INDIANA TRAILS BOONE COUNTY
VETERANS
These aged Boone County veterans of
the Civil War posed for the above picture at a reunion in Lebanon
sometime around 1920.
Only two are identified.
They are Capt. Thomas A. Cobb of Company A, 10th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, seated at the extreme left, and next to him is
Isaac Shoemaker. Capt. Cobb died in November, 1921. He was the grandfather of Mrs. Ruby Cobb Tankersley of Lebanon .
The fourteen old soldiers pictured, as young men, were numbered among the 1,500 Booneites who “pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor,” to fight In a cruel and bloody war, that “that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, might not perish from the earth.”
Only two are identified.
They are Capt. Thomas A. Cobb of Company A, 10th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, seated at the extreme left, and next to him is
Isaac Shoemaker. Capt. Cobb died in November, 1921. He was the grandfather of Mrs. Ruby Cobb Tankersley of Lebanon .
The fourteen old soldiers pictured, as young men, were numbered among the 1,500 Booneites who “pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor,” to fight In a cruel and bloody war, that “that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, might not perish from the earth.”
This group of veterans of World War I at the home of Dr. Silas in Advance.
The men are
(first row, left to right)
Fred Riner, Earl Waters, Ernest Beck, Earl Brown, and Glen Groves
(second row, left to right)
Dr. Silas Hall, Dugan, Rex Shian, Austin Beaver, unknown, -- Coy
(third row, left to right)
Mrs. Bertha Hall, Han Smith, Claude Mangus,
Carl Bartlett, Winston Smith, Reece Jackson, and Frank Heat.