The women of the record, tested

The standing test · no service role reached

The leg requires the test, and the test is honestly negative. No woman of New Carlisle or Olive Township appears in the records read for this build in a military or nursing service role in any war — not in the county histories' military courses, not in the Gold Star roll's county section (which carries the county's women who died in service elsewhere), not in the cemetery inscriptions read. The women's war work that the record does carry for this ground is of the other kind: the families the 1861 aid committees were appointed to support; Mary Garoutte's midwife ride in 1831, a death in service of the settlement if not of the state; and the American Legion Auxiliary at New Carlisle, chartered October 1946, which is the town's organized women's veterans' institution and stands in the wars file. The settler for a stronger answer is named plainly: the county's Red Cross and nursing records of 1917–19 and the NPUSC-era service files, neither read for this build. The test prints as a tested negative at the strength of the records searched, no higher.

Sources

1. Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), military courses; Gold Star Honor Roll, St. Joseph County section, read whole; DAR inscriptions, Hamilton.
2. IRS exempt-organizations record (American Legion Auxiliary, New Carlisle, 10/1946).