FAYETTE COUNTY ILLINOIS AHGP
MILITARY FILES
Crawford-Hale American Legion Post (Vandalia)
The Crawford-Hale Post of the American Legion
was organized at Vandalia on August 2, 1919, in the
court house. Previous to this meeting circulars had
been sent over the county signed by Will M. Albert
calling the meeting. A temporary organization was
perfected and Fred Easterday was elected Chairman
and Will M. Albert was elected Secretary. Joseph B.
McGlynn of East St. Louis was present at the meeting
and assisted in the organization.
The name for the organization was chosen by a
committee consisting of Glen O. Walters, Fred A.
Meyers and Clinton E. Dillon and the name decided upon was The Crawford-Hale Post in honor of Edward
B. Hale the first Fayette county man to die in the service, and Lewis C. Crawford, the first Fayette county
man to lose his life in France. At this meeting Fred
Easterday was elected Post Commander and Will M.
Albert, Adjutant.
There were fifty charter members of the organization. The first meetings were held in the court house
and were well attended. On the 13th of April, 1920.
the Post secured for club rooms the rooms in the Kelly
block and from receipts from dances and entertainments secured a pool table and a billiard table and otherwise fitted out the room for club purposes including
new furniture and electric lighting fixtures.
List of Charter Members :
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Will M. Albert | Fred A. Meyers | |
Fred G. W. Easterday | Henry O. Dorn | |
Frank Lovett | Hugh Kirkman | |
Jerry Bolt | James H. Hale | |
Walter F. Boye | James C. Cunningham | |
Lester B. Filer | Walter Weaver | |
Clayton Frailey | Harold Emerick | |
Theodore Depew | Eugene Ireland | |
Walter E. Sheppard | Glen O. Walter | |
L. E. Wilson | William F. Mattes Jr. | |
Albert J. Lemke | Fred Turney | |
Cameron B. Withers | Selby T. Oldham | |
Ross Carson | William E. Hankins | |
Clinton E. Dillon | Bert Van Zandt | |
Pearle M. Durbin | James A. Burcham | |
Harry M. Starnes | Donald Smith | |
Dan Schilling | Charles E. Segrest | |
F. P. Feery | C. W. Turner | |
Virgil Van Winkle | Harold Ivan Mitchell | |
Charles R. Hausmann | Archie A. Oglesby | |
William Raymond Leever | Benjamin Lipsey | |
John M. Bingaman | H. G. Walton | |
Dan Reeter | Charles L. Hammer | |
Kelly Roe | Clifford E Kirk | |
Frank M. Denny | Rollo Rantz |
From "Fayette County in the World War," Frederick Hanes, 1922
This website created March 28, 2014 by Sheryl McClure.
� Illinois American History and Genealogy Project
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