Blawk Hawk War Veterans, Knox County, IL

Black Hawk War Veterans This is one War, I don't even like to think about how our American, or otherwise ancestors treated the Indians and what we did to them. I've never liked this part of our history at all. Have always felt they were very unfair to the Indians when the white man came to this beautiful country, took it over, made them all live on reservations.
William Clark And The Black Hawk War above link is off-site but good on the history of the War
Col. William McMurtry McMurtry's Co. Ill. Mtd. Rangers Feb. 20 , 1801 - Aug. 10, 1875 *Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois*	Rice ~ Blue Cemetery
James McMurtry, brother to William above* *Black Hawk War* under Major Butler	Rice ~ Blue Cemetery
Major Thomas McKee *Black Hawk War* under Major Butler	Rice ~ Blue Cemetery
Frontleroy Freeman Black Hawk War under Major Butler, I believe Major Butler was from Warren Co., IL--have to check.
Thomas Maxwell, Sr. Pvt. McMurtry's Co. Ill. Mtd. Rangers
Capt. Calvin Glass (1794 - 1878) McMurtry's Co. Ill. Mtd. Rangers Arrived by ox team from Ohio in 1830. Owned and platted most of this village site and gave this area as a free cemetery. Commissioned Captain at Rock Island during Black Hawk War. Built first water mill in Knox County 1833 on Henderson Creek. This marker erected in 1949 in grateful remembrance by Fred Dunbar, Glenn Glass and Albert Hickman.
	This Stone Quarried in Flint Hills of Kentucky. Came by Ohio, Mississippi, Illinois River, to Peoria. Freighted by Ox team to Mill Site of Calvin Glass. Presented by Great-grandson Glenn Glass
Stephen Osborn McMurtry's Co. Ill. Mtd. Rangers 1778 ~ 1841 An early Settler who helped organize & was the First Sheriff & Tax Collector 1830-1835 and whose devotion to duty has ever since his successors, this Monument dedicated in 1949 by Charles M Dahler, Sheriff 1946 - 1950, A. D. Hickman, Fred Dunar, Martin Sutor, & Glenn Glass.
John D. Roundtree joined with the volunteer soldiers for service in the Black Hawk War and after his death his wife drew a pension of about six or eight dollars a month.
Barbero, Nathan drove a team in the war
Aaron Noble Phelps McMurtry's Co. Ill. Mtd. Rangers Born Sept 09, 1819 Died June 16, 1881 Sarah J., his wife Born April 05, 1828 Died Sept. 16, 1890	Dec15016.JPG
William Lewis McMurtry's Co. Ill. Mtd. Rangers	Log city Cemetery
Foster, James M.
Moses Edwards, a soldier of 1812 & Black Hawk War

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