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Wars — Indian Village, Indiana
The leg's verdict, stated first
Indian Village has no war record of its own in the era of the county histories, because it was not yet a town — and this section does not pretend otherwise. What the ground carries is Clay Township's record, and it is thin in the…
Before the Civil War: the settler-veterans of the township ground
Chapman (1880), pp. 505, 679–680; Howard (1907) I, pp. 715–716; Goodspeed (1893), pp. 229–230
The Revolution left no soldier on this ground. Howard and Chapman agree that the county's only Revolutionary soldier-residents were Peter Roof, Sr., and Isaac Ross, buried in South Bend's old City Cemetery — a county fact…
The Civil War: a township that subscribed, and the men the books name
Chapman (1880), pp. 411, 443, 680; Howard (1907) I, pp. 716–731, 736–742; Goodspeed (1893), Clay sketches read whole
Clay Township's war begins with a committee, not a company. At the second South Bend war meeting, on Friday evening, 19 April 1861 — a week after Sumter — township committees were appointed across the county to solicit…
The Civil War dead: one named man, and the limits of the county roll
Chapman (1880), Roll of Honor, pp. 444–448, read whole; Howard (1907) I, pp. 731–735; Goodspeed (1893), p. 234
Jacob H. Kiefer is the township's named Civil War dead. The eldest son of John and Elizabeth (Protsman) Kiefer of Clay Township, he "enlisted in Company D, Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in 1862," served in all his…
The First World War: the county's 109, and no Clay name among them
Gold Star Honor Roll (Indiana Historical Commission, 1921), St.
The test was run against the whole county roll. The state's Gold Star Honor Roll (Indiana Historical Commission, 1921) records the Hoosiers who died in the service in 1914–1918, classified by the county in which they had lived.…
The Second World War: the figure is not settled, and the file says so
War Department Honor List of Dead and Missing, Indiana volume (NARA NAID 305290); the companion Navy volume read whole in the sibling pass…
No Clay Township Second World War dead can be named at official strength from any carrier reached — and that sentence is a statement about the carriers, not about the township. The settling volume is the War Department's Honor…
Korea: the county's 43, and a city field that cannot answer for this ground
The file was read entire, and it cannot settle this town. The Defense Casualty Analysis System's Korean War Extract, as NARA prints it for Indiana (its provenance line names the Korean War Extract Data File, as of 29 April 2008…
Vietnam: this town's allocation, dug from the county record — zero, proven
Indian Village's Vietnam allocation is zero, and it is proven, not presumed.St. Joseph County carries exactly 54 dead — South Bend 31, Mishawaka 16, Walkerton 6, Osceola 1, and New Carlisle, Lakeville and Roseland 0 each. Those named places sum to the county's 54 exactly, with no unknown-city remainder — so every other home-of-record place in the county, this town among them, stands at zero on this section's own arithmetic, not on an absence of data. The distinction this section is careful to keep: the town's Korea share, above, is unproven — the file cannot answer; its Vietnam share is proven zero — the file answers, whole.
The later wars, and the summit test
No Indian Village home-of-record death stands in the later-wars record reached. The DCAS-derived lists of Indiana's Operation Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, and New Dawn dead were read whole in the sibling pass: the county's…
The military leg at town size: what was here, and what was not
Chapman (1880); Howard (1907) I, pp. 711–757 read whole in the sibling pass; the directory record of Pass IV-3
Both halves of the test print. What was not here: no fort, stockade, or wartime installation on Clay Township ground in any carrier — the township was farmland from 1829 and this town a residential parcel of the twentieth…
Epidemics and public health: the county figures whole, the township's share a finding
The county record at its carriers' strength; the township experience tested and not found
The branch pass runs at county strength because the township record does not carry its own toll. The county's sickly season is a first-hand county memory: the 1875 atlas records that "the year 1838 was especially noted for great…
The pass's own accounting; settlers named in EXPAND-IV6-NOTE
Stated once, whole, so no later hand mistakes silence for a negative: the Second World War's county figure and name list stand behind a refused carrier — the township's WWII dead are unnamed, not none. Korea's thirty Army records with city unknown leave this ground's share open. The Civil War's township totals — men served, quota, bounty — were never in the county books, and its named men rest on single-book strength until Terrell's rosters are read. The Vietnam zero, the Gold Star zero, and the later-wars negative at its stated coverage are proven results and do not stand in this register. Everything else the leg was asked, it answered at the strength printed in its article.