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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 state's official roll of the county's war dead, read whole in its county section. The recount, made entry by entry with the method stated because the volume prints no county subtotal: 109 county dead — 102 full entries and 7 more under the book's own head, "complete records could not be obtained." A search of the whole county roll for "Lakeville" returns exactly one match. Private Martin Gunderson: born 9 October 1886 at Suttons Bay, Michigan; "Moved to Lakeville, St. Joseph County, Ind., in 1916"; a contractor; entered service 28 March 1918 at South Bend; trained at Camp Taylor, Kentucky; served overseas from 2 June 1918 with Company E, 112th Infantry, 28th Division, at the Second Battle of the Marne; died of disease 26 August 1918; his entry closes "Burial place unknown," and carries no decoration. He is the township's one named First World War death at official strength — a Michigan-born man who had been this town's for two years, claimed here by residence and service, his resting place an open record (see the heroes article). The near-misses were examined and excluded with their grounds stated: Byron Crocker, whose entry's town is in Green Township; Edith Farver, buried at North Liberty; and the roll's Sousley, Swanson, and Paszkiet entries, which belong to North Liberty's and New Carlisle's files.
The machinery that took him sat in South Bend, and its record is the county's, proved in the county's own paper: the South Bend News-Times of 14 July 1917 (p. 3, read whole) prints the exemption-board organisation of the first draft — South Bend's Division No. 1 (Farmers' Trust Building, rooms 304–306; chairman Harry K. Tyler; secretary L. H. Orvis) and Division No. 2 (room 603), and a separate county board, for "the remainder of the county" outside South Bend and Mishawaka (Mishawaka being its own district). Union Township fell under that county board; the board's number is not carried by anything read, and stands as a gap. The first-draft quota for the city-and-county combined prints in the same page in two forms — 186 in the headline, 196 in the body — flagged as found (the page read is machine-read newsprint, and either figure may be the misread), registered whole's note, and used for nothing: neither is a total-served figure. The county's total served in this war was not found in any carrier read; the state's First World War service-card roster, counted for the county, is its named settler.