World War I, in Jennings County

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US declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917.

    On May 18, 1917, the Selective Service Act was passed authorizing the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States. The Selective Service System, under the office of the Provost Marshal General, was responsible for the process of selecting men for induction into the military service, from the initial registration to the actual delivery of men to military training camps.
    The Selective Service System was one of "supervised decentralization." The office of the Provost Marshal General in Washington was responsible for formulating policy and transmitting it to the governors of the 48 states, the District of Columbia and the territories of Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Under the administration of the PMGO it was the states, territories and the District of Columbia which managed the operation of drafting men for military service in World War I.
    Under the office of the Provost Marshal General the Selective Service System was made up of 52 states (or territories) and 4,648 local boards. These organizations were responsible for registering men, classifying them, taking into consideration needs for manpower in certain industries and in agriculture, as well as certain special family situations of the registrants; handling any appeals of these classifications; determining the medical fitness of individual registrants; determining the order in which registrants would be called; calling registrants; and placing them on trains to training centers.
    District boards were established by the President (one or more for each Federal Judical District). The average district board had jurisdiction over approximately 30 local boards, each with an average registration of 5,000 men. The district boards had appellate jurisdiction over the decision of local boards in some claims and original jurisdiction in others.
    Local boards were established for each county or similar subdivision in each state, and for each 30,000 persons (approximately) in each city or county with a population over 30,000. The local boards were charged with the registration, determination of order and serial numbers, classification, call and entrainment of draftees.
    During World War I there were three registrations. The first, on June 5, 1917, was for all men between the ages of 21 and 31. The second, on June 5, 1918, registered those who attained age 21 after June 5, 1917. (A supplemental registration was held on August 24, 1918, for those becoming 21 years old after June 5, 1918. This was included in the second registration.) The third registration was held on September 12, 1918, for men age 18 through 45.

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Ralph E. Anderson	Joseph R. Conboy	Pleasant Patrick Davis	Frank C. Etter	James A. Fry
Robert S. Fry	Homer E. Fry	Richard R. Grinstead	Arthur Jay Hayden	Asa Ellsworth Haney
Solomon E. Losey	Walter C. Lough	Earl Mills	Earlest Loren Morgan	John E. McDonald
Claudius E. Ralstin	Joseph H. Schonfield	John Franklin Sullivan	Rolland E. Stine	Jullius Sullivan
Colonel O. Stout	Bedford W. Sprowl

Lonnie Adams	Glen Boder Bowers	Duther Bailey	Burris Brandenburg	Clarence Harvey Dilk
Russell Estell	Ernest Fewell	Clarence C. Forward	Henry Fox	Clifford W. Fewell
Conard E. Hughes	Roy Lee Kinnear	James William Morris	Clyde E. Paugh	Joseph Peterman
Ralph Richey	Perry Russell	William Schonfield	Charles H. Sawyer	Charles E. Smith
Russell E. Stell	Paul Thompson	Neiland R. Tatem

John H. Arney	Charles H. Anderson	Obey M. Allen	Lewis E. Brougher	John Boyd
Dennis H. Boyd	Arthur Porter Beck	Charles Beck	Walter S. Denton	Roman Ebbing
Russell B. Eskins	Charles Elliott	Harry Goforth	Floyd H. Gerber	Floyd Hough
Fred C. Huckelberry	Orin Jessup	Alvin Fellows	John E. Kenens	Charles Lemmer
Roy Leahigh	Albert Laherty	Jesse Meyer	Charles E. Murphy	Richard Matlock
Martin W. McCaulou	Wallace O. Poole	Herber A. Phillips	O.W. Rees	Earl Shelton
Roy Shelton	Ezra Stanley	Herbert L. Whitcomb	Everett E. White	Arvine Wilson
Harry A. Wildey

Charles E. Becraft	Ray Beach	Arthur Black	Adrian Victor Clement	Urban Lewis Clement
Glen Cox	Phillip S. Davidson	Lee Grinstead	Emmett H. Jackson	Willard Leahigh
Emmerson Mathews	Walter R. Nighbert	Elmer R. Nighbert	Bruce Renfron	Fred Struben
Edward Tyler	Charles Woolf	Robert Woolf

Roscoe L. Atwood	Herbert Goff Bevis	Ralph Earl Boyle	Bert Baker	Harvey Roy Cline
William Colbert	Edward Chambers	Virgil Clarkson	Albert C. Doney	Edgar B. Downs
George S. Day	Ruben Day	John Harvey Green	Harvey S. Grow	Charles H. Green
Charles Hudson Hill	Joseph M. Huffington	Leonard George Hallawell	Elbert Davis Hill	William Haight
Warren Algrich Hallock	Roe Hudson	Lee Walter Johnson	Everett Avery Kelley	Fred Kelley
James William Lancaster	Cyril Edward Leeds	Roy James Morgan	Frank M. McCaslin	Mort R. McCaslin
Frank McCleland	Charles Owings	Gilbert Owens	William Pharis Owings	Verne Maxwell Rice
Walter Louis Reichle	James Stuart Randall	Clyde Earl Rubottom	Robert Lee Russell	Floyd A. Roush
Maurice Littell Smith	Otis Arthur Swaney	Oliver Sandford Simmonds	George Ernest Staples	Clarence M. Stearns
John Dudley Stemm	William E. Sheets	Herbert R. Silver	Arthur Edward Shinolt	Lawrence Dudley Shoemaker
Fred LeRoy Schuyler	Albert Ernest Smith	George T. Thomas	Clarence A. Talkington	Roger Arnold Tripp
Jesse Roland Vance	Ernest Tripp Verbarg	Clendis Beverly Wilson	James Willard Wilson	Ernest F. West
Marvin Byron Watkins	Joseph E. Winsor	Clarence Victor Yager	Graham Roye Young

Frank Hukill Adams	Herman Frederick Auerswald	Charles S. Albert	Edward H. Blair	Ronald T. Ball
George H. Buchanan	Herbert Bernard J. Bacher	William Bertman	Mose Bertman	Christian Beck
Homer Lawrence Blankenship	Raymond Brooks	John L. Coquerille	George H. Canfield	James A. Carter
William H. Clements	William Cannon	Marcus R. Connelly	Fern Colbert	Levy Colbert
Forrest Campfield	Edward Day	Charles Frederick Driver	George Washington Driver	Fletcher Dowd
Vern Davis	Merl Dickason	Earl Vincent Egler	Aaron Edward Euler	Hobart G. Beck
William Andrey Ertel	Edward W. Eder	Hobart Nelson Evans	Clarence F. Ewbank	Chas. Gregor Flecker
Roscoe H. Ferverda	George Washington Fiedler	Frank Fields	Roy A. Fennimore	Forest Fields
William D. Fiedler	Charles Albert Gares	Ersa F. Gooding	Howard C. Green	Isaac Gindler
Euclid T. Gaddy	John C. Hutchings	Will John Haney	Bert Leroy Hudson	Leo Webb Hudson
Joseph Horstman	Silas Hartwell	Fred Hartwell	Earl Herche	Fred James Haney
Chas. Joseph Haney	John Craig Irvine	Ira Jonas Klett	John L. King	Geo. William Klein
Will John LeGrand	John Lancaster	Chas. Harold Long	Francis M. Lauth	Thomas Lewis Lee
Lawrence Mehling	Edward Murphy	Fred Stearns Matthews	Carey Ryker Macdonnell	Homer L. Matthews
John Martin	Grover C. More	Thomas John Murphy	Frank McGill	Donald Samuel McLeod
John Willard Noon	Clarence Theo O'Haver	Glendale Perry	Edgar Andrew Platter	Fred Possman
Albert Rosenberger, Jr.	Harold Lewis Stearns	Benjamin F. Stagman	Woodford Albert Stearns	Earnest W. Swift
Ernest H. Semm	Simeon I. Stearns	Lawrence Everett Sprickerhoff	Otto Talkington	Oscar V. Vance
Eugene Kenneth Vance	Anton H. Wegener	Archibald Wood	James Wood, Jr.	Edward L. Weisenbach
Corbett Whitehead	Claude Wm. Youngblood	Victor Zimmerman

Charles Newton Anderson	John Lewis Ashby	William Walter Barton	Chester Lamont Bridges	Roy Barlow
Albert Barlow	John I. Booher	Charles Alfred Bushel	Vernando Isaac Carey	James Roscoe Carlock
Thomas Michael Clerkin	Cecil Carson	Stanley Edgar Duffy	Walter Day	Ben J. Ernstes
Louis George Eder	Carl Herman Funke	Silas Fox	Fred James Fields	Jacob Foga
Leo Peter Flecker	Edward Joseph Hester	John Roscoe Holland	Everett Burt Hughes	John Herche
William Joseph Haag	Bruce Herbert	Willard Walter Jones	Lora Albert Johnson	Basil King
Carl John Krein	Ernest Klingner	Henry Washington Krein	Harrison Kelley	Edward Bernard Kirchner
Otto Funke	Fred Clark Lockwood	Ralph H. Linkhart	Frank L. Long	Leo Joseph Lee
Arthur Miles	Clarence Ludlow Morgan	Ferdie Miller	Elmer Perry McMonigle	John Walter McFadden
George W. McLaughlin	Harry Herbert McCaslin	Bert Fitzgerald Roberts	Fred Carl Rapp	James Ross
Eli Sherman Robertson	William Riley Ross	Perley Russel	John Henry Riplinger	Robert Sadler
LeRoy Smith	Ernest Luie Shedd	William South	Ezra Thomas	Carl Wilkerson
Charles Scott Willman	Earl Woolman	Cecil Wildey	Alvin Jacob Wetzel	Chester Leroy Wildey
Russell Wildey	Gus Webster	Orlan Rood Wilson	Stanley Emil Wirth	Earl Willman
Harry Huddleston

Arthur Immanuel Anderson	Walter Baker	Lester Joseph Cathey	Raymond Chester Beck	Leo Dennis Clerkin
Joseph Roy Davis	Howard Downs	Edward John Ditlinger	George Elmer Davis	John Elmer Everhart
Charles Luther Grubbs	Albert Grubbs	Hugh Monroe Gibson	Willard John Gloye	William Herche
Samuel VanDyke Hale	Frank Hock	Clarence Monroe Hyte	Benjamin Arthur Higgins	Floyd Hamilton
Francis Henry Joines	Thomas Resse Jeffords	Carl Juengst	George H. King	William Kelso
William Edward Ketcham	Vernon Cecil Kutchback	Myron Scott King	Erven Large	Jacob Large
Robert Ledford	Andy John Meyer	Joe Miner, Jr.	Harold Hiram Mitchell	Albert Anthony Miller
George Henry Miller	Clarence Leroy McCauley	John Daniel McCauley	Charles Elliott Nelson	Homer Francis Ogden
John Louis Pool	Henry George Schuck	Albert C. Schierling	Fred Thomas Schulthies	Walter J. Schierling
George Landon Stout	Arthur Edward Siener	John Albert Sparks	Charles Walter Siener	Jacob Carl Thenis
Lester Thomas	Charles Walter Vaughn	Leonard Weber, Jr.	Albert Sullivan Wolfe	Curtis Whitehead
Samuel Richard Woolman	William Tyler Wilkerson	Thomas Corwin Worland	Earl Lester Young	John Lambert Young
Geo. H. Ebbing	Herman Werner Ebbing	Frank Skinner	Walter Wildey

John Celie Allee	Wm. Henry Black	Arthur Beaty	John Elmer Black	Leroy Lincoln Cook
Walter Cruser	Ben. J. Dickhoff	Louis J. Dickhoff	Joseph B. Dickhoff	John W. Evans
Fred C. Ernstes	Jesse Farris	Ben Griner	Benj. Hull	Earl Hendricks
John Johnson	Ira Elmer Jordan	Everet Manlief	Clem E. Montgomery	Frank M. Montgomery
Leo F. Montgomery	Earnie Ponsler	Lawrence O. Pickett	Ora Pickett	William F. Rogers
Frank Reynolds	Ira Raymond Smith	Harry Owens Smith	Sidney Smith	Seth M. Shinolt
James Steining	Ray J. Sutton	Clarence F. Tower	Joe Tatman	Charles T. Tiffany
Matthews D. Woods	Raymond O. Woods	Henry Young	Scott York	Roman Zapfe
Albert Zapfe

Daniel W. Blackburn	R.H. Brumfield	Newton Buchanan	Jesse F. Burgess	John R. Barnes
Roy L. Boswell	Leroy Campbell	Ollie E. Campbell	William H. Dillard	Joseph A. Hamilton
Joseph A. Hill	Clyde C. Hinds	John E. Johnson	Micheal A. Kline	John A. Low
Samuel R. Moore	Jacob J. Ponsler	Albert F. Price	John A. Ralston	Herbert E. Sporleder
Ernest C. Smith	William E. Schneider	Benjamin H Spear	Peter C. Schneider	Roy F. Sutton
Roy Sporleder	Henry H. Speer	John W. Troutman

John C. Amick	Roy Beesley	Vance S. Curtis	Charles E. Clayton	George A. Cooper
Marvin H. Clayton	Leo Dieringer	James Emly	Guy M. Hazard	Homer S. Hulse
Calvert H. Kelly	Clinton E. Legg	Harry Mote	Roscoe Olds	Floyd D. Perry
Ernest G. Roy	James F. Ritz	John C. Rockey	Roe T. Sarber	Walter S. Shilnolt
Edward L. Tierney	William F. Tierney	John L. Tierney	Forest F. Unrue	Ora O. Wilds
Edward Wilds	William N. Wilkerson	James Wilds	George W. Wilson	Thomas Youngs

Shelby Allen	C.J. Adams	James C. Brooks	Faun O. Barriger	John R. Collins
Harry B. Crippen	Clarence F. Davis	Arthur C. Davis	Perry Easter	Arvil Foist
Freeman R. Ferrenberg	Carl Foist	John R. Greathouse	Wallace A. Hines	Norval L. Hines
Mark E. Hammond	John B. Hoskins	Samuel H. Little	Leonard C. Miller	Urven Manley
Horace H. Manley	Q.E. Miller	Claude Polland	Russell Smith	Ormal G. Sealock
Edgar Sharp	James H. Sanders	Randolph W. Smith	Joe Welch	Robert M. Wiley

Horace S. Adams	Marion H. Amick	George E. Amick	Fred C. Ammerman	Chester Amick
John Byron	David C. Banister	S. Leroy Carson	Walter Clayton	Stanton K. Clapp
Roy Carson	Ernest Cain	Fred Combs	Everett A. Carson Carnes	John Carnes
John Day	James Davis	Harry A. Davis	Virgil L. Findley	Ottis Ray Gividen
Harry A. Galbraith	W.H. Hanaway	Jesse W. Hubbard	Roy F. Haerne	Harrison C. Hook
Will H. Hall	Joseph Hook	Forrest Ray Hearne	Perry Jones	Archie A. Long
Willard Milholland	Cleo Miller	George W. Neal	Frank Patton	Elmer Quick
Elmer J. Smith	Carl Shaw	Everet Sweany	Wm. A. Schoentrup	Chauncey Tuttle
John R. Thompson	Charles R. Tuttle	Arlie S. Tomlinson	Horace C. Underwood	W.T. Vancamp
Albert Welch	Clarence S. Wilkerson	James H. Carter

John James Allyn	Homer Bridges	Hollis Brooks	Roy Dayton Bridges	Carl Bridges
James Stevie Combs	Jacob Downs	Berlie Curtis Dart	Harold Robert Donnell	Samuel Clifford Deputy
Fred Omer Donnel	Carl D. Deputy	Vernie Marshall Deputy	Irby Curtis Deputy	Charles Irvin Derringer
Samuel Harrison Eacret	Hamilton Kasper Foster	Floyd Everett Gruber	Merrit Hien	Hollis Johnson
Frank Ernest Johnson	Charles Emerson Keith	Alfred Roscoe Kinder	Ira Raymond Kinder	Henry Krenning
James Arthur Kinder	Clarence Allen Kysar	John Kain	Fred Farr Lowry	Charles Walter Lewis
Benjamin Franklin Lewis	William Harold Marling	Alfred Moore	Delmar Mousa	Albert McCammon
Allen LeRoy McIntire	Levi Clarence Olderson	Thomas Orille Peacock	William Wells Robinson	Cecil Ross
Roscoe Randolph Ross	Adna Green Richardson	Ernest Lawrence Southerland	Freeman Hugo Spall	William Albert Sparks
Fred Milford Sparks	Velmer Harbin Slarp	Wilmer Spall	Fred Trapp	Clifford Tribbett
Ivan F. Tobias	Seth Ernest Tobias	Elton Wetzel	Fred Everett Wise	Louis Orval Wetzel
Ira Walter Wells	Alfred Henry Wetzel	Boyd Sage

William Blades	Arthur L. Bailey	Albert E. Bridges	William C. Bridges	Homer W. Burtch
Frank Bowne	Maurice Bonesteel	Chauncey Buchanan	Howard W. Corya	Melvin C. Corya
Ira Homer Corya	Hubert Cain	William Henry Carson	George E. Deputy	John Logan Dixon
Murray G. Eador	Burle S. Eador	Lewis C. Finch	Ray E. Fansler	Arnold R. Humphrey
Ernest J. Hudson	John W. Humphrey	Lee O. Johnson	Everett Keys	Ennis Kain
John P. Kysar	Guy Emerson Law	Clarence Landon	Robert Lambert	Raymond Maupin
Otto W. Malcomb	Leo Malcomb	William Conway Martin	Roy Nixon	Roy Ray
Lloyd Seegers	Claude M. Tracey	Virgil Lee Vanarsdall	Chauncey Buchanan

Levi Black	John Bias	William W. Carey	Cecil I. Clarkson	Edner Cooper
Asa Cassill	Herman Daeger	Albert Daeger	Clarence Day	Lester H. Dixon
Charles Dierringer	Charles T. Ferdinand	George C. Grunert	George J. Haag	John E. Kellar
Kern P. Kellar	F.M. Low	Paul Matern	Robert McCammon	Kelsie Richel
Earl Rogers	Thomas S. Starkey	Irvin Tungett

John Frederick Dieringer	Roscoe Everroad	Clarence O. Fredenburg	James Gootee	Alfred A. Hooker
John N. Kane	Paul Lewis	Ray Curtis Pike	Clarence R. Parks	Roger Asa Pence
Guy Lester Parks	Lewis Ardery Pool	John Clark Renn	Robert Roy Roane	William Grover Milholland

John C. Armstrong	Guy Charles Beatty	Alfred Earl Baumgartner	Oda Elmer Coffey	Rolla Harrison Darringer
Burt William Foreman	John Edward George	John Hancock	William G. Hall	Odus Daniel Irwin
Earl Kelley	Walter Dale Legg	Roy Martin Larabee	Charles Ray Long	George W. Miller
John Ross	Harry Ritz	Ezra Beunet Ringer	Frank Jacob Reichle	Claude Albert Ritz
Ray Redding	Noah Henry Taylor	Willard Manfred Wohrer	John William Whitcomb	Everett Woodson
Fielding Estay Wohrer

William Adolph	Estel Barnes	Edward Baker	Walter Barkman	Luther Bedel
Claude Beedle	Howard Crockett	Lloyd Downs	Henry Elsner	William Fisher
Frank Fisher	Henry Haines	John Hauersperger	Albert Hauersperger	Rev. Henry O. Hunger
William Hale	Charles Harrell	Lee Johnson	Francis Maschino	Victor Maschino
August J. Elsner	Raymond Mote	Orion O. Martin	L.I. Marsh	Henry Maschino
Dolph Nealis	Roy Nordloh	Everett Ream	Herbert Riordan	Loyd Rich
Leo Richart	John Sullivan	Robert Stanton	Edward Schafer	Andrew Speck
Howard Tate	Andrew Updike	Nicholas Vogel	George West	William Walker
Geo. Fergus Bandeen

Valentine Joseph Biehle	William Scott Bowerly	Thomas Franklin Bowerly	Jesse Oliver Burbank	Irvin Bolden
Clifton Arthur Castor	Joseph Homer Clarkson	Elmer Franklin Dausch	Jessieman Roy Dixon	Ivo Russell Evans
Henry Virgil Ferguson	Earnest V. Granger	Herbert Curtis Grimes	Carl W. Green	John L.N. Grinstead
Ora B. Horton	Carl William Heilman	Fred Dee Hinchman	Henry V. Hulse	Roy Earl King
Floyd W. Keesling	Ray McDonald	Walter H. Parker	Roy J. Pettiford	Carl E. Patrick
George W. Skinner	Howe Stewart	Charles A. Stout	William Henry Simpson	Chester Jackson Thomas
Kenneth Ellsworth Vanscoy	Clyde J. Wheeler	Thomas Edward Willman	John Werskey	William Oliver Yates

William Ahrmann	Byron Ale	Archie Roy Cosby	Carl C. Callon	Joseph Wesley Dean
Charles E. Dawson	Clarence Eugene Dawson	Stewart E. Euler	Arthur Edward Fox	Ben Henry
Frank Hartwell	Leonard Hartwell	Joseph Cecil Hartwell	Anthony Monday	Lorin William Oyler
Clyde Reed	Charles Arthur Rayborn	William Henry Reynolds	Jesse James Skinner	Joseph Webster Stearns
Howard Walt	Willis H. York

Gilbert Vernie Abel	John Branham	Ross Baker	George Branham	James John Boardman
Forest Clarkson	Erby C. Deputy	Clyde Thomas Derringer	Jay Thomas Ferguson	Charles Amos Graham
Ivan Gasper	Walter R. Green	Arthur Frederick Hein	Benjamin Edward Hedden	Frank Hoffman
Horace Metcalf Hopkins	Raymond Henry Hoffman	Wesley Holman	Jesse Herbert James	Forrest Kinder
Frank Drennen Leatherman	Burton J. Malott	Fred Elbert Mousa	Thomas E. Morrison	John Gerald Moorehead
Forest Alvin Marsh	Arthur Roy Morin	Ervin Myrick	Amos Myrick	Dessa Fletcher Meek
Levi Harold McCarter	Delbert Pfeiffer	George Wesley Palmer	Trafford Rufus Port	James Walter Rowell
Fred Clark Perry	Homer Ernest ROss	Clifton Seeger	Forrest Worn? Shepherd	John Albert Short
William F. Seegers	Alvin Karl Clarence Shepherd	Ralph Monroe Trapp	Raymond A. Trapp	George Samuel Tribett
John Herbert Trapp	George Harvey Trapp	Frank Wainscott	Bernard Harry Wrap	Clyde Pleasant Walker
Orvil Yeats

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