Background and Previously Published Genesee County Honor Rolls

 

In 2009, while researching the World War One career of my grandfather, Stanley M Crocker of LeRoy, I noticed some discrepancies among the Honor Roll lists of Genesee County war dead that had been published in area newspapers at the time of the war and afterward.

Some of those discrepancies were understandable. It’s not surprising, for example, that a list of casualties published early in the war would have fewer names than one published later.

But I found puzzling differences even when I focused only on the four most complete Genesee County honor roll lists I could find, all published well after the war. Not only was the total number of individuals on each county list different, varying from 52 to 61, but the names and information on the lists varied as well. Most surprising, when I compiled all the names from all the lists, allowing no duplicates, the total was considerably higher than that of any single list: 78.

The updated Genesee County WWI Honor Roll featured on this website is the result of more than six years of research aimed at resolving the discrepancies among the previously published lists and producing a more complete, accurate document.

Click on the links below to view each of the earlier published honor rolls.

COUNTY LIST 1:  August 5, 1919 Batavia Daily News p11 c3-4

COUNTY LIST 2:  October 12, 1922 Batavia Daily News p9 c2-3

COUNTY LIST 3:  May 30, 1925 Batavia Times p1 c1

COUNTY LIST 4:  November 11, 1933 Batavia Daily News p1 c5-6

“BATAVIA’S HONOR ROLL” Series:  February 1, 1919 (p8 c2); March 1, 1919 (p1 c3-5); and June 2, 1932 (p1 c2) Batavia Times

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For information on individuals listed on one or more of the previously published lists, but not included on the updated Genesee County WWI roll, go to Others Listed From Previous Genesee County Honor Rolls.