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Honoring Our Veterans

There are 49 Veterans buried in Hebron, representing service in every war from the War of 1812 through Vietnam.  Twenty two of these veterans fought in the Civil War, most in Company G of the Illinois 78th Infantry which mustered into service in Quincy in 1862 and was discharged in July 1865.  The 78th Infantry moved by steamboat on the Jennie Whipple down the Mississippi, then up the Ohio River to Kentucky, eventually participating in many key battles of the Civil War. The 78th Infantry lost 100 men in one day at the Battle of Chuckamanga but played a key role in capturing a unit of Confederate soldiers there.  They joined Sherman’s campaign against Atlanta and captured a rebel battery at Jonesboro and later participated in Sherman’s March to the Sea.   At the end of the war, the 78th participated in the Grand Review in Washington, DC before returning home to farms and homesteads to resume life after three years at war.  Four of the Civil War veterans buried at Hebron - James M. Beckett, John Beckett, John Ehmen, and Charles Whitford – lost their lives in battle.  The remaining 18 returned home to tell their tales.

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Veterans Buried in Hebron Cemetery

War of 1812:

  • Beckett, William A

  • Garner, William Sr.

  • Hughs, Andrew,  Indiana Militia

  • McFarland, John Arthur

  • McFarland, John W.

Civil War:

  • Beckett, James Asbury. CPL, Co. G, 78 Ill Infantry

  • Beckett, James Marion, Crp Co. G 78 Ill Infantry

  • Beckett, John S. Co. G Ill Infantry

  • Beckett, William SGT Co. G 78 Ill Infantry

  • Beckett, William T. Co. G 78 Ill Infantry

  • Bottorff, Isaac A:  Co. G 78 Ill Infantry

  • Cline, Robert: CPL, Co I 115 IL Infantry Sgt Co. F, 2 Ill Cavalry

  • Davis, George F., Co. F 10 Ill Infantry

  • Ehmen, John, Co. I 119 Ill Infantry (died in battle?)

  • Gans, Henry, QM Sgt Co. F 2 Ill Cavalry

  • Gray, James R., Pvt, Co. K, 29 Ill Regiment

  • Hamrick, W.W., Pvt, Co. G 78 Ill Infantry

  • Lasley, J.P., Co E, 50 Ill Infantry

  • McLintock, W.I., Co. B 137 Il Infantry

  • McRay, W.J., Pvt Co. H, 62 MTD Infantry (Confederate States Army)

  • Roe, Thomas W., Pvt, Co. G 5 IL Cavalry

  • Schwartz, John G. Sgt, 2nd Regiment, Illinois Cavalry

  • Selby, Harold E., Co. G 78 Ill Infantry

  • Trogdon, John D. Pvt Co. D, 10 MO Regiment

  • Whitford, Charles G., Co. B 137 Il Infantry

Mexican War:

  • Henshaw, Jefferson

WWI:

  • Bowles, Rankin Wallace

  • Carlin, Harry, Pvt Ill 38 Co. Coast Artillery

  • Hillman, Clyde

  • Marshall, John L.

  • Oviatt, Lawrence R., Minnesota PFC

  • Schwartz, Lloyd

  • Strickler, Aubrey C., Ill CPL 113 Sup Tn 38 Div

  • Whitford, Hobert S., SI U.S. Navy

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WWII:

  • Booth, William Stephen, US Navy

  • Downing, William D., C4 USNR

  • Fletcher, William, T SGT US Army Air Force, 58th Bomb Sr.

  • Franzen, Jack Estes, Ill Tec 5 162 QM Truck Co.

  • Lantz, R. Stanley, Tec 3 US Army

  • Myers, Edmund Thomas, S1 US Navy

  • Pratt, Emett D.

  • Reckers, Roy C., Il PFC 196 General Hospital

  • Sawin, Harold Dean, S1 US Navy

  • Sharow, Elmer Mason, Ill T. Sgt U.S. Marine Corp Res.

Korea:

  • Rutledge, Robert M., Ill CPL 3 Sp Bn 3 Marine Div

  • Street, John Robert, PFC US Army

Vietnam:

  • Booth, Benny L., Lt Col, US Army

  • Booth, Joan, Lt Col, US Air Force

  • Smucker, Alan T., SSGT, US Air Force

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