Cemetery Records have his name as Tyner and is wife's obituary mentions that her husband was John Tyner but the the news articles indicate that it was John Tynan who was murdered here in 1878
A list of Civil War Veterans indicates that he served in Co. B, 1st New Jersey Cavalry, but there is a military stone for that person in New Jersey. There is no indication of where the military information came from but it is also found in the cemetery records. No other sources have been found to indicate that this is the same John Tynan who served in the 1st NJ Cavalry. If you have any military information for the John Tynan who is buried here, please send through the edit tab.
Thanks to EndMyLineMuir for this information from the Mills County Cemetery Book (1983):
TYNER, John 1843-17 Aug 1878 SGT CO B 1 NJ CAV: REGIMENT KNOWN AS HALSTAD'S CAVALRY (CIVIL WAR-GAR).
Sec 2 Lot 487 - unmarked.
John Tynon
Enlistment Date: 14 Aug 1861
Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: New Jersey
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company B, New Jersey 1st Cavalry Regiment on 14 Aug 1861.Promoted to Full Sergeant on 14 Oct 1864.Mustered out on 24 Jul 1865.
Sources: Register of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-65∼Mills County (Iowa) Tribune
May 1, 1902. Page Five.
RECOLLECTIONS OF A MURDER.
Release of Joseph McCrary and the killing of Doran and Tynan.
Last Tuesday Joseph McCrary stepped out of the penitentiary at Fort Madison, a free man to all intents and purposes — free to again take a place among his fellows and live down if he chooses the crime for which he has spent nearly a quarter of a century in confinement.
His release revives the recollection of the double murder for which he has been imprisoned. On the evening of Saturday, Aug. 17, 1878, William Doran and John Tynan were shot and killed while walking on the road alongside the railroad track at Haney's switch, below Pacific Junction. Doran was foreman of the railroad stone quarry below where the shooting took place. He had with him at the time about $125, and of this he was was robbed. Tynan was also employed in the stone quarry, but did not have any money with him.
Their dead bodies were found on Sunday morning, and several circumstances pointed to McCrary as the murderer. He was arrested that evening, and his trial resulted in his sentence to life imprisoment. Jasper Clouser was also charged with complicity, but the evidence against him was not sufficient to secure his conviction.
Mrs. Tynan remarried a Mr. Gilleard, who has since died, and she now lives at Glenwood north of the Otis livery barn. She naturally feels that the pardon is neither just nor in accord with the best public policy. Such pardons are a weakness rather than a strength; and a knowledge that a pardon can be expected as soon as a crime has been forgotten can not tend to the desired repression of such evil doing. However this may be, now that the pardon has been granted, and McCrary is a free man, we all trust that he will make good and honorable use of the remainder of his life thus benevolently restored to him.
A list of Civil War Veterans indicates that he served in Co. B, 1st New Jersey Cavalry, but there is a military stone for that person in New Jersey. There is no indication of where the military information came from but it is also found in the cemetery records. No other sources have been found to indicate that this is the same John Tynan who served in the 1st NJ Cavalry. If you have any military information for the John Tynan who is buried here, please send through the edit tab.
Thanks to EndMyLineMuir for this information from the Mills County Cemetery Book (1983):
TYNER, John 1843-17 Aug 1878 SGT CO B 1 NJ CAV: REGIMENT KNOWN AS HALSTAD'S CAVALRY (CIVIL WAR-GAR).
Sec 2 Lot 487 - unmarked.
John Tynon
Enlistment Date: 14 Aug 1861
Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: New Jersey
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company B, New Jersey 1st Cavalry Regiment on 14 Aug 1861.Promoted to Full Sergeant on 14 Oct 1864.Mustered out on 24 Jul 1865.
Sources: Register of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-65∼Mills County (Iowa) Tribune
May 1, 1902. Page Five.
RECOLLECTIONS OF A MURDER.
Release of Joseph McCrary and the killing of Doran and Tynan.
Last Tuesday Joseph McCrary stepped out of the penitentiary at Fort Madison, a free man to all intents and purposes — free to again take a place among his fellows and live down if he chooses the crime for which he has spent nearly a quarter of a century in confinement.
His release revives the recollection of the double murder for which he has been imprisoned. On the evening of Saturday, Aug. 17, 1878, William Doran and John Tynan were shot and killed while walking on the road alongside the railroad track at Haney's switch, below Pacific Junction. Doran was foreman of the railroad stone quarry below where the shooting took place. He had with him at the time about $125, and of this he was was robbed. Tynan was also employed in the stone quarry, but did not have any money with him.
Their dead bodies were found on Sunday morning, and several circumstances pointed to McCrary as the murderer. He was arrested that evening, and his trial resulted in his sentence to life imprisoment. Jasper Clouser was also charged with complicity, but the evidence against him was not sufficient to secure his conviction.
Mrs. Tynan remarried a Mr. Gilleard, who has since died, and she now lives at Glenwood north of the Otis livery barn. She naturally feels that the pardon is neither just nor in accord with the best public policy. Such pardons are a weakness rather than a strength; and a knowledge that a pardon can be expected as soon as a crime has been forgotten can not tend to the desired repression of such evil doing. However this may be, now that the pardon has been granted, and McCrary is a free man, we all trust that he will make good and honorable use of the remainder of his life thus benevolently restored to him.
Cemetery Records have his name as Tyner and is wife's obituary mentions that her husband was John Tyner but the the news articles indicate that it was John Tynan who was murdered here in 1878
A list of Civil War Veterans indicates that he served in Co. B, 1st New Jersey Cavalry, but there is a military stone for that person in New Jersey. There is no indication of where the military information came from but it is also found in the cemetery records. No other sources have been found to indicate that this is the same John Tynan who served in the 1st NJ Cavalry. If you have any military information for the John Tynan who is buried here, please send through the edit tab.
Thanks to EndMyLineMuir for this information from the Mills County Cemetery Book (1983):
TYNER, John 1843-17 Aug 1878 SGT CO B 1 NJ CAV: REGIMENT KNOWN AS HALSTAD'S CAVALRY (CIVIL WAR-GAR).
Sec 2 Lot 487 - unmarked.
John Tynon
Enlistment Date: 14 Aug 1861
Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: New Jersey
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company B, New Jersey 1st Cavalry Regiment on 14 Aug 1861.Promoted to Full Sergeant on 14 Oct 1864.Mustered out on 24 Jul 1865.
Sources: Register of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-65∼Mills County (Iowa) Tribune
May 1, 1902. Page Five.
RECOLLECTIONS OF A MURDER.
Release of Joseph McCrary and the killing of Doran and Tynan.
Last Tuesday Joseph McCrary stepped out of the penitentiary at Fort Madison, a free man to all intents and purposes — free to again take a place among his fellows and live down if he chooses the crime for which he has spent nearly a quarter of a century in confinement.
His release revives the recollection of the double murder for which he has been imprisoned. On the evening of Saturday, Aug. 17, 1878, William Doran and John Tynan were shot and killed while walking on the road alongside the railroad track at Haney's switch, below Pacific Junction. Doran was foreman of the railroad stone quarry below where the shooting took place. He had with him at the time about $125, and of this he was was robbed. Tynan was also employed in the stone quarry, but did not have any money with him.
Their dead bodies were found on Sunday morning, and several circumstances pointed to McCrary as the murderer. He was arrested that evening, and his trial resulted in his sentence to life imprisoment. Jasper Clouser was also charged with complicity, but the evidence against him was not sufficient to secure his conviction.
Mrs. Tynan remarried a Mr. Gilleard, who has since died, and she now lives at Glenwood north of the Otis livery barn. She naturally feels that the pardon is neither just nor in accord with the best public policy. Such pardons are a weakness rather than a strength; and a knowledge that a pardon can be expected as soon as a crime has been forgotten can not tend to the desired repression of such evil doing. However this may be, now that the pardon has been granted, and McCrary is a free man, we all trust that he will make good and honorable use of the remainder of his life thus benevolently restored to him.
A list of Civil War Veterans indicates that he served in Co. B, 1st New Jersey Cavalry, but there is a military stone for that person in New Jersey. There is no indication of where the military information came from but it is also found in the cemetery records. No other sources have been found to indicate that this is the same John Tynan who served in the 1st NJ Cavalry. If you have any military information for the John Tynan who is buried here, please send through the edit tab.
Thanks to EndMyLineMuir for this information from the Mills County Cemetery Book (1983):
TYNER, John 1843-17 Aug 1878 SGT CO B 1 NJ CAV: REGIMENT KNOWN AS HALSTAD'S CAVALRY (CIVIL WAR-GAR).
Sec 2 Lot 487 - unmarked.
John Tynon
Enlistment Date: 14 Aug 1861
Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: New Jersey
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company B, New Jersey 1st Cavalry Regiment on 14 Aug 1861.Promoted to Full Sergeant on 14 Oct 1864.Mustered out on 24 Jul 1865.
Sources: Register of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-65∼Mills County (Iowa) Tribune
May 1, 1902. Page Five.
RECOLLECTIONS OF A MURDER.
Release of Joseph McCrary and the killing of Doran and Tynan.
Last Tuesday Joseph McCrary stepped out of the penitentiary at Fort Madison, a free man to all intents and purposes — free to again take a place among his fellows and live down if he chooses the crime for which he has spent nearly a quarter of a century in confinement.
His release revives the recollection of the double murder for which he has been imprisoned. On the evening of Saturday, Aug. 17, 1878, William Doran and John Tynan were shot and killed while walking on the road alongside the railroad track at Haney's switch, below Pacific Junction. Doran was foreman of the railroad stone quarry below where the shooting took place. He had with him at the time about $125, and of this he was was robbed. Tynan was also employed in the stone quarry, but did not have any money with him.
Their dead bodies were found on Sunday morning, and several circumstances pointed to McCrary as the murderer. He was arrested that evening, and his trial resulted in his sentence to life imprisoment. Jasper Clouser was also charged with complicity, but the evidence against him was not sufficient to secure his conviction.
Mrs. Tynan remarried a Mr. Gilleard, who has since died, and she now lives at Glenwood north of the Otis livery barn. She naturally feels that the pardon is neither just nor in accord with the best public policy. Such pardons are a weakness rather than a strength; and a knowledge that a pardon can be expected as soon as a crime has been forgotten can not tend to the desired repression of such evil doing. However this may be, now that the pardon has been granted, and McCrary is a free man, we all trust that he will make good and honorable use of the remainder of his life thus benevolently restored to him.
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