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MACON TWP. The 112th annual Memorial Day service at Macon Cemetery on Sunday, honored the service of the fallen as well as Cpl. William H. Crittenden, one of the soldiers responsible for capturing Jefferson Davis during the Civil War.
Crittenden, also known as “Tip,” belonged to Company E of the 4th Michigan Cavalry, which departed for war in 1862. He originally was from the Macon and Tecumseh areaand is buried at Macon Cemetery.
Bob Elliot, a local historian, was a guest speaker at the ceremony and told attendees a little about Crittenden. He was married to Rosetta, and they had five children. He was only 24 years old when he was called to fight. He died on Nov. 29, 1924, as the last soldier still alive who captured Davis.
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In mid-to-late 1904, an article appeared in newspapers across the country with the blaring headline: “Passing of the Good Old American Silver Dollar.” Under the subtitle “It Is Probable That No More of Them Will Ever be Coined by the Government,” the author,
Katherine Pope, reported “that ponderous and more or less troubling coin, the silver dollar, has had its day… the supply of silver bullion purchased under the Sherman act [sic] is exhausted… in all probability no more new silver dollars will be turned out by the government’s mint plants.
“Which, for old associations’ sake,” she wrote, “seems regrettable.”
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