(Transcribed by Ron Taylor from "Allegany County and Its People: A Centennial Memorial HISTORY OF ALLEGANY COUNTY,NY"

John S. Minard; W.A.Fergusson & Co., Alfred,NY, 1896)

MARSHALL PHILLIPS POST, G.A.R. #640

Town of Alma, Allegany County – NY

 (1889-1893)

Alpheus L. Witherspoon, formerly of Co. I, 19^th Maine, gives us this information concerning this post and the soldiers of Alma. 

“This Post was organized by the efforts of A.B.York and others who became active members and the charter was granted Sept. 28, 1889.   

The first officers:

Members:

 Men that did not join any post:

 “On the 30^th day of June, 1893, I, A.L. Witherspoon, then acting quartermaster, did square all accounts on the book, paid the per capita tax to the Department of New York, and reported that there was not enough membership to sustain the post, as there was not interest enough taken by the members to get out enough members to hold any meeting whatever.  And so we had to let the post go by the board.  The greater part of the members now belong to other posts, some at Wellsville, some at Bolivar, some at Richburg, a number have left this part of the county, one is dead (A.J. Eveland), and one (Christopher Filber) in the State Soldiers’ Home at Bath.”