Service Record: Promoted to Full Sergeant Enlisted in 11th Regiment Illinois Enlisted as a Private on 07 December 1863 Transferred in Company F, 8th Infantry Regiment Illinois on 24 December 1863 Transferred on 24 December 1863 Mustered out on 09 October 1865

Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Mather the following children were born: Emory E., born Nov. 03, 1867, died Feb 28, of the same year (1868) Raymond E. born November 03, 1867, died July 14, 1881; Amanda E, born June 17, 1881 died July 16, of the same year; Arthur, born in August, 1873, died July 04, 1881; Martha, born September 30, 1875; Frank, December 13, 1876, died January 25, 1877.

George & Jane Cramer are buried in the Haynes Cemetery.