Military Service [Bill's Family] Virtual Cemetery
~ BRANCHES ~
United States Air Force
- William Harris Lawson Sr., Chaplain Major
Air Force Reserve Command, Grissom Air Reserve Base
- William Harris Lawson Sr., Sergeant
Indiana National Guard, Camp Atterbury
~ WARS ~
American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
- John Speer, 5th great-grandfather
- Peter Frantz, 3rd great-grandfather
- Joseph Benton, 5th great-grandfather
- James Crawford, 5th great-grandfather
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Confederacy
- William Hiram Brown, 3rd great-grandfather
Tennessee, CSA and served at Ft. Donelson, captured in 1861 and sent to POW camp in Springfield IL (Camp Butler) and released after pledging an oath not to take up arms against the USA again. - Eugenius N. Benton, 3rd great-grandfather
Georgia. Croft's Battery, Georgia Light Artillery (Columbus Artillery) - William Henry Crawford, 3rd great-grandfather
Georgia. Pension slip, and oral family story. 2nd Lt; captured near end of the war while in Ary of Tenn and imprisoned at Camp Douglas near Chicago (Kinfolks pg 2062 v3.6 Sarah Bethea m Willis Gibson Crawford) - William Sherron, 3rd great-grandfather
Tennessee, 50th Infantry Regiment. Fought at Ft. Donelson among other places in the West Tennessee area.
Union
- Abraham Dishong, 3rd great-grandfather
Pennsylvania, Listed in Union draft registration, Civil War Pension record, - Simon Peter Tridle, great-grandfather
Indiana. Civil War Pension Index, soldier listing, Records & Profiles - James Brosier, 2nd great-grandfather
Indiana. Registries, Lists and Pension. - David Day, 2nd great-grandfather
Draft record.
World War I (1914-1918)
- George Elmer Tridle, grandfather
Korean War
- William Harris Lawson, Sr., father
Bibliography
Wikipedia Contributors. "American Civil War," 1 June 2023. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War 17 June 2023.
---. "American Revolutionary War," 16 June 2023. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War 17 June 2023.
---. "Korean War," 16 June 2023. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War 17 June 2023.
--. "World War I," 16 June 2023. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I 17 June 2023.
Miscellanea
The original date of this page: June 16, 2023.
The most recent update for this page was 23 January 2024.
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