Military

Wars

• List of wars with dates

Researching Military Records

• Military sources to research

Veterans

• Veterans of Wayne County, Ohio, 18th Century
• Veterans of Wayne County, Ohio, 19th Century
• Veterans of Wayne County, Ohio, 20th Century

War of 1812

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

Other Soldiers from the War of 1812 have been listed throughout the History of Wayne County, Ohio by Ben Douglass:

Last Name	First Name	Page
Armstrong	Thomas	779
Beall	Reasin	323
Folgate	John	646
Frederick	Thomas	854
Johnston, Sr.	Matthew	565
McClarran	Robert	309
Pittinger	Thomas	225
Piper	John	839
Robison, Sr.	David	730
Smurr	Elias	566

Civil War

Wayne County Service Pensions, Civil War

• Pensions (1880s)
• Pensions (1890s)
• Pensions (1950s)

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.

• 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

• Hardesty's Special Military History of Ohio
• Soldiers of the Civil War

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  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

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  "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