- “Ashtabula News Correspondents Reunion at Warner Hotel”
- Portrait of Sweet/ Adams Families ~ 1890
- Windsor Mills School
- Windsor Mills School 1910
- Rieck’s Creamery – Noble/ 534
- Class of 1947 Windsor High School
Windsor Landmark Is 100 Years Old
By Marian Alderman
Windsor – A well-known Windsor landmark is 100 years old. It has withstood the test of time, a fact that would please the women who struggled to raise funds for its erection in 1907.
The women belonged to an organization called The Ladies of the Monumental Society, and the century-old landmark is the Soldiers and Sailor’s Monument in the cemetery on Noble Road in Windsor. No records have surfaced indicating how much money the ladies had to raise or how they raised it, but there are pictures of the Day of Dedication.
These pictures can be seen in the Ray Fry Collection of Windsor photos at the Grand Valley Public Library. There is no identification of persons in the one photo, but it is safe to speculate that the Ladies of the Monumental Society are pictured in their Sunday best for a very important day in Windsor in 1907.
(This writer can identify one couple. My maternal grandmother, Katherine (Kohler) Askew, surely was a member of the Ladies of the Monumental Society. She is front and center on the right of the Soldiers and Sailor’s Monument in a group of twenty people, and back of her is a very tall gentleman who was my grandfather, Christopher F. Askew. Every lady has on a fancy hat, and all men are wearing hats, also.)
The other photo is a panoramic view of the east part of the center section of the cemetery with the tall monument under a large tarp with flags flying from it in a stiff breeze. There was a large crowd around the monument, and umbrellas are plentiful, whether to ward off sun or rain is not known.
The photo shows a section of Noble Road with several horses and buggies. There is an iron fence – probably the same one that is in the cemetery today along Noble Road – but the monument appears to be some distance from the road. Presently, the monument is just a few feet from the road, so perhaps the road was widened after vehicular traffic replaced the horse and buggy.
A month ago, this writer saw former Windsor resident John Johnson, now of Leroy, at a pancake breakfast at Camp Whitewood. The conversation turned to Windsor landmarks, and Johnson expressed an interest in the Soldiers and Sailor’s Monument. When told it was 100 years old this year, he left to take pictures of the monument.
A few days later, Johnson brought twelve pictures, three from each side of the monument. They reveal the names of military personnel from Windsor in wars from the Revolutionary War to the Spanish-American War in 1898. Johnson found the most interesting inscription on the upper base of the west side: “Soldiers of the Rebellion Living in Windsor, October 1, 1907”, followed by eight names beginning with Adkins and ending with Ritter.
With Johnson’s interest, it seemed fitting to recognize the 100th anniversary of the landmark. A letter went out to the Board of Trustees of Windsor Township asking for a proclamation to observe the year as there is no known month and day of the dedication of the monument.
At the regular meeting of the township trustees on Monday, December 10, Jim Plizga, Chairman of the Board, read the letter and made a motion to proclaim 2007 as the 100th Anniversary of the Soldiers and Sailor’s Monument in Windsor Cemetery. The motion passed unanimously.
The Ladies of the Monumental Society would have been proud, and present residents of Windsor can share in that pride. May that landmark stand tall in 2107!
Update: October 10 and 11, 2009 – At the Covered Bridge Festival observance on the grounds of the Windsor Mills Historic Church, a visitor to the church/museum on Saturday was former Windsor resident, Carl Kramer, from Warren.. He told me that he had a large picture of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at the Windsor Cemetery with a group of people who were identified on the back of the picture. As Carl described it, I realized it was identical to the picture from the Ray Fry Collection, so I asked him to bring it to Windsor. He returned on Sunday with the picture and other pictures that he had from the collection of his grandparents, Carl and Bessie Alderman who had lived on Noble Rd.
The names on the back of the picture are as follows, left to right:
AMOS KING, MAY RAWDON, EUGENE RAWDON, ELIOS RAWLEY, ERASTUS GRISWOLD, EMMA KNAPP, F. M. BLANCHARD, H. CLOUGH, LIBERTY KENT, JAMES ACKWORTH, ORISMAS HAMILTON, FAY ALDERMAN, LUCY BLANCHARD, AXIE (?) LEEWORTHY, LIZZIE KING, ELOIS BROOKS, CATHERINE ASKEW, JOHN POORMAN, EMMA KENT, CYNTHIA ALDERMAN, ELIN CLOUGH, HENRY KNAPP
Written by J. W. Hues, Oct. 8, 1919
(My grandfather, Chris Askew, is not named.)
–Marian (McCalmont) Alderman
WW II MILITARY FORCES from WINDSOR, OHIO
These names were displayed on a simple glass-covered board erected in the park where St. Rt. 534 and Noble Rd. merge. There are no records indicating who made the board or when it was erected or removed.
ALDERMAN, MARLAN
ARMSTRONG, E. G.
ARMSTRONG, NEWTON
BARTA, JOSEPH
BARTA, MILO
BARTA, RUDOLPH
BARLETT, JOHN
BAZILUIS, PAUL
BELLOWS, DURWOOD
BENE, JOHN
BROWN, ROBERT
BRUGMAN, CHARLES
BRUGMAN, EDWARD
BURLINSKI, WALTER
CLARK, ARTHUR
DAVIS, ELMO
DOMOKOS, ELMER
DOMOKOS, MARTIN
ERNI, JOHN
EVIN, ADOLPH
EVIN, EMIL
FLETCHER, ROBERT
GIRMAN, GEORGE
GIRMAN, THOMAS
GREEN, HOWARD
GUTKOWSKI, THEODORE
HAVEL, METHIAS
HEGYI, ROBERT
HILLMAN, NORMAN
HILLS, EDWARD
HINES, WALDEN
HOLLEY, CARL
HOLLEY, EUGENE
HOLLEY, FRANK (KIA)
HOWES, ERWIN
HOWES, THAYNE
ISBESTOR, RALPH
JONES, RALPH
KALISTER, ANDREW
KINNEY, HARLAND
KLIMA, JOSEPH
KLIMA, RICHARD
KRAVACSN, ANDREW
KRAVACSN, MICHAEL
KUCHTA, JOHN
KUCHTA, MICHAEL
KWARCIANCY, PETER
LAWRENCE, KENNETH
LEOPOLD, ERNEST
LINDENMEYER, TONY
LINDOW, ALLEN
LINDOW, JAMES
LOOMIS, JAY
LOOMIS, RAYMOND
LOOMIS, ROBERT
MAJKA, STANLEY
MAURIC, FRANK
MAURIC, JAMES
MAURIC, JOSEPH
MCCALMONT, DONALD
MEREDITH, CHARLES
MERSERCH, STEVE
METLICKA, ALBERT
MIHALSKI, JOHN
MIKLASIEWICZ, HENRY
MILLER, ROBERT
MINICK, RICHARD
MOSS, FORREST
MOTYLEWICZ, ALBERT
NESTERAK, STEPHEN
NOBLE, EDWARD
NODERER, CHARLES (KIA)
NODERER, MARGARET*
NODERER, RICHARD
PAVLOSKI, JOSEPH
PLECHA, BERNARD
PLIZGA, JOHN
PLIZGA, JOSEPH
PLIZGA, MICHAEL
POPOVIC, GEORGE
RHODES, HUBERT
RHODES, RAYMOND
RODGERS, ARTHUR
RODGERS, KENNETH (KIA)
RUFF, MERLE
SHULTZ, EDWARD
SHULTZ, GEORGE
SHULTZ, HARRY
SHULTZ, SAMUEL
SCHWIND, CHARLES
SCHWIND, CLIFFORD
SHUMINSKI, JOHN
SHUMINSKI, MICHAEL
SHUMINSKI, STANLEY
SMITH, FRED
SMITH, WALTER
SOLOWEYKO, ALEX
SOLOWEYKO, WILLIAM
SOPCZAK, JOSEPH
SPARENGA, ANDREW
STEARE, THEODORE, JR.
STEARNS, ELTON
STEARNS, JAY (KIA)
STEFFENS, HENRY
STEPANEK, WALTER
STEPPIN, MARY**
STEPPIN, STANLEY
SZABO, FRANK
SZABO, GEORGE
SZABO, LOUIS
SZABO, STEPHEN
VACI, JOSEPH
VOBORNIK, RICHARD
VORT, RICHARD
WATERS, ALLEN
WATERS, KENNETH
WHEELOCK, JOHN
WHITE, CARL
WHITE, DUANE
WILDMAN, EDWARD
ZENCOE, GEORGE
ZENCOE, JOHN
ZENCOE, JOSEPH
ZENCOE, MICHAEL
ZIGLI, PAUL
*Margaret Noderer was an Army nurse; **branch of service unknown
The alphabetical arrangement of the names on the Windsor Honor Roll contained some errors. This listing corrects errors, and adds a missing name, Alex Soloweyko.
Compiled by Marian (McCalmont) Alderman, March 5, 2005
June 6, 2005: Information from Kenneth Waters included these names not on the board in the park: Kenneth Lawrence, Raymond Loomis and Mary Steppin. List updated.
March 3, 2007: Further research revealed these names: Stanley Shuminski, Walter Stepanek, and Richard Vobornik. April, 2007: update: Milo Barta and Ernest Leopold. Carl White added Nov.8, 2009. Ten names have been added to a list of 115 names found in a snapshot of the Windsor Honor Roll dated March 30, 1944. There are now recorded 125 names of men and women from Windsor who served their country in World War II.