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Our American soldiers fought for our freedom, but mostly they fought for their families - that they might practice their religion, traditions and customs free from what they felt was the tyranny of the enemy; they fought for their communities that they might continue to exist; and they fought for their buddies that they might live. On occasion, they fought for complete strangers in foreign lands that those people might also have peace. The soldier while in service does not have the option of questioning the wisdom, or the right or wrong of his war. He must follow the legal orders of his commanders. This places the moral imperative on the politicians, leaders and commanders who put the lives of our soldiers in harm's way to ensure that the fight is unavoidable and necessary. Our country's leaders must remember that the blood of the injured and dead, both military and civilian, is on their hands; they must answer to the judgement of history and our citizens for the lives of the soldiers and oridinary people, both American and foreign, damaged or lost in war. Too often our leaders take this burden too lightly.

On this page we recognize our family members who have served in times of war and times of peace. Recognized below are some who served a cause we may consider less than admirable in our time, but they were still Americans. During our wars with natives, the first Americans, the Revolution and the Civil War some fought for the causes that are considered less than commendable today. History is a messy thing. People are the products of their time and culture, and occassionally people have been on the bad side of human nature. History allows us to see the mistakes of the past so that we can correct them and strive to make our country better.
CORPORAL FRED RUDOLPH "BILLY" ALLEN
World War II 1941-1945: Arkansas - U.S. Army, 81st Quarter Masters Training Company, Camp Fort Lee, Virginia. He entered the service on 8 May 1945 at Camp Robinson, Arkansas and served one year and six months as a cook. He was honorably discharged on 3 November 1946. He was the son of John Ancil Allen and Florence E. Brewer, born on 1 January 1927 in Rudy, Arkansas. He was given the nickname "Billy" in honor of his uncle William Austin Brewer (1861-1923). Fred Allen died in the Sparks Regional Medical Center, Fort Smith, Arkansas on 4 January 2001 and is buried in the Lowes Creek Cemetery, Franklin County, Arkansas. He left behind his wife, Corrine (McGee) Allen of Van Buren, Arkansas, two daughters and two sons; one son died as an infant in 1955. Fred was the uncle of Carolyn Sue (Whitsett) Wall. (Allen and Wall Family Knowledge; Ancestry.com. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010; Find A Grave, Fred Rudolph Allen, Memorial ID 30954280 by Frances Allen Titsworth).
PVT. CURTIS BROUSE JR.
American Civil War 1861-1865: Indiana - U.S. Army, 30th Regiment of Infantry, Indiana Volunteers. Curtis enlisted on 24 September 1861 in Noble County, was wounded in battle in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (and incorrectly listed as killed in action) and discharged because of his wounds in Fort Wayne, Indiana on May 11, 1863. Curtis was born in 1840 to Rebecca "Margaret" Wall and Curtis Brouse, Sr. They brought their family to Indiana from Lorain, Ohio sometime between 1850-60. Ulysses Chester Brouse, son of Curtis Jr. and grandson of Rebecca Wall Brouse became mayor of Kendalville, Indiana and a member of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture in 1917. (Ancestry.com, Historical Data Systems, Inc.; Duxbury, MA 02331, American Civil War; Civil War, Indiana State Digital Archives. https://secure.in.gov/apps/iara/search/; Ancestry.com. Web: Indiana, U.S., Civil War Soldier Database Index, 1861-1865; Ancestry.com, U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865).
CORPORAL CARL CLEMENT CORBETT
World War II 1941-1942: Ohio - U.S. Army Air Corp, Ordinance Security, 360th Base HQ and Air Base Squadron, Muroc, California. Carl enlisted in Akron, Ohio on October 26, 1942 and was honorably discharged on July 12, 1943. He was the son of Arthur Corbett and Clara May Fridinger, born in Akron, Summit County, Ohio on August 25, 1900 and died on February 12, 1964, at the age of 63 in a long term care facility near Sandusky, Ohio. He never married. My mother and I visited Uncle Carl in the VA hospital near Sandusky in the summer of 1960. Uncle Carl was the brother of my grandfather Arthur Edmund Corbett. (Corbett family knowledge; Ancestry.com, U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861-1985; National Archives at College Park, College Park, Maryland, Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946, NAID 1263923, Record Group 64 Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, 1789-ca. 2007, Box Number, 09625, Reel: 24).
LT. COL DAMON JAMES CORBETT
Iraq and Afganistan Wars 2001-2017: Arkansas - U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, Signals Intelligence. I do not know the details of Damon's assignments except that at one time he was stationed at the National Security Agency (as I once was). He retired from the Army about 2010. He is the son of James Arthur Corbett (1934-2010) and Pamela Ashcroft (1935-2002) and was born in 1964.
A1C GERALD LEE CORBETT
Cold War 1955-1989: Arkansas - U.S. Air Force 4080th Strategic Reconnaisance Wing, Laughlin AFB, Del Rio, Texas. I believe he enlisted about 1955, took his basic training at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, with his first permanent assignment at Laughlin AFB where he photographer, responsible for photographing the U-2 spy plane during take-off and landings. My grandparents, mother and I visited Gerry and Norma in Del Rio during 1959 and Gerry took us down to the flight line to watch the engine start-up and take off of the recently declassified U-2 spy plane. I believe he left the Air Force in 1960. He and his family lived in Crawford County near Van Buren before moving Chouteau, Oklahoma. He was the son of Arthur Edmon Corbett and Osa B. Westall, born September 30, 1936 in Akron, Summit County, Ohio. He married Norma Lea Evans (1935-2013) on December 3, 1955 in Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas. Uncle Gerry held a private pilot's license for a time and I had the privilege of flying with him once.
AIRMAN JAMES ARTHUR CORBETT
Cold War 1955-1989: - U.S. Air Force, 100trh Air Refueling Wing, Strategic Air Command, RAF Mildenhall, about 60 miles northeast of London. He was a boom operator on the KC-97 in the early 1950's (ca.1953-1955); however, daughter Sharon was born in Eccles, near Manchester causing me to be uncertain about Uncle Jim's unit assignment, but there were no American air bases in that area. I believe he probably enlisted out of high school about 1952 and would have taken his basic training at Lackland. He probably enlisted about 1952 and left the Air force in 1956. After his service he drove a truck for a time, then used the GI Bill to take classes in diesel mechanics. He obtained a job with Cummings Diesel and was sent to Lybia to work on oil field equipment. While there he as involved in a serious vehicle accident that nearly took his life. By 1959 when I first came to Arkansas he and his family were living in Little Rock. Jim was born on July 9, 1934 in Akron, Ohio to Arthur Edmon Corbett and Osa B. Westfall. He died October 7, 2010, at his home in Sherwood, Arkansas north of Little Rock. He married Pamela Mabel Ashcroft (1935-2002) in Liverpool, England in July 1954; she was born on January 14, 1935 in Liverpool, England and died October 20, 2002 in Nort Little Rock, Arkansas. Jim and Pam had three children: Sharon, Clayton, and Damon.
THOMAS FREDERICK, Sr.
American Revolution 1775-1783: Pennsylvania - Thomas was born in 1751 in Pennsylvania. He joined the Pennsylvania Militia Frontier Rangers during the war. After the war he and his family lived in Northumberland County. He died in 1808 in Lisbon, Ohio. His father Noah was killed by Shawnee Indians at the beginning of the French and Indian War. Thomas was taken by Indians and lived among them during the period of the French and Indian War, until he was about twelve years old. During the American Revolution he served with the Pennsylvania Militia Frontier Rangers. After the war he lived in Laurelton, Union County, Pennsylvania until he moved his family to Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio. Thomas was the grandfather of Sophia Frederick who married Reason Wall in 1829 in Wayne County, Ohio. Source: The biographical sketch in The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. VII
THOMAS FREDERICK,Jr.
War of 1812, 1812-1815: Ohio - Thomas saw service in Capt. Martin's Co., Ohio Militia; he enlisted on August 24, 1812 from Chippewa Township, Medina County, Ohio and was discharged on Nov. 30, 1812. Thomas was born 1778 in Pennsylvania and died in August 1871 in Wayne or Medina County, Ohio. He was the son of Thomas Frederick and Ann Margaret Tibbins. In 1854 and 1855, when his first application was made his residence was Chippewa Township, Wayne County, Ohio. When the second application was made in 1871 he was residing in Sharon Township, Medina County, Ohio (a platt map of Sharon Township from 1874 shows his property in the north half of section 69). Source: Pension Application, War of 1812, application no. SO 17038 and SC 17046, Thomas Frederick.
HANS BERNHARD KUDER
American Revolution 1775-1783: Pennsylvania - Bernhard was born in Wrttemberg, Germany on February 15, 1729 and came to Philadelphia before November 1764 when he married Anna Maria Hoffman. He served as a wagon master and according to unconfirmed family lore was wounded either in the Battle of Brandywine, 11 Sep 1777, or in the Battle of Germantown which occurred less than a month later on 4 Oct 1777. He died, supposedly as a result of these injuries, on an unreported date which could not have been until 1781/82 or later in view of the birth date (24 Mar 1782) of his last child. At the age of 19 Bernhard set out from Germany for America, arriving in Philadelphia 16 Sep 1748 on the ship Patience from Rotterdam via Cowes, England. He is the ancestor of my great-grandmother Abigail Kuder Wall.
CAPT. ALEXANDER MCGREW

American Revolution 1775-1783: Pennsylvania - Westmoreland Co. Militia, listed on March 5th, 1778 on inactive duty as 1st Lt. with 3rd Battalion, 2nd Company, Capt. Baird; probably a descendant of the Quakers McGrew's who settled in what is now Adams County in the 1730's-40's including Finley, James, John and Archibald McGrew; Source: Pa. Archives Series 3, Vol. XXII, pg. 495; Revolutionary War Card Files, "Military Papers: Militia," Records of the Secretary to the Supreme Executive Council, or Secretary of the Commonwealth, at D.P.R. [Dept. of Public Records]. His relationship to our Scotish ancestor Patrick McGrew is not known for certain, but he was part of the same family, probably a cousin.
COLONEL JAMES MCGREW
War of 1812, 1812-1815: Virginia - 104th Regiment Virginia Militia; Col. James McGrew, was born in Preston County, where he spent practically his entire life. He commanded a regiment of Virginia Militia during War of 1812. Colonel McGrew married Isabella Clark, the daughter of James Clark, a native of Ireland (The History of West Virginia, Old and New, Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc .Chicago and New York, Volume 11, Monongalia Co. WV, pg. 173; During the war of 1812, and for some years afterward he was colonel of the 104th Regiment. It was called into service in the Northwest (A History of Preston County, West Virginia; Vol. I & II; The Journal Publishing Company, Kingwood, W. Va. (1914) Compiled by J. R. Cole, Oren F. Morton); As these aforesaid facts were penned by Col. James’ son, James C. in 1908, he recalls his father in person as: a handsome man, six feet tall, 185 pounds, erect bearing, dark brown hair, pleasant address, strictly honorable in his dealings with others, at the same time exacting a full recognition of his own rights. Frequently solicited, he never accepted but one public position – that of Colonel of the 104th regiment of Virginia Militia (PRESTON COUNTY West Virginia History; Published by the Preston County Historical Society, Kingwood, West Virginia (1979); Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas; Publications Consultant: Don Mills, Salem, W. V.)
PVT. PATRICK MCGREW
American Revolution 1775-1783: Pennsylvania - Patrick joined the Cumberland County Militia, Col. Samuel Erwin, Third Battalion, 6th Company, 5th Class commanded by Capt. Jas. McCurdy, Aug. 22, 1780; this is undoubtedly our ancestor Patrick McGrew, father of Col. James McGrew of Preston County, (West) Virginia; family tradition based on the memory of James Clark McGrew of Kingwood, W. Va. says Patrick McGrew served in the American Revolution. (Pennsylvania Archives, Series 5, Vol. VI, pg. 223, 226; Revolutionary War Card Files, "Military Accounts Militia," Records of the Comptroller General).
ENSIGN ROBERT MCGREW
War of 1812, 1812-1815: Pennsylvania - Robert served in Snider's 1st Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia. He was the son of of our ancestor Patrick McGrew who moved to Monongalia County, Virginia about 1800. Robert was born about 1793, in Cumberland County, Penn. (War of 1812 Service Records, Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Original data: National Archives and Records Administration. Index to the Compiled Military Service Records for the Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M602, Roll 139).
CORPORAL EDWARD MILLER
World War II 1941-1945: Arkansas - U.S. Marine Corps, Rifleman, Ed enlisted in Little Rock on August 16, 1941 and was honorably discharged at Norfolk, Virginia on September 13, 1945. He participated action at Guadalcanal, from January 4th to February 19, 1943; then at Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands from November 20th to November 23, 1943; he as in the battle at Saipan, Marianas Islands from June 15th to July 8, 1944; finally at Tipian in the Marianas, from July 25th to August 25, 1944. He was son of Joseph Miller and Maud Nichols, born June 3, 1921 in Cass, Franklin Co., Ark., and died July 24, 1982 in Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Arkansas. He is buried in the National Cemetery in Fort Smith. (Miller and Wall family knowledge; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File, Washington, D.C.; U.S. Marine Corps Honorable Discharge A378533, Marine Corp serial number 320258).
PVT. THOMAS G. SMITH
American Civil War 1861-1865: West Virginia - Union Army, 10th Virginia Infantry renamed the 10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry after West Virginian became a state. Thomas was the son of Lydia Wilson and Solomon P. Smith, brother of Peter Westfall of Edmiston, Lewis Co. and half brother of my great-grandfather Nathaniel Jonathan Westfall. He was born March 21, 1841 at Stonecoal Creek, Lewis County, (West) Virginia. Thomas enlisted on September 8, 1861 as a Private in Company B, 10th Virginia Infantry. He was discharged on August 14, 1865. Thomas married Mildred Lamb in about 1870 and they had ten children, six boys and four girls. Thomas died on August 11, 1924 and is buried in the Harrison Grove Cemetery, Murphy's Creek Road, about 14 miles south of Weston in Lewis County, West Virginia. Mildred is buried next to him. (Headstone marker, Harrison Grove Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia; 1890 Census, Special Schedule "Persons who served in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps of the United States during the war of the rebellion (who are survivors) and widows of such persons, ED128, page 1, Court House District, Lewis County, West Virginia).

PVT. WILLIAM MCKINDRA SMITH
American Civil War 1861-1865: West Virginia - Union Army, 8th Virginia Infantry Light Artillery Battery, 1st Virginia Light Artillery Battery G, 2nd Virginia Battery Light Artillery, 7th West Virginia Cavalry. William enlisted in the Army of The Republic on March 25, 1863. From the time of his enlistment until January 23, 1865 he was assigned to Company H, 8th Virginia Infantry Light Artillery Battery, then the 2nd Virginia Battery Light Artillery, Battery G, 1st Regiment Virginia Light Artillery, finishing his service in the 7th West Virginia Cavalry. William was discharged on August 1, 1865 having served two years and six months. He was the older brother of Thomas G. Smith and son of Lydia Wilson and Solomon P. Smith and half brother of Nathaniel Jonathan Westfall. He was born April 14, 1839 on the family farm near Elkins, Randolph County, (West) Virginia. He married Sarah Ann Kittle after the war on September 14, 1872 and they had three sons and one daughter. After the death of Sarah he married Rosa B. Ables on March 17, 1891 and they had four sons and one daughter. William died April 9, 1928 at Bridgeport, Harrison County, West Virginia and is buried in the Mount Olive Cemetery in Harrison County. (Compiled Service Records for the Union Army, Smith, William M.; Co. H, 7th West Virginia Cavalry; Research of Michael and Oscar Smith, Parkersburg, West Virginia; 1890 Census, Special Schedule "Persons who served in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps of the United States during the war of the rebellion (who are survivors) and widows of such persons," ED128, page 1, Court House District, Lewis County, West Virginia).
CORPORAL MADISON ELLSWORTH TROWBRIDGE

World War I 1917-1978: West Virginia - Madison was assigned to the 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, U.S. Army. He was killed in action at Argonne, France on October 9, 1918, one month before the armistice. There is a marker for Corp. Trowbridge among the Tablets of The Missing At Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France. There is also a headstone in the Maplewood Cemetery, Kingwood, Preston Co., W. Va. engraved "CORP. M. E. TROWBRIDGE 1899-1918." It is located in the Trowbridge plot with Madison's grandparents and our ancestors James McGrew Trowbridge and Sarah Ann (Snider) Trowbridge. This marker is simply a memorial and does not mark a grave. Madison was born on May 4, 1899, the son of Joseph Madison Trowbridge and Zona Farnsworth Holyfield. (Cemetery Records Records of the American Battle Monuments Commission, Arlington, VA; U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, Ancestry.com).
PVT VIVIAN FRANCIS SHANAFELT
Vietnam War 1962-1975: Ohio - U.S. Army, I do not have the details of cousin Vivian's service. He was the son of Herman Francis Shanafelt (1914-1998) and Grace Winifred Wall (1918-2023) born in 1942 in Wadsworth, Ohio. Currently resides in Medina, Ohio. (Personal knowledge).
CORPORAL FREDERICK H. STANNARD
American Civil War 1861-1865: Ohio - 103rd Regiment, Company I, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Frederick enlisted on August 22, 1862 in Montville Township, Medina County. He was promoted to Corporal on July 1, 1863. I have a copy of a photo he sent his step-mother and my great-great grandmother Nancy (Booth) Stannard of his unit atop Lookout Mountain, Tennessee after the Battle of Lookout Mountain in November 1863. There are two corporals that can be seen in the photo, one of whom was a young African-American and the other an older bearded man (Frederick was 32 years old in 1863, older than the average soldier), which I believe to be Frederick. He was mustered out of the army at the end of the war with his unit at Raleigh, North Carolina on June 12, 1865. After the war he returned home to Montville to live with his step-mother. He was born in 1830 in Granville, Hampden County, Massachusetts to my great-great grandfather William Stannard (1803-1853) and his first wife Eliza Gibbons. She was born about 1806 and died in May 1831, in Granville. Frederick came to Montville, Medina County with his father and siblings sometime between 1837 and 1840. He died on February 13, 1867 at the age 37 and is buried in Crofoot Cemetery in Montville. He never married and left no descendants. (Graves Registrartion Card, Medina County, Ohio, Frederick Stannard, Date of Death February 13, 1867, Date of Birth 1833 (incorrect), Crofoot Cemetery, Montville, Block B Grave 1, Civil War, Enlisted 11 Aug 1863, Discharged June 12, 1865, Army, Rank Corp., Company I, 103rd Regt. OVI; Crofoot Cemetery headstone, photographed by me in 2019; U.S. Censuses, 1850 (page 303) and 1860 (pages 54-55), Montville Township, Medina County, Ohio).
PVT. CLETUS OLAN STOCKTON and PVT. LEE ROY STOCKTON

World War II 1941-1945: Arkansas - My uncles, Cletus Stockton (1924-2004), husband of Aunt Dorothy Corbett, and Lee Roy Stockton (1927-2003), husband of Aunt Elinor Corbett, served briefly stateside during war, but I do not know any details of their service.
PVT. DAVID BOYD TROWBRIDGE
American Civil War 1861-1865: West Virginia - David enlisted in Company B, 3rd West Virginia Cavalry on October 21, 1862, leaving at home a wife and three small children. He was very seriously wounded in battle, but participated in thirteen different engagements. He was discharged on June 6, 1865 and returned home to Kingwood, Preston County. David was born January 15, 1830 in Kingwood, West Virginia, the son of Samuel Grady Trowbridge and Jane McGrew and grandson of James Clark McGrew, one of the founders of the State of West Virginia, a Republican representative in Congress, mayor and businessman in Kingwood. Samuel was the younger brother of my great-grandfather of James McGrew Trowbridge. Before the war, on March 11, 1855, he married Mary Sophia Snyder, the sister of Sarah Ann Snyder, (wife of his brother James). She died on July 19, 1866, only a year after David's return from the war. The following year, on July 5, 1867, David married nineteen year old Margaret Walls, daughter of James Walls and Nancy Joseph. After the birth of daughter Jane in September 1869, David moved with his family to Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio. He was a carpenter and followed that occupation his entire life, traveling extensively before settling in Caney, Montgomery County, Kansas where he died on April 20, 1902. (Francis Bacon Trowbridge, THE TROWBRIDGE GENEALOGY, New Haven, Connecticut, (1907), pg. 265).
PVT. CHARLES IRA TROWBRIDGE
Peace Time 1890-1892: West Virginia - 2nd Artillery Regiment, Company E, the U.S. Army. Charles Ira enlisted in the on April 28, 1890 and received a disability discharge on July 18, 1892. He was the son of my great-great grandparents James McGrew Trowbridge and Sarah Ann Snyder. Ira was born March 24, 1860 in Kingwood, Preston County, (West) Virginia. He died some time after 1938 probably in Virginia. Charles married Jessie Effie Blaney on March 14, 1895, probably in Kingwood. The couple had three children: Mamie Pearl, born June 5, 1896 in Kingwood; Ruth White, born January 1, 1898 in Kingwood; Lloyd Warden Trowbridge, born October 8, 1899 in Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia. (Francis Bacon Trowbridge, THE TROWBRIDGE GENEALOGY (1908); Ancestry.com, U.S. Army Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914, (1885-1890).
CORPORAL MADISON ELLSWORTH TROWBRIDGE

World War I 1917-1918: West Virginia - Company C, 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, U.S. Army. Madison was killed in action in France on October 9, 1918, one month before the armistice. His body was never recovered. There is a marker for Corp. Trowbridge among the Tablets of The Missing At Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France. There is also a headstone in the Maplewood Cemetery, Kingwood, Preston Co., W. Va. engraved "CORP. M. E. TROWBRIDGE 1899-1918." It is located in the Trowbridge plot with Madison's grandparents James McGrew Trowbridge and Sarah Ann (Snider) Trowbridge. This marker is simply a memorial and does not mark a grave. Madison was born on May 4, 1899, the son of Joseph Madison Trowbridge (1865-1941) and Zona Holyfield, nee Farnsworth, (1858-1901). (West Virginia Division of Culture and History, World War I, West Virginia Veterans Memorial Archives; (page 208, description of the action when Corp. Trowbridge was killed, pg. 315 The Honor Roll Company C, Trowbridge, Madison E., Cpl. marked as killed in action), History of The First Division During The World War, 1917-1919, The Society of The First Division, John D. Winston Company publisher, (1922); U.S., Army Transport Service Arriving and Departing Passenger Lists, 1910-1939, Outgoing U.S. Transport "Antilles", Hoboken, N.J., June 7th, 1917, Co. C 28th Infantry, Trowbridge, Madison E.; Ancestry.com, U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, Madison E. Trowbridge, Corporal, residence West Virginia, 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, U.S. Army, World War I, Death 9 Oct. 1918, Tablets of the Missing, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, France; Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Certificate, Madison E. Trowbridge, Corporal, U.S. Army, 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, Death October 9, 1918, American Battle Monuments Commission.
PVT. PRESTON B. TROWBRIDGE
American Civil War 1861-1865: West Virginia - Preston served as a Private with Company B, 14th West Virginia Infantry. Thus far I have not obtained his service records. He was captured by the Confederates on May 9, 1864 at the battle of Cloyd's Mountain, West Virginia and was confined and died in the infamous Andersonville Prison in Georgia on September 15, 1864. His second wife, Christiann (Menear) Trowbridge applied for a widows pension (date is uncertain). Preston was born May 7,1821 to Samuel Ruble Trowbridge and Susan Sheets in Preston County, Virginia. He was a cousin to David Boyd Trowbridge. Preston first married Annis Menear in 1843 and they had at least one daughter; he married Christiann Menear in 1847 in Kingwood, Preston County, (West) Virginia. They had six children, five daughters and one son. (Ancestry.com, The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, "Civil War Service Records, Preston B. Trowbridge"; Francis Bacon Trowbridge, THE TROWBRIDGE GENEALOGY, New Haven, Connecticut, (1907), pg. 265).
PVT. SHUBAEL TROWBRIDGE

American Revolution 1775-1783: New Jersey - Shubael was the son of our ancestors David Trowbridge and Lydia Holmes of Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey. He was born September 3, 1739, in Morristown and died March 12, 1782, in Morristown; cause of death is unknown. He was the brother of our ancestor Samuel Trowbridge who removed from New Jersey to Frederick County, Virginia some time before the Revolution. ("Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution", I found this document in the library in Parsippany, NJ in 1998; unfortunately I did not record the publisher or date).
PVT. WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE

American Revolution 1775-1783: Connecticut - Militia, 11th Regiment, Capt. Ingals' Company in Col. Ebenezer Williams' 11th Regiment Nov., 1776. Regiment rolls show him as sick in camp and returned to duty on Oct. 24th. I have no more information Pvt. William Trowbridge, I believe he is a younger relative of Daniel. Source: "Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution" see note for Shubael Trowbridge.
JOSEPH TYLER

French and Indian War 1754-1760: Massachusetts - In 1757 Joseph Tyler was a Member of Captain John Taft's Second Foot Co. He was the son of our ancestor Deacon John Tyler of Mendon, Massachusetts and grandson of Job and Mary Tyler. He was born October 21, 1701 in Mendon, Massachusetts, and died December 18, 1779 in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
PAYMASTER STEWARD JOSEPH TYLER
American Civil War 1861-1865: Ohio - U.S. Navy, Receiving Ship Clara Dolson, Cairo, Illinois. Joseph enlisted in the U.S. Navy on August 23, 1862 in Erie, Pennsylvania and in November was assigned to the side wheel river boat receiving ship "Clara Dolsen" built in Cincinnati and stationed at Cairo, Illinois. Joseph was a Paymaster Steward. Receiving ships where the point of a sailor's induction into the U.S. Navy. Joseph was discharged on July 1, 1863 having served for almost a year. He was born on August 14, 1822 in Copley Township, Summit County, Ohio, and died on November 12, 1901 in Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, the son of Benjamin Tyler and Olive Brown. He was considerably older (42 years) than most Civil War Soldiers and at the time of his enlistment and had a wife and three children ranging in age from fifteen to six years of age. (History of Medina County And Ohio, Baskin & Battey, Publishers, Chicago, 1881,pages 715-716; 1890 U.S. Census, Special Schedule, Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, And Marines, And Widows, Etc., Persons who served during the war of the rebellion, in Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, June, 1890, House Nr. 252, Tyler Joseph, Paymaster Steward, Receiving Ship Clara Dolson, Cairo, Ill., Enlisted (23) Aug 1862, discharged 1 July 1863; Ancestry.com, Graves Registration, Civil War Service, Tyler, Joseph, Discharged 6/30/1863, Navy, Pay Steward, U.S. Receiving Ship Clara Dolson)
COLONEL NATHAN TYLER

American Revolution 1775-1783: Massachusetts - Colonel Tyler was the commander 3rd Worcester Company Regiment, Danvers, Mass. he appears on the 1790 census in Uxbridge, Massachusetts and is listed in Willard I. Brigham's, THE TYLER GENEALOGY: The Descendants of Job Tyler, of Andover, Massachusetts, 1619-1700. I believe him to be a great grandson of Job and Mary Tyler. (THE TYLER GENEALOGY: The Descendants of Job Tyler, Cornelius B. Tyler, Publisher, Plainfield, N. J., 1912)
PVT. SOLOMON TYLER
American Revolution 1775-1783: Massachusetts - Solomon served in Capt. Thaddeus Reads Coompany, Cololnel Nathan Tyler's 3rd Worcester Company Regiment. He was born 23 Sept. 1757, Uxbridge, Massachusetts, died 01 Nov. 1810, Uxbridge. Solomon was the great grandson of Job and Mary Tyler, grandson of John and Hannah Parker Tyler and the son of Joseph and Mary Draper Tyler. He was the Great great-grandfather of my grandmother Winifred Peal Tyler Wall.
SGT. IRA DEFOREST WALL
World War II 1941-1942: Ohio - U.S. Army, Sergeant, 246th Combat Engineer Battalion (1942-1945). Uncle Ira enlisted 23 December 1942, in Cleveland, Ohio and discharged November 30, 1945. He was stationed in England before the invasion of Normand in June 1944. During the war he received combat stars for campaigns in Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes and Central Europe. Among his decorations are the WWII Victory Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Distinguished Unit Badge, European African Middle Eastern Campaign, American Campaign Medal, and five Bronze Stars. He was discharged on November 30, 1945 and returned home to Ohio. He was the son of Reason Deforest Wall and Winifred Pearl Tyler and was born August 16, 1914 in Sharon Center, Medina County Ohio and died on January 23, 1996 in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. He married Florence Smedley on Julyu 7, 1948, had children James, Linda and Susan. (Information directly from Ira and Florence Wall, and Wall Family Records; Department of Veterans Affairs, Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, DC;U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, National Archives at College Park; College Park, Maryland, Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946; NAID: 1263923; Record Group 64, Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, 1789-ca. 2007, Box Number 09545, Reel 16).
ARTILLERYMAN JOHAN MICHAEL WAHL
American Revolution 1775-1783: - Hesse-Hanau Rangers, Hesse-Hanau Artillery Company, 1782-1783. King George III, who was also the ruler of the German state of Hanover, recruited young Germans from the German regions of Hess and Brunswick (where Michael was from) to fight for him in America. These soldiers were collectively known as Hessians. Michael probably arrived with a contingent of his unit in 1780 or 82 (his youngest son Christian, our ancestor, was born in 1779). He was discharged from his unit in 1783 in Nova Scotia, Canada. Only because he did not return to Germany with his unit after his discharge the British Army listed him as a deserter. Between 1783 and 1784 Michael made his way from Canada to southwestern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and purchased land in East Penn Township (which eventually became Carbon County). Between then and 1790 his wife and possibly three children, including oldest son Philip (1775-1854) and Christian (1779-1753) came from Germany and joined him in Pennsylvania. Michael died in September 1801 in East Penn Township. (Gale Research Company, Wahl, John Michael age 24, Canada, 1783 (Detroit, Michigan, Gale Research Company, 1981), Source 8560, pg. 45, Wahl, John Michael age 24, Canada, 1783 (this information derived from secondary sources in the 1990's; I have been unable to obtain a copy of the original document).
CHIEF PETTY OFFICER ARTHUR ARLIE WALL

Cold War 1955-1989: Ohio, Arizona - U.S. Navy, Radioman; active duty 1964-1974, U.S. Naval Reserves, 1982-1995. Arthur, the son of Vivian Arlie Wall and Clara Luvenia Corbett and my brother, was born in Wadsworth, Ohio in autumn 1943. He attended a civilian school for electronics in Chicago after graduating from Highland High School in Hinkley, Medina County, Ohio. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in November 1964, took basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Base in Chicago, Illinois and attended the Navy's Radioman school in Bainbridge, Maryland where he graduated first in his class and was given his choice of duty stations with a promotion to Seaman; he chose "anywhere in Europe". Between 1965-1969, he was assigned to Londonderry, Radio Station, Northern Ireland where he met and married British citizen Florence Denise Greer of Londonderry and their daughter Stephanie was born. Art worked as a ship-to-shore operator handling Morse code and teletype messages from ships in the North Atlantic. He took an opportunity to work in teletype repair shop, even though the Navy usually required Teletype school and the specialty code for that job. After a year working in that position he given the specialty job code despite not having attended Teletype school, almost unheard of then. He was promoted to Radioman Third Class in 1966 and Radioman Second Class in 1967 while at Londonderry. In 1969 he was given a Top Secret security clearance and attended the Crypto Repair School, after which he was assigned to USS Columbus and sailed for the Mediterranean and various European ports. As the only teletype repairman on board the ship, he did not stand watches or perform other duties, but had to be available 24 hours a day if needed. In 1969 Art was promoted to Radioman First Class, re-enlisted and again given his choice of duty assignments - again, anywhere in Europe. Between 1970-1973 Art was stationed at the Naval Communications Stations, Rota, Spain where daughter Jennifer was born. 1973-1974 he was stationed at the then secret U.S. Naval facility in Keflavik, Iceland that monitored Soviet ships leaving Russia for the Atlantic. Denise and his daughters were able to accompany him to Iceland not because of the Navy, but because they had British citizenship. In November 1974 Arthur was honorably discharged from the Navy and moved to Apache Junction (and later Mesa), Arizona. In Apache Junction he owned and ran a radio and TV repair business and Radio Shack Store before moving to Mesa and taking a job with an aviation manufacturing and supply business from which he eventually retired. In February 1982, he joined the U.S. Naval Reserves in Phoenix, one weekend a month and two weeks active duty; his active duty locations included San Diego and Honolulu, Hawaii. He was promoted to Chief Petty Officer in September 1989 and retired after with 21 years of service and a Navy pension. (personal knowledge of CPO Arthur Wall).
SEAMAN BRUCE EDWARD WALL
Cold War 1955-1989: Arizona - U.S. Navy. Bruce took basic training at the Recruit Training Command, Company 920, San Diego, California. He finished basic and was transfered to the Navy base in Oxnard to train in heavy equipment operation. He received a medical discharge shortly after his transfer. My son Bruce has lived in the Phoenix and Mesa Arizona areas most of his adult life and manages a store there. He is a life-long fan of Rock music and is an accomplished guitar player and crafter of handmade guitars, which he has gifted to some notable Rock musicians. He became friends with members of Southern Rock bands Lyndy Skynyrd, 38 Special, and a close friend of George McCorkle, founding member of the Marshal Tucker Band. Bruce was the author of the news release to local papers around Nashville after George's death from cancer in 2009 (Bruce came to Tennessee from Arizona at George's invitation as a result of a Southern Rock website Bruce created and maintained). While Bruce lived in Pleasant Shade, TN, Bruce organized and produced Jam-A-Que, a barbecue and Rock artists' Jam session in his backyard for several years. Several Southern Rock legends came and performed at these events. Bruce has played backup guitar on stage, once in the Grand Ole Opera theater in Nashville. Before his death, legendary Rock and Blues performer Bo Diddle would drive through and stop in Phoenix. Bruce had the privileged of jamming with him at one of Bo's favorite bars in the Phoenix area. Bruce is the son of Ronald N. Wall and Carolyn Sue Whitsett (1946-2018). He was born at the Air Force's Wilford Hall Hospital, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas in 1965. He has been married four times, currently to Terri Lou Davis; he has five children, Michael, Ashley, Jessica, Dana, and Nichole. (family knowledge).
SGT. RALPH ALLEN WALL
World War II 1941-1945: Ohio - U.S. Army Air Corps, enlisted on January 15, 1942, Los Angeles, California, and discharged on September 15, 1945. Uncle Ralph was stationed in Topeka, Kansas and Davis Montham Army Air Base, Tucson, Arizona as a refueling specialist on B-17 bombers. He was the son of Reason Deforest Wall and Winifred Pearl Tyler and was born May 26, 1907 in Sharon Center, Medina County Ohio and died on July 5, 2001 in Easton, Kansas. He married Ester Margaret Fitch. They had no children. (Sources: Wall family knowledge and information from Ralph Wall; National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946, NAID 1263923, Record Group 64, Box Number 03063, Reel 28; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File, Washington, DC).
PVT. REUBEN S. WALL
American Civil War 1861-1865: Ohio - Private, Co. B, 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, enlisted September 21, 1861, discharged March 28, 1863. Reuben was born in December 1842, Medina County, Ohio the son of Peter Wall and Sybella Everhard and grandson of Christian Wall and Catherine Baughman.

(Sources: 1890 U.S. Census, Special Schedule, Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, And Marines, And Widows, Etc., York Township, Medina County, Ohio, Persons who served during the war of the rebellion, Nr. 119 Reuben Wall, Private Company H, 42nd Ohio Infantry, enlisted Nov 11, 1861, discharged Mar 28, 1863; Ancestry.com, Ohio, U.S. Soldier Grave Registrations, 1804-1958, Private, Army, Burial York Cemetery, Mallet Creek, Ohio).
MSGT RONALD NEVIN WALL
Vietnam and Cold War 1961-1981: Home states Ohio and Arkansas - U.S. Air Force Security Service/Electronic Security Command, Radio Intercept Analyst and Cryptanalyst. I enlisted in Cleveland, Ohio in September 1961 and took basic training at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas. My very first time in any airplane was the chartered Boeing 707 that flew me and my fellow recruits from Cleveland to Kelly AFB in San Antonio. In early 1962 I was stationed in San Angelo, Texas at the USAFSS training wing on Goodfellow AFB, receiving an education on the Soviet Air Force and its air defense units, learning a smattering of Russian, meteorology, Morse code and cryptology. My first overseas assignment was to the 6986 Radio Group Mobile, Wakkanai AS, (Soyo Point), Hokkaido, Japan (1962-1963). After that I was sent to HQ USAFSS, Kelly AFB, San Antonio, Texas where one of my duties was evaluating UFO reports by U.S. airmen before they were forwarded to Project Blue Book at Wright-Patterson AFB (1963-1966). During the Vietnam War I was stationed with Detachment 7, 6922 Security Wing, Korat Royal Thai AFB, Thailand and at one time or another was sent on communications security missions to every air base in Thailand that facilitated American aircraft engaging in air combat, bombing, reconnaissance or supply missions in Laos and Vietnam (1966-1967). After Thailand I was assigned to the HQ Security Service, 6912 Security Squadron, Books AFB, San Antonio (1966-1970), followed by assigment to the 6917 Security Group, San Vito Dei Normani, Italy, which was my only overseas assignment where my wife and chilldren accompanied me; in Italy we lived in an apartment building on Via A Grande, Commenda, a suburb of Brindisi, Italy (1970-1972). After Italy we went to The National Security Agency (NSA), Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, five miles south of the Baltimore-Washington Airport, and for a time worked in the National Security Operations Center before being assigned to a much more boring job within the bowels of the NSA (1972-1976). Next, I was sent to the 6931 Security Squadron, Iraklion AB, situated on the Greek island of Crete, located 10 miles east of the city of Heraklion (1976-1977). This assignment was followed by another at NSA, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, (1977-1981). My duties during my Air Force career, other than NCO supervisor, included analyzing intercepted Soviet Air Defense tracking to identify Soviet air defense command structures, air defense units, types of aircraft, their numbers, strengths and weaknesses. In Thailand and during my last assignment in San Antonio I was involved in Air Force communications security missions. During my final overseas tour I analyzed and decrypted low-level foreign air force ciphers and codes. During my last Air Force assigment I learned computer programming at the NSA Cryptologic School and spent the last three years of my career writing computer programs and supervising teams of data retrieval specialists and computer programmers. During my career I was able to visit Wake Island during a refueling stop enroute to Tokyo, Japan, the USAF base at Wiesbaden AB near Frankfurt, Germany when I took my two-year-old daughter there for asthma treatment, Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, and spent two weeks near Ramey AFB, close to San Juan, Puerto Rico as a communications security analyst during a large joint military excercise. I retired from the Air Force effective October 1, 1981 and my family and I moved to Arizona. I was extremely proud to be awarded both the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Joint Service Commendation medal for work that I did overseas and at the NSA, including authoring reports that went to the White House to be included in President Gerald Ford's morning national security briefings. During my career I flew as a passenger in some historic Air Force aircraft including the C-121 Super Constellation (my first flight overseas), C-46 Commando, C-47 Skytrain "Goonie Bird", C-123 Provider, C-130 Hurcules, C-141 Star Lifter, and KC-135 Strato Tanker, and probably a couple I can't recall. (Personal knowledge and military records in family possession).
PFC. VIVIAN ARLIE WALL
World War II 1941-1945: Ohio - U.S. Army, Intelligence Scout, Algiers, Algeria, North Africa (1943-1944), 50th Station Hospital and 99th Field Hospital, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy (1944-1945); drafted 10 September 1942, basic training at Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio, Intelligence Scout training at Fort Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas; shipped out on a troop ship from Boston, Massachusetts for European and North African Theator of Operations on April 2, 1943; departed Italy, 16 October 1945; honorably discharged at the Indiantown Cap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania on November 6, 1945. Vivian was my dad, he was born on November 11, 1921 on the family farm, Sharon Center, Medina County, Ohio, to Reason Deforest Wall and Winifred Pearl Tyler. He died as the result of an accident when his car was struck by a locamotive at an unguarded crossin on Main Street in Creston, Ohio about 4 AM, Sunday, March 31, 1946. He died in the hospital in Lodi, Ohio later that morning. He is buried in the Sharon Center Cemetery in the Wall family plot near the front of the cemetery. (Personal and Wall family knowledge; Enlisted Record And Report of Separation, Honorable Discharge, form 885-42; Ohio Department of Health Certificate of Death, Informant R.D. Wall, RD #1, Wadsworth, Ohio, April 2, 1946; Form No. 2, Application from the World War II Compensation Fund, filed by Reason D. Wall).
SGT JACOB WESTFALL

American Revolution 1775-1783: Virginia - 8th Virginia Regiment, Virginia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania. Jacob served in the 8th Virginia, Captain Abel Westfall's Company with his cousins Abel and Cornelius Westfall. During the last months of his enlistment Jacob was often listed on the muster rolls as sick. He may have contracted malaria during the 8th's encounters with the British in South Carolina and Georgia. Soldiers of both armies contracted malaria and typus there. This may explain Jacob's death about 1797. He is last listed on the muster rolls of the 8th Virginia as on furlough on February 10, 1778, and it is likely that he left the service about this time. Jacob Westfall was the son of Cornelius (1721-1782) and Elizabeth Westfall of Hampshire County, Virginia. He was the father of our ancestor Cornelius Westfall of Randolph and Lewis counties, (West) Virginia. (U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, Virginia 1775-1783 (Roll Box 106), National Archives Publication Number M246 Publication Title, Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 Publisher, NARA, Virginia Military Org 8th Regiment, 1776-78 Folder 219; W. Lynn Hutchison, West Virginia Westfalls, McClain Printing, Parsons, WV, 2017).

ELECTRICIAN 2ND CLASS LOY W. WESTFALL
World War I 1917-1918: Ohio - U.S. Navy, Electrician 2nd Class, enlisted in the U. S. Navy at Cleveland, Ohio on March 28, 1917 at the age of 25. From April through October 1917 Loy was assigned to a receiving ship in New York, N. Y. and then to the submarine base at New London, Connecticut until January, 1918. From March until May 1918 he was again assigned to ships based out of New York. From May until Armistice Day on November 11, 1918 he was assigned to the USS Princess Matoika. He was honorably discharged on October 19, 1919 at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center near Chicago. When he enlisted his residence was listed as 555 W. Thornton Street, Akron, Ohio which was the address for his parents, Nathaniel and Luvenia (Trowbridge) Westfall. Source: Ancestry.com. Ohio Military Men, 1917-18 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Original data: Official Roster of Ohio Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the World War, 1917-1918. Vol. I-XXIII. Columbus, OH, USA: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1926.
PVT. PETER WESTFALL
American Civil War 1861-1865: West Virginia - Union Army, Private, Company C, 10th Virginia Infantry/10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. Peter enlisted on October 16, 1861 and was mustered in to active service on March 15, 1862 at Wheeling, West Virginia as a Private and was discharged on March 11, 1865 but mustered out of the army on March 15. Peter was the son of John H. Westfall and Elizabeth Allman, half brother of my great-grandfather Nathaniel J. Westfall. He was born on December 6, 1840 in Lewis County and died of Pneumonia on February 27, 1913 in Edmiston, Lewis County. He is buried in the Harrison Grove Cemetery on Murphy's Creek Road, 14 miles south of Weston, WV. (Headstone marker, Harrison Grove Cemetery; 1890 Census, Special Schedule "Persons who served in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps of the United States during the war of the rebellion (who are survivors) and widows of such persons," ED128, Court House District, Lewis County, West Virginia).
MAJOR THEODORE ROOSEVELT "TED" WESTFALL
World War II 1941-1945: Ohio - U.S. Army, I have only a few details of Uncle Ted's service contained in his obituary. He was a commander at Camp Adair, Corvallis, Oregon, an Army training camp, that operated between 1942-1946, and a commander of an unnamed prisoner of war camp in Arizona. His date of enlistment is unknown, but he retired as a major in March 1949. Sometime between 1963 and 1968 he, his wife, and son visited us in San Antonio, Texas while on his way back home to Oregon from visiting his sister and my grandmother Osa (Wesfall) Corbett in Van Buren, Arkansas. He was born on April 24, 1905 in Lewis County, West Virginia near Copley, WV to Nathaniel J. Westfall and Luvenia Margaret Trowbridge. He was married first to Lillie M. Haddinott and had four children, Anita, Blair, Vern and Sheldon. They divorced. He married 2nd Beatrie A. Hayward, also a WWII verteran. Uncle Ted died in Multnomah County, Oregon on January 23, 1990. He is buried in the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. (Willamette National Cemetery, Section D Grave 2068 with headstone - Beatrice A Westfall 1st Lt. US Army Mar 2, 1916-Jan 23, 1990 and Ted R. Westfall Maj US Army Apr 24, 1905-Nov 4, 1995; Obituary, The Oregon Statesman, November 5-7, 1995, Theodore Roosevelt "Ted" Westfall; Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998, Salem, OR, Oregon State Archives and Records Center, Certificate 95-23378; U.S. Army Registers, pages 367, 1367, Retired List, Westfall Theodore R. Maj, Service Number 0223504, Retired 11 March 1948).
SSGT LOY MICHAEL "MIKE" WHITE
Vietnam War and Cold War 1962-1995: Arkansas - U.S. Air Force, 460 Fighter Intercept Squadron (F-106 Delta Dart), Air Defense Command, Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota and Tyndall AFB, Panama City Florida. Brother Mike enlisted in the Air Force after graduating high school and served eight years (1972-1980). He is the son of William White and Clara Luvenia Corbett (1921-1990) and was born in Van Buren, Arkansas in 1954. He married Diane L. Newman in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He is a graduate of Syracuse University, New York. They have no children, but are the proud parents of beagle "Teddy". They reside in Cold Springs, Kentucky. Mike is the Vice President of the EAA Experimental Aircraft Association, War Birds of America, Squadron 18, Cincinnati, Ohio. (Loy M. White, and my personal knowledge).
PVT. ROY GENE WHITSETT
World War II 1941-1945: Arkansas - U.S. Army, I have no information on his unit assignments or discharge; he enlisted on August 13, 1942 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Gene was born on December 27, 1921 in Crawford County, Arkansas and died December 21, 1995 in Van Buren, Arkansas and is buried in the Woodlawn Memorial Park in Fort Smith. He was the son of James Guy Whitsett and Hessie Melinda Barrett, my wife Carolyn Sue Whitsett's grandfather, and brother to her father Rev. Wayne Whitsett. (Whitsett and Allen family and my personal knowledge; Find A Grave, Woodlawn Cemetery, Fort Smith, Memorial ID 90417428; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, DC).
CORPORAL WILLIAM WALLACE WHITSETT
American Civil War 1861-1865: Alabama - Confederate Army, Company E , 2nd Regiment (Robinson's) Volunteers of Tennessee Infantry. He was in the Battle of Belmont, Missouri in 1961, the battles of Shiloh and Chattanoooga in Tennessee. He was wounded in the battle of Chickamauga and is among those soldiers listed on the roll of honor for that battle. He spent several months in the hospital in Atlanta and then returned to his unit. It appears he was discharged or sent home on leave in around August 1864. He was killed "by a Yankee" near Wright, Alabama in the fall of 1864, possibly because he was still in his uniform as he attempted to reach his home in Waterloo, Alabama. William was the great-great grandfather of Carolyn Sue (Whitsett) Wall (my wife) and the son of Isaac Whitsett and Elizabeth Wilson of Lauderdale County, Alabama where he was born about 1838.

 
Ronald N. Wall
Modified: 29 January 2025