Remembering Cherokees Who Have Served - 2012a

  Corporal Hiawatha Tuggle

 1921 - 1943

Son of Hugh and Elizabeth Fisher Tuggle. 

Chilocco Indian School Class of 1940

180 Infantry Oklahoma

Killed in Action - WWII

Aaron Carey, my grandpa

1922 - 2002

Son of Dick and Nancy Fisher Carey.

Pvt - US Army - WWII

612th Tank Battalion 

Prisoner of War 

Bronze Star Medal

Mike Carey

1921 - 1971

Son of Dick and Nancy Fisher Carey.

Pvt - US Army - WWII

John Fisher Carey

1934 - 1978

Son of Dick and Nancy Fisher Carey.

US Marine Corps - Korea

Johnson Fisher Sr.

1844 - 1885

Son of Fisher Hatchet/Chopper and unknown wife.

3rd Regiment - Indian Home Guard

US Civil War - Union

David Tadpole, Jr.

1839 - 1900

Son of David Tadpole, Sr. and Elizabeth Downing.

3rd Regiment - Indian Home Guard

US Civil War - Union

  

Johnnie Martin Blanket

1941 - 2007

Son of Bill and Carrie Pumpkin Blanket.

Graduate Chilocco Indian School

Sgt - US Marine Corps - Vietnam

Purple Heart

George Pumpkin

1839 - Unknown

Son of Pumpkinpile.

3rd Regiment - Indian Home Guard

US Civil War - Union

Rev. Charley Carey

1919 - 2008
Son of Silas and Annie Cochran Carey.
WWII

Swimmer Rabbit

1921 - 1990

Son of William and Ella Swimmer Rabbit (Sullateskee)

PFC - US Army - WWII

PFC Mose Carey

1922 - 1945
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Dude Carey
DOW - US Army - WWII
Enlisted into service November 14, 1942.
Wounded by artillery fire on April 14, 1945, on Hill 903,
in the battle against the Germans at Torre Iussi, Italy.

Robert L. Carroll

1926 - 2003
Son of Robert E. and Flossie Pitts Carroll
Pvt - US Army - WWII

Richard S. Snell

Son of Rachel and Alexander Snell.
US Army - WWII

 Bert Johnson Jr.

US Army

Levi Gritts Sr.

1923 - 2001
Son of Charles and Ollie Terrapin Gritts
US Navy - WWII - Korea

Jesse Swimmer

US Army - WWII

Thomas Snell

Son of Richard Sherman Snell and Alline Snell Bushyhead
US Navy - Korea

Charles W. Flint Jr.

Son of Pauline G. Kelly
US Army - WWII
65th Infantry Field Artillery

Donald Ray Carey

1930 - 1993
Son of Dick and Nancy Fisher Carey.
US Army - Korea

Bert Homer Johnson

Cpl - US Marine Corps
 

PFC Joe Tuggle

1922 - 1942
Son of Hugh and Elizabeth Fisher Tuggle.
PFC - US Army - WWII
120 Medical Regt Co B

Buddy Dean Vance

1938 - 1984
US Marine Corps - Korea

Dull Ho Downing

Unknown - 1863
Died in Service

3rd Regiment - Indian Home Guard

US Civil War - Union

Lewis Hawkins

Son of Tuwodi and Waleh
1st Cherokee Mounted Rifle Company I
US Civil War

Mike Carey 

Abt 1841 - 1901
Son of Dick and Kate Carey.
 3rd Regiment - Indian Home Guard

US Civil War - Union

Lewis Tabb

1st Cherokee Mounted Rifle Company K
US Civil War

Fisher Hatchet/Chopper

Died in Service
Indian Home Guard
US Civil War - Union

Askwater Ummerteskee

Son of Yonahquah and Polly
Indian Home Guard
US Civil War - Union

Eli Tadpole

Son of David Tadpole Sr. and Elizabeth Downing.
Died in Service
2nd Indian Home Guard
US Civil War - Union

copyright 2012, Polly's Granddaughter - TCB

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