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2009-09-23 |
Tremont Vets and Servicemen
Hello,
I was considering some ideas how our grade school kids could participate in Veterans Day this year and thought it might be neat to honor the younger Tremont vets and soldiers (but don't want to forget the older vets too!). It would be wonderful if our grade school kids could write encouraging "thank you" messages to our troops and vets by name. We would want to email the messages, not regular mail, but I don't have any contact info.
Do you happen to know who from Tremont is serving now, or who have been serving in recent years? Does anyone have an email address(es) of a soldier(s) from Tremont? If that's confidential, we could route the letters through a parent.
Or we could post our messages online, in a big group, but sure would sure like to personalize them with real Tremont soldier names though.
Just wondered if anyone had any ideas or connections? Or knew of someone I could contact.
Thanks!
Susan Bishop
Tremont Grade School |
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2009-10-22 |
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About 175 Tremont Grade School students have created "Thank You" pictures, messages and letters hopiong to reach local Veterans in honor of their service to America. Check out the student work at: http://tremont.il.schoolwebpages.com/Veterans
This webpage mentions several recent TGS grads by name and branch of service. Please let me know of those names we may have missed: susanb@tremont702.us
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Carroll Holmes
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2009-12-29 |
Re: Tremont veterans
Although this is not exactly what Susan Bishop had in mind, it is about a veteran from Tremont.
My great grand uncle Dudley Seldon Gregory Holmes was born in Tremont the 17th of August in 1842. The Civil War began and he was one of the first citizens to join the military.
Dudley enlisted as a private in Company F, 8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry on July 25, 1861. The regiment was stationed in southern Illinois (Cairo) and southeast Missouri before going on to Kentucky and Tennessee.
He was killed during the battle for Confederate Fort Donelson in N.W. Tennessee when rebels tried to break out of the fort during the morning hours on Feb. 15,1862, after the fort was surrounded by federal troops. He was about 19 and 1/2 when he was killed.
There is an inscription on the aging, white, marble obelisk at the Holmes family plot at Mt. Hope Cemetery, but there is no indication that he was actually buried there. Most of the 500+ graves at the the Fort Donelson National Cemetery are unmarked and it is likely that he was buried there. Dudley was probably named for the New York politician Dudley Seldon.
His father, Palmer Holmes, was one of the original settlers of Tremont, was the first town treasurer, the postmaster for many years, and a probate judge of Tazewell County. Palmer died in Tremont in 1855.
!Source: various Civil War sources; the History of Tazewell County, Illinois,(Chapman, 1888); Illinois federal census reports for Tazewell Co., 1940, 1850, 860; and probate records of the estate of Palmer Holmes, which lists him as an
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