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Hibbard, Harry 'Hal' Glenn
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| LAST: Hibbard
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FIRST: Harry 'Hal'
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MID: Glenn
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| GENDER: M
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| BORN: 1873
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DIED: 9 Dec 1899
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BURIED: 6 Feb 1899
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OCCUPATION: Corpl. Oregon Volunteer Infantry
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| BIRTH PLACE: Oregon
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| DEATH PLACE: Manila, Phillipines
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NOTES:
1880 OR CENSUS - Harry Glenn Hibbard, age 6, b. Oregon, is enumerated with father K. L. Hibbard, age 42, farmer, b. Illinois, and Julia A., age 39, b. Missouri, along with Oliver S., age 19, farmer, b. Oregon, Eugene, age 16, b. Oregon, Wm. Walter, age 15, b. Oregon, Helen May, age 12, b. Oregon, Lilly Gertrude, age 4, b. Oregon, and Ethel J., age 4 m's, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is George D., identified as brother [of K. L.], age 30, farm hand, b. Oregon;
BIOGRAPHICAL:
Memorial Planned – Members of Hal Hibbard Camp No. 5, USWV will meet at the Salem armory Sunday at 2 p.m. to visit the Warren Cemetery for memorial service at the grave of Hal Hibbard. All veterans are invited to attend.
Oregon Statesman 24 May 1940 9:2.
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OBITUARY:
Another Sacrifice On His Country’s Altar – The Second From Company K – By dispatches received in Salem today the sad news of the death of Corporal H. G. Hibbard from typhoid fever, at Manila, is announced.
The details are meager, but it is stated that he died December 9, at the hospital in Manila from the effect of the disease stated above.
Hal was so well and popularly known in the city that it is useless to attempt to tell of his good qualities and sterling worth. Wherever he went, his bright, cheerful disposition carried sunshine with it. His friends are legion, enemies he had none. He was the son of Hon. King L. Hibbard of Willard, Oregon, and was a student of Willamette University at the time of his enlistment. He was about to graduate and his diploma was awarded him by the trustees of the University as a mark of their esteem for him as a student and as a loyal American citizen whose first thought was for the welfare of hs country. He was appointed Corporal of Company K and was one of the most popular members of the company.
Sincere and deepest sympathy of this entire community is extended to the bereaved family. Everybody in Salem will mourn the death of the brave, bright Hal.
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Military Funeral – Remains Of Corporal H. G. Hibbard To Arrive Today – Will be No Formal Funeral Service to This City – Burial in Warren Cemetery on Sunday.
The late Hal G. Hibbard, corporal in Company K, Second Oregon Volunteers, will be given a military funeral by his old comrades – the Spanish-American War Veterans. The military exercises incident to the burial will be preceded by a brief religious service at the graveside.
The remains of Corporal Hibbard, who succumbed to typhoid fever at Manila on December 9, 1899, will arrive in Salem from San Francisco on the northbound Oregon express this morning. The body will be met at the depot by a detachment of Worrick Camp, Spanish-American War Veterans of this city, and escorted directly to the First Methodist church where a guard of honor will be stationed. It has been decided by the family not to hold public funeral services in this city, but at the request of friends have deferred the burial until Sunday; which will enable a great many of the friends of the deceased to accompany the remains to the burying grounds.
The casket will remain at the church from the arrival of the train this morning until 8 o’clock tomorrow morning when the funeral cortege will leave for Warren Cemetery near Willard, where interment will take place.
Short religious services at the graveside will be conducted by Rev. G. W. Grannis of Salem, at the conclusion of which the members of the military will take charge of the remains and proceed with the burial with the honors due the loyal young soldier. “Hal” was beloved by both old and young. His popularity here was best attested by the shadow of gloom that pervaded the entire community at the time his untimely death was announced.
The bereaved family and sympathizing friends, however, find consolation in the thought that in the role of a soldier the deceased possessed the record of a double enlistment; he was enrolled among the volunteers in a noble fight for the preservation of his country’s honor, but the second enlistment alluded to dates farther back – for years prior to his military career he was enrolled in Christ’s army in which he was aggressive and a conscientious worker, characteristics that were equally as prominent in his record as a member of Company K in the Philippines.
Rev. W. S. Gilbert, pastor of a Portland Presbyterian Church, who served as chaplain in the Oregon Regiment, has been asked to be in the city and attend the funeral, but no reply has yet been received. Prof. G. W. Jones, captain of Worrick Camp, who has charge of the arrangements of the military for the funeral, yesterday received word from Elmwood Clark, of Corvallis, bugler of Company K, informing him that Mr. Clark would attend the funeral.
At a special meeting of Worrick Camp Spanish-American War Veterans held last Monday evening, arrangements were made for conducting the burial and giving the deceased a military funeral. Four pallbearers were named by the camp, the remaining two to be selected from among the Willamette University students. The four to represent the camp are: G. W. Jones, R. W. Terrell, J. Rex here in the office prn. Byars, and A. M. Southwick. The guard of honor and firing squad was also selected and consists of J. P. Aitken, C. C. Savage, O. I. Hull, Fred Peterson, E. R. Colvin, Edward Fane, George Litchfield, S. A. McIlwaine, W. L. Batchelor, John Armstrong, L. B. Davis, H. K. Hall, and Charles Burt.
Oregon Statesman Saturday, 5 Feb 1900
Remains At Rest – Funeral of the Late Corporal Hal G. Hibbard – Burial of the Brave Young Soldier on Sunday attended by Many of His Old Comrades. – The remains of the late Corporal H. G Hibbard of Company K, Second Oregon volunteer infantry, arrived in Salem on Sunday morning’s overland train and found their final resting place in the Hibbard family plot in the Warren Cemetery, 1½ miles east of Willard during the day.
When the train arrived in this city, the late comrades of the dead soldier-student were in waiting at the station and the casket, in which reposed all that was mortal of Hal G. Hibbard, was taken charge of by the “boys in blue” and conveyed to the First M. E. Church, where a guard was placed over them. At 9 o’clock the funeral cortege formed and proceeded to the cemetery near Willard, nearly four hours being spent on the road.
Arriving at the cemetery, brief religious services were conducted, which were followed by a short address by Rev. G. W. Grannis, late pastor of the deceased, and himself a veteran of the Civil War. Following interment, three volleys were fired over the last resting place of the brave young soldier and taps was blown by the company bugler.
A large number of the old comrades in arms of the deceased, including the pallbearers and firing squad, were present. Several hundred people had gathered to see the last sad rites performed.
Following the funeral, the veterans were invited to the hospitable home of the Hon. L.C. Griffith, where entertainment was provided for all.
Oregon Statesman 6 Feb 1900.
From Monday’s Daily – Hal Hibbard’s Funeral – Laid to Rest In Warren Cemetery With Civil and Military Honors – Funeral The Largest Ever Held in Marion County. Flags at Half Mast on Public Buildings – The funeral of Corporal Hal. G. Hibbard took place Sunday and was one of the largest ever held in Marion County, estimates of the number of people present running from 300 to 400.
The arrangements outlined in the Journal were carried out with the exception that the remains did not arrive on Saturday but on Sunday morning, so that they did not lie a day in this city. The start for the Warren Cemetery, 12 miles east of town where interment took place, was made at 8 o’clock, and the long line of carriages following the hearse kept growing longer until the cemetery was reached.
Here brief religious services were conducted by Rev. G. W. Grannis, followed by military honors by the detachment of Spanish War Veterans. A salute was fired, the bugle blew taps and the last sad rites were concluded. The pallbearers were G. W. Jones, Ralph Terrell, J. Rex Byars, and A. M. Southwick, members of Worrick Camp of Spanish-American War Veterans and I. H. Van Winkle and J. H. Robnett, former fellow students of the young soldier.
Many people drove out from Salem and the whole countryside in the vicinity of the burial place were present, attesting to the universal high esteem in which Hal Hibbard was held.
The flags on the capital and court house were displayed at half mast throughout the day.
Weekly Capital Journal 8 Feb 1900 4:2
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INSCRIPTION:
Corpl.
Harry G.
Co. K.
2 Ore. Inf.
SP. AM. War
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SOURCES:
Hellie, Mader & Rickey
Saucy
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Silverton, ED 85, pg 116D)
OS 5 Feb 1900
OS 6 Feb 1900
WCJ 8 Feb 1900 4:2
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