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Cleveland Family Chronicles Cleveland Family Chronicles The Official Newsletter Of Cleveland Family Chronicles Research Society Published March, June, September, and December in Salem, IL 62881 June 2004 C Number 46 Notes and News from the Family Tree House Happy late spring/early summer to y'all. As you Special Collection and Labor Archives for letting veterans know, this is my favorite time of year use their copyrighted material in this issue's ~ flowers, baseball, warmer weather ~ and *Dixie Tree* and *Yankee Doodles.* soon I can sleep past 5 a.m. more often! I am adding a new feature for this issue: There have been some rough spots, however. *Family Table.* We all have special family First, I was felled by severe tummy flu that sent recipes that maybe have special stories attached me to the ER (with dehydration) and kept me to them. To start this new department, I am out of school for a week. Now I am battling sharing one of my own family recipes with you pinched nerves in my right wrist and elbow. I ~ a somewhat ironic situation since my just do not have time for all this silliness! philosophy of cooking is mainly drive-through and microwave. (Martha Stewart does *NOT* As I mentioned in the last newsletter, Kaskaskia have to worry about my taking over her College asked me to teach a beginning empire.) Anyway, I hope some of you will share genealogy class, which did well enough your own recipes and stories in the future. that extra sessions in both Salem and other sites have been added. KC also For those of you who are, like me, a asked me to write the textbook for the Googler, Google has made searching for class ~ time-consuming, but what fun! The your family history even easier. At http:// deadline for the book is the first week of www.genealogy-search-help.com, you can June ~ so if this newsletter is a teeny bit complete a small family tree for your later than usual, I hope you will forgive ancestor, and the Web site will create the me? My body seems to think it needs some best Google searches for you. sleep from time to time although I have tried to talk it out of that particular indulgence. In the past, typing a family name into any search engine would usually get you thousands Something else that slowed me down was of results that had nothing to do with family chaperoning the three-day senior trip to Kalfran history. This new site minimizes that problem. Lodge in Osage Beach, MO. My seniors are basically a good bunch of young'uns, but I didn't Sgt. William David Cleveland, Jr. like being away from my computer or my two furry little girls. My condolences to CFCRS cousin Irene Morford, who recently lost her husband ~ the same week Thanks to all of you for your feedback on the that the atrocities on Americans in Fallujah *new look* for the newsletter. Responses were brought such painful memories for her. overwhelmingly positive ~ most of them citing the more personal touch to the newsletter. Here is the corresponding story that appeared on the front page of the Arizona Republic 2 Apr Thanks also to Wallace L. McKeehan of the Sons 2004. Thanks go to Darlene Cobb in Arizona for of DeWitt Colony Texas and to James P. Quigel drawing it to my attention. of the Pennsylvania State University Libraries' Forever Dedicated to the Precious Memories Of L. Jeanne Garich Cleveland and Josephus Ral Cleveland Page 1 Iraq Events Revive Pain for Mother through her genealogy hobby, was reminded of Body of Son Was Dragged in Somalia the trooper, too, when she heard of the ambush By Angela Cara Pancrazio in Iraq this week. Any time Nada Irene Morford hears of a soldier "I thought of him because he was the one we dying, she thinks of her son, Army Staff Sgt. thought was dragged through the streets," Cobb William D. Cleveland of Peoria. said. "When I heard that, it was the same in Somalia when it happened to Cleveland." He was the American soldier whose body the mob dragged through the streets of Mogadishu A small granite headstone honors Cleveland in 1993. across the driveway from Peoria's City Hall. Cobb felt connected to the soldier after Cleveland, a member of the 160th Special researching his headstone for a genealogist who Operations Aviation Regiment, was killed in chronicles the Cleveland family name. She also 1993 with 17 comrades when they clashed with is raising money for a pedestrian bridge to be Somalia militiamen. Morford's son was a crew built in memory of him at Arizona Veterans chief/gunner on one of two Black Hawk Memorial Park in Bullhead City. helicopters involved in the 16-hour firefight, immortalized in the book Black Hawk Down and "Even in Somalia it sounded like that we didn't in the movie of the same name. have enough equipment," Cobb said. "It seems we need to have strategies in place." This week has been one of Morford's roughest. Cleveland was awarded a Somalia medal, the Her husband died Monday. Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. On Wednesday, she watched the barbarism in Fallujah as a mob dragged, Buried Veterans Records Now on Web mutilated and burned four Americans. By SUZANNE GAMBOA The Associated Press "This was a double whammy," a tearful Morford said. WASHINGTON (AP) - Sally Naporlee turned to the Department of Veterans "We don't lose any men in any overseas Affairs to find out more about her country or helicopter that it doesn't bring a grandfather, who served during World War I. flashback of my son." After a few weeks wait for a response, Naporlee Darlene Cobb of Peoria, a retired school learned from the VA that Carmelo Castorina is counselor, who learned about Cleveland's fate buried at Long Island National Cemetery in CLEVELAND FAMILY CHRONICLES is published four times yearly: in March, June, September, and December. The newsletter is open to anyone wishing to contribute articles, biographies, pedigree charts, family group sheets, or any other genealogical material. Those submitting material will be given by-lines or credit lines. Submissions and queries designated for a specific issue must be received before the first of the month preceding the date of the newsletter. Submissions and queries received after this deadline will be saved for a later newsletter. Back issues, as available, may be purchased for $6.00 each, postpaid. Membership fees are $20/year in the United States, $25/year elsewhere. If possible, foreign fees should be paid by international money order. Please send ONLY a check or money order as payment. NO CASH! Payment by credit card can also be made through PayPal. Contact Vikki for further details. Suggestions, corrections, theories, and additions for ALL Cleveland/Cleaveland lines are welcome. Send subscription requests, newsletter submissions, queries and other correspondence to Cleveland Family Chronicles, c/o Vikki L. Jeanne Cleveland, 328 Vincent, Salem, IL 62881-1831, e-mail [email protected], fax 618-548-2026. Cleveland Family Chronicles Web Site Cleveland Family Forum located at http://www.clevelandfamilychronicles.com Page 2 Farmingdale, N.Y. Unexpectedly, she also for a week, and his enthusiasm for plans he had learned from VA that her grandmother is buried for when his tour with the Marines was up. First, with him, a privilege extended to veterans' though, he was heading back to Iraq for a spouses. second tour there. He was only 19. VA has made it easier and faster for the public His funeral was a combination of Marine to get answers about family history, old war pageantry and community support. At his buddies or famous war heroes. The agency put visitation, a Marine honor guard changed every on the Web 3.2 million records for veterans 19 minutes (because he was 19). School buses buried at 120 national cemeteries since the Civil took students to the funeral and to line the War. funeral procession route with American flags. A mile before the cemetery, the flag-draped The VA's Nationwide Gravesite Locator, at casket was transferred from the hearse to a http://www.cem.va.gov, also has records for horse-drawn caisson, the first such honor in some state veterans cemeteries and burials in over 30 years in Illinois. At the gravesite, there Arlington National Cemetery since 1999. was a 21-gun salute, Taps, and presentation of the flag to Torrey’s mother. Joe Nosari, VA's deputy chief information officer for Memorial Affairs, said the records used to be God bless America and the men and women on paper and microfilm. Private companies have who keep us free. put some of the information online and charged for it, but the VA information is free, he said. New Member Naporlee, of Spokane, Wash., also learned her Mary Cleveland, 833 Emerald Green Drive, grandfather served with the Army's 161 DB unit, O’Fallon, IL 62269, [email protected]. Evan enlisting June 24, 1918. He was honorably Cleveland > John Cleveland > William discharged December 17, 1918. Isaiah Cleveland > Virgil Finley Cleveland > Vincent Keith and Mary Rodman The VA's gravesite navigator includes Cleveland. names, dates of birth and death, military service dates, service branch and rank if Address Change known, cemetery information and grave location in the cemetery. The VA will C. Scott Cleveland, P.O. Box 288, withhold some information, such as next of kin, Azalea, OR 97410. Moses and Ann Winn for privacy purposes. Cleveland > Samuel and Persis Hildreth Cleveland > Joseph and Sarah Ainsworth The site will be updated daily.
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