* Sgt. David Salter *
Sgt. David Salter was the youngest child of 8 children born to Capt. Paul and Elizabeth Cubberly Salter. As a young boy, his parents and some of his older siblings moved from New Jersey - to Ohio for a short time - then to Henderson Co., IL.
On Dec. 24, 1854, David married Elizabeth Edwards, daughter of Thomas and Ann McBride Edwards. In the spring of 1856, they had a baby boy, Thomas. Sadly, young Elizabeth died a short time later.
On Dec. 4, 1856, David remarried. He wed Lucy Ann Barnett, daughter of John and Alice Moore Barnett. David and Lucy had two little girls - Alice and Elizabeth - named for their grandmothers.
On Nov. 27, 1861, David joined Company H of the 11 IL US CAV. Orderly Sgt. David Salter was killed on Oct. 5, 1862 at Kossuth, Mississippi, two days after the battle at Corinth. (See published letter from his commanding officer.)
* * * (Published letter)
DEATH OF DAVID SALTER
Corinth, Miss, Oct. 18, 1862
MR. EDITOR: - I feel it my duty to report to you the death of a noble hearted soldier from Young America, Warren County, Ills. DAVID SALTER, Orderly Sergeant in Company H, 11th Reg. Ill Cavalry, met his fate Sunday night, Oct. 5th, about twelve miles southwest of Corinth. I was ordered to place videttes on a certain road 80 rods apart for a mile and a half. Mr. Salter being better acquainted with the road than myself, offered to station the men, and when he had done that, knowing that the men were weary he generously offered to take the outside post himself, and here in the faithful performance of duty, which he volunteered to do for tired comrades, he received a shower of lead from the guns of a small party of Rebel soldiers or citizens (perhaps the latter) who stole upon him amid the darkness of night. We heard the firing, hastened to the spot, where his lifeless body lying on the road and his limping horse attempting to retreat, told us the sad story in language which we could not mistake.
He is much missed in the company. He was cheerful, brave, and faithful, and if there is any honor in being a soldier and dying in defence our country, there are but few who share that honor in a larger degree than DAVID SALTER.
John. C. Knowlton,
Capt. Co. H. 11th Ill. Cavalry
- Published in the Monmouth, IL. newspaper in 1862
∼On 7/4/19 with the help of Find A Grave I created a cenotaph memorial cemetery for The Soldiers' Monument of Henderson County. It is located in Oquawka, Henderson Cty, IL. Unfortunately on 8/23/19 because of an unnamed find a grave member who didn't think it should exist, this memorial has been deleted and all 200 of my memorials are now listed as unknown burials. Per FAG rules it didn't meet the criteria for being a cenotaph. So I have now created a virtual cemetery for the soldiers and on each memorial I have tried to located the actual burial and family members of the soldier.
Source: History of Mercer And Henderson Counties pgs 1410-1414.
W.W. Webster of Muscatine Iowa was selected to construct the monument that was finished in October of 1874. On the monument is inscribed , on it's four sides, 200 names of soldiers in Henderson County who fell in the field or died in the service of their country. The monument was erected by the private liberality of the people; subscriptions varied from $5 to $50. The cost was $3,300. The location is in the center of a beautiful enclosed park, planted to deciduous and evergreen trees, comprised in lots 1, 4, and 5, block 4 Swartz' addition, donated by John McKinney Sr., for many years a resident and business man of Oquawka. this handsome work is not more a monument to the glorious dead of Henderson County than to the affection, gratitude, generosity and patriotism of the happy and intelligent living.
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This Soldiers Memorial is a cenotaph for Henderson County soldiers who died in the Civil War.
His actual burial is in Salters Grove Cem Henderson Cty IL #13487974.
11th Regt. ILL Cav. Co. H
See below for his actual grave site in IL
David Salter
He had 1 son Thomas with 1st wife Elizabeth and 2 daughters Alice & Elizabeth with 2nd wife Lucy
daughter Alice
Alice Schlosser
Thanks to my sister BKage #48921676 for the photographs of the monument.
Illinois, Databases of Illinois Veterans Index, 1775-1995
Name: David Salter
Rank: Sergeant
Company: H
Unit: 11th Illinois Cavalry
Birth Date:Abt 1832
War:Civil War
War Years:1861-1865
Service Entry Age:29
Service Entry Date:27 Nov 1861
Service Entry Place:Young America, IL
Joined By Whom:H M CORNELL
Period:3 YRS
Muster In Date:20 Dec 1861
Remarks:KILLED OCT 5, 1862 AT KOSSUTH MISS
Record Source:Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls
URL:http://www.ilsos.gov/isavetera...
Sgt. David Salter was the youngest child of 8 children born to Capt. Paul and Elizabeth Cubberly Salter. As a young boy, his parents and some of his older siblings moved from New Jersey - to Ohio for a short time - then to Henderson Co., IL.
On Dec. 24, 1854, David married Elizabeth Edwards, daughter of Thomas and Ann McBride Edwards. In the spring of 1856, they had a baby boy, Thomas. Sadly, young Elizabeth died a short time later.
On Dec. 4, 1856, David remarried. He wed Lucy Ann Barnett, daughter of John and Alice Moore Barnett. David and Lucy had two little girls - Alice and Elizabeth - named for their grandmothers.
On Nov. 27, 1861, David joined Company H of the 11 IL US CAV. Orderly Sgt. David Salter was killed on Oct. 5, 1862 at Kossuth, Mississippi, two days after the battle at Corinth. (See published letter from his commanding officer.)
* * * (Published letter)
DEATH OF DAVID SALTER
Corinth, Miss, Oct. 18, 1862
MR. EDITOR: - I feel it my duty to report to you the death of a noble hearted soldier from Young America, Warren County, Ills. DAVID SALTER, Orderly Sergeant in Company H, 11th Reg. Ill Cavalry, met his fate Sunday night, Oct. 5th, about twelve miles southwest of Corinth. I was ordered to place videttes on a certain road 80 rods apart for a mile and a half. Mr. Salter being better acquainted with the road than myself, offered to station the men, and when he had done that, knowing that the men were weary he generously offered to take the outside post himself, and here in the faithful performance of duty, which he volunteered to do for tired comrades, he received a shower of lead from the guns of a small party of Rebel soldiers or citizens (perhaps the latter) who stole upon him amid the darkness of night. We heard the firing, hastened to the spot, where his lifeless body lying on the road and his limping horse attempting to retreat, told us the sad story in language which we could not mistake.
He is much missed in the company. He was cheerful, brave, and faithful, and if there is any honor in being a soldier and dying in defence our country, there are but few who share that honor in a larger degree than DAVID SALTER.
John. C. Knowlton,
Capt. Co. H. 11th Ill. Cavalry
- Published in the Monmouth, IL. newspaper in 1862
∼On 7/4/19 with the help of Find A Grave I created a cenotaph memorial cemetery for The Soldiers' Monument of Henderson County. It is located in Oquawka, Henderson Cty, IL. Unfortunately on 8/23/19 because of an unnamed find a grave member who didn't think it should exist, this memorial has been deleted and all 200 of my memorials are now listed as unknown burials. Per FAG rules it didn't meet the criteria for being a cenotaph. So I have now created a virtual cemetery for the soldiers and on each memorial I have tried to located the actual burial and family members of the soldier.
Source: History of Mercer And Henderson Counties pgs 1410-1414.
W.W. Webster of Muscatine Iowa was selected to construct the monument that was finished in October of 1874. On the monument is inscribed , on it's four sides, 200 names of soldiers in Henderson County who fell in the field or died in the service of their country. The monument was erected by the private liberality of the people; subscriptions varied from $5 to $50. The cost was $3,300. The location is in the center of a beautiful enclosed park, planted to deciduous and evergreen trees, comprised in lots 1, 4, and 5, block 4 Swartz' addition, donated by John McKinney Sr., for many years a resident and business man of Oquawka. this handsome work is not more a monument to the glorious dead of Henderson County than to the affection, gratitude, generosity and patriotism of the happy and intelligent living.
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This Soldiers Memorial is a cenotaph for Henderson County soldiers who died in the Civil War.
His actual burial is in Salters Grove Cem Henderson Cty IL #13487974.
11th Regt. ILL Cav. Co. H
See below for his actual grave site in IL
David Salter
He had 1 son Thomas with 1st wife Elizabeth and 2 daughters Alice & Elizabeth with 2nd wife Lucy
daughter Alice
Alice Schlosser
Thanks to my sister BKage #48921676 for the photographs of the monument.
Illinois, Databases of Illinois Veterans Index, 1775-1995
Name: David Salter
Rank: Sergeant
Company: H
Unit: 11th Illinois Cavalry
Birth Date:Abt 1832
War:Civil War
War Years:1861-1865
Service Entry Age:29
Service Entry Date:27 Nov 1861
Service Entry Place:Young America, IL
Joined By Whom:H M CORNELL
Period:3 YRS
Muster In Date:20 Dec 1861
Remarks:KILLED OCT 5, 1862 AT KOSSUTH MISS
Record Source:Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls
URL:http://www.ilsos.gov/isavetera...
* Sgt. David Salter *
Sgt. David Salter was the youngest child of 8 children born to Capt. Paul and Elizabeth Cubberly Salter. As a young boy, his parents and some of his older siblings moved from New Jersey - to Ohio for a short time - then to Henderson Co., IL.
On Dec. 24, 1854, David married Elizabeth Edwards, daughter of Thomas and Ann McBride Edwards. In the spring of 1856, they had a baby boy, Thomas. Sadly, young Elizabeth died a short time later.
On Dec. 4, 1856, David remarried. He wed Lucy Ann Barnett, daughter of John and Alice Moore Barnett. David and Lucy had two little girls - Alice and Elizabeth - named for their grandmothers.
On Nov. 27, 1861, David joined Company H of the 11 IL US CAV. Orderly Sgt. David Salter was killed on Oct. 5, 1862 at Kossuth, Mississippi, two days after the battle at Corinth. (See published letter from his commanding officer.)
* * * (Published letter)
DEATH OF DAVID SALTER
Corinth, Miss, Oct. 18, 1862
MR. EDITOR: - I feel it my duty to report to you the death of a noble hearted soldier from Young America, Warren County, Ills. DAVID SALTER, Orderly Sergeant in Company H, 11th Reg. Ill Cavalry, met his fate Sunday night, Oct. 5th, about twelve miles southwest of Corinth. I was ordered to place videttes on a certain road 80 rods apart for a mile and a half. Mr. Salter being better acquainted with the road than myself, offered to station the men, and when he had done that, knowing that the men were weary he generously offered to take the outside post himself, and here in the faithful performance of duty, which he volunteered to do for tired comrades, he received a shower of lead from the guns of a small party of Rebel soldiers or citizens (perhaps the latter) who stole upon him amid the darkness of night. We heard the firing, hastened to the spot, where his lifeless body lying on the road and his limping horse attempting to retreat, told us the sad story in language which we could not mistake.
He is much missed in the company. He was cheerful, brave, and faithful, and if there is any honor in being a soldier and dying in defence our country, there are but few who share that honor in a larger degree than DAVID SALTER.
John. C. Knowlton,
Capt. Co. H. 11th Ill. Cavalry
- Published in the Monmouth, IL. newspaper in 1862
∼On 7/4/19 with the help of Find A Grave I created a cenotaph memorial cemetery for The Soldiers' Monument of Henderson County. It is located in Oquawka, Henderson Cty, IL. Unfortunately on 8/23/19 because of an unnamed find a grave member who didn't think it should exist, this memorial has been deleted and all 200 of my memorials are now listed as unknown burials. Per FAG rules it didn't meet the criteria for being a cenotaph. So I have now created a virtual cemetery for the soldiers and on each memorial I have tried to located the actual burial and family members of the soldier.
Source: History of Mercer And Henderson Counties pgs 1410-1414.
W.W. Webster of Muscatine Iowa was selected to construct the monument that was finished in October of 1874. On the monument is inscribed , on it's four sides, 200 names of soldiers in Henderson County who fell in the field or died in the service of their country. The monument was erected by the private liberality of the people; subscriptions varied from $5 to $50. The cost was $3,300. The location is in the center of a beautiful enclosed park, planted to deciduous and evergreen trees, comprised in lots 1, 4, and 5, block 4 Swartz' addition, donated by John McKinney Sr., for many years a resident and business man of Oquawka. this handsome work is not more a monument to the glorious dead of Henderson County than to the affection, gratitude, generosity and patriotism of the happy and intelligent living.
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This Soldiers Memorial is a cenotaph for Henderson County soldiers who died in the Civil War.
His actual burial is in Salters Grove Cem Henderson Cty IL #13487974.
11th Regt. ILL Cav. Co. H
See below for his actual grave site in IL
David Salter
He had 1 son Thomas with 1st wife Elizabeth and 2 daughters Alice & Elizabeth with 2nd wife Lucy
daughter Alice
Alice Schlosser
Thanks to my sister BKage #48921676 for the photographs of the monument.
Illinois, Databases of Illinois Veterans Index, 1775-1995
Name: David Salter
Rank: Sergeant
Company: H
Unit: 11th Illinois Cavalry
Birth Date:Abt 1832
War:Civil War
War Years:1861-1865
Service Entry Age:29
Service Entry Date:27 Nov 1861
Service Entry Place:Young America, IL
Joined By Whom:H M CORNELL
Period:3 YRS
Muster In Date:20 Dec 1861
Remarks:KILLED OCT 5, 1862 AT KOSSUTH MISS
Record Source:Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls
URL:http://www.ilsos.gov/isavetera...
Sgt. David Salter was the youngest child of 8 children born to Capt. Paul and Elizabeth Cubberly Salter. As a young boy, his parents and some of his older siblings moved from New Jersey - to Ohio for a short time - then to Henderson Co., IL.
On Dec. 24, 1854, David married Elizabeth Edwards, daughter of Thomas and Ann McBride Edwards. In the spring of 1856, they had a baby boy, Thomas. Sadly, young Elizabeth died a short time later.
On Dec. 4, 1856, David remarried. He wed Lucy Ann Barnett, daughter of John and Alice Moore Barnett. David and Lucy had two little girls - Alice and Elizabeth - named for their grandmothers.
On Nov. 27, 1861, David joined Company H of the 11 IL US CAV. Orderly Sgt. David Salter was killed on Oct. 5, 1862 at Kossuth, Mississippi, two days after the battle at Corinth. (See published letter from his commanding officer.)
* * * (Published letter)
DEATH OF DAVID SALTER
Corinth, Miss, Oct. 18, 1862
MR. EDITOR: - I feel it my duty to report to you the death of a noble hearted soldier from Young America, Warren County, Ills. DAVID SALTER, Orderly Sergeant in Company H, 11th Reg. Ill Cavalry, met his fate Sunday night, Oct. 5th, about twelve miles southwest of Corinth. I was ordered to place videttes on a certain road 80 rods apart for a mile and a half. Mr. Salter being better acquainted with the road than myself, offered to station the men, and when he had done that, knowing that the men were weary he generously offered to take the outside post himself, and here in the faithful performance of duty, which he volunteered to do for tired comrades, he received a shower of lead from the guns of a small party of Rebel soldiers or citizens (perhaps the latter) who stole upon him amid the darkness of night. We heard the firing, hastened to the spot, where his lifeless body lying on the road and his limping horse attempting to retreat, told us the sad story in language which we could not mistake.
He is much missed in the company. He was cheerful, brave, and faithful, and if there is any honor in being a soldier and dying in defence our country, there are but few who share that honor in a larger degree than DAVID SALTER.
John. C. Knowlton,
Capt. Co. H. 11th Ill. Cavalry
- Published in the Monmouth, IL. newspaper in 1862
∼On 7/4/19 with the help of Find A Grave I created a cenotaph memorial cemetery for The Soldiers' Monument of Henderson County. It is located in Oquawka, Henderson Cty, IL. Unfortunately on 8/23/19 because of an unnamed find a grave member who didn't think it should exist, this memorial has been deleted and all 200 of my memorials are now listed as unknown burials. Per FAG rules it didn't meet the criteria for being a cenotaph. So I have now created a virtual cemetery for the soldiers and on each memorial I have tried to located the actual burial and family members of the soldier.
Source: History of Mercer And Henderson Counties pgs 1410-1414.
W.W. Webster of Muscatine Iowa was selected to construct the monument that was finished in October of 1874. On the monument is inscribed , on it's four sides, 200 names of soldiers in Henderson County who fell in the field or died in the service of their country. The monument was erected by the private liberality of the people; subscriptions varied from $5 to $50. The cost was $3,300. The location is in the center of a beautiful enclosed park, planted to deciduous and evergreen trees, comprised in lots 1, 4, and 5, block 4 Swartz' addition, donated by John McKinney Sr., for many years a resident and business man of Oquawka. this handsome work is not more a monument to the glorious dead of Henderson County than to the affection, gratitude, generosity and patriotism of the happy and intelligent living.
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This Soldiers Memorial is a cenotaph for Henderson County soldiers who died in the Civil War.
His actual burial is in Salters Grove Cem Henderson Cty IL #13487974.
11th Regt. ILL Cav. Co. H
See below for his actual grave site in IL
David Salter
He had 1 son Thomas with 1st wife Elizabeth and 2 daughters Alice & Elizabeth with 2nd wife Lucy
daughter Alice
Alice Schlosser
Thanks to my sister BKage #48921676 for the photographs of the monument.
Illinois, Databases of Illinois Veterans Index, 1775-1995
Name: David Salter
Rank: Sergeant
Company: H
Unit: 11th Illinois Cavalry
Birth Date:Abt 1832
War:Civil War
War Years:1861-1865
Service Entry Age:29
Service Entry Date:27 Nov 1861
Service Entry Place:Young America, IL
Joined By Whom:H M CORNELL
Period:3 YRS
Muster In Date:20 Dec 1861
Remarks:KILLED OCT 5, 1862 AT KOSSUTH MISS
Record Source:Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls
URL:http://www.ilsos.gov/isavetera...
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