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Show jMARSHON, "DRUMMER f BOY OF SHIL0H" DIES INIOS ANGELES AT 86 h rmi - r Ue Anit, 'Cat, July p.AfiV- , cW.-rBunl tehicM m. b hell here tomorrow tor MJ W. H. Mai. J "hon. Ildrummet boy of Shlloh. Mj. Marhop 4i4 ut, yesterday of apop-lxy apop-lxy afler teven weeke lllnfsa, Hl j wife wat stricken ilmllarly two dayt I after the major and died last week. . MaJ. Marth'on wat born In. Fort IWayne, Ind., nd among hie moat . cherished poiisefsfont wat a drum pie-tented pie-tented to him by hit dvll war regiment, regi-ment, the Thirtieth Indiana' Volun-I Volun-I teert, 'bearing an Inscription tutlien-j tutlien-j ticatlng him at the- " Drummer Boy of. Shiloh" herolied In prose and po j etry. He enllnted m drummer boy In j September, 1861, and wat teverely ! hurt by a thell at Shlloh In 1862, but ; served four yeart before' being mut-j. mut-j. tered out. He wat leader of the mill, j tary ba"nd' which accompanied Abra- k I hnm Lincoln'! body from Chicago to I Isprlncfleld for burial. Three daUKh-l ' tert and ene tleter, Mrs. Lydla We-1 yCombjyVarsaw, tJlrvlve., . y |