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90_HR0429
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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The Centralia Historical Hall of Fame has chosen
3 its inductees into the Hall for 1998; and
4 WHEREAS, Marcellus J. Newman, who passed away in Meeker,
5 Oklahoma in November of 1905, will be inducted into the Hall;
6 and
7 WHEREAS, Marcellus Newman received the Congressional
8 Medal of Honor for rescuing a wounded comrade in the Civil
9 War; he was one of only six people from the Centralia area to
10 receive the Medal of Honor, and one of only 3,500 people
11 nationwide; and
12 WHEREAS, Marcellus Newman was born in 1835 on a
13 Washington County farm near Richview; he enlisted in Company
14 B of the 111th Illinois Regiment at Richview on August 13,
15 1862, and was mustered in at Salem on September 18, 1862;
16 while serving hospital duty because of a physical disability,
17 Mr. Newman rescued John F. Chandler of Marion County while
18 the rest of the regiment was falling back; on June 6, 1865 he
19 was discharged and returned to his family in Washington
20 County; the family later moved to Oklahoma, where Mr. Newman
21 passed away; therefore, be it
22 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
23 NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
24 congratulate the Centralia Historical Hall of Fame on their
25 choices for inclusion into the Hall; and be it further
26 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
27 presented to the Centralia Historical Hall of Fame.