Friday, May 27, 2016

Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I Monument

 West Brookfield, MA War Monument
   The sum of $3,500 was appropriated at the town meeting in the spring of 1920, and this three- sided granite monument, was erected on the town common later that year. Three brass plaques bearing the names of the war veterans were added in March of 1921. A dedication ceremony was held on Memorial Day, May 30, 1921, in remembrance of the service of West Brookfield men who had served in the Civil War, the Spanish American War, and the World War.



West Brookfield War Monument
Photo taken 2 April 2015 by Leah Smith


 1861  The Civil War  1865
Julius A. Amsden                                              Joseph W. Cutler
William L. Adams                                             Ephraim C. Carey
Leonard E. Alexander                                      Charles E. Cutler
Joseph P. Adams                                               Lorenzo Chickering
George E. Adams                                              Eli W. Combs
John E. Adams                                                  Abijah D. Cutler
Elbridge B. Ainsworth                                     William T. Cutler
Charles H. Allen                                               Edwin W. Crane
Joseph W. Allen                                                Jacob Combs
Milton R. Allen                                                 Daniel H. Chamberlain
Waldo S. Allen                                                  Anthony Colburn
Benjamin F. Armitage                                     Pliny Cooper
George Abbott                                                  James Collins
Jabez A. Blackmer                                           James Coughlin
Henry E. Bullard                                             Leander T. Chamberlain
Daniel Buckley                                                 Amos Dean
Lyman Bliss                                                      William Daggett
Edwin T. Brown                                               James Dempsey
Carlos P. Buck                                                  Emerson Dane
Joseph H. Bartlett                                            Ralph O. Dupee 
Azor W. Barlow                                               Patrick G. Dillon 
Edwin W. Barlow                                             Joseph Dailey
Sylvanus T. Barlow                                          John Dillon
Daniel Boyle                                                      James Dillon
Pliny E. Barr                                                     Hiram Eaton
Horace W. Bush                                                Orrin Eddy
William H. Barnes                                            Andrew H. Emery
D. Wilson Barlow                                              Franklin W. Fellows
Joseph E. Bailey                                                John E. Farley
Samuel F. Beach                                               John F. Fobes
Lewis Boria                                                       Lyman W. Gilbert
Rufus E. Blackmer                                           Martin J. Gilbert
Albert Barnes                                                   George H. Gilbert
Jabez Blackmer Jr.                                           Harvey Gilbert
Emerson H. Bullard                                          Hermon J. Gilbert
L. B. Bliss                                                           Barnard R. Gilbert
                                     Alfred W. Gilbert
John F. Hastings                                               Augustus N. Potter
David W. R. Hinckley                                      John J. Powers
William A. Hitchcock                                       James M. Pratt
Adam Howe                                                       Edward W. Prouty
George E. Howe                                                Henry C. Reed
William P. Howe                                               Moses Renon
Amos F. Jackson                                               Jefferson H. Richards 
James Jess                                                         Samuel D. Richards
Isaac N. Jones                                                   Calvin H. Root
Michael Joyce                                                   Henry L. Ross
Charles L. Lamberton                                     Benjamin F. Sampson
Henry C. Lamberton                                       Isaac M. Sampson
Daniel Lawler                                                   Perez Sampson
William G. Lawrence                                       Ira T. Sibley
William Leonard                                              George W. Shaw Jr.
Albert W. Livermore                                       Dennis Smith
Charles H. Livermore                                      Daniel C. Spear
William H. Lombard                                       William A. Sprague
Ezra P. Lovering                                              George W. Temple
Seth L. Lowe                                                     William R. Thomas
Albert Lynde                                                     Charles E. Thompson
Masial Mallett                                                   Harvey Truesdell
John Mann                                                        Lucius Truesdell
Charles W. Marsh                                            Edwin M. Tucker
George L. Marsh                                              Eli Tyler Jr.
John Martell                                                     Frederick A. Varnum
Morris Mathews                                               John M. Ward
John McClusky                                                 Alfred D. Washburn
Lewis M. McCrellis                                           Charles K. Watson
Daniel Mullen                                                    Justus C. Wellington
William A. Mullet                                             George H. Wellman
James Mundell                                                  Abner Wolcott
John Mundell                                                     Erastus W. Woods
John Myles                                                         Oliver Woodbridge
                                  Ebin Woodbury
  
Appears just above the names of the World War I Veterans
                               1917   The World War  1919
Hugh A. Allen                                                    Louis Larose
John H. Anderson                                             William J. Long
George H. Anderson                                         Elverton L. Mara
Arthur H. Brigham                                           Francis S. P. Matthews
Ralph S. Clark                                                  William F. Mulvey   
Robert D. Converse                                          Alfred S. Mundell
Charles D. Cunningham                                   John J. O'Connell
John H. Donovan                                               Horace O. Parker
Howard J. Foster                                               Robert Patterson
Ernest A. Gratton                                              James M. Pratt Jr.
Leo J. Gratton                                                    Clifford L. Pratt
Ellsworth W. Galvin                                          Royford E. Perry
Paul H. Hazen                                                     Maurice T. Risley
Cliford J. Huyck                                                Arthur R. Stone
Clarence E. Hocum                                            Irving L. Tyler
Gordon G. Jaffray                                             Arthur H. Warfield Jr.
Edward F. King                                                  Frank Woodward
                               The Spanish War 1898
Frank H. Stone                                                   William Bassen


I transcribed these names from a collection of photographs I took on April 2, 2015.
Source for monument information was - Jeffrey H. Fisk, A History of West Brookfield 1675-1990, West Brookfield Historical Commission 2009, pages 172 and 179.