{"id":8977,"date":"2021-11-11T13:51:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T21:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2021-11-12T21:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T05:17:03","slug":"veterans-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/veterans-day-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"US_Flag_Backlit\"<\/a>World War I\u2014the “war to end all wars”\u2014was ended by an armistice that took effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. One year later, on November 11, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson gave an address to the nation on what had come to be called Armistice Day in the U.S. and allied countries. In 1938, Armistice Day became a legal holiday, and in 1954 the day was renamed “Veterans Day” to honor all veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces, not just those who served in World War I.<\/p>\n

My family has a proud heritage of serving our country. My father Keith V. Black served in the Navy immediately before the Vietnam War. My paternal grandfather Vernon C. Black served in the Army in Europe during World War II. My maternal grandfather William E. Prettyman served in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific during World War II. And many, many more of my ancestors and relatives have served in the many wars our nation has engaged in over the past 400 years.<\/p>\n

I present this list to honor their service and their memory.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Starting this year, I’ll be presenting this list from my daughter’s perspective, so it includes all her relatives and ancestors who served, whether they are my relatives and ancestors or my wife’s relatives and ancestors. By “relatives” I mean anyone who is related to my daughter by blood, or who married a blood relative, or is a blood relative’s immediate in-laws.<\/p>\n

In the lists that follow, \u201c\u2022\u2022\u201d indicates that the person is a direct ancestor, “(\u2022\u2022)” indicates that the person is a step-ancestor, and \u201c\u2020<\/strong>\u201d indicates that the person died while serving their country (including those who died as a result of injury or disease inflicted during their service.<\/em><\/p>\n

Colonial Militia (1607\u20131754)<\/h1>\n

Adams, Deacon John (1691 – 1761)
\n\u2022\u2022 Bigelow, John (1616 – 1708)
\n\u2022\u2022 Chickering, Francis (1597 – 1658)
\n\u2022\u2022 Coddington, Benjamin (1680 – 1753)
\n\u2022\u2022 Craft, Lieut. Griffin (1600 – 1689)
\nCraft, Samuel (1637 – 1690)
\nDenison, Maj. Gen. Daniel (ca1612 – 1682)
\n\u2022\u2022 Johnson, Capt. John (<1588 – 1659)
\nMcCormick, James Edward (1731 – 1802)
\n\u2022\u2022 McMurry, William Jr. (~1725 – 1798)
\n\u2022\u2022 Noble, Ensign Matthew (1698 – 1771)
\n(\u2022\u2022) Peabody, Lieut. Francis (ca1611 – )
\nPutnam, Sgt. Thomas Jr. (1652 – 1699)
\n(\u2022\u2022) Remington, Lt. John
\n\u2022\u2022 Stebbins, Lieut. Thomas (1620 – 1683)
\n\u2022\u2022 Wood, Capt. Daniel Sr. (ca1615 – ca1649)<\/p>\n

Pequot War (1636\u20131638)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022\u2022 Burr, Benjamin (1602 – 1681)<\/p>\n

King Philip\u2019s War (1675\u20131676)<\/a><\/h1>\n

\u2022\u2022 Bigelow, John (1616 – 1708)
\n\u2022\u2022 Coddington, John B (1654 – 1738)
\n\u2022\u2022 Conant, John (1652 – 1724)
\n\u2022\u2022 Conant, Lot (1624 – 1674)
\n\u2022\u2022 Denison, Captain George (1620 – 1694)
\nJohnson, Humphrey (1620 – )
\n\u2022\u2022 Johnson, Isaac
\n\u2022\u2022 Paine, Stephen Jr. (1629 – 1677)
\nPepper, Joseph (1648 – 1676)
\n\u2022\u2022 Pepper, Robert (?1622 – 1684)
\nPriest, Joseph (1641 – 1697)
\nTreat, Governor Robert (1622 – 1710)
\n\u2022\u2022 Trowbridge, James (1636 – 1717)
\nWilson, Nathaniel Jr. (1653 – 1721)<\/p>\n

Dummer\u2019s War (1722\u20131725)<\/a><\/h1>\n

\u2022\u2022 Pepper, Jacob (1661 – 1739)<\/p>\n

French and Indian War (1755\u20131762)<\/a><\/h1>\n

Ackley, Nicholas (1708 – 1763)
\n\u2022\u2022 Cadwell, Abraham (1717 – 1762)
\nDewey, Abner (1726 – 1777)
\nHunt, Lieut. Simeon (1713 – 1793)
\n\u2022\u2022 Taft, Israel (1699 – 1753)
\nVinton, Blaise (1654 – 1716)<\/p>\n

Revolutionary War (1775\u20131783)<\/a><\/h1>\n

Aber, Abisha Sebastian (1756 – 1811)
\n\u2022\u2022 Ackley, Nicholas (1635 – 1695)
\nBailey, Gen. Jacob (1726 – 1816)
\nBailey, Lieutenant Joshua (1712 – 1786)
\nBillings, Jacob (1732 – )
\n\u2022\u2022 Bobbitt, Isham Drury (1754 – 1836)
\nCheney, Caleb (1738 – 1800)
\n\u2022\u2022 Cheney, Ebenezer (1742 – 1828)
\nCoddington, Benjamin (ca1759 – ca1801)
\nCoddington, Joseph (ca1730 – >1783)
\nCoddington, Robert Sr. (1760 – 1833)
\n(\u2022\u2022) Crum, Adam (1750 – 1831)
\nDewey, Abner (1726 – 1777)
\nDewey, Bohan (1755 – <1791)
\nDoran, Patrick (1738 – 1788)
\n\u2022\u2022 Hatfield, Joseph (1740 – 1832)
\n\u2022\u2022 Kinne, Cyrus (1746 – 1808)
\nLittle, Col. Moses Jr. (1724 – 1798)
\n\u2022\u2022 Long, John (1768 – 1841)
\nLoomis, Israel (1715 – 1801)
\n\u2022\u2022 McClure, Judge David (1726 – 1796)
\n\u2022\u2022 McClure, Thomas (1762 – 1832)
\nMcMurry, James (ca1758 – 1832)
\nMcMurry, John (1752 – 1832)
\n\u2022\u2022 McMurry, Thomas (1760 – 1829)
\n\u2022\u2022 Moore, Lt. William Sr. (1753 – 1827)
\nOgden, David Sr. (1764 – 1840)
\n\u2022\u2022 Pepper, Joshua (1721 – 1808)
\nPepper, Solomon (1740 – 1796)
\n\u2022\u2022 Price, Richard (1757 – 1834)
\nRider, Daniel III (1735 – 1787)
\nSmith, Lt. Col. William Stephens (1755 – 1816)
\n\u2022\u2022 Snider, John Sr. (1743 – 1830)
\n\u2022\u2022 Stewart, Joseph (1757 – 1842)
\nStewart, Samuel (1757 – 1840)
\nStone, Archibald (1735 – 1811)
\nTaft, Squire Frederic (1759 – 1846)
\nTaylor, Daniel (1760 – 1834)
\nThayer, Peter (1737 – 1805)
\nThayer, Peter Jr. (1755 – 1820)
\nThayer, Shadrach (1759 – 1829)
\nTracy, Lt. Hezekiah (1736 – 1817)
\n\u2022\u2022 Vinton, Lt. David (1726 – 1791)
\nVinton, John (1734 – 1803)
\n\u2022\u2022 Vinton, Seth (1756 – 1848)
\nWadsworth, Brig. General Peleg (1748 – 1829)
\n\u2022\u2022 Wise, Thomas (1726 – 1800)
\n\u2022\u2022 Wolcott, Justus (1735 – 1831)
\nWoodruff, Benjamin Sr. (1744 – 1837)<\/p>\n

War of 1812 (1812\u20131815)<\/a><\/h1>\n

Coddington, Isaac (1793 – 1846)
\n\u2022\u2022 Comstock, Lemuel (1782 – 1856)
\nDewey, Jared David (1759 – 1850)
\n\u2022\u2022 Gamble, William Halter (1768 – 1814)
\nMcMurry, William (1795 – 1852)
\n\u2020<\/strong> Miller, Isaac (1778 – 1813)
\nPepper, Eli (1770 – 1856)
\nPepper, Minos (1791 – 1860)
\n\u2022\u2022 Reece, Jacob William (1772 – 1851)
\nThayer, Col. Sylvanus (1785 – 1872)
\nWoodruff, Sgt. Seth (1742 – 1814)<\/p>\n

Puget Sound War (1855\u20131856)<\/a><\/h1>\n

Stewart, Abraham Williamson (1828\u20131910)<\/p>\n

Civil War (1861\u20131865)<\/a><\/h1>\n

Bailey, Isaiah Loomis I (1823 – 1899)
\nBillingsley, Henry Mitchell (1837 – ca1918)
\nBillingsley, Lorenzo Wilson (1841 – 1916)
\nBurton, Elphenus Americus (1848 – 1926)
\n\u2022\u2022 Chilson, David Wolcott (1821 – 1902)
\n\u2022\u2022 Coddington, Daniel Schram (1811 – 1886)
\nCoddington, David Humphreys (1839 – 1912)
\n\u2022\u2022 Coddington, George Howard (1842 – 1919)
\nCoddington, James Dennis (1833 – 1925)
\nCoddington, Lewis C (1846 – 1930)
\nCoddington, William Albert (1843 – 1922)
\nComstock, George (1850 – 1864)
\nEriksen Field, Arne (1842 – 1914)
\nGoodnight, James Paris (1831 – 1885)
\nHendershot, Jackson David \u201cBlack Jack\u201d (1833 – 1912)
\nLoomis, Capt. Benjamin Turner “B.T.” (1838 – 1907)
\nMcCarrick, James A. (1842 – 1910)
\nMcClure, Col. Thomas Ross (1809 – 1886)
\n\u2020<\/strong> McMurry, Thomas Hisner (1831 – 1863)
\nMillard, Orrison Hill (1826 – 1904)
\n\u2022\u2022 Morris, Calvin Levi (1803 – 1875)
\nMorris, Dennis Dace (1847 – 1887)
\n\u2020<\/strong> Morris, James Matthew (1823 – 1862)
\n(\u2022\u2022) Peck, Nathaniel A (1841 – 1910)
\nPepper, John Quincy (1826 – 1913)
\n\u2020<\/strong> Prettyman, George W (1847 – 1865)
\nRanum, Arne Nelson (1845 – 1898)
\n\u2020<\/strong> Rice, Charles Delos (1830 – 1862)
\nScott, Amasa Taylor (1829 – 1899)
\n\u2020<\/strong> \u2022\u2022 Scott, Hiram (ca1815 – 1865)
\n\u2022\u2022 Scott, Horace L (ca1842 – 1870)
\nScott, James H (1847 – 1916)
\n\u2020<\/strong> \u2022\u2022 Severson, Sever (1828 – 1864)
\n\u2020<\/strong> Stover, Sgt. Elisha B. (ca1818 – 1863)
\nThompson, Knudt Tostensen (1832 – 1910)
\nVanWinkle, Cyrus (1805 – 1879)
\nVinton, Charles Albert (1832 – 1904)<\/p>\n

World War I (1914\u20131918) (U.S.: 1917\u20131918)<\/a><\/h1>\n

Bailey, Clarence Humphrey (1895 – 1982)
\nBailey, William Alonzo (1893 – 1970)
\nBogart, Humphrey DeForest (1899 – 1957)
\nCoddington, Thomas Kendall (1896 – 1955)
\nFanson, Vernon Monteith \u201cVern\u201d (1897 – 1980)
\nGoss, Raymond George (1893 – 1969)
\nGrosvenor, Wallace Paine (1900 – 1974)
\n\u2020<\/strong> Harmon, Loren Winfield \u201cWin\u201d (1883 – 1917)
\nJellison, Winfred Halga \u201cHelga\u201d (1896 – 1992)
\nLoso, Lloyd Joseph (1899 – 1974)
\n\u2022\u2022 Olsen, George Tolaf (1890 – 1956)
\nSevern, Clifford Leroy (1896 – 1982)
\nSpencer, Fredrick \u201cFred\u201d (1897 – 1918)
\nStokes, Milton Burton (\u201cBert\u201d) (1879 – 1971)
\nWhitney, William Canty (\u201cDoc\u201d) (1896 – 1970)<\/p>\n

World War II (1939\u20131945) (U.S.: 1941\u20131945)<\/a><\/h1>\n

\u2022\u2022 Almquist, Clarence William \u201cSwede\u201d (1922 – 1989)
\nArmstrong, Charles (\u201cCharlie\u201d, \u201cChuck\u201d) Thomas (1927 – 1984)
\nAskew, Jack Grover (1923 – 2011)
\nAskew, John Gordon \u201dGordy\u201d (1921 – 2017)
\nAskew, Robert Lawson “Bob” (1917 – 1989)
\nAskew, Robert Gordon \u201cBob\u201d (1926 – 2003)
\nAskew, Russell Wilfred (1914 – 1990)
\nBecker, Ralph Ferdinand (1926 – 2001)
\nBlack, George Cornelius (1927 – 2018)
\n\u2022\u2022 Black, Vernon Cornelius (1916 – 1993)
\nChristianson, Ray (1920 – 1980)
\nCoddington, Thomas Kendall (1896 – 1955)
\nDunham, Stanley Armour (1918 – 1992)
\nEddy, Carl Everett (1921 – 1970)
\nHeinz, Emerson C. \u201cHarry\u201d (1912 – 1977)
\nHernandez, Gilbert Thomas (1920 – 2000)
\nHogan, Eli Elias (1883 – 1962)
\nKarpen, John Paul Jr. (1922 – 1998)
\nKohler, George Edward (1916 – 2002)
\nLennon, Robert Joseph (1924 – 1988)
\nMartes, Philip Peter \u201cPhil\u201d (1917 – 1967)
\n\u2020<\/strong> Moore, Lt. Clarence Jerome \u201cRed\u201d (1921 – 1944)
\nPrettyman, Donald Irvin \u201cDon\u201d (1930 – )
\nPrettyman, George Irvin \u201cG.I.\u201d (1887 – 1977)
\nPrettyman, James Clarence \u201cJim\u201d (1919 – 1990)
\nPrettyman, Jerome Patrick \u201cJerry\u201d (1925 – 1965)
\n\u2020<\/strong> Prettyman, John George \u201cJack\u201d (1923 – 1945)
\nPrettyman, Richard Francis (Frank) \u201cArch\u201d (1921 – 1989)
\nPrettyman, Robert Austin \u201cBob\u201d (1916 – 1989)
\nPrettyman, Warren Walter (1922 – 1986)
\n\u2022\u2022 Prettyman, William Eugene (1919 – 1998)
\nProszek, Stanislaus \u201cStanley\u201d (1919 – 2003)
\nSwitzer, James Morris (1910 – 1984)
\nWichers, Jean Harrold \u201dHarold Gene\u201d (1923 – 2011)
\nWichers, Reanon Cornelius (1919 – 2007)<\/p>\n

Korean War (1950\u20131953)<\/a><\/h1>\n

Eliason, Melvin Eugene (1927 – 1997)
\nGritz, Stanley Wayne (1935 – 1962)
\nHelmbrecht, Acie Charles “Swede” (1930 – 2013)
\n\u2022\u2022 Johnson, Albert Wagoner II (1928 – 2017)
\n\u2020<\/strong> Keally, Edward Lawrence Jr. (1925 – 1951)
\n\u2020<\/strong> Robson, Donald George (1929 – 1952)
\nShearer, Donald John \u201cDon\u201d (1931 – 2016)<\/p>\n

Vietnam War (1955\u20131975) (U.S.: 1965\u20131975)<\/a><\/h1>\n

Almquist, Steven William (1950 – )
\nAskew, Stephen John “Steve” (1944 – )
\nSchuler, James John (1949 – 2003)<\/p>\n

Gulf War (1990\u20131991)<\/a><\/h1>\n

Hicks, Jason Carl (1969 – )<\/p>\n

Iraq War (2003\u20132011)<\/a><\/h1>\n

Warren, Jacob Ray (1983 – )<\/p>\n

Thank you for your service, your sacrifices, and for the roles you played in forming, developing, and protecting our country.<\/p>\n

Without your collective efforts, our country would not have endured nor even existed.<\/p>\n

If you see any veterans in our family that are not included in this list, please let me know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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