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Dedicated to our Ancestor's who fought in any war for the USA, Texas, Confederacy, or before.  

This site is also dedicated to all Fire and Policemen of our families who have served

"...for sacrifice is never free, but to be free is to sacrifice"

 

Pre-American Service - Colonial Militias

Name Rank State Served
Thomas Wynn Captain Prince George Co, VA

1710
Robert Wynne Colonel

Speaker of the House

 1661 VA

House of Burgess VA 1662-1675

 

Revolutionary War for Independence

Name Rank State Served
John Stokely Private Virginia
Isaac Dodd Captain New Jersey
Daniel Shuster Private Pennsylvania
James Edmundson Lieutenant North Carolina
++Joseph Cowan Private North Carolina
Robert Looney Private Virginia
John McCoy Captain Virginia
Alexander Winn Private Virginia
Boaz Walton Private Pennsylvania

++ = Injured (lost an Eye) at the Battle of Ramsour's Mill

War of 1812 - Second British War

Name Rank State Served
Jacob Howman Private Pennsylvania
Evan Fugatt 2 Lieutenant Tennessee
Hiram Dodd Sergeant New Jersey
Micajah Bragg Private Virginia
Jonathan Nixon Private Virginia
Patrick Reardon Sergeant Maryland
Levi Smith Private Virginia
Matthew Reedy Private South Carolina
John Caskey Private Pennsylvania
William Winn Wagon Master Virginia
Jacob Uhler Private Pennsylvania
Jesse Walton Private US Rangers
Adam Snyder Private Maryland

 

      

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Name Residence
Andrew Ward Titus County
Thomas Ellington Private, Capt Bowen's Texian Army
Adolphus M Ellington, Jr. Private, Capt. Bowen's Texian Army
David Looney Bowie County

 

Civil War

                          

Name Rank State Served

*Abner Blake

 Private Texas
Lafayette Blake Private Texas

John Flickinger

 Private Ohio
Thomas Jackson Ellington Private Texas Calvary

Andrew Jackson Fugatt

 Private Tennessee
James Hudson Private Georgia

**James D Martin

 Private Alabama
+Jesse B. Nixon Private West Virginia
Andrew J McCauley Private Virginia

Elisha M. Shemwell 

 Private North Carolina
Samuel Uhler Private Ohio
Boaz Walton Private Ohio

* = Disabled with a bullet in the left hand at the Battle of Jenkin's Ferry on April 30, 1864

** = Injured five separate times in Battle

+ = Captured with Company C, 133rd WV in 1863 - Andersonville POW - Died in Captivity

World War II

Name Rank Unit
John Calvin Blake Seaman Navy
Lillian Blake 2nd Lt. Army
Thomas Powell Cowen II Master Sergeant  Air Force

 

Korea

Name Rank Battlefield / Unit
Thomas Powell Cowen II Master Sergeant Air Force

 

 

Police Officers and Firefighters in our Family

Name Rank Battlefield / Unit
Robert Wynne Lord Mayor of Canterbury

1596 to 1599

 England
Thomas Wynne Justice of the Peace

1716 to 1718

 Surry Co., VA
Thomas Powell Cowen I Captain Anchorage Fire Department
Calvin Lee Blake, Sr. Captain Conroe ISD PD, MC Sheriff

Benjamin L. Blake

 Judge Franklin County, Texas
Calvin Lee Blake, Jr. Sergeant Texas Dept of Corrections
John Calvin Blake Constable Willis, Montgomery Co., TX