1898 and 1917–19: a tested silence, then two names in the state's roll

1898–1919 · the Spanish-American War and the First World War

For the Spanish-American War, the records read name no soldier of this town or township, and the negative prints as it stands. The county's 1898 course belongs to the county's builds. For the First World War the state itself kept the roll: the Indiana Gold Star Honor Roll (Indiana Historical Commission, 1921) prints, county by county, every Hoosier who died in the service, with parentage, birthplace and service course. In the whole St. Joseph County section, two men are born at New Carlisle, and both are this section's:

Stanley Paszkiet, Private. Son of Simon and Louise Paszkiet; born 26 April 1896 at New Carlisle. A farmer — of the Terre Coupee Polish settlement, on his name and his neighbours'. He enlisted in the U.S. Regular Army in August 1917 at South Bend, was assigned to Battery E, 146th Field Artillery, went overseas, and died of pneumonia 15 December 1918 in hospital at Verdun, France — five weeks after the Armistice, in the influenza winter. His body was to be returned to the United States and buried in St. Joseph Cemetery, South Bend. James W. Swanson, Private. Son of Clous and Lottie Swanson; born 19 January 1895 at New Carlisle. An employee of the Studebaker Company when he enlisted 21 May 1917 at South Bend; trained at Fort Thomas, Kentucky; embarked 7 August 1917; assigned to the 1st Engineers Train, 1st Division. He survived the fighting and died in the occupation, at Coblenz, Germany, 8 March 1919. His body was returned to the United States and buried at New Carlisle — and the state's roll closes his entry with the sentence that organizes this town's whole twentieth-century war record: "The American Legion Post, New Carlisle, Ind. named in his honor." Both men stand at full length in the heroes file.

Sources

1. Indiana Gold Star Honor Roll, 1914–1918 (Indiana Historical Commission, 1921), St. Joseph County section, entries PASZKIET and SWANSON, read in the Genealogy Trails transcription of the county roll.