Military
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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 |
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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 |
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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]
External Links[edit | edit source]
Grave Sites of Veterans Buried in Wayne County, Ohio