HOW WE CONTRIBUTE TO THE COUNTY
St. Clair County Genealogy & History Society strives to inform and engage the community in the study of family history, to enrich their understanding of themselves and their heritage. We also aspire to strengthen the region by encouraging a long-term interest in local history and preservation. We achieve this thru member and public programing and activities, focused on genealogical education and resources, and local history topics. Contact us if you have any ideas about, or want us to participate in any events or proceedings that could help educate the community about genealogy or the history of St. Clair County,
BLUE WATER AREA FALLEN HEROES COMMUNITY BANNER PROGRAM
Copied from St Clair County Community Foundation Website
St. Clair County has over 580 service members who died in service to their country from World War I to the current gulf war conflict. The community banners will feature the fallen heroes’ photograph, rank, name, branch of service, war conflict, age, and city in which they resided. These beautiful, patriotic banners will be displayed one week prior to and one week after Memorial Day each year.
The concept for the Banner Program initially came from Waynesboro, Pennsylvania; small farming community has banners honoring the memory of fallen or missing-in-action service members which are mounted on light poles in downtown Waynesboro during the weeks surrounding Memorial Day.
Banner Program Focus
To obtain photographs for of over 580 fallen heroes. If you are a family member or know of a friend or a neighbor who died in service to their country, please call the Banner Message Line at (810) 985-2007 or (810) 434-6407
E-mail: weichsler10@gmail.com to schedule an appointment to have a photograph scanned.
Below are 54 names of fallen heroes that still need photographs
Ralph Bammell, Frank Bellmaier, Leonard Bellmaier, Edmond Blach, Theodore Borowski, Charles Brettin,Vincent Brown, Fergus Buckley, Norman Carter, William Cornelison, John Davis, Myron Edgerton,Leo Felgenauer, Hale Fisher, William Flynn, Donald Gillie, Peter Gristchuik, Harvey Harrington, Albert Hart, James Helmer, Thomas Herman, Joseph Horvath, Emil Hund, Fred Hyde, Michael Krisan, Alfred Langridge, Robert Lawrence, Richard Lightle, Arthur May, Harold Miller, Maynard Morley, Donn Patterson, Leroy Pearce, Gene Perry, Lambert Pohnke, William Poole, Joseph Radwanski, Richard Regan, Daniel Robbins, Thurston Roberts, Henry Ruttan, John Rys, William Sharp, John Shoefelt, George Smith, Rexford Smith, George Stevens, Michael Tanowigch, Lemuel Walker, William Weiler, JM White, Richard White, Harry Wilkinson, Thomas Williams.
ST. CLAIR COUNTY PIONEER CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
- Diamond Level -Pre-1820
- Gold Level – 1821-1837
- Silver Level – 1838-1890
- Bronze Level -1891-1940
SCCGHS is proud to introduce that we will be starting the St Clair County Pioneer Certificate Program. As of right now we are still in the beginning of the setting up stage. We hope to be able to give you more information in the coming months. As of now we have the levels of certificates that we will be focusing on base of our county.
BELOW ARE THE DOWNLOADABLE APPLICATIONS