[compiled and edited by Mrs. William John Gross, 220 North Nineteenth Street, Clarinda, Iowa, 1941]
... He and his eldest son, Rozelle, enrolled in Company B of the 60th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in October 1861. Thus, father and son went forth together to battle for the sacred cause of Our Country and Our Flag. His son soon laid down his young life upon his country's sacred altar and perished in the cause of Liberty. ...