Pvt. Lyman Webster

Pvt. Lyman Webster

       From the Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois

Co. G       75th Ill. Vol. Inf.

Three Years Service

   Enlisted Aug. 12, 1862.
   Home or record listed as China.
   Mustered In Sept. 2, 1862 at Dixon, Ill's.
   Discharged May 2, 1863, reason not listed.
             Known actions;
Perryville, Ky. Oct. 6, 1862
Stones River, Ky. Dec. 31, 1862

Moved to Elgin, Ill. in 1889.

       From the Post #49 files
Joined Elgin GAR Veteran's Post #49 Feb. 19, 1909.

      Obit: December 26, 1925 issue The Elgin Daily News.

Lyman Webster

   Lyman Webster died this morning at 9 o'clock at Sherman hospital following a five weeks illness.
   He was born in Canada, June 25, 1840, and with the exception of a few years spent in California, has resided in Elgin for the past thirty-six years.  For some six years, he had spent the winters in Pasadena, Calif.  He was a member of the G.A.R.
   Surviving him are four daughters, Mrs. Olive Campbell, Mrs. Lyda Gougl, and Mrs. Florence Theil of Elgin, and Mrs. Emma Brown of Pasadena, two stepdaughters, Mrs. Jennie Dickerson of Pasadena and Mrs. Etta Ellsworth of Bloomington, Ill, fifteen grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and one brother, who resides in Iowa.
   Funeral services will be conducted Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock from the Wait-Ross-Allanson funeral church.  Burial at Bluff City cemetery.

       From the 1956 Kane Co. Honor Roll
Interred at - Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin, Ill.
Location - Lot 184, Section 16

Used with permission Dan Mallett

Many members of Post #49 sewed watch faces to their ribbons to show they were from Elgin.