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The post-Civil War generation · the township's first veterans' banner
The township's veterans organized under a dead comrade's name, as the Grand Army required. The Indiana State Archives' finding aid to the Department of Indiana, G.A.R., records — the post descriptive books table — lists for this town: Post Name Deacon, Post No. 115, Town New Carlisle, County St. Joseph (shelf L736). G.A.R. posts could not be named for living persons, so a Deacon of the township's own dead or honored dead stands behind the name; the Deacon family was of this ground — Wm. H. Deacon rode for the Anti-Horse-Thief Association in 1880, and a Grace L. Deacon lies in the Adams family lot at Hamilton — but which Deacon the post was named for, and its chartering and disbanding dates, the finding aid does not state, and they stand as a named gap settled by the post's descriptive book itself at the State Archives. A G.A.R. marker stands on John McCurdy's stone at Hamilton, so the post's ritual work reached the churchyard if the post's own papers are lost. The county's other posts sat at South Bend, Mishawaka and North Liberty; New Carlisle's was the township's own.
Sources
- Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Grand Army of the Republic finding aid, Vol. II, post descriptive books table (Deacon Post No. 115, New Carlisle, St. Joseph County).
- DAR cemetery inscriptions, Hamilton Cemetery (McCurdy G.A.R. marker; Deacon burial in the Adams lot).