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Monday, 21 May 2001
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Township Honors Civil War Vet
100 years after death, man is given memorial
By Kelly Ullman
Of the News-Harald
Daniel Chapman Perkins died June 6, 1880, on his
way to a reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic.
One-hundred-twenty-one years later, he was honored during a
reunion when the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) held a memorial service on Sunday to finally give him a grave stone.
Members of the town of Sherwood as well as Perkins
descendants came to Sherwood Cemetery to pay
homage to a man whose story had been long forgotten.
About two years ago, Kay Scholtz, a genealogy volunteer in
Clark County, stumbled across Perkins obituary while researching old newspaper microfilms. Seeing that Perkins was from
Sherwood, she became interested in finding out more about him.
Fellow Sherwood resident and genealogist Lowell Freedlund
helped Scholtz gather information about Perkins. By obtaining
Perkins pension records, they learned that Perkins had enlisted
in 1861 and was discharged in 1865 after becoming ill.
Jim Waid places a wreath near the
gravestone and Randy Novak (center)
pauses before reading at a service held
for Daniel Perkins, a Civil War veteran
at the Sherwood Cemetery in Clark County
Sunday. Strube, Waid and Novak represent
the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
Kay Scholtz and Lowell Freedlund,
both of whom were responsible for Sunday's
ceremony appear above Waid.
