Close to Home - 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 4

The subject of my post for close to home is a no-brainer for me because my longest-standing brick wall is very close to home. In fact, it may even be in my home town, better yet, I may even live now on land that once belonged to a relative! But I'm really getting ahead of myself, I am researching Smiths after all.

Orlando Chauncey Smith, Charlotte Elizabeth Smith, George Robert Smith, William Henry Smith
Benjamin Smith, Emma Amelia Smith, Mary Ann Codner
This photo was likely taken in Newark, New Jersey.

My mother was born in Quebec, my father in Chicago and we lived in the Chicago suburbs until my father enrolled at Adelphi University on Long Island in 1971. We had no known family here and it wasn't until 2008, about a year into researching my family history, that I learned from an obituary that Benjamin Smith, my second great-grandfather, was born on Long Island.  Back then I was only researching sporadically, but somewhere in my daily life living in Rockville Centre, I learned that the village was named for Mordechai "Rock" Smith. Now, we all know how common a surname Smith is, but once in a while my mother and I would joke about being descended from the founders and of course we were curious, but given that Benjamin's exact place of birth was unknown, we didn't really take it seriously.

Then, sometime around 2011, I was stuck at work waiting for a delivery and decided to kill some time looking at the hints in my Ancestry tree. A hint for my 2nd great-uncle, William Smith, a son of Benjamin, led me to his 1920s passport application. The form asked for William's father's place of birth, his answer was Rockville Centre, NY! I almost could not believe my eyes.

In the nine years since this discovery, I have not researched Benjamin very much at all, but that is changing now. Benjamin's wife, Mary Ann Codner, was the granddaughter and great-grandaughter of two Revolutionary War patriots, Phineas Chidester and Japhet Byram, and one of her daughters, Charlotte Smith Fisk, was accepted into the Daughters of the American Revolution.  Now, I'm working to prove my own lineage and I'll have to prove Benjamin's birth to do so.

I've learned so much about genealogy research, methodology and sources since I read Benjamin's obituary twelve years ago and, of course, online records access has exploded, so it's like researching in a whole new world.  Who knows? Maybe I'll even get one of my male Smith cousins to spit in a tube one of these days.

One of the newest tools in my personal kit is the locality guide.  Locality research is essential to a research plan.  To make a research plan, you have to know what records are available and where to look for them. A guide is simply a place to put all of this information. And as you become more familiar with an area or with researching at a particular institution you can add more information like contacts you have made at an archive.

You can make a locality guide any way you like, but I chose to use the guides of those who have done this before as a template and this has "forced" me to seek out specific information that I might not have otherwise.

A Google search for locality guides led me to some blogs including Collecting Cousins who had a link to an archived page of the ProGen Study Group site. This page has links to more than two dozen examples. I also found a template at Family Locket, the blog of the authors of Research Like a Pro, which I used as my primary template.

My first guide, still-in-progress, is for Nassau and Queens counties in New York. Why both? Because Nassau was created out of Queens county, because Benjamin is believed to have lived in what is now Nassau but was Queens when he was born, and because some records, like probate, are still held in Queens.  I knew this before I started the guide because of my earlier research, but if I was coming at this brand new, this is something I likely would have learned by making this guide.  And that is the value of laying a foundation of knowledge on which to build your research.

So, here are just two of the things I discovered while making this guide:

1. The Rockville Centre Historical Society has a collection of materials including Sunday school records for the Methodist church in Rockville Centre during Benjamin's childhood (I don't know if Benjamin was born into a Methodist family but he was married in a Methodist church and helped found the Methodist church in Basking Ridge, NJ.) Inconveniently for me, these materials are now held at the New York State Archive in Albany which is a good three-hour drive. I'm hoping to get there by spring.

2. A 1870s property map of Rockville Centre shows a few landowners named Smith and while I know the name is beyond common, what I found on the map really blew my mind.

The David Rumsey Map Collection not only has this 1870s map, but it also has a tool called a Georeferencer that lays your historical map over a current one and allows you to control the opacity so that you can see either map or both at the same time.

When I zeroed in on properties owned by Smiths, what I found was astounding. The apartment building I live in sits on property that was owned by a John Smith (it would be John) when the map was made.

I know that as my research moves forward I may find that I am not related to this man at all, but this is still a fun find!

No matter how well we think we know a place we are researching, or how long we have lived there ourselves, a locality guide is a great tool to help us know it as researchers.

I really hope that this locality guide and other methodologies I have learned in the last nine years will help me to smash the Smith brick wall this year. In any case, this is a tool I plan to use whenever I research in a new geographic area, whether it is across the globe or right under my feet.

Long Line - 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 3

The writing gods are not with me this week. I have already abandoned two drafts on other topics for this prompt that just wouldn't come together, so last night I decided to use this prompt to transcribe the names of some of my ancestors in hopes that a distant cousin will find them and me, otherwise known as cousin bait.

We all have long lines, it's just a matter of how far back we can document those lines. Two weeks ago I wrote about my great-grandfather, Carl Johan Anderson. I have only documented his line to his parents, Anders Svenson and Anna Katrina Mannsdotter but my great-grandmother's line is a different story.

Oscar Nimrid Johansson-Maria Sofia Johansson-Johan Albin Johansson
Anna Olivia Johansson-Mathilda Alfina Johansson

Someone, I don't know who, commissioned a genealogy of the ancestors of my great-grandmother, Mathilda Alfina Johnson/Johansson, and I was lucky enough to inherit a copy of this mind-boggling, three-volume work written entirely in Swedish.

I also inherited two copies of an English translation of my direct line going back to my 6th great-grandparents, Lars Heljeson and his wife, Ingeborg.

Lars Heljeson - Ingeborg ______

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Helje Larsson - Maria Ericsdotter

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Zachris Heljeson - Stina Magnusdotter

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Magnus Zachrisson - Caisa Nilsdotter

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Marten Johansson - Josepha Magnusdotter

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Carl Johan Anderson - Mathilda Alfina Johansson

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Howard Bierly Matthews - Dagmar Alice Viola Anderson

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Stephen David Matthews

Although I caution any potential cousins that I have not researched these lines myself and cannot speak specifically to the accuracy of this genealogy, the detail and extent of church records in Sweden gives me confidence in it.  In addition to records of baptisms, marriages, and burials that one would expect churches to keep, the Lutheran church in Sweden, which was once the state church, kept records of annual household surveys and records of all those who joined and left individual congregations.  Those records also included the congregations that people moved to and from, making them easy to find before and after a move.

If you see any names that look familiar to you in my direct line above or the list of siblings below, be sure to let me know. You can contact me by leaving a comment on this post or through the contact form on the right of this page.

Children of Marten Johansson and Josepha Magnusdotter:
Maria Sofia Johansson, Selma Alida Johansson, Mathilda Alfina Johansson, Anna Olivia Johansson, Johan Albin Johansson, Alma Cecilia Johansson, Oscar Johansson, Alma Tionda Johansson

Children of Magus Zachrisson and Caisa Nilsdotter: Josepha Magnusdotter, Elsa Magnusdotter, Salomon Magnusson, August Magnusson

Children of Zachris Heljesson and Stina Magnusdotter: 
Kerstin Zachrisdotter, Maria Zachrisdotter, Catharina Zachrisdotter, Hans Zachrisson, Magnus Zachrisson, Johanna Zachrisdotter

Children of Helje Larsson and Maria Ericsdotter: Eric Heljesson, Zachris Heljesson, Elsa Heljesdotter, Hans Heljesson, Maria Heljesdotter, Brita Heljesdotter

Favorite Photo - 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 2

I'm blessed with an embarrassment of riches when it comes to family photos, so choosing a favorite is an impossible task, but I do have some that are more meaningful than others.

As far back as I can remember, my mother has had a hinged frame on her dresser containing two photos:

As you could probably guess, the photo on the left is my grandmother holding my mother and the photo on the right is my mother holding me. I've always loved them and even from an early age, I think, could appreciate the historical aspect of them, but I never had any such photo of my dad with his mother.  The earliest photos I had seen of him were toddler stage or later until my step-mother handed me a plastic bag of loose photos six years ago.

We were walking out the door of her home late on a winter evening when my step-mother handed me that bag so there was no time to dig into it then, but as soon as Donald and I stopped for coffee I couldn't help but take a peek. The second photo out of the bag was this one, and I was overwhelmed with emotion for the rest of the ride home and for several days after.

Taken when he was six weeks old according to writing on the back, this and another half dozen photos taken at the same time, are the earliest known pictures of my father.  Six years later, this photo still makes me shake my head, knowing that my grandparents and then my dad had these all along, but stuffed away in a bag for so many years.

It is impossible to choose one favorite photo from my collection, but this certainly comes close.

Fresh Start - 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 1

As soon as I saw the prompt, Fresh Start, for Week One of Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, I thought of my father's grandparents who were all immigrants.  Although I have some idea of what prompted most of them to come to America, only Carl Johan Anderson, my paternal grandmother's father, left us this information in detail.

Arthur William Matthews, my paternal great-grandfather, came from England in about 1865. He grew up in poverty and lost his mother at an early age. He was about 21 when he arrived in New York but I don't know anything about his life in England beyond that.

Ada Merritt Hobbs, my paternal grandfather's mother, was Arthur's second wife. She came to America, also from England, sometime after 1871. She was 13 when her parents died in 1868. She and her three siblings were eventually taken in by a maternal uncle in Pennsylvania.

Mathilda Alfina Johanson is more of a mystery. Although she grew up in the same parish in Sweden as my great-grandfather, her family does not seem to have been nearly as poor. Did she come to America for economic opportunity, to follow her sisters, for adventure or to follow Carl? I may never know for sure.

And that brings us to Carl Johan Anderson. Carl was the youngest child of Anders Swensson and Anna Katrina Mannsdotter. He was six when Anders died and Anna went to work as a farmhand and seven when he and his sister were also forced by their economic circumstances to go to work.

After five years of working and living in a glassworks, Carl went to live with his sister, Josefina, and her new husband, Per Johan Bengtson. There he was able to get some schooling as he apprenticed under Per Johan as a shoemaker. Still so poor that it took him months to save for one decent suit, he longed to leave Sweden for the economic opportunities in the United States. Eventually, a group of his friends secured loans and then loaned him the money for his passage. He arrived in Connecticut in April 1888 with one dollar left.

1888 was still difficult for Carl. He found work at a silk mill, was laid off, found work as a shoemaker and finally was rehired in December by the Cheney Silk Mill where he would eventually become a master velvet weaver.  In 1890, Mathilda arrived in the US with one of her sisters and a friend, but they would go first to their own sisters in Illinois. Later that year, Carl wrote and asked Mathilda to come to South Manchester, which the three ladies did, and in August of 1893, Carl and Mathilda were married.

The newlyweds were very fortunate that Carl had found work with the Cheneys, for they were excellent employers, truly concerned with the well-being of their workers. Carl and Mathilda rented their first home from the Cheneys and although I don't know the specifics of their home, I learned during a tour by a local historian that the Cheneys were different from many factory owners in that these properties were well-kept, comparatively spacious and every home had a porch or a yard.

After the birth of two sons, Axel Henrich Waldemar in 1894 and Elmer Carl Ragnar in 1896, Carl and Mathilda purchased a lot of land from the Cheneys, secured a mortgage from Manchester Building and Loan and built themselves a two-family home on Garden Street which they moved into on February 22, 1900. Being a duplex, as Axel called it in an audio-taped interview of Carl, the Andersons now had another source of income from the home, taking in borders. In 1905 the family grew again, when my grandmother, Dagmar Alice Viola was born.

All three of Carl and Mathilda's children graduated from high school. Axel went to business school and became a successful businessman, Elmer followed in his father's footsteps becoming a foreman in the dye house at the Cheney mill and Dagmar worked as a stenographer before her marriage in 1931.  All four of Carl and Mathilda's grandchildren were college graduates.

Carl worked at the mill for 50 years, retiring in 1938 when his eyesight was no longer good enough for such detailed work. He and Mathilda lived together in their home on Garden Street until she fell ill in 1953 and in 1954 the home was sold and Carl moved to a retirement home closer to Axel and his family.

Although the Swedish economy improved and continued to improve over the years following Carl's immigration to the United States, I am confident that coming to America provided the Fresh Start Carl so desperately wanted and provided more economic opportunity than he would have had in Sweden.

I did not have time to provide detailed citations for this post but in brief: Information about Arthur Matthews and Ada Hobbs comes from an autobiography by my grandfather, Howard Matthews, Arthur and Ada's youngest child. Information about Mathilda comes from a family history compiled by professional genealogists in the 1960s and from a brief letter written by Mathilda. Information about Carl comes from a letter that he left for his descendants, from an audiotaped interview by his son Axel and from a walking tour of the Cheney Mills hosted by the Manchester Historical Society and given by a local historian. None of the materials are published, but I have copies in my personal collection. Photos are also from my personal collection and were inherited after the death of my father, Stephen David Matthews. He was the only child of Dagmar Alice Viola Anderson. If you have any questions, please feel free to write to me via the Contact Form on the right of this blog.

The Honor Roll Project - Roosevelt, NY

As part of Heather Wilkinson Rojo's Honor Roll Project, I have transcribed these Rolls of Honor in Roosevelt, NY to make the names visible to search engines so that family researchers can find them. Please consider finding the Honor Roll(s) in your town or village and transcribing them on your blog or website. Some rolls are long and some are short but there's no deadline, you can take as long as you need to transcribe an honor roll.  I've learned so much about local history through this project and when someone finds the name of an ancestor in one of my posts they are grateful and excited! And even if you don't have a blog or website, you can ask me or another participating blogger. I would be happy to create a post to share your photos and transcription!

This memorial plaza in Roosevelt, NY is right outside of the post office and contains three rolls of honor; for WWI and WWII and a third dedicated by the American Legion which does not specify the war or military action.

In addition to the rolls of honor is this statue to Brigadier General George A. Jones.

There are three rolls of honor at this memorial.

ERECTED AS A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF ROOSEVELT, L.I. WHO GAVE THEIR SERVICES IN DEFENSE OF THE RIGHTS OF THEIR COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WAR.

United States Army

1st. Lieut. John J. Kiernan

1st. Lieut. C. E. Whitehouse Jr.

2nd Lieut. Harvey J. George

Sergt. Major Sr. Gr. C. A. C. John E. Griffiths

Sergeants

John J. McCaffery

Whitson McKay

Robert Thurlow

Joseph C. Pettit

Chas. H. Dahl Jr.

Benjamin Moberg

John J. A. Denton

P. Pirnie Jr.

Harry Gilman

Charles W. Eckstein

Conrad Egner

Corporals

Guy A. Russell

Albert Cornell

James O. Benson

Aubrey V. Mole

W. D. Crevoiserat

Frank Robins

Geo. M. Dennis

J. Albrecht Jr.

W. H. Hesse

Horace F. R. Denton

P. J. Grafinger

Henry Plock

C.N. Pierce

1st Class Privates

W. H. Browne

H. E. Mole

H. H. Evans Jr.

J. F. Tydeman

Roy Godler

Lionel H. Vandusen

Luman Losee

Privates

S. A. Azzato

Fred E. Behr

Joseph H. Behr

John Bier

Eugene Brower

R. G. Brower

Geo. Carman

Irving Carman

Walter B. Clay

A. D. Crevoiserat

Harry Crevoiserat

Wm. Eldred

C. J. Gossel

Harold D. Haff

Lloyd Hall

F. K. Harrison

L.S. Hubbard

Geo. Leisner

W. B. Marino

Eligo D. Moore

Charles Peterson

D. E. Pierce

John R. Reddy

E. G. Sander

R. F. Seaman

B. Silverstrome

J. A. P. Schlegel

A. A. Sieber

P. V. Solmo

Mansfield Soper

Harry Smith

Theodore Smith

Calvin Valentine

A. VanDeWater

William White

E. S. Williams

United States Navy and Marines

Ensign Peter S. Beck

F. D. Graham

H. W. Hinrichs, Jr.

C.P.O. G. D. Hveem

F. G. Goetz, Jr.

A. J. Lang

A. D. Browne

Lewis Golder

Jerome T. Nolan

H. D. Edwards

G. J. Higgins

John E. Nolan, Jr.

Peter E. Smith

In Memoriam

1st. Lieut. J. W. Pirnie

Sergt. W. E. Ensko

Priv. Anton Spelino

WORLD WAR II 1941 - 1945

IN HONOR OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF ROOSEVELT WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY.

IN MEMORY OF THESE WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE.

Wesley Behmand

George A. Brast

Francis L. Carey

William H. Carmen, Jr.

Leo L. Collins

Walter L. Corrigan

Roy E. Cox

Donald Dennon

Charles C. Edwards

Robert H. George

Harry I. Grace

John L. Hodder

Delbert J. Hutchens

Peter R. Kahlke

Sidney C. McClane

George T. Mole

Michael Morek

Victor Novell

William H. Peterson

Philip J. Phillips, Jr.

Gilbert Plowman

Peter Profis

Anthony Ritchie

Thomas Ritchie

Edward W. Schenk

John A. Stipo

Charles S. Tynan

Clifford Tynan

Francis Wallace

Arthur J. Abrams

Herbert W. Abrams

John D. Abrams

Robert W. Abrams

Samuel J. Abrams

Thurland J. Abrams

Robert L. Ackerley

Harry Ackerman

Edward E. Adams

Boris S. Afroaimor

Robert N. Air

Edward A. Aksel

Edward W. Albrecht

George Albrecht

Leslie W. Algar

Clifford C. Allen

Joseph L. Alsheimer

Henry C. Althof

Donald B. Amerson

David G. Anderson

Karl A. Anderson

Alfred B. Andrews

George Andrews

Lawrence Andrews

Francis Andrus

George W. Andrus

Joseph W. Apicella

Frank C. Armley

Louis L. Arresto

Ray C. Ashdown

Eugene F. Assip

August Augenthaler

Eugene Ayers

Robert Backman

Paul Baiko

Harold A. Baldwin, Jr.

Richard Baldwin

William Baldwin

Harold P. Bangs

Maurice Barielle

W. Kearney Barker

Charles Barnes

Richard P. Barry, Jr.

Ernest B. Batina

Adam F. Bauer

Peter J. Bealler

Oscar J. Beaudry

Charles D. Beck

George W. Beck, Jr.

John J. Beck

George Beckerich

Wilfred O. Bedell

Roy Bedford

Paul M. Beegel, Jr.

Henry G. Bender

George R. Benedict

Arnold W. Bennett

Charles H. Bennington

Erving A. Berger

Norman L. Berger

Charles T. Bigbie

William A. Bigbie

George W. Blanshan

Odd Bloch

Frederick Bodensiek

Walter S. Bodensiek

Frederick Bohhorst

Herman T. Bohnhorst

Jacob Boiko

John J. Bond

Kenneth Bond

Thomas B. Bond

George Bonsic

John H. Bonsic

Harry R. Bornscheur

Robert A. Bott

Joseph Boylan

John A. Brand

John G. Brandel

Robert M. Brantley

Alexander N. Brast

Richard F. Brast

William W. Brast

Arthur Breidenbach

Richard F. Brast

William W. Brast

Arthur Breidenbach

Thomas C. Breidenstein

Edward G. Brelling

Frederick Briggs

John D. Briggs

Albert A. Brower

Chester L. Brown

Kathryn W. Brown

Muriel F. Brown

William H. Brown

Arthur D. Browne

Richard G. Brownell

Roland Brummer

William H. Budd

Joseph A. Burke

Leonard R. Calderone

John Joseph Carey

Frank A. Carollo

Aldo Carota

Alfred A. Carota

Arthur C. Carota

John C. Carota, Jr.

Mario C. A. Corota

Donald L. Carpenter

Frank J. Carra

James Casey

Joseph Casey

Joseph J. Casey

Frederick G. Cassari

John J. Catalano, Jr.

Victor H. Chadwick

Charles E. Chapman

Clarence F. Chapman

William M. Chapman

John R. Cheesman

Frank Chimeri

Louis Chimeri

Thomas J. Chiovari

Anthony V. Chiovaro

William Coakley, Jr.

Charles Colombo

William Coakley, Jr.

Charles Colombo

Clifford A. Combes

Harold S. Combes

Roland H. Combes

Antonio Conigliaro

Francis Conigliaro

Edward L. Conklin

John R. Connolly

Michael J. Conrad

Walter R. Cook

Helen P. Cornwell

Paul Corrigan, Jr.

Robert J. Cotton

Robert Cox

Frank H. Cramer

Peter P. Cramer

Glasier K. Crandall

Russel G. Crandall

Wilber J. Crandall

Albert L. Crevoiserat

Edward V. Crevoiserat

Lawrence W. Crevoiserat

William T. Cridland

Frederick L. Cruger

Charles P. Crummell

Walter L. Cummings

Anthony Curra

John J. Daly, Jr.

Norman S. Danglo

Alfred E. Darmstadt

Wendell A. Davis

Harry J. DeArrastia

John Debeny

Michael F. Delaney

William E. Delaney

George W. DeLap

Michael DeMasco

Thomas C. DeMasco

John DeMeno

Arthur Dennon

Alfred F. Denton

Horace F. Denton

John A. Denton

Morton J. Deutsch

William G. DeWeerd

David H. Dickson, Jr.

Robert DiMonday

Mario DiNonna

Edward F. DiTomas

Harry E. Dobler

Harold Dodwell

John A. Doht

William H. Donaldson

Randal J. Dorn

Leroy E. Dorn

Theodore R. Dorros

William H. Downey

Alfred E. Downs

Warren F. Downs

Charlesetta Doxey

Clifford A. Doxey

Elizabeth Doxey

Frank E. Doxey

Irvin Doxey

Walter A. Doxey

Frederick G. Doyle

Edward D. Duane

George DuChateau

Michael Dudiak

Myron Dudiak

Charles W. Dumper

George H. Dumper, Jr.

Lester E. Dumper

Bernard W. Dunlap

Thomas E. Earl

Edwin M. Earle

Arthur O. Ebert

Walter F. Ebner

Alfred Eckhardt

Arthur Eckhardt

James C. Egan

John E. Eichhorn

William C. Eichhorn

Francis A. Eisenberg

Albert O. Eisenlau

Harry W. Engel

T. Ralston Engel

Albert J. Erni

Walter Evernhan

Gerald P. Farinola

John Farrell

William Farrington

Joseph Fatzie

Fred F. Fauerbach

Walter W. Feis

Harry J. Feldman

Leon Fels

Edwin G. Finck

Raymond K. Finn

Anthony J. Foerster

Charles J. Fox

Charles E. Francis

Donald J. Francis

Ralph H. Francois

Carl C. Fred

Howard Fredlund

Walter J. Fredlund

Charles A. Friend

Florence C. Friend

Oliver W. Friend

Charles R. Furgerson

Eugene Furgerson

Joseph A. Furgerson

Richard A. Furgerson

Frank F. Gaddoni

Donald P. Gager

Melvin E. Gagney

William Gales

Leonard J. Galupo

Steven Garaman

Umbert Garistina

Caroline A. Gerbe

William M. Gillespie

John Giltz

William Giltz

Harold Goebel

Edwin H. Golden

John H. Golden

John J. Golden

Franklin D. Gombert

William E. Gombert

Merriman J. Gooden

Fred Gossel

Charles A. Goud

Janet E. Grace

Andrew S. Graham

David A. Graham

Edward E. Graham

William Graham

Edward P. Grass

William F. Grass

John W. Greenly

Lloyd E. Griffith

Agnes E. Groepler

Kurt Groepler, Jr.

Moritz W. Groepler

John A. Guando

Franklin L. Guest

May H. Gunsten

Henry C. Guter

Hugo J. Guter

William E. Guter

John G. Haehl

John K. Hagan

Ann V. Haggerty

Arthur P. Haile

Harold F. Haile

Wesley J. Hall

Clement C. Hallam

James E. Hallam

Carl Halm

Owen J. Halpin

Kurt L. Hambsch

Hans J. Hansen

Bertrand Hansson

George Harkness

Walter J. Hayman

Albert J. Hays

Elmo D. Hays

Donald E. Hays

William Heath

Frederick P. Heitman

William Henke

Alfred T. Herdje

Clarence Herold

Robert W. Herzog

August Hess

Richard M. Hickey

Ferris O. Hillman

Richard H. Hillman

William Hillman

Joseph F. Hines

Joseph F. Hirn

James N. Hodder

Ruth G. Hodder

Carl Holmes

Henry J. Holmes

Albert R. Hopper

Charles N. Hopper

James E. Hopper

Richard J. Horwitt

Robert B. Horwitt

William T. Horwitt

W. Fisk Hubbell

David G. Hubby

Walter G. Hubel

Earl G. Hunter

Edward R. Hunter

Wilbur E. Hunter

Thomas J. Hurley

Richard Huse

Nicholas Ilmovsky

Louis N. Jackson

Wilfred S. Jackson

Roland A. Jacobs

Helen O. Jeanbourquin

Albert N. Jensen

Edward J. Johanneman, Jr.

Arthur B. John, Jr.

Alfred L. Johnson

Andrew T. Johnson

Edgar Johnson

Edward S. Johnson

Edward T. Johnson

Frank C. Johnson

James C. Johnson

John H. Johnson

Melville P. Johnson

Peter G. Johnson

William E. Johnson

William P. Kaminsky

Clement R. Kaye

Alexander Kazanowsky

Charles J. Kearney

Frederick M. Keck

Charles G. Keever

Harry D. Keever

Russell J. Keever

Carl J. Kehl

Donald W. Kelly

James E. Kelly

John F. Kelly

Louis F. Kelly

Thomas V. Kelly

Walter R. Kelly

Albert T. Kendrick

Alfred Kenna

Richard A. Kennard

Howard D. Kent, Jr.

Edward B. Kerrigan

William D. Kiernan

Frank F. Kiernan, Jr.

Joseph P. Killian, Jr.

Michael F. Killian

William F. Killian

George J. King

Stanley Klasek

Alfred E. Klee

Anthony Klein

Richard Klein

William Klein

Harry Klishewich

Jack Koch

Charles H. Kock

Alfred G. Koeppe

Raymond H. Kohler

Charles H. Kohnken

Mischa Koroluck

Paul Koroluck

Stephen Koroluck

Charles Kort

Edwin R. Kort

William A. Kort

Stanley M. Krajewski

John C. Kramer

Henry Kreiger

Harry E. Krowl

George J. Kruger

George L. Kruger

Louis H. Kuckens

Ralph E. Kuckens

Herbert Kunnmann

Frederick J. Kuralowicz

Henry G. Kuraloweicz

Stephan Kuralowicz

Joseph Kurz

Robert Kurz

Carl Lachler

Eugene Lachler

August R. Lacorazza

Arthur D. Lail, Jr.

John F. LaMar

Robert J. LaMar

William F. LaMar

Charles W. Langdon

George G. Langenfass

Henry C. LaRue

Harold W. Laughran, Jr.

Lloyd M. Laverty

Warren W. Lee

William C. Lein

William E. Leitner

James Lemyre

Louis E. Lemyre

Walter Lemyre

Richard A. Lent

Alexander Lessik

Robert Lester

Clinton E. Lewis

Fred H. Leyboldt

Thyge L. Lindberg

Alexander Lobel

Isadore Lobel

George Lobner

Joseph L. Lowry

Thure C. Lundenwall

J. Arthur MacCarter

Walter A. MacPherson

Walter McCahill

Helen F. McCarron

George A. McCauley

George J. McCauley

James N. McCauley

Joseph G. McClure

James J. McConlogue

John J. McConlogue

Robert McConlogue

Thomas McConlogue

James J. McCormack

Harold S. McGay

Thomas A. McGuigan

Elliot McKay

Richard W. McKay

Daniel McKenna

Frank J. McLoughlin

C. Leslie Madison

Robert E. Mahoney

Raymond Makofski

Peter W. Malinski

Jerry Marcheneck

Anthony L. Marino

Blaise J. Marino

Catherine D. Marino

Frank D. Marino

John F. Marino

Joseph L. Marino

Peter V. Marino

John W. Martin

George Matz

Grace J. May

John H. Mazza

David J. Meehan

Edward Meloy

David M. Melville

Benjamin A. Mendes

Charles H. Mereday

E. Vincent Mereday

Arnold Messinger

Charlotte Messinger

Edward B. Michaelsen

Howard M. Michaelsen

John S. Michelis

Lloyd Middleton, Jr.

John S. Mikulis

Charles E. Miller

Donald W. Mole

Edwin I. Mole

Elliot P. Mole

Harry T. Mole, Jr.

Thomas R. Mole

Joseph A. Mollo

Allen C. Molloy

Royal Mollineaux

Alfred J. Monahan

Francis X. Mooney, Jr.

Joseph P. Mooney

James R. Moore

Raymond Moore

Robert L. Moore, Jr.

Arnold N. Morris

Walter R. Moxon

Alfred P. Moyse

Arthur H. Moyse

Everett G. Muench

Norman F. Muench

John R. Musicaro

Solly A. Musicaro

Vincent T. Musicaro

Harvey J. Nagel

Melvin H. Nagel

William Narr

Alexander J. Nedzynski

Thomas Nedsynski

Alfred W. Nelson

Arvid S. Nelson

George V. Nelson

John L. Nelson

Ralph O. Nelson

Raymond T. Nelson

Robert A. Nelson

Walter R. Nelson

Henry C. Neville

Anthony L. Nieli

Albert C. Nielson

Elmer Neilson

Richard J. Noer

Horace Noon

Barney R. Norland

Eric Norland

John E. Norton

Joseph J. Oberkriser

Edward R. Odell

Elmer W. Odell

Carl Olberding

Arnold G. Olsen

Eric W. Olsen

Thomas O'Shaughnessy

Gerald O'Sullivan

William L. O'Sullivan

Herbert E. Ottens

Jerome E. Overend

George S. Overin, Jr.

Arthur H. Owen

Eugene F. Owens

Edward Pace

Samuel Pace

Thomas E. Panaccione

George Parquet

Wilfred Parquet

Thomas G. Parrish

John Pascarelli

Luke Pascarelli

Ralph Paschette

Richard J. Paschette

William P. Paschette

Harry O. Patton, Jr.

Frank Pawlikowski

William F. Payton

William R. Pease

Emmett R. Peavy

Salvator P. Pecoraro

Alfred F. Peterson

Herbert F. Peterson

Harry M. Pfister

Joseph A. Pfister

Robert A. Pfister

Robert A. Pfluegner

William J. Place

Samuel Posnock

Robert G. Post

John Powers

Joseph H. Praetz

Sidney B. Preston

Elmo G. Prinz

Thomas A. Raber

Edmund C. Raiola

Ronald E. Raiola

Richard H. Ramsbottom

Christian Rasmussen, Jr.

Lawrence C. Rasmussen

William G. Rasmussen

Robert D. Ravener

Irven E. Ray

Albert W. Rebehn, Jr.

George Redzinak

Rudolph R. Reissig

Raymond R. Reynolds

Robert J. Reynolds

Franklin B. Rhodes

Otto F. Rhodes

Russell E. Rhodes

Warren W. Rillings

Leroy T. Riordan

Frank J. Ritchie

Gerald Ritchie

Joseph Ritchie, Jr.

Michael Ritchie

Robert F. Ritchie

Lynn K. Roberts

Arthur J. Rodgers

Sol J. Rosinksy

James Wesley Ross

Fredrick C. Rowe

Gerald W. Rowles

Thomas W. Rowles

Paul Rudolf

E. Wesley Ruland

John E. Russel

James Russo

Warren D. Rutan

Arnold M. Sampson

Elliot Sapir

Arthur F. Saunders, Jr.

Raymond E. Saunders

William E. Sauter

Edward G. Schade

Louis F. Schaeffer

Leonard W. Schalkham

Frank E. Schenk

Frederick W. Schieffer

Leonard L. Schlegel

George E. Schmidt

John H. Schmidt

Olive D. Schmidt

Robert W. Schmidt

Walter I. Schmidt

George E. Schnaars

Richard J. Schnackenberg

Robert W. Schmidt

Walter I. Schmidt

George F. Schnaars

Richard J. Schnackenberg

Richard F. Schneider

Frederick Schrader, Jr.

George E. Schroeher

James G. Schroeher

Oscar P. J. Schuessler

Robert R. Schuessler

Arthur J. Schuldt

Joseph H. Schulz

Arthur G. Schwabe, Jr.

Joseph A. Schwartz

James I. Scott

Alfred W. Seaman

Herbert E. Seaman

Carolyn H. Searby

Ira R. Searby, Jr.

John H. Seery

Lloyd C. Semmens

Fred T. Sergio

Joseph J. Sergio

Paul C. Sewell

Harold F. Seymour

Edward L. Shea

Edgar Sheridan

Robert N. Sheridan

Russel C. Shura

Edward F. Sierks

Herman B. Sigman

Anthony Silipo

Frank Simek, Jr.

Edward R. Sinram

Walter Skinner, Jr.

George A. Skoglund

Raymond M. J. Slater

Clifton E. Smith

Clyde E. Smith

Edward H. Smith

Everett R. Smith

Harry H. Smith

Kenneth Smith

Louis J. Smith

Robert F. Smith

Richard S. Smith

Walter P. Smith

William F. Smith

William J. Smith

Dewey L. Snure

John W. Snure

Harold F. Sommers

Chester R. Sonds

N. H. Sperling, Jr.

George J. Spies

Benjamin E. Sprague

Robert M. Sprague

Anthony Stabile

Albert J. Stahly

August J. Stahly

Vincent S. Stalz

Gilbert Stancourt

Paul A. Stehr

John Stephan

John L. Sterling

David L. Steward

Allison J. Stewart

Edwin A. Stubbe

Herman M. Stubbe

John E. Sullivan

Joseph Susaro

Robert C. Swingle

James L. Talbert

Charles A. Tangredi

Daniel F. Tarulli

Frank Tarulli

Vito Tarulli

Arthur R. Taylor

Stuart S. Taylor

Gilbert J. Thiele

Robert T. Thistle

Earl S. Thomas

Ralph J. Thomas

Roy E. Thompson, Jr.

Purrey E. Thomsen

Arthur Thomson, Jr.

Robert E. Thornton

Earl H. Thurner

Howard M. Tiedemann

Earl L. Toblason

Edward J. Toner

Blase J. Topsher

John E. Torpy

Alfred J. Toscano

S. Townsend

Simeon W. Trestka

Howard T. Tripp

William J. Tripp

Joseph T. Troccoli

Lee W. Tuttle

James C. Tynan

Frederick G. Unbekant

Vernon G. Updegrove

Joseph A. VanAudekerk

Michael J. VanAudekerk

Arthur VanOstrand

Andrew J. Vecchione

Gene D. Vecchione

Lester J. Velez

Charles R. Voges

Edward Voigt

Frederick W. Vollmer

Bernard C. VonElm

William E. Voorhest

George R. Vooris

Herbert W. Vooris

John P. Vujasin

Bernhardt. F. Wagner

Kurt E. Wagner

Henry G. Wahl

Charles J. Walker

Robert C. Walker

Annie E. Wall

John D. Wall

George D. Wallace

Arthur J. Warren

Charles J. Washburn

Ernest A. Webster

Chester L. Wegener

Harvey J. Wegener

Charles R. Weinberger

Walter J. Weinman

Carl J. Welge

Curtis Wernicke

Howard V. Wernicke

Richard Wernicke

Richard M. West

Carlton G. Weyant

Edward H. Whaley

Louis B. Wheeler

Alfred G. Whitney

Lee Whitney, Jr.

Harry W. Wider, Jr.

Frank J. Wild

Herman C. Wild

Nicholas T. Wild, Jr.

Theodore G. Wild

Emil Wilhelm

Lawrence Williams

Robert A. Williams

Charles E. Williamson

James C. Williamson

Evans Wilshere

George A. Wilson

William L. Wilson

Arthur Winther

Alexander Wishnevsky

Albert G. Witte

Irving Wood

Charles A. Wright, Jr.

Frank E. Wright

George E. Wright

Walter K. Wright

William J. Wright

William W. Wright

Arthur F. Wubbenhorst

Charles T. Wubbenhorst

Leroy H. Yongen

Warren Young

Frederick C. Yzquierdo

Frederick Zeiher

John C. Ziegler

Alexander Zierman

George E. Zierman

Henry M. Zierman

John W. Zierman

Henry H. Zimmerman

John B. Zippel

Charles A. Zuk

And the third honor roll was erected by a local American Legion post.

THE AMERICAN LEGION JOE MURPHY POST 1957

DEDICATE THIS MONUMENT TO

THE VETERANS OF ROOSEVELT, NEW YORK WHO HAVE SERVED

IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

In addition to the names, this monument tells us if someone was a General or Commander and if they received a Medal of Valor, a Bronze Star or Purple Heart. The monument also tells us in which branch of the Armed Forces each person served. I have included that information in parentheses next to each name.

Richard P. Warren (Commander, Marine Corps, Air Force)

John L. Webb (Air Force)

Philip R. Middleton (Army)

Anthony J. Thomas (Marine Corps)

David L. New (Army)

Woody M. Allman (Navy)

Michael A. Carlisle (Army)

Lewis Gilliam (Army)

Charles R. Heard (Purple Heart, Army)

Univester Smith (Army)

Luther C. Johnson (Army)

Robert L. Harding (Marine Corps)

Joe Murphy (Army)

Albert L. Ziegler (Army)

Alvin F. Crummel (Air Force)

Jewel C. Dennis (Army)

Arnold B. Davis (Army)

George G. Roach (Bronze Star, Army)

Leroy Ladson (Bronze Star, Army)

Rembert H. Brown (Army)

Calvin C. Bryant (Army)

Charlie H. Robbins (Medal of Valor, Army)

Robert L. Olden (Air Force)

Andrew B. Jackson Sr. (Marine Corps)

John W. Carlisle (Army)

Robert Wade Jr. (Marine Corps)

Debbie Williams (Marine Corps)

Clifford A. Hazel (Air Force)

Frank Brown Jr. (Army)

James G. McPherson (Bronze Star, Army)

William M. Terry (Marine Corps)

Charles S. Oliver (Army)

Robert D. Lyle (Air Force)

James W. Graham (Navy)

Melvin J. Mason (Army)

Tommie D. Hill (Navy)

Jeffrey Davies (Army)

George A. Jones (General, Army)

John F. Boyd (Army)

Terrence J. Edwards (Army)

Leo Smith (Navy)

Victor W. Terrelonge (Air Force)

John P. Rice, Jr. (Air Force)

James W. Brown (Army)

Theodore A. Hatwood (Army)

William M. Porter, Jr. (Army)

Marion D. Gary (Army)

James L. Simpson (Marine Corps)

George W. Jones, Jr. (Army)

Irving C. McKnight, Sr. (Navy)

Kenneth W. Reid (Navy)

Ronald M. Everett (Army)

Waverly W. Futrell (Army)

John E. Williams (Air Force)

Norman A. Easy (Bronze Star, Army)

Carl L. DeHaney (Air Force)

Kenneth L. Woodside (Army)

Larry Mackey Sr. (Army)

DEDICATED MAY 27 2013