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1917 – 1918 · and the WWI home front at this ground's size
The sweep: the county's Gold Star roll — the state's Gold Star Honor Roll (Indiana Historical Commission, 1921) — was swept whole at the same strength the Granger pass swept it: the county roll stands at 109 (the Granger recount, 109 = 102 + 7, carried from the banking with its method; not independently recounted here), and a text search of the whole roll for "Osceola" and for "Penn" returns no matches. Every entry carries its residence or birth attribution to another place — South Bend, Mishawaka, New Carlisle, North Liberty, Lakeville, Walkerton, the other townships. The Mishawaka-seated names (Busschaert, Fullerton, Gehring, Oppelt, Richter, Shelton, Snyder, Van Holsbeke, and the incomplete-records tail) are Mishawaka's, at boundary. Finding: Osceola and Penn Township have no Gold Star dead in the county roll as transcribed — a Penn farm boy who died in France stands in that roll, if he stands there, under a Mishawaka or South Bend residence, the same masking the Civil War rolls apply; the service-card index searched by residence is the named settler.
The home front, tested: the Indiana World War I service record cards exist as a record set (Indiana State Archives; the FromThePage transcription project; FamilySearch's Indiana enrollment cards) and carry residence — but no Osceola-residence card was retrieved open-web, and no record of an Osceola service flag or town honor roll was returned by searches run for exactly that ("Osceola" Indiana "service flag" / "honor roll," First World War). Both absences are printed as findings with their searches; the settlers are named in the closing register (the service-card index by residence; the South Bend Tribune's 1917–19 files). The county veterans index's First World War rows under an Osceola attribution likewise did not surface in the index pages — a partial sweep, printed as partial in the register below (the index's B and C letter pages refused the fetch and were not retried, per this build's wall discipline).
Sources:
- Gold Star Honor Roll (Indiana Historical Commission, 1921), St. Joseph County roll — swept whole; the county figure 109 carried from the Granger recount as banked.
- Indiana State Archives / FromThePage, Indiana World War I Service Record Cards — the record set's existence; no Osceola card retrieved.