Work Of Marking All Graves Takes Two Years
The American Legion graves registration effort records lot and grave numbers, marker type, service details, death data, and burial place. Led by George W. Ries in Van Feen Van Hemert Post 89, this ongoing project surveys cemeteries, contacts relatives, and compiles lists of Civil War to World War veterans buried in Oakwood and Graceland cemeteries, including locals from Pella.
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American Legion
George W. Ries
Res
van Feen-Van Hemert
Ries
Atreet
Bat
Pella
Pelli
van Veen-Van Homert Post No
Flanders Fields
Moat
John McRae
Civil War and World War Veterans Buried in Local Cemeteries
A compiled list of veterans interred at multiple cemeteries including Catholic Cemetery Porter Grove Cemetery and Arlington National Cemetery. Names include Gerrit De Kock W. P. Holdsworth Stephen De Kock Cyrus M. Olney Herman Van Lint George Richardson Gilbert Van Maanen Henry Tysseling and Freeman Lankelma among others with references to isolated graves and farm sites.
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Oakwood Cemetery
Michael Keables
Cornelius Bauman
Henry Bauman
Hi. F. Bousquet
J. J. Bousquet
Jacob L, Bowman
W. J. Clark Jacob Cornelius Joshua S, Cox
T. W, Cox
J. M
Cox John Cox
Cully
E. Dennis Downing
PL Fowler
Alonzo P. Keables
Samuel Iuterins
Jacob Keigle
William Langerak
Jacob Miller
John S. Morgan
John, Nearmyer
R. C. Payne
Edward Benitema
Rube C. Brand
Ruby Glarke
Jacob de Bruyn
Peter Kits
Harry Koopmansui
LeCocq
Henry Schurer
van Buren
Dick van Dusseldorp
Gerrit van Beniert
G. van Sette
Tounis
Ver
Beck Frank Simonse, Jr
Edward H, Vander Linden
Henry C
Muilenberg
Gerrit Klein de Porter
W. A. Young
Gilbert van Maanen Henry Tysseling
Sand Ridge
P. Antry Ise Ee
Price Cemetery
Otley
Joseph D. Hamilton
Peter Howard
Howard
H. Blom
Arlington National Cemetery
Freeman Lankelma
Freeman Lankelmaid
France
Herman van Lint
Ienza
Camp Fu Buied
T Lam
Pella
Pella in the World War notice brief
March items report citizens urged to sift flour for ground glass amid wartime patriotism. A Lake Prairie drive aims to sell $100,000 in war savi stamps. There is a Knox ville incident where a German hobo was seen with unusual tools. March entries list Capt. Chas. W. Winterset and general orders for Raper.
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Lake Prairie
Ion
Knoxville
Arlington burials and veterans notes from local cemeteries
Local notice invites anyone with information on unlisted soldiers buried in area cemeteries to contact the Registration Officer or Graves Registration Officer for marker papers. It highlights Arlington National Cemetery rights, mentions Memorial Day observances, G A R veterans, and the poem In Flanders Fields, with references to World War I casualties and postwar American Legion care.
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W. D. van Sittert
Geo. W. Ries
Pella
Arlington National Cemetery
Virginia
Arlington
National Cemetery
Robert B. Lee
Washington D. C
William Jennings Bryan
Apheis
Pal Wes Vane
Canadian Army Medical Corps officer's WWI service noted
The document records field artillery service and later ties to McGill University's medical faculty. From 1914 until his death in 1918 he served actively with the Canadian Army Medical Corps.
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Field Artillery
McGill University
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Summit Township Oversubscribes Savings Stamp Quota
Summit township has oversubscribed cet savings stamp quota by two dollars.
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Summit Township
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Legion Post
John van Veen
Gerrit van Hemert
Lnter
Oakwood
J. J. Kempkes
Graceland Cemetery
Don Parker Mee
Gideon i Govert
Scheftera
Valentine Fates
Joh Var van Steenwyk
George World Wer
Jerry de Bont
Edward H. van der Linden
Toxic Moines
Iowa
Tunis
Enze
Dodged
Gilbert van Maanen
Camp Dodge
Black Oak Center
Henry Muilenberg
Cordova
Charles Thomas
Edward Beintema
Gerrit Klein
Osk
Bur Oakwood
Louis Lecocq
Indianapolis
Ind
Henry R. Tysseling
Ft. Riley
Jack Oak Center
Peter Dykhuis
Denver
Colo
Gerrit van Setten
Oak
Pell
Joseph Porter
William A. Young
Apper
Burbank
Sjoerd van Buren
Colorado
Chas. W. Winterset
Geeneral Oe
Raper
Az Stam
Sty Gover
Gerrit DE Kock
Graceland
Ruby E. Clark
Monrovia
Calif
Frank Simonse
Gothen Phe Thare
McRae
Guel
Ontario
Pin
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