Surname : Harriger

Given name : Hiram Jackson

ID # : H 20.3

Current date : 3 September 1988

Location of Source : Patrick J. Henry

Date of record : Unknown

Source : Handwritten notes in scrap book given to Elsie Harriger by Nellie Orr

Hiriam Jackson Harriger honors for Civil War veteran. Feb. 1926

Military honors were accorded to Hiriam Jackson Harriger, a Civil War veteran in the funeral services on Tue. P. M. The Rev. R. R. Smith officiated in the service at the ulest (spelling?) chapel. The singers being Mrs. Walter Macklenburg & Mrs. C. E. Sime, with Mrs. B. B. Law accomanist. Members of the woman relief corps joined with the members of William English post G. A. R. in attending the services. The honorary pallbearers were members of the local G. A. R. post. C. E. Adams, R. A. Nunnelly (spelling?), G. T. Browning, Scott Mathew, John Edwards, James Woosley, Henry Bird, and W. B. Bowen. Interment was in the Bozeman cemetery, the active pallbearers being Spanish American War veterans, Rhesis, Franchman (spelling?), L. W. Watson, J. S. (unreadable), (unreadable) Harding, A, O. De Frate, and Alfred Yergery. The firing squad at the Bozeman cemetery from the disabled American veterans included Luet. B. H. Dagget, Ernest DeAlton, Ronald Axtell (spelling?), Henry Churchwell, David and Ralph Gell and the bugler (unreadable, but I think it is Kenneth Banks).