Military

Wars

List of wars with dates

Researching Military Records

Military sources to research

Veterans

Wayne County Pensioners, American Revolution

This lists of Pensioners may be found in Bowen's History of Wayne County, Ohio on pages 220-221.

Last Name	First Name	Age	Township
Hagerman	Barnett	80	Perry
Case	Augustus	87	Plain
Tyron	Ezra	80	Jackson
Freeman	Rufus	78	Canaan
Davidson	John	84	Wayne
Franks	Christina, widow	73	Chippewa
Underwood	Isaac	74	Chippewa
Foster	Benjamin	86	Milton
Cotton	Benjamin	83	Jackson
Metsker	Conrad	82	Greene
Richardson	Jesse	84	East Union
Goodspeed	Simon	76	East Union
Cain	Robert	77	Wooster

Wayne County Pensioners, War of 1812

This list of soldiers may be found in Ben Douglass' History of Wayne County, Ohio on page 760. Douglass indicates this list is from records found in Columbus, Ohio.

Last Name	First Name	Town
Achenbach	John	Moreland
Bulger, (widow)	Rachel	Fredericksburg
Crummel	John	Apple Creek
Espy	Jacob B.	Wooster
Fike	Henry	Smithville
First, (widow)	Catharine	Apple Creek
Johnson	William	Wooster
Jones	Sylvanus	Wooster
Kenney	Simon	Canaan
Ludwig	John	Reedsburg
McFadden	James	Cedar Valley
Messmore	George	Apple Creek
Pittinger	Thomas	Lattasburg
Potter	Benjamin	Millbrook
Rieder	Daniel	Koch's
Starner	Henry	Wooster

Wayne County Service Pensions, Civil War

Wayne County, Ohio Military Material

Lateral files (very limited for 20th and 21st century wars and conflicts)
Wayne County Grave Registration Cards
Wooster Goes to War: Perspectives of the Home Front During World War Two
Soldier’s Relief Commission 1902-1944
Soldiers Relief Records, World War I, 1917-1918

Soldier’s Relief Records…Account Book, 1924-1939

In Memoriam: A Compilation of the Locations of the Grave Sites of Veterans Buried in Wayne County, Ohio
- Visit Veterans Buried in Wayne County, Ohio for a more up-to-date list of this book.

Various scrapbook clippings from Shreve newspapers during World War II

Newspaper clippings concerning Wayne County, OH during
- The Spanish-American War
- World War I
- World War II

Partial Record of Soldiers’ Buried in Wayne County, OH from The American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Mexican War

Our Wayne County Heritage
- This book includes more than military records. There is a list of land grants registered in Wayne County; Apprentice Indentures of Wayne County, Ohio; The Wayne County Company; Sale of School Lands; Federal Census of Wayne County 1820; Naturalization Records in Wayne County; Gone to California! An Account of the Dennison Company; Jackson, O Presbyterian Church Session Minutes, 1827-1875.

Wayne County Men in the United States Military Service (WWII)

Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Wayne County, OH

A History of Wayne County in the World War and in the Wars of the Past

Hardesty’s Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia (select biographical sketches of Civil War soldiers, Wayne County, OH)

Military Information in Newspapers

Local newspapers include not only general information on war but information pertaining to those who are drafted, killed in action, missing in action, and letters from afar.

Gallery

A map of Fort Wayne about 1812, drawn for the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel on the occasion of it 100th Anniversary in 1933 by Noble E. Brainard
"Wooster Mess" Co. H. 102nd Regiment, O.V.I.

External Links

Grave Sites of Veterans Buried in Wayne County, Ohio

120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Wooster-Wayne Chapter, Daughters of the Revoluntion (DAR)

WWII US Army Enlistment Records