The Honor Roll Project - Glen Cove, NY

As part of Heather Wilkinson Rojo's Honor Roll Project, I have transcribed these Rolls of Honor in Glen Cove, NY to make the names visible to search engines like Google and Mocavo so that family researchers may find them. Please consider finding the Honor Roll(s) in your town or village and transcribing them on your blog or website. And even if you don't have a blog or website, see the Honor Roll Project for instructions on how you can submit a transcription.

This plaza is located at the intersection of School Street, Cottage Row and North Lane across from the Presbyterian Church pictured below.

Glen Cove, with its gorgeous views of Long Island Sound, is one of Long Island's older communities. The Civil War memorial here, which appears to my non-expert eye to be contemporary to the period, is evidence of that.

The left side of the monument.

The front of the monument, which reads:

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE ARMY & NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE WAR TO PRESERVE THE AMERICAN UNION 1861-1865

MY PARAMOUNT OBJECT IN THIS STRUGGLE IS TO PRESERVE THE UNION

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The right side of the monument.

The names:

Thomas Appleford, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
Edward Bailey, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
Edwin C. Bailey, 5th N.Y. HEAVY ART.
Charles Baker, 4th N.Y. Vol. INF.
Edward H. Bennet, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
John Birdsall, 15th N.Y. Vol. CAV.
John Bolden, 30th U.S. Vol. INF.
Charles C. Bromley, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.

Josiah Brownell, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
George Burkhart
John W. Campbell, N.Y. V. CAV
Thomas D. Carpenter, N.Y. HEAVY ART.
William H. Carpenter, N.Y. V. CAV
John Casey, N.Y.S. Vol.
Nelson Cause, U.S. NAVY
John Chester, CONN. Vol.
John C. Coates, CONN. Vol.
Alfred Cock, 2nd N.Y. Vol.CAV
Washington Cock, CONN. Vol.
John H. Coffee, U.S. Vol.
Daniel C. Davis, N.Y.S. Vol.

Jeremiah Davis, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
John Davis, Jr., 12th N.Y. CAV.
Isaac DeVoe, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
Levi DeVoe, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
Benjamin Dickerson, 12th N.Y. Vol. INF.
Isaac W. Dickerson, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
George W. Dickinson, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
Daniel L. Downing, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
W. L. Downs, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
George Duryea, 5th N.Y. Vol. INF.
Henry T. Duryea, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
William H. Flynn, U.S. NAVY
George W. Frances, 14th CONN. Vol.
Joseph Frances, 14th CONN. Vol.
George Germain, U.S. NAVY
John Germain, U.S. NAVY
Joseph Gibbons, 2nd N.Y. Vol CAV.
James Gilday, 14th N.J. Vol.
James Golden, 20th N.Y. BATTERY
Henry W. Gorham, 47th N.Y.S. Vol.
George W. Hall, 20th U.S. INF.
Henry Hall, U.S. NAVY
John Harper, 20th U.S. INF.
James Harrold, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
James H. Hewlett, U.S. NAVY
James I. Hoteling, 37th N.Y. Vol. INF.

Timothy Jackson, 20th U.S. INF.
James Jay, 20th U.S. INF.
Jerome W. Leonard, 26th N.Y. Vol. CAV.
Charles Johnson, U.S. NAVY
Colin J. Johnson, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
John B. Johnson, 5th CONN. Vol.
Joseph Johnson, 2nd N.Y. Vol CAV.
Henrey Lesne, 5th N.Y. Vol. INF.
James V. Luyster, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
Furman Lyons, U.S. NAVY
John P. Mackey, 2nd N.Y. Vol.CAV.
Francis H. Mallaby, U.S. NAVY
Seaman Mallaby, U.S. NAVY
James McLoughlin, 14th CONN. Vol.
C. Augustus Miller, 21st N.Y.S. Vol. INF.
Frost Miller, 21st N.Y.S. Vol. INF.
John E. Miller, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
Peter Miller, 21st N.Y.S. Vol. INF.
Townsend Miller, 21st N.Y.S. Vol. INF.
Andrew Mingo, 20th U.S. INF.
John F. Morris, U.S. NAVY
Leroy Noon, 28th CONN.
John M. O'Malley, 46th N.Y. Vol. INF.
Isaac Parliman, 2nd N.J. Vol.
John H. Parliman, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
William H. Prentice, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.

James Remsen, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
Ferris N. Renaud, 5th N.Y. Hvy. ART.
Stephen Seaman, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
Charles P. Simonson, 139th N.Y. Vol. INF.
William H. Springer, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
John Taylor, 2nd N.Y. Vol. CAV.
Thomas Thurston, 6th N.Y. Hvy ART.
Charles Tilley, 5th CONN. Vol.

James Tilley, 6th N.Y. Hvy ART.
John Tilley, 5th CONN. Vol.
John R. Underhill, CONN. Vol.
Napoleon Valentine, N.Y. CAVA.
John C. Aerney, N.Y. Vol. INF.
David Wansor, N.Y. Vol. CAV
John Wansor, N.Y. Vol. CAV
Julius Webster, N.Y. Vol. INF.
Isaac Weeks, U.S. INF.
Samuel M. Weeks, N.Y. Vol. CAVA.
James Westervelt, N.Y. Vol. CAVA.
Clinton Williams
Andrew Wilson, N.Y. Vol. INF.

To the left of the Civil War monument is this column containing a WWI honor roll.

DEDICATED TO THE GLEN COVE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

William Henry Albin

Harvey Brewster

John J. Butler

Luigi Capobianco

Earl Clinton Chadwick

Samuel Dawson

James Erwin Donahue

George Ford

Ralph William Francis

Charles Edward Germain

Herbert Hill

Leonard Anderson Jackson

Harry Cliff Johnson

Arthur Emanuel Lawson

D. McCauley

John Michael McGrady

William Miller

James J. Porter

John T. Ritzer

Clarence Edward Smith

Aniello Stanco

Peter J. Stathis

Arthur Andrew Wolfle

William Frederick Wolfle

This plaque is dedicated to Sgt. Major Daniel J. Daly of the United States Marine Corps. As stated on the plaque, Sgt. Major Daly was a two time Medal of Honor winner and was also awarded the Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross. You can read more about him here on Wikipedia.

This marker seems to have an older plaque remembering those Veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice during The Korean War, 1950-1954 and a newer one containing an honor roll.

Bernard Halloran

Richard Neillands

Anthony Panetta

John Truskeiwicz

Next to this is a monument with a plaque for men from the Local Union No. 1093, which would appear to be a Carpenters' union.

Adam Donaldson

Frank S. Boday

Louis Meyers

Edw. Nordstrom

Frank Hoebich

Everett Wicks

Patrick Hanlon

Daniel Murdock

Fred Cassell

Thomas Duffy

Edw. J. Wansor

Wesley Lewis

John J. Wansor

Lester Underhill

George Kassoner

Patrick Trainor

Arthur Malloy

Harry Hicks

Benj. Isaac

Berger Person

Alex. Murray

Herman Christenson

David Roy

James H. Jarvis

Andrew Hegeman

Thomas Isaac

George Tuthill

Fergoson Wansor

William Ballantine

Leroy Seaman

Homer Voorhurst

Robert B. Allen

George E. German

Martin McCaffrey

Fred. Lashway

Charles Rochat

John Kasso

James Doran

Frank Dailey

Augustus Decastro

Lester Germain

Willam H. Albin

Thomas Bryant

Frank Bojenskie

Joseph C. Miller

Louis Valentine

David H. Lundy

Bert. V. Howell

Anton H. Holmberg

Albert Hernan

Harold Webb

This marker honors the men of Glen Cove who gave their lives in World War II.

Victor Abate

Valentine Becker

Solomon Bessel

John E. Campbell

George W. Cocks, Jr.

Thomas C. DeRocco

Joseph N. DiGiovanni

John H. Doxey

John F. Duke

John P. Durka

George Edwards

Alfred S. Eldridge

William T. Emmet

Angelo Famigletti

Arimnue J. Floccari

Joseph Gabrus

Frank J. Grec

Carl V. Karilivacz

William R. Kemp

David H. Knott, Jr.

J. Anthony P. Luonga

Edward R. Lupinksi

John B. McLean

Michael G. Malinario

Tiffany V. Manning

Sylvester Marafioti

Carmine Mastraianni

Lawrence J. Morano

Thomas J. Murray

Silvio E. Nieri

Howard T. Reynolds

William T. Rogers

George W. Rooney

Felix J. Scefonas

Edward R. Smith

William Stant

George Thom

Edward Towle

Ernest Ubite

Bernard K. J. Unger

Solomon Weinstein

Ralph W. Young

Peter N. Zembreski

Michael Zuccala

Like the Korean War marker, the one for Vietnam has an older looking plaque dedicated to those veterans who gave the supreme sacrifice during the Vietnam War and a much newer looking plaque with an honor roll.

Francis Andrysiak

Francis Arnett

Richard Brown

Charles Johnson

John McCarthy

Richard Mitchell

William Morse

Dennis Murray

This plaque donated by the local American Legion post honors Sgt. Ralph W. Young who appears to have been killed in WWII. It looks like the post is also named partly in his honor.

And this stone which looks much newer than the memorial, remembers Pvt. John E. Miller and his death in the infamous Confederate Andersonville Prison.

This plaque is a tribute to those Polish-American Freedom Fighters who made the supreme sacrifice in both world wars and was dedicated by the Polish American War Veterans of Glen Cove and vicinity in 1982.

And finally, this plaque names this park Veterans Memorial Plaza and dedicates it to all who served and will serve in defense of our country.

As I finished writing this post I decided to see if a quick Google search would yield any information about the Civil War memorial. It did not, but I did discover that a new WWII Honor Roll was unveiled last November in a different park in Glen Cove.

This roll of honor names those men and women who served in WWII who lived within one mile of each other in Glen Cove's Landing neighborhood. It replaces an old wood monument that had fallen into disrepair.

This monument sits just outside the entrance to Morgan Park, a park for residents of Glen Cove and Locust Valley. What a view!

The Landing Roll of Honor:

Alexander Adamcewicz

Carl Adler

George Adler

Henry Adler

James Anderson

Chester Banach

Henry Banach

Charles Barclay

Anna Baxter

Charles Baxter

George Beglin

John Bergstol

Raymond Borer

James Britt

Michael Brown

Walter Bruszewski

Arthur Buxenbaum

Herman Buxenbaum

Mervin Buxenbaum

John Callahan

Edward Campbell

Eleanor Campbell

Henry Carhart

Charles Carlson

Matthew Carroll

Theodore Cazajkowski

Frank Cekala

John Cekala

William Cekala

Alexander Cernawsky

Anthony Cernawsky

Charles Cernawsky

William Chileski

John Clark

Burton Cocks

Florence Cocks

Frank Cocks

James Cocks

Leonard Cocks

William Conklin

Joseph Cunningham

Walter Cyckeicz

Eugene Czajokowski

Richard Dailey

Robert Dailey

Kenneth Daly

Peter Darasdi

Charles Darazsdi

Peter Darrow

Daniel Deasy

George Delise

George Devoe

Louis DiGiovanni

Frederick DiMenna

William Donaldson

Nathan Dorfman

Arnold Doxey

David Doxey

John Doxey

Bernard Dunne

James Dunne

Patrick Dunne

Dennis Dwyer

Edward Dwyer

Edward Fadrowski

Peter Fadrowski

Anthony Famalette

James Fauls

Charles Finnegan

William Finnegan

Albert Foley

Francis Foley

Michael Forgione

Nicholas Forgione

Alfred Formato

Frederick Fowler

George Fowler

Richard Fowler

Joseph Gabrus

Stanley Gabrus

Edward Gadnoski

David Gilmore

Benjamin Giwojna

John Giwojna

Joseph Giwojna

Frank Giwoyna

Paul Giwoyna

Anthony Grazioso

Joseph Grazioso

Michael Grazioso

Shirley Gregory

Thomas Grella

Loughlin Halloran

Simon Halloran

Arthur Hansen

John Harr

Joseph Hart

James Hartley

William Hauxhurst

Russell Hegeman

Albert Heilig

Charles Hicks

Howell Hicks

Philip Horvath

Chester Jankowski

Walter Jankowski

Norman Johnsen

Charles Johnson

Edward Johnson

Raymond Johnson

Clifford Jones

David Jones

Harry Jones

Vincent Junge

David Kabnick

John Kalakowski

Paul Kalakowski

Valentine Kaplinski

Chester Kapuscinski

John Kapuscinski

Carl Karilivacz

Vardi Karpinski

Theodore Kasyjanski

David Knott

Theodore Kopczynski

Frank Kormoski

James Langley

Charles Lankewicz

Edward Lankewicz

Joseph Lankewicz

Arthur Ledzian

Joseph Ledzian

Leon Ledzian

William Ledzian

Hosea Lee

August Lemp

Edward Letellier

George Letellier

Robert Letellier

Thomas Lindsay

Arthur Loew

John Lolka

Frank Lopez

Walter Lundstrom

Adam Lupinski

Benjamin Lupinski

Stephen Lupinski

Stephen Malinowski

Gregory Malley

Anthony Marcus

Edward Marcus

Stephen Marcus

Chester Markowski

Joseph Markowski

Angelo Martone

Carmine Martone

Joseph Martone

Marcy Martone

Michael Martone

Bryce Maxwell

Frank Maybeck

Charles Maybury

Sherman Maybury

Patrick McDermott

Harold McDougal

John McLean

William McLoughlin

John McMahon

Eugene McManus

Charles McQuair

John McQuair

Anthony Meilinger

John Meilinger

Stephen Meilinger

Arthur Merrick

John Merrick

Edgar Michelsen

Einar Michelsen

Joseph Mieszok

Arthur Militano

Joseph Militano

Charles Miller

Raymond Miller

Thomas Miller

Albert Minciel

William Minciel

Charles Miron

Earl Moores

Bruce Murphy

Edward Murphy

Edward Murray

Fredrick Murray

George Murray

John Murray

Frederick Muzante

Frederick Mynarkiewicz

Walter Mynarkiewicz

George Nalevaiko

James Neillands

Charles Nelson

Harold Nelson

Waldemar Nilsen

John Obergfell

James O'Brien

Maurice O'Brien

James O'Hare

Edward Okner

Theodore Olkoski

Robert O'Neill

Charles Ostaskifaki

John Ostaskifaki

Philip Oswald

John Palmirotto

Rocco Pascucci

Charles Patrick

George Patrick

Arthur Perkett

Frank Pietrocarli

William Pollitt

John Price

Joseph Quinn

Joseph Reilly

Bert Remsen

Carmen Renaldo

Charles Renaldo

Frank Renaldo

John Renaldo

Joseph Renaldo

Edwin Reynolds

Howard Reynolds

Frank Ritchie

John Ritchie

William Ritchie

John Robeson

John Rogalski

Joseph Rogalski

William Rogalski

William Rogers

Charles Russek

Joseph Russek

Abraham Saleeby

Carl Sanberg

Louis Scuteri

Edward Sczepanski

Frank Seaman

Alexander Shakal

Horace Sherwood

Ogden Sherwood

John Slater

Stanley Slowik

Joseph Sommers

Mary Spenncke

Lawrence Stanco

William Stanikowski

Stanley Staniszewski

Edward Stankiewicz

William Stankiewicz

Arthur Stein

Chester Stemcosky

Edmund Stemcosky

Henry Stemcosky

Henry Stempkowski

Charles Stoehr

Joseph Sucharski

Charles Sumcizk

John Sumcizk

Stanley Sumcizk

Freeland Swim

Edward Szykuc

Irving Taylor

Richard Taylor

Andrew Townsend

Lloyd Townsend

Robert Treadwell

Adam Trubish

Charles Trubish

Peter Trubish

Henry Trusckiewicz

Joseph Van Lawrence

George Van Nostrand

Chester Van Orden

Raymond Vasko

Joseph Veroxie

Chester Vesoloski

Joseph Vesoloski

William Vesoloski

Carl Waage

Peter Waage

Harold Waite

Charles Walczak

Anthony Walejszys

Edward Wancewicz

Edward Weeks

Benjamin Welden

Clifford Welden

Arthur Weldon

Howard Whitney

George Willets

Edward Woycik

Theodore Woycik

Zenan Woycik

Anne Yuchniewicz

John Yuchniewicz

Stanley Yuchniewicz

Victor Yuchniewicz

Stanley Zabielski

Joseph Zagusta

John Zammett

Edward Zarembo

Caswell Zielazny

Cecilia Zielazny

Edward Zielazny

Harold Zielazny

Robert Zielazny

Theodore Zienka

Anthony Zolek

Charles Zolek

Joseph Zuccala

George Lakin Parker and Halley's Comet

About two weeks ago, my mother and I set out on a road trip from Long Island to Ottawa, Ontario to see family and, of course, do some research.

On our second day in Canada, we drove the twenty minutes to the Gatineau branch of the Bibliotèque et Archives nationals du Québec to see the journal of our ancestor, my 2nd great-grandfather, George Lakin Parker.

This journal turned out to be about 80% cash book and 20% journal but was very interesting nonetheless. I learned that in the last years of his life George journaled most about the weather, planting vegetables and traveling, mostly to Ottawa and Montreal. I learned that he was very formal, referring to his married daughters as Mrs. Smith (my great-grandmother) and Mrs. Wilson and I also learned that he saw Halley's comet in May of 1910.

Halley's Comet, saw it this ? from 1/2 past three to 1/2 past 4

Planted 2nd lot Dutch setts

Sowed carrots and beans

After I noticed that George would sometimes go back and correct or add entries after the fact, I thought I should verify the date of his recorded sighting which was May 16, 1910. I first checked the Buckingham (Quebec) Post, the most local paper to George which was edited by his son Albert Hamilton Parker. The Google News Archive doesn't have all of the issues for that month, but it did have all of the issues that month of the Ottawa Citizen.  The biggest news story at the time was the death of King Edward VII (which George Parker noted on the correct date), his funeral and the ascent to the throne of King George V. The coming comet sighting did get a small mention on Monday, May 16th but said that it would be visible in the early hours of May 19th. Other papers that I checked, the Stanstead Journal (Quebec) and The Montreal Gazette (Quebec), didn't mention the event at all that I could find. This surprised me because when Earth last passed through the tail of Halley's comet in 1986, I remember hearing about it for months especially because we didn't have great visibility in the Northern hemisphere and the best viewing was going to mean taking a trip to Australia if memory serves. Just another reminder of presentism; we cannot assume that similar events are of equal importance 76 years apart and impose present viewpoints on the past.

George's last entry in this book was in January of 1915; he died at the home of son Albert Hamilton Parker on February 17, 1915, after a short illness. This journal was found in the offices of the Buckingham Post that Albert edited, I wonder if a historical society or family members we have yet to meet have the others or if they have been lost to time.

The Honor Roll Project - Bethpage, NY

As part of Heather Wilkinson Rojo's Honor Roll Project, I have transcribed this Honor Roll in Bethpage, NY to make the names visible to search engines like Google and Mocavo so that family researchers may find them. Please consider finding the Honor Roll(s) in your town or village and transcribing them on your blog or website. And even if you don't have a blog or website, see the Honor Roll Project for instructions on how you can submit a transcription.

Bethpage is home to the library that hosts two of the genealogical society meetings I try to attend every month, the Irish Family History Forum and the Italian Genealogical Group.

Bethpage is most widely known, however, as the home of Northrup Grumman, the company that designed and built the Lunar Module for the Apollo missions.

This memorial is located at the Bethpage Community Park at 1001 Stewart Avenue, which is also home to the Town of Oyster Bay Skate Park and Skating Rink.

 The thing I love most about this memorial is this plaque.

It isn't entirely clear if the high school band mentioned here had the plaque made or just did the research to find the names of the fallen, but they are responsible for its inclusion either way and I love that.

Guido Farinaro

Otto C. Grabow

James M. Hasenflug

William F. Henaghan

Leonard F. Jantzen

Stephen Karopczyc

Gerald W. McCaffrey

Peter R. McCarthy

Michael R. Morgan

The only other Honor Roll here is for World War I. I would feel safe in assuming that like other plaques I have photographed, the stars next to three of these names indicate that those men were killed in action.

Raphael Amendola

Lewis J. Bourguignon

★ George Benkert, Jr.

Herman Brandt

★Benj. Bartovitch

Frank Campagna

Milton J. Deubel

John Garrett

Gustave Gloeckler, Jr.

Louis Hoebel

Edwin Henn

Jason D. Howell

Townsend Jackson

Clarence Jackson

Henry Koehler

William Kranz

Frank Klug

Fred. W. Lauman

Jacques Liandier

Milton Leslie

Sidney Leslie

Walter Leslie

William Loftus

William Margot

Arthur McCord

★ Archibald McCord

Jacob Miller

Edward Nardi

Joseph Niemczyk

Herman A. Ott

John V. Olsen

Humbert Possenti

Edwin A. Stevens

Carl Schwartz

Henry Stumpel

Harry Seaman

William Vogtlander

Henry A. Wagner

Valentine Walsh

William Winter

Vincent Winter

Joseph Zuk

Alfred J. Zwickert

William H. Zwickert

Although these are the only rolls of honor here, three plaques remember those who served in World War II and those who gave their lives in the Korean War and Vietnam War.

Also remembered at this memorial are two firefighters killed in the line of duty.

Captain Joseph Dunn

Fireman Robert Hassett

The Honor Roll Project - Freeport, NY

As part of Heather Wilkinson Rojo's Honor Roll Project, I have transcribed this Honor Roll in Freeport, NY to make the names visible to search engines like Google and Mocavo so that family researchers may find them. Please consider finding the Honor Roll(s) in your town or village and transcribing them on your blog or website. And even if you don't have a blog or website, see the Honor Roll Project for instructions on how you can submit a transcription.

Seeing all these different concepts for memorials in villages in my area has been so interesting and I have been really intrigued by this memorial in Freeport since seeing images online a few months ago. This memorial is actually part of the village's public library. And, according to a comment left below by librarian, archivist and public historian, Regina Feeney, it is the first war memorial library in New York State.

The names of some famous battlefields are engraved along the top of the building, plaques are attached to its outer walls and one of its windows is dedicated to Gold Star Mothers.

DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM

REVOLUTIONARY WAR

1775-1788

WAR OF 1812

MEXICAN WAR

1846-1848

CIVIL WAR

1861-1865

SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

1898-1899

WORLD WAR I

1917-1918

WORLD WAR II

1941-1945

KOREAN WAR

1950-1958

DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM

THIS MEMORIAL 

IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO

THE BRAVE SONS OF FREEPORT

WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY

IN TIME OF NATIONAL PERIL

THEY GAVE THEIR FULL DEVOTION

SO THAT ALL AMERICANS MAY

CONTINUE TO LIVE PROUDLY AS

FREE MEN

MAY THEIR SACRIFICES

AND VALIANT DEEDS LIVE IN

THE HEARTS AND MEMORIES OF

ALL MEN AND WITH GOD'S MERCY

MAY THOSE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

EVER KEEP OUR NATION SECURE

IN HONOR OF OUR

GOLD STAR MOTHERS

In front of this window is the Honor Roll.

Another feature that makes this memorial stand out to me is that it is the first I have visited which even mentions the wars before World War I and lists names from the Civil War and Spanish American War on its Honor Roll.

The memorial does not indicate if these are residents who served or are residents who were killed in action, although it does make reference to "their supreme sacrifice."

CIVIL WAR

1861-1865

Treadwell Bedell

William T. Golder

John Hutchinson

Benjamin F. Losee

William R. Mead

Dandridge B. P. Mott

Joseph Mott

Enoch Mulliner

Elijah K. Raynor

William Seaman

Cornell L. Simonson

Asa Smith

Vanderveer Smith

SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

1898-1899

Charles Gombert

Asa L. Johnson

Charles A. Scott

WORLD WAR I

1917-1919

Thomas Willis Benham

Emile C. Berard

Theodore de Kruijff

William F. Downs

William E. Ensko

Charles Gantt

Charles P. Gould

Mabel Pauline Guest

E. Stanly Hart

Harold C. Hubert

John Intellisano

Charles Jordano

Harold Earl Maxon

Henry T. Mohr

Henry Morrison

James C. Rich

Arthur J. Smith

William Clinton Story

John J. Thurston

James E. Vetal

Osbourne Wells

Walter Whittaker

Townsend C. Young

WORLD WAR II

1941-1945

Onorado W. Agnitti

Norman E. Andersen

John E. Berdich

Robert H. Bergman

Saul W. Berson

Daniel C. Binneweg

Robert W. Bliss

Robert W. Boyle

Thomas E. Brittingham

A. Leslie Brown

Aubrey E. Burch

Frank D. Buwen

Donald J. Campbell

Kenneth M. Clay

James Collins

Richard Crouse

Oscar De Loney

Robert B. Eastman

Paul G. Eberius

Berking T. Edds

Ira I. Edelman

Melford Elderd

Roger J. Ellison

George E. Gardiner

John Gildea

A. Theodore Goldsmith

Warren Gollender

Andrew G. Holmes

Donald L. Jackson

Charles M. Kearns, Jr.

Daniel Kelleher

Fred R. Licence

Ralph G. Licence

Frederick F. Madden

Robert J. Maher

Charles O. Martin

Wilbur F. McGinley

Henry J. Meyer

Nicholas L. Mileo

Frank A. Muldowney, Jr.

Patrick J. Muro

Paul T. Murphy

John W. Neuendorfer

William C. Pendleton

Richard Perlman

Arthur F. Polley

Carman J. Preziosi

Irvin Reich

Alva W. Rodriguez

Mortimer R. Salmon

John A. Schlegel

Alvin R. Schumacher

George A. Schutte

William A. Serby

Walter G. Sheard

Jerome J. Simandl

Warren H. Stevens

M. Blaine Taylor, Jr.

Arthur E. Temple

Bayard D. Tewksbury

E. Lee Theuman

John J. Vetter

John C. Viebrock

Walter J. Wascher, Jr.

Harold C. Wilson, Jr.

KOREAN WAR

1950-1955

Ronald A. Canfield

Wilbur L. Bond

Clifford H. Craw

Felix Garland

Norbert Francis Holter

Edward C. Koenke, Jr.

Robert E. McAllister

VIETNAM WAR

1961-1975

Roger O. Clemens

Michael P. Donlon

Charles H. Emery

Gerald H. Faulkner, Jr.

Richard F. LaBarbera

Kevin Bernard McGovern

Dennis Patrick Molese

Thomas Lawrence Morano

Don Brown Parsons, Jr.

Viesturs Reikmanis

Victor Joseph Ruggero, Jr.

Bruce N. Sweeney

Gary W. Thornlow

Ronald E. Tuitt

Robert Michael Wainz

Also on the grounds of the library is this plaque to one of the men listed under World War I.

This tree was planted and dedicated Sept. 1st, 1919 by the Freeport Fire Department in Memory of Henry Theodore Mohr, a member of the Department and one of the first Freeport soldiers of The American Expeditionary Force killed in action in the World War.

Regina Feeney, the historian I mentioned above, along with a man by the name of Don Schultz, wrote the biographies of the men on these memorials in addition to other Freeporters who are not named. Follow this link and look for the .pdf files under each conflict to see the biographies.

Monthly Genealogy Progress - March

March was a far more productive month in terms of my genealogy goals than January and February, thank goodness!

In addition to posting for the Honor Roll Project and completing two hours of indexing on Family Search, I have almost completed my new public tree on Ancestry up to my second great-grandparents. For this project, I am making sure that I have documentation attached or referenced for all the facts attached to these ancestors and making sure that I have downloaded all of the available documentation from Ancestry in an organized fashion, meaning that all of this documentation is downloaded right away into an appropriate folder and recorded in my research logs in Evernote. I'm trying not to do any analysis of new documents for lines I am not currently researching, but as you probably know, that can be difficult when new information is right in front of you.

It is nice to see that as I revisit some of these ancestors and find new documentation (via hints, not new research), I find that I analyze and see so much more potential in these documents than I did before. It's great to read and take classes and watch webinars, but the true reward for me is in the new way of thinking and finding that I'm doing it automatically.

Last week, I finally made it to the Family History Center in Plainview to download some documents but they were having trouble with their firewall and I could not use ArkivDigital while I was there. I have no problem paying to access ArkivDigital, but right now I only want to look up a couple of dates and that isn't worth $42 to me. So, I'll have to wait until I'm ready to really dig into my Swedish lines and spend the time on the site to make it worth the price.

And after procrastinating for over a month since my package of archival tissue arrived, I finally got serious about rescanning my grandfather's three photo albums from about 1912-1917. I have completed the first album and started on the second.

In addition to working on my stated goals for the year, I also did a bit of research on one of Donald's Irish lines. I'm familiar with the issues that come with researching common names, but doing that in an urban center like New York City during a peak immigration period is something new for me. What a challenge that is going to be when I get serious about it!

This month I'll be getting ready to head to Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau (formerly Buckingham), Quebec on May 4th. I can't wait to finally get to the cemetery there!  I'm not sure about this month, but hopefully, I'll have more to post about in May after this trip.