Ruby Nash, her father, Chester Nash and her mother, Lodoiska Nash, Memorial Day, 1921. Chester Nash was a Civil War veteran, an inventor and had several patents. This would be Chester Nash's last Memorial Day.
Chester Nash (1841-1921), Lodoiska Valentia Hulburd Nash (1845-1927) and Ruby Emily Nash (1874-1960).
Ruby Nash graduated from the Union School in Oregon in 1891 and taught 1st grade, mostly in Oregon at what is now called Nash Recreation Center for 50 years. (1891-1941). Ruby never married because in that time a woman had to choose either marriage or career.

Photo courtesy Ogle County Historical Society

Civil War

Company F, 34th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Reunion, place and date unknown. Virgil E. Reed (1841-1923) of Watertown, (Honeycreek) Illinois is pictured in back, 4th from the right.

Members

Photo courtesy Ogle Co. Historical Society

Leon A. Medlar (1888-1969)

Ogle County World War I veteran, Leon A. Medlar of Oregon. Leon served in Europe. He was inducted in 1918 and honorably discharged in 1923. He was the father of Gene Medlar and the grandfather of Sharon Bocker.

Photo submitted by Sharon Bocker to the Ogle County Historical Society

Thomas Seyster (1888-1955)

World War I

From the book Service Record Book of Men and Women of Oregon, Illinois and Community, 1947. Sponsored by the VFW Auxiliary and assisted by the Oregon and Community Business Men.

Glenn W. Chamberlin (1891-1970)

World War I

From the book Service Record Book of Men and Women of Oregon, Illinois and Community, 1947. Sponsored by the VFW Auxiliary and assisted by the Oregon and Community Business Men.

Glen E. Stroh (1892-1976)

World War I

From the book Service Record Book of Men and Women of Oregon, Illinois and Community, 1947. Sponsored by the VFW Auxiliary and assisted by the Oregon and Community Business Men.

 

Ralyn M. Hill (1899-1977)

World War I

Ralyn M. Hill received the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery above and beyond the call to action with the enemy near Dannevoux, France, October 7, 1918. After returning from the war, Ralyn Hill worked for Wallace Heckman of Ganymede Estate near the Black Hawk Statue and was later a motorcycle policeman and traveled the area between Dixon and Rockford.

Photo courtesy Ogle Co. Historical Society

World War I

Judge Leon A. Zick (1895-1972)

Judge Zick and his family owned the Peter Hastings home at 600 N. 4th Street, Oregon, IL designed by renowned Rockford architect, Frank A. Carpenter in 1907.

Photo courtesy Ogle Co. Historical Society

Rosel F. Coe (1896-1959

World War I

From the book Service Record Book of Men and Women of Oregon, Illinois and Community, 1947. Sponsored by the VFW Auxiliary and assisted by the Oregon and Community Business Men.

Clifford Deyo (1900-1961)

World War I

From the book Service Record Book of Men and Women of Oregon, Illinois and Community, 1947. Sponsored by the VFW Auxiliary and assisted by the Oregon and Community Business Men.

John Blair Robertson (1883-1972)

World War I Veteran John Blair Robertson. Always known as "J.B." or "Blair" he entered the Army from Nebraska in 1918, having grown up in Pennsylvania.

J. B. moved to Oregon in 1923, living there for 50 years. For thirty years he worked for the Oregon Illinois Depot as an operator on third shift, retiring in 1950.

Photo courtesy of his grandson, Frank Robertson.

"The bustling Oregon depot required operation 24 hours a day, so there were three men who shared responsibilities on rotating shifts of eight hours each: Roy Sharick on first trick, Ed Miller on second trick, and R. B. Robertson on third trick. R.I. Short was the agent at the freight house and Harold Nance was the cashier. Other depot employees included Milard Wilson, Virgil Butcher, Steve and Pat Beard, Russ Hansen and Dick Lee. Hank Fruit and Oscar Knarr worked as dinky switch engineers. According to Sharick, there were two local men who filled the tender of the dinky with coal on weekends, using shovels and a small conveyor."

William Harley Barnhart (1893-1978)

World War I veteran, William (Billy) Harley Barnhart of Oregon. This picture was taken of Billy in France in 1918.
Photo submitted by Jon Barnhart, grandson of Billy Barnhart. On the 2nd floor of the old Schiller Piano Company, now called Conover Square Shopping Mall, Jon has created a museum to honor the memory of his grandfather called The Billy Barnhart Museum. It’s really something to see. Admission is free to the public when the shopping mall is open.

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