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ID	89497
Title of Article	Thank you for your service
Notes	Thomas LeFevre
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	David A. Erwin's headstone with veteran flag
Date	May 27, 2023
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Civil War Veterans, Rice Cemetery, Memorial Day

ID	50916
Title of Article	Restoring honor: gravestone of Capt. Orville Tyron Chamberlain, Medal of Honor winner, cleaned up by volunteers
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of Jack Sanders
Date	October 11, 2012
Page	A3, A5
Subjects	Grace Lawn Cemetery, Chamberlain, Orville T., Medal of Honor, Civil War Veterans

ID	2766
Title of Article	Unknown Civil War soldier identified
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of family members
Date	October 31, 2002
Page	A1
Subjects	Canell Family, Civil War Veterans

ID	17540
Title of Article	The CCC remembered.
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Illustration
Date	January 10, 1981
Page	2
Subjects	Civil War Veterans

ID	21084
Title of Article	Stories wanted about County men in civil war.
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Illustration
Date	May 2, 1979
Page	1
Subjects	Haradine, Ada, Hapner, Nelson, Civil War Veterans

ID	7257
Title of Article	Civil War's youngest soldier lived here
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo
Date	October 25, 1976
Subjects	Brown, Avery, Veterans, Civil War Veterans, Grace Lawn Cemetery

ID	25675
Title of Article	Civil War's youngest soldier lived here
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Elkhart City History File
Picture Caption	photo of drum & markers
Date	October 25, 1976
History #	706
Subjects	Brown, Avery, Civil War, Grace Lawn Cemetery, Civil War Veterans

ID	15535
Title of Article	City's first mayor was Civil War veteran
Notes	Elkhart Truth - Elkhart Mayors Series envelope. 1st mayor (1875-1876)
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Henry C. Wright
Date	September 18, 1976
History #	Elkhart Truth Collection
Page	A.M. Section, p. 10
Subjects	Wright, Henry C. (mayor), City's Mayors Series, Mayors, Elkhart, Civil War Veterans

ID	7258
Title of Article	He sleeps in Grace Lawn... Avery Brown
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Avery Brown grave site; Raymond Ervin
Date	May 29, 1958
Page	1, 2
Subjects	Brown, Avery, Veterans, Civil War Veterans, Grace Lawn Cemetery

ID	37466
Title of Article	Last Civil War soldier honored by Women's Relief Corps
Notes	see also Winey Book 4; page 24
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of bouquet presentation to Capt.John , Mrs. Ethel Probst, Mrs. Adelia Probst, Mrs. M. A. Mock, Mrs. Elmer Peabody, Mrs. Ilo Fuller, Mrs. Edna Schuele, Mrs. Nora Tully, Emerson Martin, Rev V. L. Palmer & Roy Vance
Date	December 18, 1939
Page	24; Book 4
Subjects	Civil War Veterans, Women’s Relief Corps. No. 5, Irish, John N.

ID	40058
Title of Article	A. G. Manning, old Civil War veteran, writes record of his experiences
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	August 4, 1927
Subjects	Manning, A. G., Civil War Veterans

ID	18366
Title of Article	First Civil War volunteer in county dead
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	September 09, 1925
Page	1
Subjects	Kesim, Eleanor, Civil War Veterans

ID	56213
Title of Article	Elkhart Gives Tribute to Her Soldier Dad
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Boy Scouts Section of Parade, Civil War Veterans' Section, Showing Wreath Carriers and World War Vets
Date	May 31, 1919
Page	1
Subjects	World War I

ID	8182
Title of Article	Aged veteran of the Civil War succumbs after long illness
Notes	obituary
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	December 23, 1918
Page	7
Subjects	Civil War Veterans, Cornell, Lawrence

ID	31900
Title of Article	Four Generations
Notes	Elkhart Remembered (Elk 977.281 E43e); Myers, Everett
Source	Non-fiction Collection
Location	Elkhart Collection
Picture Caption	1915 photo of family
Date	November 1, 1915
Page	63
Subjects	Greenwood, Jane (Tully), Civil War Veterans

ID	81570
Title of Article	Drum Carried by Youngest Soldier Given to Elkhart County Historical Society
Source	Unknown
Location	Elkhart County History File
Date	No date given
History #	49
Subjects	Elkhart County Historical Society, Civil War Veterans, Brown, Avery

ID	15959
Title of Article	Memories of Frank Baldwin
Source	Elkhart Daily Review
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	August 23, 1889
Page	3
Subjects	Baldwin, Frank, Civil War Veterans, Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Veterans

ID	15958
Title of Article	In memory of the soldier dead
Source	Elkhart Daily Review
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	illus. of monument
Date	August 23, 1889
Page	2
Subjects	Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Baldwin, Silas, Civil War Veterans, Monuments