Veteran's Day Transcription Project
Remembering Company E in Holton, Kansas Have you ever stopped to read the names engraved on a veterans' memorial? Have you wondered about the people behind those names, where they lived, or what happened to them? For several years, I've participated in the Veterans Day Transcription Project , an initiative started by Heather Wilkinson Rojo of the Nutfield Genealogy blog. The purpose of this project is simple: encourage genealogists and local historians to photograph and transcribe veterans' memorials so the names engraved on them become searchable online. In previous years, I've contributed to this project by sharing photographs and transcriptions of military monuments in Nemaha County, Kansas. This year, I'm venturing beyond Nemaha County to share a World War II memorial located in Holton, Kansas. What makes this monument particularly interesting is that it doesn't honor only soldiers from Holton or Jackson County. Instead, it remembers soldiers from communiti...