Ovid Wellford Smith (Medal Of Honor) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Ovid Wellford Smith (enlisted as James Smith)

Medal of Honor recipient
Rank and organization: Private, Company I, 2d Ohio Infantry

Place and date: Georgia, April 1862

Date of issue: 6 July 1864

Citation: One of the 19 of 22 men (including 2 civilians) who, by direction of Gen. Mitchell (or Buell), penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad train at Big Shanty, Ga., in an attempt to destroy the bridges and tract between Chattanooga and Atlanta.

Medal of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor

Civil War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

Great Locomotive Chase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase

Clinton Greaves (Medal Of Honor) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Clinton Greaves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Greaves

Medal of Honor recipient
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company C, 9th U.S. Cavalry

Place and date: At Florida Mountains, N. Mex., 24 January 1877

Entered service at: Prince Georges County, Md.

Date of issue: 26 June 1879

Citation: While part of a small detachment to persuade a band of renegade Apache Indians to surrender, his group was surrounded. Cpl. Greaves in the center of the savage hand-to-hand fighting, managed to shoot and bash a gap through the swarming Apaches, permitting his companions to break free.

Medal of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor

Buffalo Soldier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Soldier

Indian Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

Stanislas Roy (Medal Of Honor) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Stanislas Roy

Medal of Honor recipient
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company A, 7th U.S. Cavalry

Place and date: At Little Big Horn, Mont., 25 June 1876

Date of issue: 5 October 1878

Citation: Brought water to the wounded at great danger to life and under a most galling fire of the enemy

Medal Of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor

Battle Of Little Bighorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn

Indian Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

Gabriel Family Lot - Green Lawn Cemetery

Samuel Woodrow Gabriel
Violet Glendeen Gabriel

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Henry Howe - Green Lawn Cemetery

Henry Howe
Pioneer Historian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Howe

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Henry Howe portrait
Ohio History Center
Columbus, Ohio

Joseph Ridgway - Green Lawn Cemetery

Honorable Joseph Ridgway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ridgway

Levicy Penny (Civil War) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Levicy Penny

Private
Company C
5th United States Colored Infantry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_United_States_Colored_Infantry_Regiment

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

George Cash (Civil War) - Green Lawn Cemetery

George Cash

Private
9th United States Colored Infantry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_United_States_Colored_Infantry

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

A.S. Jones (Mexican-American War) - Green Lawn Cemetery

A.S. Jones

2nd Ohio Infantry
Mexican American War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

W.A. Worley (Civil War) - Green Lawn Cemetery

W.A. Worley
Primary Musician

69th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69th_Ohio_Infantry

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Charles Vogle (Civil War) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Charles Vogle
Primary Musician

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

James Churchman (Civil War) - Green Lawn Cemetery

James Churchman

Corporal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal

Company C
27th United States Colored Troops

George Mayer (Civil War) - Green Lawn Cemetery

George Mayer
U.S. Army

Color Sergeant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_sergeant

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Pink Akers (Civil war) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Pink Akers

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Eddie Rickenbacker (Medal of Honor) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Rickenbacker

94th Aero Squadron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/94th_Aero_Squadron

94th Fighter Squadron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/94th_Fighter_Squadron

Medal of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor

Francis Dubiel (VFW) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Francis Dubiel

A founder of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_of_Foreign_Wars

https://www.vfw.org/

Eliza Sullivant - Green Lawn Cemetery

Eliza Sullivant

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio