Honoring Our Veterans

Horse Creek Cemetery is the final resting place for many veterans. The information listed here is taken from their grave marker. If you have any information on these or other veterans in Horse Creek Cemetery, please let us know.

Black Hawk War

James Cook – 9/19/1798-5/17/1853 – 3rd Ill. Mtd. Vols. Black Hawk War

Spanish American War

Charles R. Hemphill – 8/29/1869-12/9/1933 – Co. E 19 U.S. Inf Spanish American War
Clarence E. Saunders – Co. B 5th Ill. Inf. Sp. Am. War

Civil War

Alonzo Alspaugh – Co. F 144th Ind. Inf.
Edward A. Baxter – 10/14/1847- 12/28/1934 – Grand Army Republic
Phillip W. Bradley – Co. K 124th Ill. Inf.
Glenn D. Brawner – Oklahoma Cook 50 Inf. 20 Div.
John Cox Clower – 8/18/1844-2/1/1915 – Co. I 73rd Ill. Inf.
Newton Doley – Co. N 124th Ill. Inf.
Lindsey G. Farnam – 1840-1915 – Co. E 116 Ill. Vol. Inf. G.A.R.
Nathaniel E. Gundy – 3/20/1835-1/30/1911 – G.A.R. Co. K 124th Reg. Ill. Vol. Inf.
William W. Hupp – Co. E. 92 Ohio Inf.
James P. Lawley – 12/10/1844-1/11/1923 – Co. E 114th Ill. Vol. Inf.
Brother Lupton – 124th Reg. Ill. Inf. Co. K
Job S. Lupton – 11/11/1841-3-19-1863 – Co. K 124th Reg. Inf.
Homer R. Martin – 1764-1932 – F.L.T.
John W. McClure – 1837-1917 – Co. F 99th Reg. Ind. Inf. With Sherman to the Sea
A. M. Moffett – Co. D 40 Ill. Inf. Sergt.
J. R. Mullen – Co. H 145th Ill. Inf.
W. T. Mullen – 4/15/1839-1/2/1908 – Co. K 124th Ill. Inf.
Newton Ovley – Co. K 124th Ill. Inf.
William H. Parish – 1839-1925 – Co. G 5 Reg. Mo. Cav.
George H. Payne – 2/8/1841-6/2/1919 – Co. K G.A.R. 421
Jacob B. Proctor – Co. K 124th Ill. Inf. (From 1881 History)
William Clarence Reynolds – ?-9/24/1941- Ill. Pvt. 2 Inf.
Elder T. Sanders – 7/2/1830-8/2/1898 – American Legion
Homer C. Underwood – ?- 2/19/1936 – Ill. 1 Gen. Serv. Inf.
Homer White – ?-8/19/1931 – Ill. Pvt. 1C1. Med. Dept.
Manford C. White – 1864-1913 – American Legion
Lieut. T. J. Willen – Co. K 124th Ill. Inf. (1881 History shows the name Wilburn.)
S. E. Williamson – Co. E 115th Ill. Inf.

World War I

Leslie Bryant – 1893-1947 – American Legion
John Gleason Curby – 6/30/1919-2/28/1944 -American Legion
Frank G Dragoo 9/16/1889 8/6/1945 “Montana Chief Mech. 327 Field Arty. 84 Div.
Joseph Winton Golightly – ?-10/19/1927 – Michigan Pvt. U.S. Marine Corps.
Chester Earl Hoard – 2/25/1895-10/29/1961- Illinois P.F.C. Co. K 127 Inf. W.W. I PH
Raymond Osborn Lawrence – 3/11/1896-7/7/1955 – Illinois Pvt. F.A. Gen Off TNg Sch World War I
Herman H. Landrey – 1888-1965 – American Legion
Clarence Elvin Neville – 11/16/1892 5/9/1975 – Sea 2 U.S. Navy W.W. I
Carroll G. Payne – 7/13/1892-5/16/1960 – Illinois Pvt. Co. M 362 Infantry World War I
William C. Pumphrey – 11/5/1894-2/25/1959 – Illinois Pvt. Btry. A 123 Field Arty. World War I
Lester A. Sanders – 3/5/1895-11/11/1980 – U.S. Navy World War I
Donald Harry Scott – 1895-1961- 2nd Division of W.W. I – Buried in Arlington National Cemetery (Memorial in Horse Creek)
Harry Glenn Smith – 7/9/1897-4/12/1951 – Illinois Pvt. U.S. Marine Corps World War I
George Andrew Sproat – 1896-12/25/1978 – F 3 U.S. Navy W.W. I
Frank M. Tilley – 6/17/1897-7/14/1971- Illinois F 3 U.S. Navy WW I
George E. Zimmerli – 4/27/1897 – 9/28/1976 – P.F.C. U.S. Army W.W. I
Ollie G. Skaggs – 5/4/1893-10/5/1973 – American Legion
John D. Snelling – 8/91895-11/22/1957 – American Legion

World War II

William Floyd Alexander – 1910 1963 – Veteran W.W. II U.S. Navy
Emery E. Alspaugh – 12/16/1903-6/28/1976 – Pvt. U.S. Army W.W. II
Clifford N. Baugh – 1919-1970 – American Legion
Earl R. Castleman – 1/19/1918-4/20/1959 – Amer. Legion
George M. Crowder – 3/8/1923-8/21/1972 – Ill. SC 3 U.S.M.R. W.W.II
James Lee Cullum, Sr. – ?-1/2/1932 – Ill. Mach. Mate I.G.L.(A) U.S.N.R.F.
James Lee Cullum, Jr. – 12/8/1922-1/25/1976 – Sgt. Marine Corps W.W. II
Walter A. Eichen – 1/8/1917-12/8/1979 – American Legion
Lt. James F. Godfrey – 1914-1945 – Killed in Battle of the Bulge
Leslie Carl Jones – 2/3/1918-12/13/1979 – American Legion
Ellsworth L. Martin – 10/13/1911-9/24/1978 – PFC U.S. Army World War II
Thomas Blanton Muncy – 12/24/1921-7/30/1944 – Illinois PFC 2 Marines 2 Marine Div. World War II
Joseph J. Parker – 1/9/1922-6/13/1976 – Pvt. U.S. Army World War II
James Edward Scifers – 8/12/1926-7/13/1981- U.S. Navy World War II
Otho H. Sprague – 4/13/1919-3/22/1977 – American Legion U.S.
John Bruce Springer – 1/9/1911-6/4/1974 – Cpl. U.S. Army
Paul Student – 8/15/1893-8/29/1953 – Ill. Cpl. Army Service Corps. World War II
Jack L Tilley – 1924-11/24/1982 – P.F.C. U.S. Army World War II
Harold William Tuxhorn – 5/27/1920-8/12/1985 – P.F.C. U.S. Army W.W.II

Korean War

Viet Nam

Ernest Leroy Fugate – ?- 9/12/1943 – 51 3rd 104 E7 95 S6
Theodore W. Sandidge – 9/23/1947-4/3/1968 – Illinois SP 4 Co D 35 Inf 4 Inf Div Vietnam P H
Bradley Fredrick Smith – 9/4/1953-6/6/1980 – P.F.C. U.S. Army Vietnam

Middle East Wars

Unknown Service

Jessie Arnold Acree – 1/10/1947-10/24/2001
James C. Agans – 3/26/1926-1/27/2004
William Marion Ascher – 7/29/1918-8/29/1986
Calvin Estill Atchison – 7/22/1915-8/30/2000
Charles E. Athersmith – 12/12/1923-8/12/1999
Orville Blaine Austin – ?-12/24/2011
Ralph Eugene Berry – ?- 9/4/2008
William V. Boehler – 1931-6/20/2007
Floyd Donald Boston -?- 3/3/2005
Ronald L. Brown – ?-11/18/1994
Thomas Louis Brown – ?- 4/5/1987
Bryon Louis Busby – ?-6/10/2009
Therell Deneen Butler – 11/23/1934-5/23/2001
Charles I. Castle -2/2/1921-6/8/2002
Gerald L Castleman – 11/29/1921-1/17/1996
Leroy Vern Cincebox – 1935-1/13/2012
Manford Clayton – 6/26/1913-7/26/1990
Donald Jackson Cline – ?-10/22/2007
Donald Elmer Cole (Warren) – ?-7/6/2010
Willard Ray Coy – ?-3/1/1987
Charles Edward Crowder – 12/29/1921-7/29/1990
Jesse Clifford Crowder, Jr. – ?-10/17/2003
Charles Curtis, Jr. – 12/26/1925-3/14/1990
Betty Patricia Dragoo – 7/2/1924-9/29/1994
Dwight Eugene Dragoo – 8/23/1917-10/16/1993
John Dulakis – 10/16/2022-8/19/1991
Gus Constantine Dulakis, Sr. – 8/7/1921-5/22/1990
Ralph E. Edge, Jr. – 11/2/1924-12/20/1968
George Edward Ford – 6/1/1923-7/14/1984
William Roy Frazier – ?-7/25/2005
Jno Gaffney – U.S. Soldier
Vernon Neal Gallion – 12/23/1934-7/13/2009
Robert C. Garrison – ?-10/26/1999
William H. Griffin – 8/31/1908-3/9/1975 – Pvt. U.S. Army
Franklin M. Harrison – 7/31/1939-3/9/2011
Mary C. Henson – ?-12/31/2000
Harold Raymond Henson, Jr. – 11/22/1931-2/13/2011
Richard M Holstrum – ?-7/10/2000
James Wesley Irwin – ?-1/4/2010
Benjamin H. Jones – ?-5/24/1988
David Harry Jones – ?-5/21/2010
George Herman Jones – ?-5/8/2005
Samuel Hiram Jones 4/11/1905 7/22/1994
John Edward Jones, Sr. – ?-3/1/1993
Homer Paul King – 12/26/1925-12/13/2013
Virgil Frederick Kornack – ?-5/5/1987
Leland W. Landrey – 7/25/1928-8/5/1980 -American Legion Summer of 80
Melvin Merle Landrey -?-9/22/2008
Charles Lawrence Lipe – ?-11/2/2002
Joseph Magos – 1/26/1924-3/8/2012
Marvin Burdett Manning – 9/26/2013-6/14/1952
Glenn Louis Matthews, Sr. -2/11/1920-11/23/1989
Frank Elbert McElroy – ?-6/5/1989
Thomas Carlyle McEvers – 2/1/1920-7/7/1993
Paul Lewis McGary – 2/20/1900-5/22/1978
John Leonard McKay – 5/27/1914-1/18/2000
Jack Neal Montgomery -?-12/29/1999
William Milbourne Muncy, Jr. – 4/7/1924-4/13/2002
Thomas Burton Murphy – ?-4/12/2008
Robert W. Neely – ?-3/4/1996
Robert Nelson – ?-7/6/2011
John Hyatt Nichols – ?-10/24/1989
James Nichols, Jr. – ?-4/19/2005
Raymond Dale Payne – ?-3/31/2004
Howard E. Payton – ?-2/8/2005
Jimmy Montelle Phillis – 3/22/1941-10/7/2010
Warren Leslie Pond – ?-10/29/1992
George Edward Richeson, Sr. – ?-7/15/1993
William Joseph Roberts, Jr. – ?-5/11/1998
John Eugene Rohdeman – 5/12/1932-6/15/2007
Donald R. Rutherford – 9/18/1936 – 7/25/1974
Earl V Sanders – 8-18-1886 – 5/29/1981
Kenneth Lyle Sanders – 3/20/1921-6/28/2004
Michael Eugene Sanders – ?-10/25/1993
Hal Stuart Sandidge – 10/6/1926-8/13/1999
Walter Taylor Sandidge – ?-12/29/2013
William Schafer – 10-4-1889-10/10/1978
Robert H. Selhime – ?-3/16/1989
William Reuben Shaw – ?-4/7/2005
John M. Simpson – ?-12/25/1991
Harry Richard Simpson, Jr. – ?-3/10/2013
Donald J. Skaggs – 6/2/1926-2/14/2008
Paul James Smith – ?-4/5/1996
Thomas L. Smith – 1895-1/6/1991
Darrell Laverne Snelling – 1/7/1923-1/14/1985 -American Legion U.S.
Chester Lee Squires – 5/8/1926-10/22/2003
John Robert Student – 6/24/1931-1/29/1990
Robert E. Stuffing Sr. – ?-3/17/2007
Cornelius J Sullivan – 5/5/1913-9/7/1987
Charles Richard William Thein – ?-12/20/1992
Arthur Philips Thompson – 12/25/1923-7/3/1987
Conrad Forbes Tilley – 1918-7/7/2002
Aaron Alvin VanGeison – ?-4/16/2013
Betty June VanGeison – ?-11/12/2014
Raymond Rightmire VanGeison – ?-10/22/1992
Lewis Ray VanGieson – 10-20-1895-9/18/1996
Henry J. Wait –12-19-1873 1/2/1908
Richard C. Walters – 1939-10/19/1990
Earl B. Warren – ?-9/19/2009
Arthur G. Wright -9-24-1894-1/12/1979