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Albert Cummins (center back row) with other  Civil War Veterans, May 27, 1914 in Coffey County, Kansas

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Early Colonial and Indian Conflicts

Robert Seeley, Gwendolyn's 9th great-grandfather, appointed Lieutenant and designated second in command under Captain John Mason in the of New Haven  Colony Forces in The Pequot War.  He was hit by an arrow during the Mystic Fort Fight on 26 May 1637 and was severely wounded.  This battle took place just northeast of New London, CT. Eleven years later in 1648  he was commissioned Captain of Artillery.   He remained a captain of the New Haven militia under the command of English regular officers, Major Sedgwick and Captain Leverett during a military dispute with New Netherlands and took part in the capture of Dutch Point at Hartford CT.  In 1862 Captain Seeley was appointed chief military officer in Huntington, Long Island, New York to exercise and train soldiers.  Seeley Genealogical Society, 1997 

George Squire,  Gwendolyn's 8th great-grandfather,  "sometime prior to 1670 he was appointed Sergeant of the Fairfield Trainband (a band of citizens trained as soldiers to supplement the regular army) or Militia. This involved more than just drilling the men on the green several times a year. He was in charge of the military stores of the town and responsible for the preparedness of the community in the event of an attack by the Indians, Dutch, or French." Descendants of El Shandon Squyre


Nathaniel Seeley, Gwendolyn's 8th great-grandfather,  in November 1675, he was commissioned as Lieutenant, and was second in command of the Army of Fairfield County in King Phillips War. He served as Captain in Fairfield Co. Dragoons November 1675.  He was killed in the Great Swamp Fight at the village in what today is South Kingstown, Rhode Island.  Seeley Genealogical Society, 1997  

 

The Revolutionary War

Amos Sweet, Gwendolyn's 5th great-grandfather, private, 1778, in Capt. Elisha May's company, Col. John Daggett's Massachusetts regiment according to Stocker.

Thomas Sweet, Gwendolyn's 5th great-grandfather,  (1741-1830) enlisted as a private in the 9th company, Col. John Daggett's 4th regiment, which marched on the Lexington Alarm, and, 1778, was sergeant in Capt. Alexander Foster's company, Col. Thomas Carpenter's regiment (The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 59, page 114.)

John Squire, Gwendolyn's 4th great-grandfather, served in the Vermont Militia in the Revolutionary War under Capt. Ichabod Robinson and Capt. Thomas Sawyer according to From Cemetery to Tree (Sweet and Squire) and Descendants of El Shandon Squyre

Samuel Wright, Gwendolyn's 4th great-grandfather, "was a soldier of the Revolution" according to Stocker.

Isaac Brown, Gwendolyn's 4th great-grandfather, is listed in the 1840 Census as a Revolutionary War veteran.  According to DAR Lineage Books,  Isaac Brown (1750-1845) enlisted in the New Hampshire State militia, 1775, in Capt. William Walker's company, Colonel Read's New Hampshire regiment, General Sullivan's brigade. He received a pension for service.

Ernst Frederick Dumbauld, James' 4th great-grandfather, and his sons, Abraham, James' 3rd great grandfather,  and Peter, James' 3rd great-granduncle served in the Revolutionary War.  Ernst served as a Ranger on the Frontier and Pvt. Westmoreland Co. Militia.  (Sons of the Revolution National #CA2903 and Daughters of the American Revolution National Number 271566).

Jacob Kreager, James' 3rd great-grandfather served as Pvt. and Sgt. under Capt Thomas Jones, New Jersey [Jones is said to have organized the first Minute Man unit and later was one of the men that organized the boats for Washington and his men to cross the Delaware]. Born November 17, 1753 Jacob died in 1843. He was buried in family plot near Gratiot, Ohio. Memorial inscription "Revolutionary Soldier" on grave marker. This stone is missing and the family plot is now plowed farmland. The grave marker is said to be a standard county marker.

Richard Poundstone James' 3rd great-grandfather is  listed in the Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolutionary War.  

The War of 1812           

James Cahoon, James' 2nd great-grandfather, was in the War of 1812, according to the History of Gentry and Worth Counties MO, 1892 p584

George Washington Kreager, James' 2nd grand uncle, served briefly in the war of 1812, once as a private in 1812, and once in 1813 as a Sergeant under his father-in-law John Bartholomew.

Philip Poundstone, James' 2nd great-grandfather served as a Pvt. in Captain Peter Hertzog's "Feyette Greenes"  Pennsylvania Militia Company in the War of 1812-1815.  They marched from the Second Brigade Sixteenth Division of Pennsylvania Militia into the service of the U.S. on the 8th day of November 1814 and were dismissed on the 22nd of November 1814, allowing nine days for the return trip home, they were in service 24 days. 

 

The Civil War

Albert Cummins,  James' grandfather, Private  Ninety Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,  Company A   Enrolled at Delaware, Ohio on August 4, 1862 and was honorably discharged at Mobile, Alabama on the 7th day of July 1865.  Received a pension for rheumatism and claimed injury "while in the  line of his duty in the military service of the US at or near Spanish Fort near Mobile Alabama on or about the 6th day of April 1865 was severely stunned by the explosion of a shell of large caliber near him."

James A Sims, James' grandfather, Corporal First Missouri State Militia Cavalry, Company M. Enlisted July 12, 1863 at Lexington, Missouri, Mustered in August 22, 1863 Lexington, Missouri and was honorably discharged July 12, 1865 at Benton Barracks, Missouri.  All of the members of Company M came from Worth and Gentry Counties.  The 1st Cavalry's principle actions involved the pursuit of guerrillas, but they did play a role in turning back Major General Sterling Price's army in September 1864 at the battles of Little Blue River, Big Blue River, Westport and Marmiton River.  In James' applications for a pension he states that he contracted a lung condition in January 1864 while on a scouting expedition out of Warrensburg.  He is listed as absent without leave commencing April 21, 1865 (essentially after the war was over) but returned before being discharged on July 12, 1865.

 

The Spanish-American War

James Alexander Cummins, James' uncle, Served in the Spanish-Philippine-China War enlisting June 16, 1898 in Marion, Kansas and was discharged December 10, 1898 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.  He was in Company M 21st. Volunteer Infantry.  According to military records he was partially disabled---weak kidneys and back from a fall.

 

World War I     

Louis Jeral Sims, James' older brother, Private, Company 40 163 Depot Brigade and Company 3  1 Shop Regiment Quartermaster Corp.  Dates of Service: Sept. 4, 1918 to Jan. 10, 1919.  Place of Separation: Camp Johnston.

Clarence Arthur Cummins, James' uncle, Private, Served in France one year and one month.  Dates of Service: October 20, 1917 to February 27, 1919. 

World War II

Helen H. Mann, Gwendolyn's mother, WAC in the U.S. Army Surgical Nurses Corp during World War II.  Stationed in San Francisco.

Edwin W. Mann, Gwendolyn's brother, Sergeant, Served in the Pacific in The 11th Airborne Division and was awarded the Purple Heart.

(Note there is a family story that Edwin was wounded and sent to a military hospital in San Francisco where Helen was a nurse.  Family members recall newspaper articles about the coincidence but so far we have been unable to find copies.)

Albert F. Sims, James' brother, Private, Served in World War II.

(Note: Esther Sims, Albert's wife, stated that they got to know each other at the Osage American Legion dances after the war.  Esther was a widow whose first husband, Robert Christiansen, died in World War II.)

George C. Sims, James' brother, served as an officer in World War II.

 

Post War and Vietnam

Eric Sims, James and Gwendolyn's son, served in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve.

Cort Sims, James and Gwendolyn's son, Spec 5, 1970 to 1972, served in the U.S. Army, 551st Military Police Company, Fort Polk, La.

 

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