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Week 47 Prompt: Soldier

This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is”Soldier.” I have many soldiers in my family tree. I thought I’d use this opportunity to create a list of them by war. Not only is this a way to honor each of them, it also allows me to see whose service needs to be researcher further.

Pequot War (1636-1638)

  • John Bronson (1602-1680)*
  • Nicholas Clarke (1610-1680)*
  • Job Risley (1742/43-??)

King Philip’s War (1675-1676)

  • Robert Webster (1619-1676)*

French & Indian War (1754-1764)

  • Ashbel Webster (1732/33-1801)*
  • Asiel Webster (1740-1799?)
  • Jonathan Webster (1738/39-??)

American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)

  • Robert Parks (1737-1810)*
  • Amos Webster (1740-1827)
  • Ashbel Webster (1756-1838)
  • Joshua Webster (1750-??)

War of 1812 (1812-1815)

  • Robert Parks (1776-1863)*
  • Aaron Webster (1775-1823)*

Black Hawk War (1832)

  • David Haacke (1801-1888)**

Civil War (1861-1865)

  • Abram Marshall Coffinger (1824-1863)
  • Alpheus Madden (1842-1861)
  • Robert S. Madden (1844-1917)
  • Wilson G. McKinley (1844-1864)**
  • Charles P. Parks (1834-1864 KIA)
  • Edward W. Parks (1825-1866)
  • Phineas D. Parks (1833-1891)
  • Vanrancelar C. Vliet (1829-1915)

Spanish American Was (1898)

  • Frank M. Krenwinkel (1875-1939)
  • Charles H. Rottman (1877-1927)

World War I (1914-1918)

  • Herman Mulske aka Wulff (1893-1992)
  • John W. Rottman (1900-1919)
  • Henry F. Schwartz (1889-1945)
  • Nicholas D. Schwartz (1894-1973)
  • Peter M. Schwartz (1893-1977)
  • Charles L. Stoffel (1890-1976)

World War II (1939-1945)

  • Albert F. Bahnfleth (1918-??)
  • Raymond W. Bahnfleth (1921-2009)
  • William Clarence Beckard (1921-??)
  • Pietro Belluomini (1914-1991)***
  • August E. Cacini (1924-2001)***
  • John F. Cahill (1922-1984)*
  • Robert J. Cunningham (1920-1980)
  • Robert G. Dahlin (1922-2006)
  • Robert A. Dombroski (1925-1978)
  • Clifford C. Felt (1925-1966)
  • Robert Fernetti (1926-2015)**
  • Eugene J. Grafton (1915-1987)
  • William G. Haacke (1925-2004)**
  • Albert S. Hanifan (1926-1993)
  • John T. Hanifan (1924-1943 KIA)
  • Sidney W. Hicks (1916-1990)
  • Roger W. Hillbrook (1914-1985)
  • Kenneth J. Lee (1923-1996)**
  • Kenneth M. Lindzey (1913-1976)**
  • John W. McMahon (1902-1962)*
  • Frank E. Michael (1922-2007)
  • Joseph W. Miserentino (1925-2000)***
  • Kenneth J. Parks (1912-1989)
  • Michael Jerome Patano (1918-1995)
  • Walter J. Quinlan (1925-2008)
  • Charles H. Rottman (1912-1976)
  • Edward G. Rottman (1915-1968)
  • Franklin W. Rottman (1920-1995)
  • Kenneth W. Rottman (1919-2003)
  • Robert D. Rottman (1927-1992)
  • George Stoffel (1901-1978)
  • Paul S. Tarr (1925-1981)**
  • Bernard N. Turro (1920-2007)
  • Francis X. Webster (1911-1972)
  • Roy G. Williams (1917-1974)**
  • John P. Youngen (1912-1996)

Korean War (1950-1953)

  • Donald R. Cahill (1929-2008)

Vietnam War (1955-1975)

  • My stepfather
  • Garrel R. Rottman (1950-2006)

Not Sure of Service or Did Not Participate in a Conflict

  • Robert E. Cahill (1928,2010; US Army Reserves, may have served in Korea)
  • Julius W. Defauw (1939-2005; US Navy, 1957-1961)
  • Bruce A. Lindzey (1943-2009; US Army)**
  • Harold H. Lindzey (1930-2009; US Air Force, 1951-1955, may have served in Korea)**
  • Robert Parks (1676-1752)
  • Denise A. (Trapp) Schemenauer (1966-2007; US Navy)

*My direct line ancestors

**Husband’s family

***Stepfather’s family