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JOHN M. riMARI) ANOTHER OF THE EARLY COMERAIterated Twenty-flvc Yearn Ago Onl4uid Jtint Across the Bridge front ItttHin, on Whtrh lie Still Liven.John M. Til lard came lo Hu* I tig Horn ItttHin and nettled in hiK present location, junt across the bridge from Basin when there whh no Basin. aim 1 when t lie re were hut three or four'homes on the Big Horn between Pony hill anil the Burney Ittjgiw place. be-tween here ami Mauderaoii. He wie the active spirit hack of the building of the Tillaril Cuiml, which was taken out the next year after his arrival, andho It whs upon whom the people of this section de|*'mted to ferry them acrossj the Big Horn at this place until the ferry was replaced by a bridge.YVe are going to let Mr. Til Inn I tell his story to the readers of The Hustler just as he told it to the writer- 'V'*1 was born January 20, InIndiana, but do not know I be oouhfy or the town. The old saying used to he if a fellow was asked what part of Indiana he came from—Hooppole town ship, Posey county. My father and mother were horn and raised in Pennsylvania, and my father wag a tailor.When I was a year and a half old, they moved to Muscatine, Iowa, It was then allied Bloom lug ton. There welived until the civil war. *1 was running an engine In a wagon factory when the boys began drilling in front of the factory. I could not stand that, so I told tin* muii owning the factory that I was going lo enlist. That evening I went down to the hall. Everything was excitement. I on listed in Captain Beach's company and we were a partof the Eleventh Iowa infantry. Within a few days we were sent to Davenport, Iowa, and commenced to drill.In due time the mustering officer came to receive us, and when Co. H was mustered Into service I was mustered out because the mustering of beer said I could not shoot, as a part of one of my fingers was missing. The next day I he colonel said if I wanted lo go hr could muster me in as a recruit, so 1 went, 1 served my lime and J think I did as good shooting as any one. I was in seventeen engagements of which Shiloh was the first and ineludlu.u Corinth, Vicksburg. lueii. Atlanta. Ezra church. BentonvUle, X. C., ami the March to the Sea.
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Basin Big Horn County Rustler
Basin, Wyoming, US
Fri, Apr 23, 1920
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