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Contents
Wars[edit | edit source]
- List of wars with dates
Researching Military Records[edit | edit source]
- Military sources to research
Veterans[edit | edit source]
Wayne County Pensioners, American Revolution[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Wayne County, Ohio Military Material[edit | edit source]
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Hardesty’s Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia (select biographical sketches of Civil War soldiers, Wayne County, OH)
Military Information in Newspapers[edit | edit source]
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.
- Wayne County in the Mexican-American War
- Wayne County in the Civil War
- Wayne County in the Spanish American War
- Wayne County in World War I
- Wayne County in World War II
Gallery[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Grave Sites of Veterans Buried in Wayne County, Ohio
