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Union Meeting at Gowers Ferry Aug 22 1868
Unconditional Union men are summoned to a meeting at Gowers Ferry on Saturday August 22 1868 at two o'clock p m Good speakers will attend and rally to the old flag By order of Committee Samuel Wampler notes a horse theft near town and local military furloughs are reported Also a fall apple stock from local druggist De Hall is advertised Thanksgiving observations note copperheads absent from celebrations and a local militia company is formed to patrol and enforce laws while opposing abolitionists and draft enforcement.
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Gower’s Ferry
Pea
Hoss
Sam 2d
Ab. Pratt
Center Township
Loyal League
Tirros
G.P. Ingmen
J. F. Kennedy
WM. Elliott
G. P. Mewan
C. P. Sheldon
David Panther
James DG. Wikiut
bHomas Manly
A. H. Perry
Samuel Tomlinson
A. Parsons
Wm. PP. Wolf
J.C. Lyle
WH. G. Coe
A. Ford
P. W. Johnson
Charles Funk
Levi Stockwell
O. M. Culver
Sylvanus Yates
Myron Childs
Alf. Marsh
Nestlerode
Elliott
Soldiers Aid Society
Capt. Jay
England
Tolby
Soldiers’ Aid Society
League For Money
Messrs
Dolby
Tominson
Sanitary Commission
G. P. Ingman
David Platner
8. P. Daniels
Glee Club
Court House
JF. Kennepy
Margaret Coffey
Cedar County
State of
Iowa
Seid County
JC. Betts, Co
Charles McGowan
J.C. Beits
County of
Cedar
James Wharton, Jr
N.M. Allen
Charlotte Allen
N. M. Allen
Eighty-One
Tipton
James Beach
Lavinia Beach
Benjamin F. Paulding
Cedar Couny
Std James Beach
Benjamin FP. Paciuine