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Wars — Lakeville
Lakeville's war record is a small township's record, and this section prints it at its true size: one company that was the township's own, one confirmed Civil War death, one World War I death, a Vietnam allocation that is zero and proven zero, and a decoration record that is honestly empty. The county figures stand beside the town figures throughout, each labelled its own — St. Joseph County's numbers are never divided down into a township share, and no county remainder is ever allocated to Lakeville by arithmetic. Where the record gives a man to this town, he is claimed plainly, wherever he died: the history is where they rest.
Soldiers Before the Town: the Revolution, 1812, and Mexico
1775 – 1848 · the pre-city service roll, tested
There were no white inhabitants in this territory during the periods of our first two wars — Howard (1907) states the frame himself, and it governs the whole question: any Revolutionary or War of 1812 veteran connected to this…
The Civil War: Company K, and the Township's Men
1861 – 1865 · the 29th Indiana and the rest, at company strength
Union Township's company was Company K of the 29th Indiana Volunteer Infantry — not by a recruiting poster but by the roster's own geography: Howard prints the company's roll (p. 721) headed by the township's names. Its sergeants…
The Township's Civil War Dead: One Confirmed, Two Probable, One Excluded
Chapman's Roll of Honor, counted whole · the tiers stated
The county's Roll of Honor was counted, not quoted — and the township's dead come out of it in tiers, because the record carries them in tiers. Chapman's roster chapter (pp. 445–448 of the 1880 history) carries the county's…
The Civil War at Home: the Subscription, the Draft, and the Missing Total
1861 – 1865 · the township's war machinery
In April 1861, before the township had a company, it had a committee. Both county histories agree, in the same names: at a meeting of Union Township's citizens in April 1861, John Jackson, John Moon, and C. J. Turner were…
The First World War: the County's 109 Recounted, and the Township's One
1917 – 1918 · the Gold Star roll · the draft boards
The state's Gold Star roll was recounted for this county, and it gives the township exactly one man. The carrier is Indiana World War Records: Gold Star Honor Roll, St. Joseph County (Indiana Historical Commission, 1921) — the…
The Second World War: the County Figure Not Settled, and Why
1941 – 1945 · the War Department's list and its stated limit
The War Department's own book cannot, by its own design, name a Lakeville man. The World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel from Indiana (1946; NARA, National Archives Identifier 305290)…
Korea: the County's Forty-Three, Counted from the File
1950 – 1953 · Defense Casualty Analysis System, via the National Archives
The Korean War file carries the county whole and the township not at all — and it says why on its face. The carrier is the Defense Department's Korean War Extract Data File (Defense Casualty Analysis System, Record Group 330, as…
Vietnam: the Town's Own Allocation, Dug — Zero, and Proven Zero
1964 – 1975 · the federal file swept whole
Lakeville's share of the county's Vietnam dead is none — and unlike most zeros in this build, this one was dug, not defaulted. The county's total stands at 54 in the sister builds, allocated by town: South Bend 31, Mishawaka 16…
The Later Wars: a Negative with Its Method
1976 – 2021 · post-Vietnam service deaths, tested
The Defense Casualty Analysis System-derived public list of Iraq, Afghanistan, and New Dawn deaths through 12 September 2011 was searched for Lakeville and for every St. Joseph County home town: the county's only Indiana…
Military Records: What Remains Open
this section's closing register · each item with its settler
The Second World War's county figure and name list (the Archives' Honor List pages, denied's reader, and the Navy summary's next-of-kin addresses); the township's Second World War names, for which the county veterans roll already…