Memorial Day Memoirs:
History of Military Service Among
The Carroll-Joslin Extended Family
Memorial
Day weekend has just been celebrated by Americans across the continent. It is a
time set aside for family reunions among many, certainly a time of celebration,
good food and festive activities. More importantly, it is a time to remember
the sacrifices of those who enlisted in the various branches of military units
through the ages to ensure our freedom. For many, that sacrifice was the
extreme one, for others it cost greatly in loss of limb and the bitter
experience of battle.
Our
family tree is graced by many who offered up their time, surrendered their
welfare, lost friends and family in battle, and – for those so lucky – returned
to their homes and families changed in dramatic and sometimes tragic ways. For others, their loss carved out a lifetime
of absence and grief for their survivors. For all, we honor them for their
service.
This
month of June is also reserved for the remembrance of our fathers as we
celebrate that priceless and unique bond between father and child. My own
father, along with my mother, served during World War II in the shipyards,
working long and hard days to equip our service men and women with the ships
that would carry them to the shores of distant lands. It was a time of
tremendous sacrifice, bravery, courageous acts, and historic change.
Your
author has researched various individuals profiled in our family tree and
devoted prior columns to the story of their service. For brevity in this
column, links will be provided to those articles for readers who wish to
explore their story in depth. Some of the research resulted in stories of their
military service, but some resulted in exploration of their life and times. The
earliest known military service among our ancestors goes back to the time of
the Crusades, to my 23rd Great-Grandfather Hugues dePayens (DuPuy).
That is mentioned merely for the rarity of tracing any branch back that far!
Military
History of the Carroll-Joslin Extended Family
The Crusades
Hugues De Payens (Du Puy) b. 1055, Château Payns,
about 10 km from Troyes, in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitane, France; d. 1136,
Jerusalem, Palestine (in 1120 – founded Knights Templar, died 1136)
Hugues Du Puy I, Lord of
Pereins, of Apifer and of Rochefort. He went to the conquest of the Holy Land
with three of his children and his wife, Deurand de Poisieu, in 1096. He
founded the Abbey of Aiguebelle, order of St. Bernard, diocese of St. Paul-trois-Chateaux.
He was one of the gallant generals of Godefroi de Bouillon (*), and was in many
brave encounters, so that this prince gave him the souverainte of the city of
Acre. His son, Raymond DuPuy, founded and was the first grand Master of the
Military Order of the Knights of St. John, of Jerusalem (1113). This military
order was afterward styled the "Knights Templars" in 1121; also the
Knights of Malta and acquired much wealth and wielded much power.
Histoire
Genealogique des Famille de Dupuy – Montbrun, Guy Allard, a Grenoble,
Bibliotheque Nationale, 1662, Paris, France
* Godfrey of Bouillon: Godfrey of Bouillon (French: Godefroy de Bouillon, Dutch: Godfried van Bouillon, German: Gottfried von Bouillon, Latin: Godefridus Bullionensis; 18 September 1060 –
18 July 1100) was a Frankish knight
and one of the leaders of the First Crusade from
1096 until its conclusion in 1099. He was the Lord of Bouillon, from which he took his byname, from 1076 and the Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1087. After the successful siege
of Jerusalem in 1099, Godfrey became the first
ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He
refused the title of King, however, as he believed that the true King of
Jerusalem was Christ, preferring the
title of Advocate (i.e., protector or defender) of the Holy
Sepulchre (Latin: Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri). He is also known as the
"Baron of the Holy Sepulchre" and the "Crusader King".
[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_of_Bouillon]
French
and Indian War – 1754 to 1763
The final Colonial War (1689-1763) was the French and
Indian War, involving Austria, England, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and
Sweden called the Seven Years War it was the beginning of open hostilities
between the colonies and Great Britain.
It ended with the ratification of the Treaty of Paris, signed 3 November
1762; however, various tribes of Indians continued with attacks on colonists,
extending America’s battles. Unresolved
issues would ultimately lead to the Revolutionary War.
Joseph Bullard (5th Great-Grandfather on my maternal
line) Joseph Bullard fought alongside his good friend and famous American, John
Sevier, in the clashes with the Native Americans before the Revolutionary War.
His story has been told in prior columns, the one concerning the French and
Indian Wars at the link below:
Revolutionary
War – 1775 to 1783
The
first shots fired 19 April 1775 at Lexington and Concord, official declaration
of war signed 4 July 1776.
On
the 3 September 1783, the Treaty of Paris is ratified, officially declaring the
13 colonies of America an independent nation, with Canada continuing under
British rule.
John Hambler
(6th Great Uncle, son of Father-in-law of Johanes Jacob
Howdeshildt)
Joseph Alexander
(His story appeared under your author’s byline, below)
Richard Malone (5th
Great-Grandfather and his son, same name, a 4th Grand-Uncle on my
paternal line).
Richard
Malone, the father, came to this country from Ireland as an Indentured Servant
to Isaac and Isabella Wilson, arriving 30 October of 1772 along with his wife,
both of whom paid their debt of passage by two years and 10 months each
servitude. (The cost of their passage? Difficult to say with exactitude;
however, this calculation is offered online: £1 in the year 1776 is equivalent in purchasing power to £158.93 in 2018. Therefore: £158.93 would be equal to
$211.15 in 2018.) Thus, four years after
his arrival and mere months following his repayment of the cost of passage to
the new land, he enlisted to fight for continued freedom.
George Hempleman (5th Great Grandfather,
paternal line, and his brother,
Adam Hempleman (4th Grand-Uncle)
Revolutionary service: George was a private, 1781, in Capt.
William Johnson's company, 10th battalion, Lancaster Co., PA [p.173] militia.
He was born in Germany; died in Charlestown, Ohio. Profession: Weaver, owned
342 acres in Vance twp in 1814, which was later Mad River twp of Clarke Co.,
Ohio.
[Sources:
Robinson's History of Greene Co., OH, Broadstone's History of Greene Co., Vol.
I, p. 203, Early Clark Co. Families, Vol. I, p.149, D.A.R. Patriot Index, p.
321, History of the Hempleman Family in America, By Geo. Whitely, 1912,
Northumberland County Muster list of 1776]
Adam
Hempleman’s closest brush with death may have occurred just after Cornwallis
had surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown in 1781. However, the official
end of the War was not complete until the signing of the Treaty of Paris in
1783. During that time, in Pennsylvania, many Indian combatants had not yet
laid down their arms and continued to assault the hamlets and villages of the
newly victorious patriots. In one such battle, known as the Battle of Bald
Eagle Creek, our Adam is mentioned as having survived but the story documents a
harrowing experience. Adam was a part of a group called a “ranging company”
which meant part of the time they ranged over their area of command, freely, to
protect their families. At other times, they were directed to specific duties
at the command of their military authority: The Pennsylvania Line of the
Continental Army.
NOTE: The
pages referenced in the text below by Dr. Bainbridge are from his extensive
list of source documents shown on that website. ]
The
referenced battle needs a bit of background: In March of 1782, Adam was
attached to Capt. Thomas Robinson’s company. Late in that month, while
rebuilding a fort at Muncy, under the leadership of Lt. Moses Van Campen, their
unit requested by a “Mr. Culbertson” (whose brother had recently been killed by
Indians in that area) for an escort to the area of Bald Eagle Creek. The
assembled company was comprised of 26 men. On the evening of April 15th,
they beached their boat and made camp. Early in the morning, having discovered
the undisguised boat, a party of some eight-five Senecas attacked. The fight
was described by Van Campen and documented by his grandson as follows:
“... by the morning light,
concealed by the bushes, [the Indians] approached very near to the sentries,
and burst so unexpectedly upon these, that they had only time to run to the
camp, crying, “The Indian, the Indian,” before the savages were in their midst,
with the tomahawk and scalping knife. Van Campen and his men started upon
their feet and in a moment were ready for action. The enemy had a
warm reception. The combat was at first, from hand to hand, and so
well sustained was the resistance that the Indians were obliged to retire; but
they came up on all sides, and one after another Van Campen’s men were cut down
with the rifle. Perceiving that the party of warriors was so large
as to offer them no hope of escape, and beholding their number every moment
growing smaller, they determined, though reluctantly, to surrender themselves
to the enemy, under the belief that their lives would be spared.”
They surrendered to Lieutenant
Nellis, the British officer who commanded and led the Indians. Of
the twenty-six men in the expedition; three had escaped (Esquire Culbertson and
two others), nine had been killed, and fourteen had been
captured. Some of those captured had been wounded and some had not.
Jonathan Burwell, Leonard
Croninger, James Dougherty, Private Ebenezer Greens, Adam Hempleman, Michael
Lamb, William McGrady, William Miller, Joshua Nap, Jonathan Pray, and Moses Van
Campen lost their weapons during the fight.
The
Indians took possession of the prisoners and their weapons. Wallace
and Stewart, who had been wounded, were tomahawked. Craton, who also
had been wounded, was shot by four or five Indians who, “all aiming their
rifles at his head, fired at once, and with their balls tore the top of his
skull from his head. Poor Craton fell over, and his brains rolled
out and lay smoking upon the ground.” As an Indian approached to
tomahawk Burwell, who had been shot during the battle, Van Campen hit him so
hard he fell down, “like one dead.” Some Indians moved to tomahawk
Van Campen for this defiance, but the majority protected him because of his
display of courage and strength. As a further tribute to Van
Campen’s courage, Burwell’s life was spared. The life of Henderson,
who also had been wounded, was spared. [12 at pages 247-249,
13] Burwell’s wound was described in detail at [8] and [12 at page 248].
The
remaining prisoners were stripped of all their clothing except their
pantaloons, then seated on the ground in a
circle. The Indians surrounded them with rifles and tomahawks in
hand, then solemnly brought forward five Indians who had been killed in the
battle and placed them within the circle. A chief spoke at length,
ending with a smile which was the sign of mercy; the remaining captives would
not be killed. The Indians buried their dead by rolling an old log
from its place, laying the body in the hollow of the ground, then piling some
earth on the body. The prisoners were divided among the captors,
with Van Campen assigned to Lieutenant Nellis’ group. Nellis told
Van Campen what the chief had said: Their dead demanded that the
whites be killed, but many more whites than Indians had been killed in the
battle and that was enough. Instead, the prisoners would be adopted
into the families of the slain warriors to replace the lives they had
destroyed. [7, 12 at pages 250-253]
The whimsical nature of
the Indians is shown by the manner in which they treated their captives
following their surrender. There was a forced march, where food was hunted,
prepared by the Indians, and shared with their prisoners. It appears they
killed more of the prisoners, at random
and upon their whim of the moment. It is well worth my readers’ time to link to
the original story for the complete story. I found it fascinating! For our
purposes, your interest should be whetted; however, I shall not leave you
wondering – Adam Hempleman survived this harrowing experience. Hardy stock.
The story of the Hempleman brothers and how
they came to migrate to America’s shores (along with another ancestor’s tale)
was documented by your author and can be found at the link shown below:
David Motley
Ellington (5th
Great-Grandfather) (Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, Yorke Town PA)
This revered ancestor was present at
key engagements, including the surrender of Cornwallis to General Washington.
His story can be found at the two links shown below:
Joshua Logan Younger
(5th Great Grandfather, paternal line. Served with Washington
at Brandywine and was at Valley Forge as well) His story:
Peter Gilstrap, Jr.
(5th Great Grandfather, paternal line)
It is believed four Gilstrap brothers,
the sons of Thomas Gilstrap, came from Scotland (under the English crown). They
were James, John, Peter and Isolet, all settling in Craven County, North
Carolina about 1752. All were Revolutionary soldiers. Our line descends from
Peter who left a will and Revolutionary War records and other documentation
that is simply treasure for a family historian
Richard C. Wright,
Sr. (6th Great Grandfather,
paternal line and father of Benjamin, Pvt. NC Militia)
Richard Wright, Sr.
served in 1776 as a Private in the Revolutionary War for the North Carolina
Militia. His son, Benjamin saw distinguished service as shown below.
Benjamin Wright, Sr. (5th Great Grandfather,
Paternal line)
Benjamin
was a Private in the North Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary War. He
fought in the battle for Guilford Courthouse. His youngest son, Adam Wright (1804-1851) was the first
Federal Judge at Indianapolis.
Jacob Peter Copple,
Sr. (5th
Great Grandfather, b. 1757 Schwarzwald, Altotting, Bavaria, Germany, d. 14 Nov
1821, Bethlehem Cemetery, Bethlehem, Clark, Indiana)
Grandfather
Copple (originally, perhaps “Kepple”) served in the Revolutionary War and was
named in a petition, 12 Dec 1809, to Congress by citizens of Clark County,
Indiana, asking that the right to vote be given to all males over 21 who
"done milita duty & paid taxes".
Martin Davenport (4th Great Grandfather,
Maternal Line, b. 17 Jun 1745, Culpeper County, Virginia, d. 10 Oct 1815, Avery
County, North Carolina)
The exploits of Martin Davenport are
numerous, with your author having found it appropriate to document his story in
more than one column. One of those stories tells of the chance of fate that
bound two heroes’ descendants by the quirk of love.
The
subject of Chance, Fate, or Divine Intervention in our lives is pursued further
as your author noted more coincidental links binding not only her ancestors’
but her own heart through the ages. Capt. Martin Davenport was one of the
heroes of King’s Mountain, NC and his story is bound together with the next
ancestor whose exploits are shared next.
Capt. Joseph Lindsey Bullard (5th Great Grandfather,
Maternal Line, b. 1732, North Carolina; d. 20 Sep 1788 in the Battle of Lookout
Mountain, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee.)
Joseph Bullard was also a Mountain
Man and, as mentioned early in this column, fought for many years alongside his
fellow frontiersman and illustrious friend, John Sevier, who would become the
first Governor of the State of Tennessee and who shared such a resemblance to
our grandfather they were mistaken for one another. His story and that of
fellow Mountain Man and King’s Mountain hero, Capt. Martin Davenport was shared
in the following article:
War of 1812
Joseph
Alexander (II) (Great Grand Uncle)
Spanish-American War – 1898 to 1901
Everett Marion Carroll (Grandfather,
Paternal Line)
Russell Gordon Kendrick (Step Grandfather,
Paternal Line)
Civil War – 1861 to 1865
William Henry Joslin (Great Grandfather, Maternal Line, b.
11 Apr 1837, Kane County, Illinois; d. 29 Mar 1921, Pineville, McDonald County,
Missouri)
William Henry joined the Northern Army in the
Civil War from Nodaway County, Missouri, and served the entire four years
under General A. J. Smith. When the War closed, he returned to
North Missouri for a short time and then came to Jasper County, Missouri,
where he met and married Sarah Jane Godwin in Carthage in 1866. They
lived in Jasper and Lawrence Counties for about eight years and then moved
to McDonald County. They both lived near Pineville until their
death. [These notes were taken from the family notebook of Carrie Joslin
in 1946.]
William Henry Bullard (Great Grandfather, Maternal Line, b.
14 Dec 1842, White Rock Prairie, McDonald County, Missouri; d. 14 May 1911,
Pineville, McDonald County, Missouri)
Grandpa
Bullard was born in Dog Hollow near Pineville, Missouri, He lived there until
he was three months old, then his family moved to Benton County, Arkansas (in
1843). They lived there until the Civil War. When he was eighteen (18) years
old he was converted and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He
volunteered for service in the Confederate Army when the first call was made.
Great Grandfather and Grandmother Bullard owned slaves and Grandpa often spoke
of his love for his old Negro nurse, Mammy Em. He fought the four (4) years of
the War seeing service in the following battles: Helena, Arkansas; Pea Ridge,
Arkansas and Bunker Hill. He crossed the field in the famous Picket's Charge in
the Battle of Gettysburg. He would choke up and cry when he talked about this
bloody siege. When the children would fail to obey orders of their parents, he
would refer to Picket's Charge and what happened there because others did not
carry out their orders. He fought the entire four years and was never wounded;
however, at the close of the War, his health was bad. Some doctor said he was about
to develop tuberculosis. With Mr. Wright, he began cutting pine in Northwest
Arkansas, getting the tar and hauling it in wagons to Springfield, Missouri.
The pine smoke was thought to have improved his health. [Told to Linnie Jane
Burks by her mother, Carrie Bullard.]
Capt. Joseph Dawson
Jagger –
(Enlisted 1861, Company A, 6th Volunteer Infantry, Col. John A.
Martin, (1861-1863); 1863, promoted to Capt. 12th Reg. U.S. Colored troops)
Jeremiah Milam
Gilstrap, Jr. – (Enlisted 20 Aug 1864 – Discharged 25
Apr 1865, Pvt., Company E, 46th Missouri Infantry.)
Ephraim Triplett – Sgt. Union Army, Battery L 2nd
Missouri Light Artillery
Aaron Giles Barnell, son of Elizabeth Joslin and Aaron
Barnell enlisted 25 Aug 1862, Enlisted 8 Dec 1862 as 5th Corporal,
Company I, 20th Iowa Regiment, honorably discharged with rank of
Sergeant after 3 years service. Mustered
out: 8 Jul 1865, Mobile, AL.
Elmore Barnhill – son of Rachael Joslin and John
Barnhill (Barnell), Enlisted as a Private 15 Aug 1862. Enlisted in Company F, Illinois 112th Cavalry, Infantry
26 Sep 1862, died from wounds received in battle 21 Jan 1864 at Knoxville,
TN. Buried at Knoxville National
Cemetery, 939 Tyson Street, N. W., Knoxville, TX 37917, Section C, Site 354.
World War I – 1914 to 1919
World
War I (WWI) was sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand in 1914 and ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
World War II –
1939 to 1945
World War 2 (WW2) was a
long and bloody war that lasted for six years. Officially beginning on
September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, World War 2 lasted until both
the Germans and the Japanese had surrendered to the Allies in 1945
- G.
Adair
Jack Oakley Joslin
Korean Conflict – 1950 to 1953
The Korean
Conflict began when North Korea crossed the 38th parallel, invading
South Korea. It ended with the signing of the Peace Treaty at Panmunjom on 27
Jul 1953.
Johnny Robert Crowson – US Army, Military Police
Viet Nam – 1955 to 1973
America’s involvement
began in 1955 as military advisors to President Ngo Dinh Diem. It ended with the signing of the Cease Fire
in Paris and withdrawal of the last of US troops and release of our POW’s.
Roderick W. Cohenour – USMC
Christopher Cohenour - USN
Johnny Raymond Bradshaw - USAF
Clyde R. MacGibbon - USAF
Military Service Records:
Simon Noel “M” Dalton; Pvt. (Hospital Company) Company A,
36th Infantry, US Navy, Phillipine Islands 1900
Rex Edward Joslin, United States Navy (Japan)
Iraq
Sgt. Clyde Blake Bostick – (also Pyongyang, Korea 2007) – Mosul,
Iraq – 2008-2009
The stories from the time of the
Civil War forward will be saved for another time. Many of the brave exploits of
our more recent servicemen and women are yet cloaked in the veil of secrecy
required for certain military purposes.
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