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 at [email protected].
A * before the name indicates the veteran was killed in action.
| Black Hawk War | ||
| Cook, James | (9/19/1798 – 5/17/1853) | 3rd Ill. Mtd. Vols. |
| Spanish American War | ||
| Hemphill, Charles R. | (8/29/1869 – 12/9/1933) | Co. E 19 – U.S. Inf. |
| Saunders, Clarence E. | (? – ?) | Pvt., Co. B 5th Ill. Inf. Sp. Am. War; Hosp. Corps USA, L. 4 U.S. Art. |
| Civil War | ||
| Alspaugh, Alonzo | (?- ?) | Co. F 144th Ind. Inf. |
| Baxter, Edward A. | (10/14/1847 – 12/28/1934) | Grand Army Republic |
| Bradley, Phillip W. | (? – ?) | Co. K 124th Ill. Inf. |
| Brawner, Glenn D. | (1894 – 7/3/40) | Oklahoma Cook 50 Inf. 20 Div. |
| Clower, John Cox | (8/18/1844 – 2/1/1915) | Co. I 73rd Ill. Inf. |
| Doley, Newton | (? – ?) | Co. N 124th Ill. Inf. |
| Farnam, Lindsey G. | (1840 – 1915) | Co. E 116 Ill. Vol. Inf. G.A.R. |
| Gundy, Nathaniel E. | (3/20/1835 – 1/30/1911) | Co. K 124th Reg. Ill. Vol. Inf. G.A.R. |
| Hupp, William W. | (? – ?) | Co. E. 92 Ohio Inf. |
| Lawley, James P. | (12/10/1844 – 1/11/1923) | Co. E 114th Ill. Vol. Inf. |
| Lupton, Brother | (? – ?) | Co. K 124th Reg. Ill. Inf. |
| Lupton, Job S. | (11/11/1841 – 3/19/1863) | Co. K 124th Reg. Inf. |
| Martin, Homer R. | (1764 – 1932) | F.L.T. |
| McClure, John W. | (1837 – 1917) | Co. F 99th Reg. Ind. Inf. With Sherman to the Sea |
| Moffett, A. M. | (? – ?) | Sgt., Co. D 40 Ill. Inf. |
| Mullen, J. R. | (? – ?) | Co. H 145th Ill. Inf. |
| Mullen, W. T. | (4/15/1839 – 1/2/1908) | Co. K 124th Ill. Inf. |
| Ovley, Newton | (? – ?) | Co. K 124th Ill. Inf. |
| Parish, William H. | (1839 – 1925) | Co. G 5 Reg. Mo. Cav. |
| Payne, George H. | (2/8/1841 – 6/2/1919) | Co. K G.A.R. 421 |
| Proctor, Jacob B. | (? – 1865) | Co. K 124th Ill. Inf.(From 1881 History) |
| Reynolds, William Clarence | (? – 9/24/1941) | Pvt. 2, Ill.Inf. |
| Sanders, Elder T. | (7/2/1830 – 8/2/1898) | American Legion |
| Underwood, Homer C. | (? – 2/19/1936) | 1 Gen. Serv., Ill. Inf. |
| White, Homer | (? – 8/19/1931) | Pvt. 1C1, Med. Dept., Ill. |
| White, Manford C. | (1864 – 1913) | American Legion |
| Willen, T. J. | (1789? – 1880?) | Lieut., Co. K 124th Ill. Inf. (1881 History shows the name Wilburn.) |
| Williamson, S. E. | (? – ?) | Co. E 115th, Ill. Inf. |
| World War I | ||
| Bryant, Leslie | (1893 – 1947) | American Legion |
| Coy, Willard Ray | (11/12/1915 – 3/1/1987) | U.S. Army |
| Cullum, Sr., James Lee | (5/31/1895 – 1/2/1932) | IL Mach. Mate IGL(A) – US Navy Reserve F |
| *Curby, John Gleason | (6/30/1919 – 2/28/1944) | KIA – France, American Legion |
| Dragoo, Frank G. | (9/16/1889 – 8/6/1945) | Montana Chief Mech. 327 Field Arty. 84 Div. |
| Dulakis, John | (10/16/1922 – 8/19/1991) | U.S. Army |
| Golightly, Joseph Winton | (? – 10/19/1927) | Michigan Pvt. – U.S. Marine Corps. |
| Hoard, Chester Earl | (2/25/1895 – 10/29/1961) | P.F.C. Co. K 127, Ill. Inf. PH |
| Lawrence, Raymond Osborn | (3/11/1896 – 7/7/1955) | Pvt. F.A. Gen Off TNg, Sch., Ill. |
| Landrey, Herman H. | (1888 – 1965) | American Legion |
| Mercier, George Joseph | (8/25/1882 – 2/20/1943) | Pvt., 111th Ord. Dep. Co. – Army |
| Neville, Clarence Elvin | (11/16/1892 – 5/9/1975) | Sea 2 – U.S. Navy |
| Payne, Carroll G. | (7/13/1892 – 5/16/1960) | Pvt. Co. M 362, Ill. Infantry |
| Pumphrey, William C. | (11/5/1894 – 2/25/1959) | Pvt., Btry. A 123 Field Arty., Ill. |
| Sanders, Earl Vernon | (8/18/1886 – 5/29/1981) | U.S. Navy |
| Sanders, Lester A. | (3/5/1895 – 11/11/1980) | U.S. Navy |
| Scott, Donald Harry | (1895 – 1961) | 2nd Division of W.W. I – Buried in Arlington National Cemetery (Memorial in Horse Creek) |
| Skaggs, Ollie G. | (5/4/1893 – 10/5/1973) | American Legion |
| Smith, Harry Glenn | (7/9/1897 – 4/12/1951) | Pvt. Ill. – U.S. Marine Corps |
| Snelling, John D. | (8/91895 – 11/22/1957) | American Legion |
| Sproat, George Andrew | (1896 – 12/25/1978) | F 3 – U.S. Navy |
| Squires, Chester Lee | (5/7/1926 – 10/22/2003) | U.S.Navy |
| Tilley, Frank M. | (6/17/1897 – 7/14/1971) | F3, Ill. – U.S. Navy |
| VanGieson, Lewis Ray | (10/20/1895 – 9/18/1996) | U.S. Army |
| Zimmerli, George E. | (4/27/1897 – 9/28/1976) | PFC – U.S. Army |
| World War II | ||
| Agans, James Curry | (3/26/1926 – 1/27/2004) | U.S. Navy |
| Alexander, William Floyd | (1910 – 1963) | U.S. Navy |
| Alspaugh, Emery E. | (12/16/1903 – 6/28/1976) | Pvt. – U.S. Army |
| Ascher, William Marion | (7/29/1918 – 8/29/1986) | U.S. Navy |
| Atchison, Calvin Estill | (7/22/1915 – 8/30/2000) | U.S. Army |
| Athersmith, Charles E. | (12/12/1923 – 8/12/1999) | U.S. Navy |
| Austin, Orville Blaine | (3/26/1924 – 12/24/2011) | U.S. Navy |
| Baugh, Clifford N. | (1919 – 1970) | American Legion |
| Berry, Ralph Eugene | (2/23/1927 – 9/4/2008) | U.S. Army |
| Boston, Floyd Donald | (1/9/1921 – 3/3/2005) | U.S. Army |
| Brown, Thomas Louis | (3/13/1922 – 4/5/1987) | U.S. Air Force |
| Castle, Charles “Haunch” I. | (2/2/1921 – 6/8/2002) | U.S. Army |
| Castleman, Earl R. | (1/19/1918 – 4/20/1959) | American Legion |
| Castleman, Gerald L. “Cotton” | (11/29/1921 – 1/17/1996) | U.S. Coast Guard |
| Cline, Donald Jackson | (4/18/1928 – 10/22/2007) | U.S. Coast Guard |
| Coy, Willard Ray | (11/12/1915 – 3/1/1987) | U.S. Army |
| Crawford, Richard Wayne | (4/5/1930 – 7/28/2018) | Japanese Occupied – U.S. Navy |
| Crowder, Charles Edward | (12/29/1921 – 7/29/1990) | U.S. Army |
| Crowder, George M. | (3/8/1923 – 8/21/1972) | SC 3, Ill. – U.S. Marine Reserves |
| Crowder, Jr., Jesse Clifford | (11/5/1921 – 10/17/2003) | U.S. Army |
| Cullum, Jr., James Lee | (12/8/1922 – 1/25/1976) | Sgt., – U.S. Marine Corps |
| Curtis, Jr., Charles | (12/26/1925 – 3/14/1990) | U.S. Air Force |
| *Davis, Jr., Arthur L. | (4/3/1921 – 2/28/1945) | KIA – U.S. Army – Germany |
| Dragoo, Dwight Eugene | (8/23/1917 – 10/16/1993) | U.S. Army |
| Dulakis, John | (10/16/2022 – 8/19/1991) | U.S. Army |
| Dulakis, Sr., Gus Constantine | (8/7/1921 – 5/22/1990) | U.S. Army |
| Edge, Jr., Ralph E. | (11/2/1924 – 12/20/1968) | U.S. Navy Reserve |
| Eichen, Walter A. | (1/8/1917 – 12/8/1979) | American Legion |
| Ford, George Edward | (6/1/1923 – 7/14/1984) | |
| Frazier, William Roy | (11/25/1924 – 7/25/2005) | U.S. Army |
| Garrison, Sr., Robert C. | (8/19/1927 – 10/26/1999) | U.S. Navy |
| *Godfrey, James F. | (1914 – 1945) | KIA – Lt., Battle of the Bulge |
| Griffin, William H. | (8/31/1908 – 3/9/1975) | Pvt., U.S. Army |
| Hamilton, Donald Adrian | (1/6/1921 – 11/25/2012) | South Pacific – U.S. Navy |
| Hamilton, Weber L. | (4/14/1913 – 4/1973) | Buried at Sea |
| Henson, Mary C. | (2/21/1911 – 12/31/2000) | U.S. Army |
| Irwin, John Joseph | (9/15/1913 – 2/24/1990) | |
| Johnson, Charles N. | (9/28/1925 – 3/3/2019) | U.S. Navy |
| Jones, Charles William | (5/2/1906 – 9/21/1996) | |
| Jones, Leslie Carl | (2/3/1918 – 12/13/1979) | American Legion |
| Jones, George Herman | (1/20/1928 – 5/8/2005) | U.S. Navy |
| Jones, Samuel Hiram | (1/20/1928 – 7/22/1994) | U.S. Navy |
| King, Homer Paul | (12/26/1925 – 12/13/2013) | U.S. Army |
| Kornack, Virgil Frederick | (2/21/1920 – 5/5/1987) | U.S. Army |
| Landrey, Leland W. | (7/25/1928 – 8/5/1980) | U.S. Air Force, American Legion, |
| Summer of 80 | ||
| Landrey, Melvin Merle | (7/15/1927 – 9/22/2008) | U.S. Navy |
| Lee, Robert “Bob” Eugene | (7/27/1924 – 2/11/2019) | 9th AF, Inf. Div. of 7th Army – Army Air Force |
| Lipe, Charles Lawrence | (11/27/1927 – 11/2/2002) | |
| Magos, Joseph | (1/26/1924 – 3/8/2012) | France, Italy – U.S. Army Air Corps |
| Manning, Martin A. | (7/29/1921 – 5/17/2020) | U.S. Army, Germany – Purple Heart |
| Manning, Marvin Burdett | (9/26/1913 – 6/14/1952) | |
| Martin, Ellsworth L. | (10/13/1911 – 9/24/1978) | PFC – U.S. Army |
| Marvin, James William | (7/18/1924 – 1/26/2017) | 3rd Cav. Recon. Squadron Mech, 3rd Army |
| Matthews, Sr., Glenn Louis | (2/11/1920 – 11/23/1989) | U.S. Army |
| McElroy, Frank Elbert | (2/15/1933 – 6/5/1989) | |
| McEvers, Thomas Carlyle | (2/1/1920 – 7/7/1993) | U.S. Marines |
| McGary, Paul Lewis | (2/20/1900 – 5/22/1978) | U.S. Navy |
| McKay, John Leonard | (5/27/1914 – 1/18/2000) | U.S. Army Air Corps |
| Mercier, George J. | (8/25/1882 – 2/20/1943) | Pvt., 111th Ord. Dep. Co. – U.S. Army |
| Montgomery, Jack Neal | (7/27/1924 – 12/29/1999) | U.S. Navy |
| Muncy, Fred Raymond | (11/7/1927 – 11/9/2015) | U.S. Army, U.S. Army Air Force |
| *Muncy, Thomas Blanton | (12/24/1921 – 7/30/1944) | KIA – Tinian – PFC 2, 2nd Div., Ill. – U.S. Marines |
| Muncy, Jr., William Milbourne | (4/7/1924 – 4/13/2002) | |
| Murphy, Thomas Burton | (9/9/1926 – 4/12/2008) | U.S. Army |
| Nichols, John Hyatt | (7/10/1902 – 10/24/1989) | U.S. Navy (?) |
| Pape, Kenneth H. | (6/30/1924 – 3/22/2017) | |
| Parker, Joseph J. | (1/9/1922 – 6/13/1976) | Pvt., U.S. Army |
| Patton, Robert “R.F.” Fount | (2/13/1933 – 4/8/2018) | U.S. Army |
| Payton, Howard Emmett | (8/26/1918 – 2/8/2005) | |
| Roberts, Jr., William Joseph | (3/17/1917 – 5/11/1998) | U.S. Marines |
| Sanders, Kenneth Lyle | (3/20/1921 – 6/28/2004) | U.S. Army |
| Sandidge, Hal Stuart | (10/6/1926 – 8/13/1999) | U.S. Army |
| Sandidge, Walter Taylor | (10/20/1924 – 12/29/2013) | U.S. Army |
| Schafer, William | (10-4-1889 – 10/10/1978) | |
| Scifers, James Edward | (8/12/1926 – 7/13/1981) | U.S. Navy |
| Searcy, Sr., Stanley Wayne | (9/9/1925 – 7/23/2018) | |
| Shaw, William “Doc” Reuben | (9/22/1919 – 4/7/2005) | U.S. Army |
| Simpson, Jr., Harry Richard | (1/6/1927 – 3/10/2013) | U.S. Navy |
| Simpson, John Marshall | (11/2/1914 – 12/25/1991) | U.S. Army |
| Skaggs, Donald J. | (6/2/1926 – 2/14/2008) | U.S. Navy |
| Snelling, Darrell Laverne | (1/7/1923 – 1/14/1985) | U.S. Marines, American Legion U.S. |
| Sprague, Otho H. | (4/13/1919 – 3/22/1977) | American Legion |
| Springer, John Bruce | (1/9/1911 – 6/4/1974) | Cpl., U.S. Army |
| Squires, Chester Lee | (5/8/1926 – 10/22/2003) | U.S. Navy |
| Student, Paul | (8/15/1893 – 8/29/1953) | Cpl., Ill. – Army Service Corps |
| Stuffings, Sr., Robert E. | (1/31/1929 – 3/17/2007) | U.S. Navy |
| Sweet, Earl W. | (11/8/1926 – 1/30/2016) | U.S. Army |
| Thein, Charles Richard William | (11/23/1918 – 12/20/1992) | First Special Service Force Devil’s Brigade |
| Thompson, Arthur Philips | (12/25/1923 – 7/3/1987) | U.S. Navy |
| Tilley, Conrad Forbes | (12/2/1918 – 7/7/2002) | U.S. Army |
| Tilley, Jack L. | (1924 – 11/24/1982) | PFC, U.S. Army |
| Tuxhorn, Harold William | (5/27/1920 – 8/12/1985) | PFC – U.S. Army |
| VanGeison, Aaron Alvin | (10/27/1928 – 4/16/2013) | U.S. Navy |
| VanGeison, Raymond Rightmire | (7/27/1921 – 10/22/1992) | U.S. Navy (WWII & Korea) |
| Wright, Arthur G. | (9/24/1894 – 1/12/1979) | U.S. Army |
| Korean War | ||
| Boone, Charles H. | (3/17/34 – 4/4/2019) | Army |
| Butler, Therell, Deneen | (11/23/1934 – 5/23/2001) | A2C – U.S. Air Force |
| Cincebox, Leroy Vern | (11/10/1934 – 1/13/2012) | Sp3 – U.S. Army |
| Cole, Donald Elmer | (12/21/1929 – 7/6/2010) | U.S. Air Force |
| Crawford, Richard Wayne | (4/5/1930 – 7/28/2018) | U.S. Navy |
| Dickey, James Edgar | (7/29/1933 – 1/31/2018) | (1953 – 1956) – U.S. Army |
| Henson, Jr., Harold Raymond | (11/22/1931 – 2/13/2011) | U.S. Army |
| Nelson, Robert A. | (9/27/1931 – 7/6/2011) | U.S. Army |
| Richeson, Sr., George Edward | (8/7/1934 – 7/15/1993) | |
| Rohdeman, John Eugene | (5/12/1932 – 6/15/2007) | U.S. Army |
| Scott, Linn Drennan | (8/1/1930 – 1/9/2016) | U.S. Army |
| Student, John Robert | (6/24/1931 – 1/29/1990) | U.S. Air Force |
| Schnapp, Richard Lee | (6/4/1932 – 6/19/2019) | U.S. Navy |
| Selhime, Robert H. | (11/22/1930 – 3/16/1989) | U.S. Marines |
| Tippett, Maurice D. | (1/23/1941 – 2/17/2017) | (1959 – 1962) U.S. Army |
| VanGeison, Betty June | (5/29/1933 – 11/12/2014) | U.S. Navy |
| VanGeison, Raymond Rightmire | (7/27/1921 – 10/22/1992) | U.S. Navy (WWII & Korea) |
| Warren, Earl B. | (2/19/1929 – 9/19/2009) | U.S. Marines |
| Cold War | ||
| Irwin, James Wesley | (9/2/1939 – 1/4/2010) | U.S. Army |
| Rutherford, Donald R. | (9/18/1936 – 7/25/1974) | U.S. Army |
| Viet Nam | ||
| Acree, Jessie Arnold | (1/10/1947 – 10/24/2001) | U.S. Marines |
| Bailey, Charles Thomas | (5/22/1947 – 10/25/2015) | U.S. Navy |
| Busby, Bryon Louis | (1/26/1948 – 6/10/2009) | U.S. Army |
| Crawford, Richard Wayne | (4/5/1930 – 7/28/2018) | U.S. Navy |
| Crowl, Gene Edwin | (6/9/1946 – 7/28/2017) | U.S. Navy |
| Fugate, Ernest Leroy | (9/12/1943 – ?) | 51 3rd 104 E7 95 S6 |
| Harrison, Franklin “Max” Maxwell | (7/31/1939 – 3/9/2011) | U.S. Army |
| Jones, David Harry | (2/1/1949 – 5/21/2010) | Panama Canal – U.S. Army |
| Phillis, Jimmy Montelle | (3/22/1941 – 10/7/2010) | U.S. Air Force |
| Pond, Warren Leslie | (1/13/1942 – 10/29/1992) | U.S. Air Force |
| Sanders, Michael Eugene | (11/9/1950 – 10/25/1993) | U.S. Army |
| Sandidge, Gary Lynn | (4/29/1948 – 4/8/2016) | U.S. Navy |
| *Sandidge, Theodore W. | (9/23/1947 – 4/3/1968) | KIA – SP 4, Co., D 35 Ill. Inf., 4 Inf Div. – Vietnam PH |
| Simpson, John Marshall | (11/2/1914 – 12/25/1991) | U.S. Army |
| Smith, Bradley Fredrick | (9/4/1953 – 6/6/1980) | PFC, U.S. Army |
| Middle East Wars | ||
| Unknown Service | ||
| (We are working to find more information on these Veterans.) | ||
| Bailey, Alan | (? – ?) | |
| Boehler, William V. | (6/7/1931 – 6/20/2007) | |
| Brown, Ronald L. | (12/19/1942 – 11/18/1994) | |
| Clayton, Manford | (6/26/1913 – 6/25/1990) | U.S. Navy |
| Dragoo, Betty Patricia | (7/2/1924 – 9/29/1994) | U.S. Marines (?) |
| Estill, William Robert | ||
| Gaffney, John | U.S. Soldier | |
| Gallion, Vernon Neal | (12/23/1934 – 7/13/2009) | U.S. Army |
| Harbour, Jr., Everett | (8/19/1941 – 12/16/2017) | U.S. Marines |
| Holstrum, Richard M. | (1/6/1917 – 7/10/2000) | |
| Jones, Benjamin Hughes | (7/29/1916 – 5/24/1988) | |
| Jones, Sr., John Edward | (1/7/1944 – 3/1/1993) | |
| Martin, Daniel W. | (9/18/1949 – ?) | |
| Neely, Robert Winfred | (10/11/1934 – 3/4/1996) | |
| Nichols, Jr., James | (12/26/1943 – 4/19/2005) | |
| Pape, Kenneth H. | (6/30/1924 – 3/22/2017) | |
| Payne, Raymond Dale Payne | (12/25/1941 – 3/31/2004) | |
| Remack, Jr., William | (3/25/1935 – 3/19/2019) | U.S. Army |
| Sitze, Wendell Laverlle | (9/16/1935 – 2/24/2019) | U. S. Navy |
| Smith, Paul James | (10/12/1936 – 4/5/1996) | |
| Smith, Thomas L. | (1895 – 1/6/1991) | |
| Sullivan, Cornelius J. | (5/5/1913 – 9/7/1987) | |
| Wait, Henry J. | (12/19/1873 – 1/2/1908) | |
| Walters, Richard C. | (2/20/1900 – 10/19/1990) |