Pvt. Thomas Baldwin was in Company K, 9th Infantry. For extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, on July 18, 1918. After all of the other platoon, runners had been killed or wounded by...
WW1
How About Jimmy Durante?
HOW ABOUT JIMMY DURANTE? – One question asked was could we tell them a good story about the courthouse?… There are so many to tell we offered a choice – the big vote steal of 1936, the election...
Colonel William Lambert
Colonel William Lambert was a WWI and II Veteran from Ironton, Ohio, a Veteran Flying Ace of WWI, and he received the DFC from the King of England.
Clay Schoonover
FREEMAN RESEARCHERS . William & Sarah Parker Freeman’s daughter Sarah married Abraham Ferguson in 1839 in Law. Co. Their daughter Izelia Ferguson married Joseph Schoonover Feb. 19, 1878 in Law. Co. This is a little on their son Clay schoonover. Thought you might like to see Clay J. Schoonover was born in Oxford, Nebraska Oct. 21, 1889 and passed away April 18, 1945 in a Veterans Hospital in Colorado.
Clay was a professional baseball player having played with the Arapahoe, Red Cloud and Hastings when a young boy.
He played with Omaha in the Western League in Grand Island in State League and played in Sterling, Colorado.
He served overseas in the Army during WWI in France and Germany having served with the 358 Infantry of the 89th. Div.
99 of 2,200 in WWI Made Supreme Sacrifice
Saturday, October 8, 1949 Ironton Evening Old Company Ironton’s ‘own’ in World War I was Company I, under the command of Capt. M.W. Russell. It was mustered into federal service on July 15, 1917,...
World War 1 Veterans
Lawrence county Ohio WW1 Veterans- Out of the 2200 who went, one thousand volunteered, Company A, of the 148th Infantry of the 37th Division was