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
Good for you for keeping up with 52 Ancestors. I’ve tried twice now and don’t seem to make it past about week 11. Maybe next year.
It’s not been easy, but I try to keep most of my posts simple so I have time to do them. I struggled with some of the prompts (like #48, see next post), and that’s what made it hard for me; not sure I will do it again, at least not in 2020.