The Remains of Captain H. Hi Siverd Laid to Rest in the Union Cemetery.
Thousands of Friends and Citizens Follow the Murdered Officer to His Grave.
Hugh H. Siverd
Type of Officer: Constable
Jurisdiction: Winfield
County: Cowley
Death Date: 10/25/1893
Added to Memorial: 1987
Circumstances of Death:
Constable Siverd arrested bootlegger Wilbur Norton on a warrant, and was taking him to jail when they were confronted by Morgan Wright, a friend of Norton's. Wright ordered Siverd to release Norton. Norton jumped to one side and Wright shot and killed the constable. A gold star in the sidewalk marks the spot of Siverd's death.
Capt. Co. B,
1 Ohio Cav.
Beautiful Flowers and Sympathetic Mourners Pay Tribute to His Memory.
All that is mortal of Hugh H. Siverd has been laid to rest in the Union cemetery. The assassin's bullet has done its work. A true man, a brave officer has passed away to satisfy the villainous hatred of the defiers of the law. Never more will sunshine greet Hugh H. Siverd, but in that place from whose bourne no traveler ever returns, Hugh H. Siverd will rest in peace and quiet.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the remains of Officer Siverd was taken from his late residence on East Twelfth Avenue to the Baptist Church, where Rev. Parker, assisted by Father McKernan and the other ministers of the city, preached the funeral sermon. The remains was followed from the family residence to the church and thence to the Union Cemetery by thousands of people from all parts of the county. The business houses were closed and all citizens hastened to pay their respects to the memory of a brave and noble officer who died in the performance of his duty.
The son of Jacob & Elizabeth Siverd, in 1860 he was a laborer living in Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The 1860 census lists who appears to be a daughter Anna (b. @1859) living with him. While that relationship is unconfirmed, there seems little other reason for a one-year-old of the same surname to share a home. He appears in the 1863 draft registration as a resident of Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County.
A Civil War veteran, he served three terms of service:
1. Enlisted in Lancaster April 17, 1861, mustered into federal service there April 29 as a private with Co. H in the ninety-day organization of the 1st Ohio Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 1, 1861. The Ohioans had arrived in Harrisburg and then were sent to Lancaster, where they were greeted with great enthusiasm as described in the Lancaster Evening Express. Their ultimate destination was Washington DC and Lancaster was a roundabout way of getting there from Harrisburg, but the choice likely had to do with the need for space to temporarily house thousands of incoming troops. Obviously, Hugh Siverd was impressed enough to enlist, although why he did not choose to join any of a number of locally raised companies is as yet unexplained. The Ohioans, now including Hugh Siverd, left Lancaster on May 8 bound for Philadelphia on their way to Washington.
2. Enlisted August 21, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, allegedly on October 5 as a private with Co. B, 1st Ohio Cavalry. He was shortly thereafter promoted to regimental sergeant major (possibly on the October 5 date), to 2nd lieutenant of Co. B October 1, 1862, to 1st lieutenant April 1, 1863, and to captain December 14, 1864.
3. He had to have re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer, likely in early 1864, although available online records do not provide details. He honorably discharged with his company September 13, 1865.
Additional military data must await the post-covid-19 re-opening of the National Archives and access to his compiled military service records.
He married Alice Atkinson and fathered Mary Elizabeth (b. @1869), Mabel (b. 10/14/72), Frank (b. 06/20/76), Anthony (b. @1877), Anna M. (b. 12/05/79 - married a Cali), Margaret (b. 02/20/87), and Alice Edmona (b. 10/28/87). He moved to Winfield, Kansas, and there assumed the position of constable. His life was cut short on the job when bootleggers shot and and killed him during the execution of an arrest warrant. Winfield's G.A.R. Post No. 85 was then renamed in his honor.
His middle name is listed on several online family trees as "Hickory."
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) • [email protected]
Addl. info: http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cowley/sivstory.htm
Thousands of Friends and Citizens Follow the Murdered Officer to His Grave.
Hugh H. Siverd
Type of Officer: Constable
Jurisdiction: Winfield
County: Cowley
Death Date: 10/25/1893
Added to Memorial: 1987
Circumstances of Death:
Constable Siverd arrested bootlegger Wilbur Norton on a warrant, and was taking him to jail when they were confronted by Morgan Wright, a friend of Norton's. Wright ordered Siverd to release Norton. Norton jumped to one side and Wright shot and killed the constable. A gold star in the sidewalk marks the spot of Siverd's death.
Capt. Co. B,
1 Ohio Cav.
Beautiful Flowers and Sympathetic Mourners Pay Tribute to His Memory.
All that is mortal of Hugh H. Siverd has been laid to rest in the Union cemetery. The assassin's bullet has done its work. A true man, a brave officer has passed away to satisfy the villainous hatred of the defiers of the law. Never more will sunshine greet Hugh H. Siverd, but in that place from whose bourne no traveler ever returns, Hugh H. Siverd will rest in peace and quiet.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the remains of Officer Siverd was taken from his late residence on East Twelfth Avenue to the Baptist Church, where Rev. Parker, assisted by Father McKernan and the other ministers of the city, preached the funeral sermon. The remains was followed from the family residence to the church and thence to the Union Cemetery by thousands of people from all parts of the county. The business houses were closed and all citizens hastened to pay their respects to the memory of a brave and noble officer who died in the performance of his duty.
The son of Jacob & Elizabeth Siverd, in 1860 he was a laborer living in Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The 1860 census lists who appears to be a daughter Anna (b. @1859) living with him. While that relationship is unconfirmed, there seems little other reason for a one-year-old of the same surname to share a home. He appears in the 1863 draft registration as a resident of Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County.
A Civil War veteran, he served three terms of service:
1. Enlisted in Lancaster April 17, 1861, mustered into federal service there April 29 as a private with Co. H in the ninety-day organization of the 1st Ohio Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 1, 1861. The Ohioans had arrived in Harrisburg and then were sent to Lancaster, where they were greeted with great enthusiasm as described in the Lancaster Evening Express. Their ultimate destination was Washington DC and Lancaster was a roundabout way of getting there from Harrisburg, but the choice likely had to do with the need for space to temporarily house thousands of incoming troops. Obviously, Hugh Siverd was impressed enough to enlist, although why he did not choose to join any of a number of locally raised companies is as yet unexplained. The Ohioans, now including Hugh Siverd, left Lancaster on May 8 bound for Philadelphia on their way to Washington.
2. Enlisted August 21, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, allegedly on October 5 as a private with Co. B, 1st Ohio Cavalry. He was shortly thereafter promoted to regimental sergeant major (possibly on the October 5 date), to 2nd lieutenant of Co. B October 1, 1862, to 1st lieutenant April 1, 1863, and to captain December 14, 1864.
3. He had to have re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer, likely in early 1864, although available online records do not provide details. He honorably discharged with his company September 13, 1865.
Additional military data must await the post-covid-19 re-opening of the National Archives and access to his compiled military service records.
He married Alice Atkinson and fathered Mary Elizabeth (b. @1869), Mabel (b. 10/14/72), Frank (b. 06/20/76), Anthony (b. @1877), Anna M. (b. 12/05/79 - married a Cali), Margaret (b. 02/20/87), and Alice Edmona (b. 10/28/87). He moved to Winfield, Kansas, and there assumed the position of constable. His life was cut short on the job when bootleggers shot and and killed him during the execution of an arrest warrant. Winfield's G.A.R. Post No. 85 was then renamed in his honor.
His middle name is listed on several online family trees as "Hickory."
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) • [email protected]
Addl. info: http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cowley/sivstory.htm
The Remains of Captain H. Hi Siverd Laid to Rest in the Union Cemetery.
Thousands of Friends and Citizens Follow the Murdered Officer to His Grave.
Hugh H. Siverd
Type of Officer: Constable
Jurisdiction: Winfield
County: Cowley
Death Date: 10/25/1893
Added to Memorial: 1987
Circumstances of Death:
Constable Siverd arrested bootlegger Wilbur Norton on a warrant, and was taking him to jail when they were confronted by Morgan Wright, a friend of Norton's. Wright ordered Siverd to release Norton. Norton jumped to one side and Wright shot and killed the constable. A gold star in the sidewalk marks the spot of Siverd's death.
Capt. Co. B,
1 Ohio Cav.
Beautiful Flowers and Sympathetic Mourners Pay Tribute to His Memory.
All that is mortal of Hugh H. Siverd has been laid to rest in the Union cemetery. The assassin's bullet has done its work. A true man, a brave officer has passed away to satisfy the villainous hatred of the defiers of the law. Never more will sunshine greet Hugh H. Siverd, but in that place from whose bourne no traveler ever returns, Hugh H. Siverd will rest in peace and quiet.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the remains of Officer Siverd was taken from his late residence on East Twelfth Avenue to the Baptist Church, where Rev. Parker, assisted by Father McKernan and the other ministers of the city, preached the funeral sermon. The remains was followed from the family residence to the church and thence to the Union Cemetery by thousands of people from all parts of the county. The business houses were closed and all citizens hastened to pay their respects to the memory of a brave and noble officer who died in the performance of his duty.
The son of Jacob & Elizabeth Siverd, in 1860 he was a laborer living in Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The 1860 census lists who appears to be a daughter Anna (b. @1859) living with him. While that relationship is unconfirmed, there seems little other reason for a one-year-old of the same surname to share a home. He appears in the 1863 draft registration as a resident of Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County.
A Civil War veteran, he served three terms of service:
1. Enlisted in Lancaster April 17, 1861, mustered into federal service there April 29 as a private with Co. H in the ninety-day organization of the 1st Ohio Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 1, 1861. The Ohioans had arrived in Harrisburg and then were sent to Lancaster, where they were greeted with great enthusiasm as described in the Lancaster Evening Express. Their ultimate destination was Washington DC and Lancaster was a roundabout way of getting there from Harrisburg, but the choice likely had to do with the need for space to temporarily house thousands of incoming troops. Obviously, Hugh Siverd was impressed enough to enlist, although why he did not choose to join any of a number of locally raised companies is as yet unexplained. The Ohioans, now including Hugh Siverd, left Lancaster on May 8 bound for Philadelphia on their way to Washington.
2. Enlisted August 21, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, allegedly on October 5 as a private with Co. B, 1st Ohio Cavalry. He was shortly thereafter promoted to regimental sergeant major (possibly on the October 5 date), to 2nd lieutenant of Co. B October 1, 1862, to 1st lieutenant April 1, 1863, and to captain December 14, 1864.
3. He had to have re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer, likely in early 1864, although available online records do not provide details. He honorably discharged with his company September 13, 1865.
Additional military data must await the post-covid-19 re-opening of the National Archives and access to his compiled military service records.
He married Alice Atkinson and fathered Mary Elizabeth (b. @1869), Mabel (b. 10/14/72), Frank (b. 06/20/76), Anthony (b. @1877), Anna M. (b. 12/05/79 - married a Cali), Margaret (b. 02/20/87), and Alice Edmona (b. 10/28/87). He moved to Winfield, Kansas, and there assumed the position of constable. His life was cut short on the job when bootleggers shot and and killed him during the execution of an arrest warrant. Winfield's G.A.R. Post No. 85 was then renamed in his honor.
His middle name is listed on several online family trees as "Hickory."
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) • [email protected]
Addl. info: http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cowley/sivstory.htm
Thousands of Friends and Citizens Follow the Murdered Officer to His Grave.
Hugh H. Siverd
Type of Officer: Constable
Jurisdiction: Winfield
County: Cowley
Death Date: 10/25/1893
Added to Memorial: 1987
Circumstances of Death:
Constable Siverd arrested bootlegger Wilbur Norton on a warrant, and was taking him to jail when they were confronted by Morgan Wright, a friend of Norton's. Wright ordered Siverd to release Norton. Norton jumped to one side and Wright shot and killed the constable. A gold star in the sidewalk marks the spot of Siverd's death.
Capt. Co. B,
1 Ohio Cav.
Beautiful Flowers and Sympathetic Mourners Pay Tribute to His Memory.
All that is mortal of Hugh H. Siverd has been laid to rest in the Union cemetery. The assassin's bullet has done its work. A true man, a brave officer has passed away to satisfy the villainous hatred of the defiers of the law. Never more will sunshine greet Hugh H. Siverd, but in that place from whose bourne no traveler ever returns, Hugh H. Siverd will rest in peace and quiet.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the remains of Officer Siverd was taken from his late residence on East Twelfth Avenue to the Baptist Church, where Rev. Parker, assisted by Father McKernan and the other ministers of the city, preached the funeral sermon. The remains was followed from the family residence to the church and thence to the Union Cemetery by thousands of people from all parts of the county. The business houses were closed and all citizens hastened to pay their respects to the memory of a brave and noble officer who died in the performance of his duty.
The son of Jacob & Elizabeth Siverd, in 1860 he was a laborer living in Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The 1860 census lists who appears to be a daughter Anna (b. @1859) living with him. While that relationship is unconfirmed, there seems little other reason for a one-year-old of the same surname to share a home. He appears in the 1863 draft registration as a resident of Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County.
A Civil War veteran, he served three terms of service:
1. Enlisted in Lancaster April 17, 1861, mustered into federal service there April 29 as a private with Co. H in the ninety-day organization of the 1st Ohio Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 1, 1861. The Ohioans had arrived in Harrisburg and then were sent to Lancaster, where they were greeted with great enthusiasm as described in the Lancaster Evening Express. Their ultimate destination was Washington DC and Lancaster was a roundabout way of getting there from Harrisburg, but the choice likely had to do with the need for space to temporarily house thousands of incoming troops. Obviously, Hugh Siverd was impressed enough to enlist, although why he did not choose to join any of a number of locally raised companies is as yet unexplained. The Ohioans, now including Hugh Siverd, left Lancaster on May 8 bound for Philadelphia on their way to Washington.
2. Enlisted August 21, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, allegedly on October 5 as a private with Co. B, 1st Ohio Cavalry. He was shortly thereafter promoted to regimental sergeant major (possibly on the October 5 date), to 2nd lieutenant of Co. B October 1, 1862, to 1st lieutenant April 1, 1863, and to captain December 14, 1864.
3. He had to have re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer, likely in early 1864, although available online records do not provide details. He honorably discharged with his company September 13, 1865.
Additional military data must await the post-covid-19 re-opening of the National Archives and access to his compiled military service records.
He married Alice Atkinson and fathered Mary Elizabeth (b. @1869), Mabel (b. 10/14/72), Frank (b. 06/20/76), Anthony (b. @1877), Anna M. (b. 12/05/79 - married a Cali), Margaret (b. 02/20/87), and Alice Edmona (b. 10/28/87). He moved to Winfield, Kansas, and there assumed the position of constable. His life was cut short on the job when bootleggers shot and and killed him during the execution of an arrest warrant. Winfield's G.A.R. Post No. 85 was then renamed in his honor.
His middle name is listed on several online family trees as "Hickory."
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) • [email protected]
Addl. info: http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cowley/sivstory.htm
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