Bill's & Carol's family who bravely fought for our freedom

please remember our veterans

OUR FAMILY- Veteran Ancestors

WWII    Milton Joseph Tamme (1913-1990), Private Army (father) 

Civil War   James Polk White (1811-1902), Illinois & Tennessee (GG Grandfather)

Civil War   Samuel B White (1843-1911), Missouri (G Grandfather)  

Civil War  David Nimbus Griffin (1819 IL-1884 MO) (GG Grandfather         

Rev War  Frost Snow (  1710-1784 )4thG Grandfather  

Rev War    John (Trooper) Snow (1710-1784)  VA (5th G Grandfather)

Rev War  Benjamin Hezekiah Sebastian ( 1750-1819) 4th G Grandfather) Born VA received 233 ⅓ acres land grant which is probably what 

took him to MO

Rev War Absalom Wiggins Jr. (1760 NJ-1818CT) (4G Grandfather)Served in 2nd NC Regiment, received 640 acre Land Grant there .  on 14 Feb 1806.   His daughter married George Sebastian in 1803

Rev War  Capt. John Santee Sr.  (1730-1807)   (6 G Grandfather) Commander of Northampton County PA Militia, Capt. of 1st Battalion of 2nd Div of Flying Camp.  There were many documents concerning him, one of which was pension papers.  His grandson had a daughter who married Jacob Miller, whose daughter married William Sebastian.

Carol’s Veterans 

Jonas Main (1735-1804) Revolutionary war in Capt Hungerford Company CT

 

Sebbeus Main Corporal Revolutionary War  NY Regiment Spy

Eleazer Main (1791-1871) French & Indian War

Eugene Francis Wilder( 1911-1996) World WAR II served in this War onThe ship the Omar Bundy  which was in the “Pacific and European Theaters” of the war.  Gene volunteered  to fight in the Navy the day after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor 

USS General Omar Bundy (AP-152) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II.

She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General Omar Bundy in 1946, named in honor of U.S. Army major general Omar Bundy.

She was later sold for commercial operation under several names, including SS Poet, before being declared missing in 1980 and presumed sunk.