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1864–1865 · attribution discipline applied
Of the county's 228 Roll of Honor names, the records read attribute exactly one death in service to this township's families — and leave two more at the edge of proof, where this section leaves them. The one: Michael McDonald, "a pioneer in this county," whose son Perry's sketch states he was "killed in 1864 in the war." No regiment, no place, no circumstance is given; the death is the township's on the sketch's attribution, and it prints with the sketch's limits. The two at the edge: the Roll of Honor carries Henry Woolman — "Died at Louisville, Feb. 25, 1863" — and the Woolmans of Granville Woolman's line are this township's people on Section 23; but the Roll does not say where Henry Woolman lived, and a shared surname is not an attribution. It carries also Lieutenant Solomon H. Fountain — "Died April 9, 1865, of wounds received in action," on the war's last day — and Chapman's sketch of the Gazette's founder says his father was "killed in one of the last battles of the late war." The fit is exact and the proof is absent: no record read names the founder's father. Both men are printed here, in the open, as what they are — county dead whose names touch township families, claimed for the township by no record this build has read. The settler that could close both files is the same: the compiled service records and the pension index, read name by name.
Sources
- Chapman (1880), Perry McDonald sketch, p. 780; G. W. Fountain sketch, p. 777; Roll of Honor, pp. 445, 448 (Fountain, Woolman entries).