FAYETTE COUNTYIN THE,WORLD WARBY-M.FREDERICK HANESPastor of St. James Lutheran ChurchEvangelicalIllinoisVandalia,PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE FAYETTECOUNTY CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSSPRINTED BY THE VANDALIA UNIONDEDICATED TOSons andCounty's DaughtersFagettewho served inand dead,livingThe Great World WarPREFACEThe of ofawriting history Fayette County's partin the Great WorldWar was first the Warinstigated byRecords of the Illinois HistoricalSection State Library.In with Ira D. editor of the Van-correspondence Lakin,dalia it was that the war records of Fay-Union, urgedandette be in some formCounty preserved permanentthat a committee should take the work in Thecharge.and the Statecommittee as selectedfinally approved byoffice was of Williamcomposed the following: JudgeM. Ira D. F. E. C.Farmer, chairman, Lakin, Crawford,F. N. C. Dr. A. L. T.Easterday, Gochenour, Williams,G. L. Hausmann and Will P. Welker.At a of the committee itJan.meeting 21, 1921,was decided that the would bedefinitely history pub-lished in book form and the writer was asked to under-take the task of and it. The workcompiling writingwas somewhat andundertaken, although reluctantly,has been as as other dutiespushed rapidly pressingwould permit.The task has been a difficult one;peculiarly pro-has been alike to the limited amountgress slow, owingof time at the writer's and the difficultiesdisposal manyencountered in authentic data. No time norgatheringhave been ...
FAYETTE COUNTY
IN THE
,
WORLD WAR
BY-
M.FREDERICK HANES
Pastor of St. James Lutheran ChurchEvangelical
IllinoisVandalia,
PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE FAYETTE
COUNTY CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS
PRINTED BY THE VANDALIA UNIONDEDICATED TO
Sons andCounty's DaughtersFagette
who served inand dead,living
The Great World WarPREFACE
The of ofawriting history Fayette County's part
in the Great WorldWar was first the Warinstigated by
Records of the Illinois HistoricalSection State Library.
In with Ira D. editor of the Van-correspondence Lakin,
dalia it was that the war records of Fay-Union, urged
andette be in some formCounty preserved permanent
that a committee should take the work in Thecharge.
and the Statecommittee as selectedfinally approved by
office was of Williamcomposed the following: Judge
M. Ira D. F. E. C.Farmer, chairman, Lakin, Crawford,
F. N. C. Dr. A. L. T.Easterday, Gochenour, Williams,
G. L. Hausmann and Will P. Welker.
At a of the committee itJan.meeting 21, 1921,
was decided that the would bedefinitely history pub-
lished in book form and the writer was asked to under-
take the task of and it. The workcompiling writing
was somewhat andundertaken, although reluctantly,
has been as as other dutiespushed rapidly pressing
would permit.
The task has been a difficult one;peculiarly pro-
has been alike to the limited amountgress slow, owing
of time at the writer's and the difficultiesdisposal many
encountered in authentic data. No time norgathering
have been to make the work accurate inpains spared
It has entailed adetail. voluminousevery correspond-
ence and endless of files andsearching newspaper
records of various and warorganizations agencies.
to the fact that state and federalOwing departments
as to make records counties avail-have, yet, nothing by
it was to all material within theable, necessary gather
and to thebuild structure of this record fromcounty
the ground up.
In some branches of war the ma-availableactivity
terial was not to be had to make the records as com-
as we should like to see but far theplete them; by
task hTthe actual work of hasgreater writing been,
not to a of but toget select fromsufficiency material,
the mass of material that which was of realgathered4 FAYETTE COUNTY
worth and discard even wouldwhat, though interesting,
to the value of work as a document ofadd thenothing
/history.
We who are so near the GreatWar so endedlately
see it as a storm cloudgigantic subsiding yet hovering
on the horizon and which we are anxious to forget.
Therefore it is not for those of the but for thosepresent
of the future who will be interested in the war record
of our that we have and the con-county written, object
in mind has been to make this worthrecordstantly
while to them. To what success has beendegree
achieved time alone will be able to tell.
Much valuable hasassistance been the writ-given
er various individuals the Itby throughout county. is,
to mention all who im-impossible have assisted in the
mense task of material. Invaluable servicegathering
has been rendered firm of T. Lakinby the N.publishing
& in the free use of theSons, Vandalia Uniongranting
files from which much information has beenimportant
Mr. William chairman of thegathered; by Henry,
draft board for and records of theaccurate complete
Mr. Dan Colburn to whom we are indebteddraft; by
for the on and the schoolchapter Company I, by public
teachers of the in nook and cor-county combing every
ner of the for information that couldcounty scarcely
have been at all without their assistance.gathered
If errors have into the work and if therecrept
have been omissions are due to limitations be-any they
the writer's control. effort has been madeyond Every
to make the records and accurate incomplete every
detail but efforts have not met withrepeated response
in a few instances. We refer to the memorialespecially
honor roll fewwhere it will be found there are a photo-
ofWhere there is no of onegraphs lacking. photo
these honored sons of our the ommission is duecounty
either to no or the failureavailablephotograph being
of relatives after to send to the writerrepeated appeals
the photograph requested.
to in theAn earnest effort has been made give
a consistent without unduerecord, ag-following pages
or and discrim-grandizement disparagement;
ination in-so-far as has been possible,but, humanly
that is their due.all features the attentiongiving
If readers in times that are to be shall sufti-yetIN THE WORLD WAR 5
value the records written here as turn to thesetociently
and here read the of the sacrifices madepages story
and the services rendered the sons andby daughters
of in the service and at in hu-Fayette County, home,
then the of this littlemanity's greatest war, object
volume will have been achieved.
Frederick M. Hanes.
Lincoln's Birthday
1922.Vandalia, Illinois,
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