Talk:Last surviving United States war veterans

message: The link for Samuel Downing is incorrect (it leads to someone else). I don't know how to fix it, otherwise I would.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.194.145.201 (talk) 12:34, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Samuel Downing

message: The death date given for Hiram Cronk on this page doesn't match the one on his own page. Does anyone know which is right? FZ 15:56, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Hiram Cronk

message: It lists all surviving WWI veterans grouped by country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_Veterans_of_the_First_World_War
JMD4LSU 21:12, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Try this: 

message: Census matches can be found at www.ancestry.com.  Discussion of cases can be found at several sites, including the World's Oldest People Yahoo Webgroup.→ R Young {yakłtalk} 11:31, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Census Matches

message: In fact, however, Bush did add years to his age, and apparently for the very purpose of filing a false claim. In 1880 he gave his age as 30, suggesting a birthdate of 1850 and an age of 14 or 15 when the Civil War ended. Had he really been born in 1844 or 1846 it would have been very difficult for him to escape conscription long enough to serve in the obscure, last-ditch militia organization that he claimed to have fought fought with; such local units were the favorite choices of late Confederate impostors, since there were usually no surviving records to disprove their claims.
 
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In fact, however, census years often vary.  For one, your interpretation is INCORRECT.  Confederate pensions were not offered until the 1930's, so if Bush added years to his age, the motivation was not for 'filing a false claim.'  Second, the name William Bush is fairly common and how do we know the alleged census listing you found is the correct one.  Third, Albert Woolson was really born in 1850, so that does not prove someone is/was too young to serve. Perhaps you'd like to present evidence on the 'talk' page (i.e. here) before making such insinuations.→ R Young {yakłtalk} 21:19, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: William J Bush

message: "Circa" means 'about' and should only be used with those cases where the birthdate is a 'best guess.'  ? means the age claimed is called into question, and is the more appropriate marker, at least for the more controversial cases like Salling and Lundy.→ R Young {yakłtalk} 01:38, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Circa vs. ?

message: Greetings, User Brown-Haired Girl has waged a campaign to wipe out the entire 'supercentenarians' field on Wikipedia. This has included:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_November_1#Category:Supercentenarian_trackers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Robert_Young_%28longevity_claims_researcher%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Epstein_%28supercentenarian_tracker%29
And, even, a man dead over 100 years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thoms
I find it incredulous that one would attack even the man who invented the term 'folklore' and started the field of 'supercentenarian tracking.'
Such mass hysteria seems to be working. User BHG is one of the top-10 editors by edit count on Wikipedia and has lots of friends. I can't imagine most WWI veteran articles surviving if this trend continues. I do urge everyone who considers tracking the oldest-old, whether WWI vets or no, to chime in on these debates.
Sincerely, Robert Young Ryoung122 16:42, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Are the Oldest-Old or Final Few notable?

message: As a kid, back in the 1970s, I saw a National Geographic article entitled "The Last of Washington's Army" or some such. It had a few photos of the old men who were the last known (at that time of research) vets of the Revolutionary War. Anybody else seen it?? They guys would have been drummer boys I assume. ALso, fwiw, I'm thinking Gray is in fact the last documentable vet...Engr105th (talk) 08:32, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Geographic article 

message: Why is a member of the Mac-Paps listed? They were officially designated as a Canadian contingent, was the volunteer himself an American citizen? It was common for volunteers to join the batallions and brigades of other countries (many members of the Lincoln Brigade for example were from other countries, incl. Canada the same was true with the Mac-Paps). I was just curious.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.241.55.244 (talk) 02:00, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If you took the time to read the source given, it would say so. Also he is an American, thus why he is listed here & helping with the Mac-Paps. That-Vela-Fella (talk) 21:40, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mackenzie-Papineau vets from the Spanish Civil War 

message: Israel A. Broadsword died on July 25, 1952 according to here http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468301977.html. It says that he was one of the last four living Union veterans living. Can we add him? --Nick Ornstein (talk) 01:25, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Union vet

message: Is this section a joke? Added by an anon IP on August 20. No sources. HiLo48 (talk) 04:10, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Three weeks. No answer. It's gone. HiLo48 (talk) 05:14, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polar Bear Expedition? 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Last North American veterans by war. Since you had some involvement with the Last North American veterans by war redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so).  76.66.194.212 (talk) 07:00, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last North American veterans by war listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Similar to the Civil war list, this is a list that is comprised of the last WWI veteran born in each state.
Name                	Birth / Death                          	State         	State of Birth (*)
Mark Matthews       	August 7, 1894 - September 6, 2005     	Alabama       	
Bertrand H. Wilbur  	April 10, 1899 - March 31, 2005        	Alaska        	
Edward B Gamble *   	November 30, 1899 - August 1, 2003     	Arizona       	?
William F. Cotton   	October 23, 1897 - April 23, 2006      	Arkansas      	
Forrest W. Faith    	October 27, 1897 - November 11, 2004   	California    	
Howard Ramsey       	April 2, 1898 - February 22, 2007      	Colorado      	
Jesse L. Moffitt    	March 6, 1897 - February 8, 2004       	Connecticut   	
Thomas P. Johnson   	April 6, 1896 - April 27, 2004         	Delaware      	
Charlotte Winters   	November 10, 1897 - March 27, 2007     	Washington D.C	
Alton H. Wentworth  	March 8, 1897 - January 21, 2001       	Florida       	
Carley Zell         	September 1, 1899 - February 26, 2006  	Georgia       	
Frank Steer *       	January 12, 1901 - March 7, 2006       	Hawaii        	Oklahoma
Dean L. Rager       	December 22, 1898 - February 20, 2005  	Idaho         	Ohio
Lowell N. Johnson   	June 17, 1899 - March 10, 2006         	Illinois      	
Paul Elliott        	February 6, 1899 - January 14, 2005    	Indiana       	
Earl F. Bush        	July 17, 1893 - January 10, 2005       	Iowa          	
Albert Wagner       	September 5, 1899 - January 20, 2007   	Kansas        	
Dewey Boyd          	February 17, 1899 - March 24, 2003     	Kentucky      	
George L. Briant    	March 3, 1901 - January 31, 2005       	Louisiana     	
Leon P. Davis       	July 6, 1896 - April 11, 2003          	Maine         	
Charlotte Winters   	November 10, 1897 - March 27, 2007     	Maryland      	
Russell A. Buchanan 	January 24, 1900 - December 6, 2006    	Massachusetts 	
Arthur W. Winters   	March 14, 1898 - August 26, 2001       	Michigan      	
Albert Anderegg     	August 29, 1900 - August 8, 2006       	Minnesota     	
Moses Hardy         	January 6, 1893/1894 – December 7, 2006	Mississippi   	
Frank Buckles       	February 1, 1901 – February 27, 2011   	Missouri      	
Roy Scow            	July 18, 1896 - April 11, 2004         	Montana       	
Perry D. Fusselman  	September 9, 1898 - October 6, 2004    	Nebraska      	
William Brown *     	August 23, 1894 - October 12, 2003     	Nevada        	Texas
Irving H. Crandall  	August 6, 1899 - August 11, 2002       	New Hampshire 	
Michael Harrison    	December 13, 1897 - April 5, 2005      	New Jersey    	
Frank E. Hollar *   	March 24, 1899 - October 28, 2004      	New Mexico    	California
Howard F. Boice     	September 8, 1897 - October 7, 2005    	New York      	
Hugh Medford        	May 14, 1898 - May 4, 2000             	North Carolina	
Charles Lalond      	April 26, 1897 - November 14, 2001     	North Dakota  	
Russell Coffey      	September 1, 1898 – December 20, 2007  	Ohio          	
Frank Steer         	January 12, 1901 - March 7, 2006       	Oklahoma      	
Wade H. Leroy       	March 14, 1899 - April 24, 2003        	Oregon        	
Harold Gardner      	December 3, 1898 – October 16, 2006    	Pennsylvania  	
Hiram Lacroix       	August 21, 1893 - May 16, 2001         	Rhode Island  	
Stephen Kennedy     	April 6, 1896 - October 28, 2001       	South Carolina	
Kenneth Myers       	April 18, 1896 - November 28, 2005     	South Dakota  	
Henry E. Hoodenpyle 	February 26, 1894 - July 24, 2003      	Tennessee     	
Daniel T. Roberts   	November 27, 1895 - November 17, 2004  	Texas         	
Ray L. Alston       	September 22, 1895 - January 20, 1999  	Utah          	
Rollin F. Grace     	March 11, 1900 - January 23, 2005      	Vermont       	
Stanley W. Coolbaugh	August 11, 1898 - January 21, 2003     	Virginia      	
Charley Gaupp       	April 10, 1897 - October 17, 2002      	Washington    	
Addison Gable       	December 21, 1900 - October 27, 2004   	West Virginia 	
Art Fiala           	February 17, 1899 – November 23, 2005  	Wisconsin     	
Edward A. Swedenborg	February 26, 1895 - February 4, 2002   	Wyoming       	
*Very impressive. Seems like an article in itself. Czolgolz (talk) 13:10, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last WWI veteran from each state 

message: Jennie Hodgers AKA Albert Cashier was the last known wounded female combat veteran who served with the 95th Illinois Infantry. She was born December 25, 1943 and died October 10, 1915. Her sex was discovered after she was wounded.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:D:A500:2A1:D9A3:E136:21C2:9B97 (talk) 23:17, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: This is completely unsourced/unreferenced and certainly birth/death dates are wrong. Reference(s) required. David J Johnson (talk) 23:31, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

text: I haven't really looked into who the last female veteran was but almost immediately I found Elizabeth A. Niles (1844 - Sept. 13, 1920) who joined the 4th New Jersey Infantry with her husband. Considering that there were only ~400 female soldiers in the Civil War, this doesn't sound too bad. I also did a quick search on the last of the 3,000-8,000 Civil War Nurses and found Georgia W. Kennedy (1841 - Dec 25, 1943), a former slave who was a nurse in a Confederate Hospital Unit and Alice Cary Farmer (1847 - May 10, 1939), a volunteer nurse for the Union forces occupying New Orleans. Lemunz (talk) 01:34, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last Female Civil War Combat veteran .  

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message: Does anyone have any second sources on last surviving USCT soldiers? Perry Vaughn (see 1947 Wisconsin article) is the oldest I can find so far.
1940 PA
1942 Delmarva
1947 Wisc & , died 1949 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/520625310/?match=1&article=458d2c8d-a10d-452e-abfd-d7f497e9857c jengod (talk) 21:29, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last Civil War Colored Troops