Voices in the Night
Mr. Thomas, the author of the book Images of American, North Olmsted, has written a wonderful play about nine of the people buried at our very own Butternut Ridge Cemetery. Included among them are Helen Briggs Elliot and Cassie Salisbury, two women who served as nurses WWI, Samuel Porter, a Revolutionary War veteran, Samuel Ames, a veteran of the Civil War, Fred Tuttle, a veteran of the Philippine War, and George Biddulph, a murderer.
More About Our N.O. Veterans
Curtis Phillips
According to the Plain Dealer and sources at the Soldiers & Sailors Monument the last Cavalry officer and second to last member of The Grand Army Memorial Post 141 in Cuyahoga County was Mr. Curtis Phillips. Mr. Phillips is buried at the Butternut Ridge Cemetery.
clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/articles/ohio/last-veterans.htm
Joe DeSalvo, WWII veteran from North Olmsted
www.north-olmsted.com/2018/10/22/david-wooster-and-joe-desalvo/
John Carpenter, of Frostville Museum's Carpenter House fame, was a soldier in the Civil War
www.olmstedhistoricalsociety.org/carpenter-house
North Olmsted's Veterans Plaza at North Olmsted Park
www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=44854
Dewey Limpert, WWII veteran and recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart
www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/newsletters/honoring-ohios-veterans-
D. Brock Foster, Major U.S. Air Force, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/in-the-news/article/veteran-awarded-distinguished-flying-cross-at-ceremony-in-north-olmsted
Interview with William E. King, WWII veteran who fought in the Pacific Theater
www.memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.03542/transcript?ID=sr0001
Samuel Porter, American Revolutionary War veteran buried at Butternut Ridge Cemetery
www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7HME_Samuel_Porter
CPL Thomas George Graff, Vietnam War veteran whose name appears on the Vietnam War Memorial known as "The Wall" on panel 18E, Line 121
www.virtualwall.org/dg/GraffTG01a.htm
Kenton Elwood Henninger, Vietnam War veteran whose name appears on the "The Wall" on panel 30W, Line 63
www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/22589/KENTON-E-HENNINGER
Six North Olmsted Veterans Who Died in the Vietnam War
To learn more about these brave men, go to the Virtual Wall for Ohio, scroll down until you see our city (city names are in alphabetical order) and click on the men we lost
www.virtualwall.org/istate/istatoh.htm
VFW (Veterans of Foreign War) Post 7647
www.vfw7647.com
Revolutionary War Vets Help Settle N.O.
www.morningjournal.com/news/cuyahoga-county/north-olmsted-traces-roots-to-settlers-from-vermont-connecticut/article_a1c73b04-184a-11e9-9b7d-2331303902e0.html
Data About N.O. Veterans by War (scroll to the bottom of the page)
worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/north-olmsted-oh-population/
The Grave of Samuel Porter, Revolutionary War Solider Buried at Butternut Ridge Cemetery
www.findagrave.com/memorial/6631799
According to the Plain Dealer and sources at the Soldiers & Sailors Monument the last Cavalry officer and second to last member of The Grand Army Memorial Post 141 in Cuyahoga County was Mr. Curtis Phillips. Mr. Phillips is buried at the Butternut Ridge Cemetery.
clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/articles/ohio/last-veterans.htm
Joe DeSalvo, WWII veteran from North Olmsted
www.north-olmsted.com/2018/10/22/david-wooster-and-joe-desalvo/
John Carpenter, of Frostville Museum's Carpenter House fame, was a soldier in the Civil War
www.olmstedhistoricalsociety.org/carpenter-house
North Olmsted's Veterans Plaza at North Olmsted Park
www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=44854
Dewey Limpert, WWII veteran and recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart
www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/newsletters/honoring-ohios-veterans-
D. Brock Foster, Major U.S. Air Force, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/in-the-news/article/veteran-awarded-distinguished-flying-cross-at-ceremony-in-north-olmsted
Interview with William E. King, WWII veteran who fought in the Pacific Theater
www.memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.03542/transcript?ID=sr0001
Samuel Porter, American Revolutionary War veteran buried at Butternut Ridge Cemetery
www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7HME_Samuel_Porter
CPL Thomas George Graff, Vietnam War veteran whose name appears on the Vietnam War Memorial known as "The Wall" on panel 18E, Line 121
www.virtualwall.org/dg/GraffTG01a.htm
Kenton Elwood Henninger, Vietnam War veteran whose name appears on the "The Wall" on panel 30W, Line 63
www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/22589/KENTON-E-HENNINGER
Six North Olmsted Veterans Who Died in the Vietnam War
To learn more about these brave men, go to the Virtual Wall for Ohio, scroll down until you see our city (city names are in alphabetical order) and click on the men we lost
www.virtualwall.org/istate/istatoh.htm
VFW (Veterans of Foreign War) Post 7647
www.vfw7647.com
Revolutionary War Vets Help Settle N.O.
www.morningjournal.com/news/cuyahoga-county/north-olmsted-traces-roots-to-settlers-from-vermont-connecticut/article_a1c73b04-184a-11e9-9b7d-2331303902e0.html
Data About N.O. Veterans by War (scroll to the bottom of the page)
worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/north-olmsted-oh-population/
The Grave of Samuel Porter, Revolutionary War Solider Buried at Butternut Ridge Cemetery
www.findagrave.com/memorial/6631799