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ANCESTRY CLAIMS ONLY — NO ROSTER-STRENGTH NAME
The wars before the town existed leave no soldier of this ground. The township was not settled until the 1830s, and the earlier wars enter its record only as ancestry inside later men's biographies, printed in the banked People register as the family-tradition claims they are: a Revolutionary grandfather claimed for Ort Cook; Daniel Hawblitzel, a War of 1812 soldier wounded under General Harrison, whose own father was a Revolutionary soldier; Captain Samuel Williams of the War of 1812; a Lichfield Revolutionary soldier; and Frederick Sheneman, a Revolutionary teamster who died in 1844, before his family's 1860 arrival on this ground. None of these men was a resident of this township — there was no township for them to reside in — and none is claimed as this town's soldier. The test result prints plainly: at roster strength, North Liberty's war record begins with the Civil War generation that actually lived here.
Banked Notable People (Chapman and Howard biographies, read whole in earlier passes); the claims stand there as biography claims, at biography strength.