter Smith, Jeff C. Langley Wm. B. Shafer, Leonard Lilly, Tillman Staunton, David Little, Wm. Stucker, Thomas Leuer, H. E. Smith, Daniel Lee, John J. Sickles, Daniel Light, Abner Timmons, Ira B. Morris, Levi Turner, J. H. Mason, Sam B. Taylor, Levi H. Murphy, John H. Trousdale, Wm. B. Morgan, Wm. H. Urich, Henry W. Moore, James H. Voiles, Joseph Mercer, Daniel Vincent, Luther J. Mansfield, Wm. W. Vineyard, Young McGahan, Alexander Voiles, Jas. H. McGhee, Samuel T. Willis, Jaret McDaniel, James Warbington, D. L. McColy, Richard Walters, J. W. McCollum, James F. Webber, Chas. (alias Chas. McGuire, Obediah Thing) Nance, T. K. Wilson, Wm. A. Outry, B. F. Wilson, Henry Oppy, Henry Wilson, H. Green Penrod, Rayford Willis, Jaret Peterson, E. T. West, Jesse Page, Jeff G. West, Alex Persager, John Wright, Louis Perdum, Ben C. Wilson, Ezra Perkins, Leroy Wooten, James A. Ross, Henry Yost, John Reis, M. G. Zehlander, George Robinson, Nicholas Zender, A. H. James A. Wooten, Co. C. 15th Missouri Infantry, Born December 24th, 1847 is the sole and only living, either Union or Confederate soldier and at the present time is living on Park Avenue, Poplar Bluff, Missouri.