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Hard cases: four records that will not quite close

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PRINTED WITH THEIR PROOF PROBLEMS STATED, NOT RESOLVED

Emery C. Farver and David A. Whitmer — the county dead who rest in this town's ground (their whole course, and their claim on this town under the resting-place rule, stand in the wars file). For this section their point is narrower: the roll that buries them here records no decoration for either, and their homes stand at the strengths the roll gives — Farver's at county strength only, Whitmer's as a farm near South Bend. They are entered's residue (R-33 class settlers: compiled service records; the town paper of February–April 1919) for their records' completion, not for any honour unproven. David M. Houser — a corporal in the VA burial file (b. 1835, d. 1914, U.S. Army, Corporal, resting in Porter Rea Cemetery): a rank in a burial file is a service fact at that strength; it is not a decoration, and his identity with any banked Houser family of this ground is not asserted — the banked Houser brothers are a different stated generation, and no carrier reached joins them. Charles W. Singleton — the same VA file's soldier in Eastlawn (b. 1843, d. 1927, U.S. Army, no unit, rank, or war stated as reached): his dates fit Civil War service and nothing reached names his unit, his township residence at enlistment, or any decoration; he stands at VA-file strength only, a soldier buried here whose course is unrecovered, with the 1894 by-township veterans list named as his settler.

Gold Star Honor Roll (1921); VA burial file as transcribed (Interment.net, VA data of 16 Dec. 2022); banked Notable People.

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Source: Hard cases: four records that will not quite close, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/war-heroes/hard-cases-four-records-that-will-not-quite-close/