The Cavendish Memorial Day Program returns after a three year absence.

10 am: Program at Cavendish Town Elementary School. Public invited. Parade to follow to Hillcrest Cemetery.

We remember those Cavendish Veterans who died in service:

We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summer up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.” James Garfield

Revolutionary War: Soldiers who died in and around Cavendish, particularly on the Crown Point Road, were buried in the Coffeen and the Revolutionary cemeteries and in private graves.

Civil War: More soldiers died of disease during the Civil War than were killed in battle. Intestinal disorders such as diarrhea, typhoid fever, and dysentery were rampant in the camps, along with various types of fevers, measles, chicken pox, mumps, whooping cough, and small pox. Men who left their home towns for the first time were exposed to new diseases that they had no immunities against. A lack of sanitation and close quarters contributed to the spread of disease, and poor food, lack of shelter, and a lack of proper clothing increased their severity. In the field, a common cold could quickly become pneumonia. Army War College.

Of the 173 names appearing on the Cavendish civil war memorial: 14 died in battle/wounds, 1 in prison, 13 while in the service but from disease (diseases like typhoid); two were lost at sea; one was drown and one was missing in action

• Jesse Adams: Died from disease

• Joseph Ashley Gettysburg

• Sylvanus S. Barnard: Died from disease

• Zaccheus Blood Winchester

• Thomas W. Demary: Died of disease

• Henry G. Fillebrown: Petersburg

• Henry C. Fletcher: Died from disease

• John Quincy French Wilderness

• Luther Graves: Died from wounds, Lee’s Mills

• Nathan Graves: Died from Disease

• John L. Hemenway: Died in service

• Myron Hicks: Died from disease in New Orleans

• Hial W. Holden: Lost on steamer “North America” off Cape Hatteras

• Horace Needham Petersburg

• Chancellor Paige: Died from disease

• Lowell B Paine: Lost on steamer “North America” off Cape Hatteras

• Otto Rimley: Died from disease

• Michael Shannon: Died from disease

• Wesley Sheldon: Cedar Creek

• George Smith: Drowned in Rio Grande River

• John Smith: Petersburg

• Nicholas Smith: Spotsylvania

• Charles Spaulding: Died of disease

• Henry Spaulding: Died in Andersonville Prison

• Matthew Stewart: Died of wounds

• Charles Stockdale Missing in Action Crampton’s Gap

• George Taylor: Died from disease

• George Wallis: Died from wounds

• James Webster: Cold Harbor

• William Webster: Died from disease

• Henry P White: Died from disease

• Merritt White: Died from wounds

Spanish American War: Six men served with one, Ernest Grout, dying

World War I: Fifty seven men and one woman enlisted. Four men died, George Dixon, Winthrop Hoyle, Truman McNulty and Francis Wallace. Winthrop Hoyle was 16 and died from nephritis in Rhode Island. The American Legion Wallace Mcnulty Holye Post was named in honor of these men.

 World War II: 168 men and one woman served with seven men dying during the course of the war. Ted Berg, Harold Davy, Duane Hodge , Kenneth Hodge, Morris Percy, Edward Sherer Jr and H. Allen Spaulding.