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1880 · Chapman's roll, counted entry by entry in the Osceola pass
The roll and its rule: Chapman's Roll of Honor (pp. 444–448) is a single county-wide alphabetical list — officers first, then non-commissioned officers and privates — giving a name and usually a place and date of death, and no township for any name. It was counted entry by entry in the Osceola pass: 232 printed entries, 231 distinct named persons, the one-person difference being Chapman's own double printing of Capt. Thomas B. Roberts. The officers stand whole in that pass's file. For Penn Township, the Osceola pass could cross-identify a share of the roll, because Howard prints a Penn Township cemeteries roll against which to check the names. Howard's Roll of Honor is arranged the same way for every township — by cemetery, drawn from the township post's own records — and the Lincoln Township section of it, drawn from Jesse Coppock Post's records, is the instrument that would do the same work here. 1, Ch. XIV §2, the Lincoln Township cemeteries pages — with the printed page images as its verification settler.
What is therefore printed: the county's Civil War dead stand at 232 printed entries, and no share of them is assigned to Lincoln Township or Walkerton in this section, because the only honest assignment instrument was not read. A name-count invented from surnames shared with the settler roll would be exactly the padding this build forbids. The 1894 county list of veterans, widows and orphans, taken township by township, is the roll's companion settler in the closing register.
Sources:
- Chapman, Roll of Honor, pp. 444–448 — counted in the Osceola pass, the count and its method carried from that banking.
- Howard, Ch. XIV §2, pp. 731–745 — the arrangement by cemetery and post, as read for the Penn section in the Osceola pass; the Lincoln section named as settler, not read here.