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Monday, October 9, 2023

Edgar L. Hanna

Name	Edgar Lacy Hanna
Gender	Male
Race	White
Age	21
Relationship to Draftee	Self (Head)
Birth Date	8 Jul 1920
Birth Place	Martinsville, Texas, USA
Residence Place	Martinsville, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Registration Date	16 Feb 1942
Registration Place	Martinsville, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Employer	Self
Height	6 2
Weight	195
Complexion	Light
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Blue
Next of Kin	A E Hanna

U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946

Name	Edgar L Hanna
Race	White
Marital Status	Single, without dependents (Single)
Rank	Private
Birth Year	1920
Nativity State or Country	Texas
Citizenship	Citizen
Residence	Nacogdoches, Texas
Education	2 years of high school
Civil Occupation	General farmers
Enlistment Date	19 Jan 1943
Enlistment Place	Tyler, Texas
Service Number	38307369
Branch	Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Component	Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source	Civil Life
Height	74
Weight	191

Edgar Lacy Hanna

BIRTH: 8 Jul 1920
Martinsville, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA
DEATH: 28 Apr 1984 (aged 63)
Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA
BURIAL: Martinsville Baptist Cemetery
Martinsville, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

John Harvey Hanna

Name	J.H. Hanna
Side	Confederate
Regiment State/Origin	Alabama
Regiment	Fagg's Company, Alabama Volunteers (Lownde's Rangers)
Rank In	Private
Rank Out	Private
Film Number	M374 roll 18

John Harvey Hanna was born November 30, 1836 in Lowndes County, Alabama, USA. The son of William Hanna (1799-1858) and Eliza Crook (1798-1852). J.H. fought in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy. In Lownde's Rangers, and then in Col. Wood's Mississippi Regiment. He surrendered on May 4, 1865. J.H. married in 1866 in Lowndes, Alabama to Sabrina Jane "Sabrey" Casey They had three children. Sabrey passed away in 1873. J.H. married Emily Lucinda Palmore in 1874 in Lowndes County, Alabama. They had seven children. J.H. moved his family to Texas around 1900 settling in Martinsville, Nacogdoches County. He worked as a farmer until he passed away November 12, 1919 in Martinsville, Texas at the age of 82.

Emily Lucinda Palmore

John Thomas Hanna

Joseph Franklin “Frank” Hanna

Martha Rebecca Mattie Hanna

John Harvey Hanna

BIRTH: 30 Nov 1836
Lowndes County, Alabama, USA
DEATH: 12 Nov 1919 (aged 82)
Martinsville, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA
BURIAL: Martinsville Baptist Cemetery
Martinsville, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

Friday, August 25, 2023

Warren Brewer Fuller

Name	Warren B Fuller
Gender	Male
Race	White
Age	18
Relationship to Draftee	Self (Head)
Birth Date	31 Dec 1925
Birth Place	Martinsville, Texas, USA
Residence Place	Martinsville, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Registration Date	31 Dec 1943
Registration Place	Martinsville, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Employer	None
Height	5 8
Weight	142
Complexion	Ruddy
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Blue
Next of Kin	Fulton Fuller

Full name

Fuller, Warren B

Military muster date

Apr 1944

Muster Place

Third Recruit Battalion Trng. Regt. Recruit Depot, Mcb. San Diego, California

Rank

Private

Conflict Period

World War II

Served for

United States of America

Third Recruit Training Battalion conducts recruit training, ensuring recruits complete required events and meet the objectives of recruit training, in order to transform recruits into basically trained Marines prepared to meet the challenges of their follow-on training.

The 3d Battalion’s main mission is to train new United States Marine Corps recruits, specifically from west of the Mississippi River, but also from some areas east of the river, such as Wisconsin, Michigan, the Chicago metropolitan area and New Orleans. Recruit training includes a thirteen week process during which the recruit becomes cut off from the civilian world and must adapt to a Marine Corps lifestyle. During training, drill instructors train recruits in a wide variety of subjects including weapons training, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, personal hygiene and cleanliness, close order drill, and Marine Corps history. The training emphasizes physical fitness, and recruits must attain a minimum standard of fitness to graduate by passing a Physical Fitness Test. Recruits must also meet minimum combat-oriented swimming qualifications, qualify in rifle marksmanship with the M16A4 service rifle, and pass a 54-hour simulated combat exercise known as "The Crucible".

Unlike training at Parris Island, recruits must leave the depot to conduct field training. Three weeks of the recruit’s training is spent at Edson Range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, where recruits fire on the rifle range, conduct field training, and undergo the Crucible. At the conclusion, recruits return to MCRD San Diego for graduation.

Third Recruit Training Battalion is comprised of four training companies; India, Kilo, Lima and Mike. The recruit training battalion is responsible ensuring that each company is following the procedures set forth by the Recruit Training Regiment.

Each company is responsible to follow the standards established by the Commandant of the Marine Corps to train, teach, mentor, and above all lead recruits through a demanding standard-based training system.

Each Company (India, Kilo, Lima, Mike) holds events that Drill Instructor families are encouraged to attend. Here is a brief description of what you can expect.

Full name

Fuller, Warren B

Military muster date

Oct 1950

Muster Place

Receiving Company Headquarters Bn Training And Replacement Command Camp J H Pendleton Oceanside Calif

Rank

Private First Class

Conflict Period

Korean War

Served for

United States of America

Full name

Fuller, Warren B

Military muster date

Oct 1950

Muster Place

1Stcasco Hqbn Trng and Replcomd, Mb Camp Pendleton California

Rank

Private First Class

Conflict Period

Korean War

Served for

United States of America

Warren Fuller Obituary

Funeral service Mr. Warren B. Fuller, 80, of Martinsville will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday July 29, 2006, at Martinsville Baptist Church with the Rev. Ronnie Sowell, pastor of Martinsville Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Martinsville Cemetery. Mr. Fuller died July 25, 2006, in Nacogdoches. Born December 31, 1925, in Nacogdoches, he was the son of Fulton and Lillian Brewer Fuller. He was a retired cattle farmer and a member of Martinsville Baptist Church. Mr. Fuller served in the Marine Corps during World War II in the 3rd Marine Division in Guam in 1944 and in Iwo Jima in 1945. He was honored to be one of the few survivors of the Battle of Iwo Jima. He later retired as a second lieutenant, after serving in the Korean conflict. He was awarded the Silver Star and The Purple Heart and was a lifetime member of the D.A.V., the V.F.W. and the American Legion. Mr. Fuller is preceded in death by his wife of 52 years, Juanita Fuller; parents, Fulton and Lillian Fuller; and his brother, T.U. Fuller. He is survived by a daughter, Marilyn Mills and husband, Mike, of Martinsville; granddaughter, Stacy McShane and husband, Robert "Sonny" McShane Jr., of Martinsville; great-grandchildren, Cecil McSwain, Jessica Smith and husband, Charlie, Jennifer Phillips, Mandi Phillips, Macie McShane and Tuff McShane; sister, Olive Fuller Wilson of Columbia, S.C.; and numerous nieces and nephews. Active pallbearers will be Robert "Sonny" McShane Jr., Tom Randall, Rocky Justice, Larry Poe, Morris R. Fuller and Terry Fuller. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. Memorial donations may be made to the Juanita Fuller Nursing Scholarship Fund at Stephen F. Austin, P.O. Box 6096 S.F.A. Station, Nacogdoches, Texas 75963-6096. Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors.

The Flag of the Kingdom of Spain 1519 to 1821

The Spanish Flag of Castile and Leon flew over Texas for three hundred years. Spanish involvement in Texas began with Alonzo Alverez de Pineda's mapping of the Texas coast in 1519. Then, in 1542 Luis de Moscoso came to Nacogdoches and East Texas with the remnants of the Hernando de Soto expedition that had begun four years earlier in Florida. Spain's claim to Texas went back to the DeSoto-Moscoso Expedition, which claimed all of southeastern United States as Spanish Florida. Spain's occupation of Texas began in 1690 with the founding of Mission San Francisco de los Tejas on the Neches River. It continued in 1716 with the founding of six missions from the Neches River to Los Adaes in Western Louisiana, and 1721 with the founding of Presidio Nuestra Señora de Pilar de los Adaes----near present day Robeline, Louisiana. Los Adaes was the first capital of the Province of Texas. Texas was under the Spanish flag until Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821. Interestingly, the first flag used by the Spanish to claim Texas was not the familiar flag of Castile and Leon; it was a banner that had the Virgin of Guadalupe on one side and the crucified Christ on the other.

The Flag of the Kingdom of France 1685 to 1689

France's claim to a part of Texas went back to 1682, when Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explored the Mississippi and claimed all the land in its drainage for France. For some mapmakers and politicians, this included Texas. He named this land Louisiana. La Salle came to Texas in 1685, after he accidentally sailed past his destination at the mouth of the Mississippi. He established Fort St. Louis and a French settlement on Garcitas Creek off Matagorda Bay. The settlement was ill fated from its beginning. LaSalle was murdered by his own men near Navasota in 1687, and the settlers and soldiers who remained at Fort St. Louis were killed or captured by the Indians in 1689. The Spanish found Fort St. Louis and burned it to the ground in 1690. This French intrusion into Spanish territory caused the Spanish to begin the occupation and settlement of East Texas to prevent further French invasions.

The Flag of the Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition 1812 to 1813

Bernardo Gutiérrez and Lieutenant Augustus Magee flew their green flag of the new Republic of Texas over the Stone Fort in Nacogdoches in August of 1812. The Republican Army of the North, as these filibusters called themselves, had come from Natchitoches to Nacogdoches to recruit and train troops with the help of Samuel Davenport. They stayed for two months, drilled an army of over five hundred men, and then marched on to capture Goliad and San Antonio. Magee died at Goliad, and his place was taken by Samuel Kemper. Kemper and Gutiérrez captured San Antonio and issued a Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Texas on April 6, 1813. This brief time of Texas Independence was over when the Spanish general Joaquín de Arredondo destroyed the remains of the Republican army at the Battle of Medina on August 18, 1813. Augustus Magee and Samuel Davenport, who were in charge of the militia in Nacogdoches, were both Irishmen. That might have governed their choice of the Emerald Green flag as the Republican army's standard.

The Flag of the Dr. James Long Expedition 1819 and 1821

Some Americans believed that Texas was part of Louisiana as claimed by LaSalle in 1682 and should have been included in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. One of those was Dr. James Long of Natchez, Mississippi, who came to Nacogdoches in June of 1819. Dr. Long proclaimed himself the president of his newly declared Republic of Texas. Dr. Long's red-striped Lone Star flag flew but briefly over the Stone Fort and his Republic of Texas. The Spanish caught Long when he went to Galveston, where he was seeking the assistance of pirate Jean Lafitte. There they defeated him and his meager army and chased him back to Louisiana. Dr. Long returned to Texas with a small army in 1821 and quickly captured the poorly manned garrison at Goliad. However, he was soon under siege by Spanish troops from San Antonio, who recaptured Goliad and took him captive. Dr. James Long was taken to Mexico City, jailed, then freed, and then murdered under mysterious circumstances by a Mexican soldier.

The Flag of the Mexican Federal Republic 1821 to 1836

Spanish Nacogdoches came under the Mexican flag in 1821, when Mexico finally won its independence from Spain. Mexico, in order to prove its ownership of Texas, began settling its eastern parts with the Anglos as early as December 1821. In that year Stephen F. Austin was allowed to bring the first of his Old Three Hundred Settlers into his grant on the Brazos. Thereafter, Americans poured through Nacogdoches, the Gateway to Texas, in search of cheap land. By the time of the Texas revolution in 1836, Anglos greatly outnumbered the Spanish-Mexican population. The Mexican flag that flew over Nacogdoches and still flies over Mexico was adopted in 1825. It has three vertical green, white, and red fields of equal width. In the center of the white field is the Mexican eagle sitting on a nopal cactus holding a snake in its beak. In Mexican legend, this was a sign to the Aztecs that they had reached the land that was to be their home.

The Flag of the Fredonia Rebellion 1826 to 1827

For a brief while, the flag that flew over Nacogdoches was the red-and-white banner of Haden Edward's thirty-seven-day Fredonia Rebellion. Edwards had obtained a grant from Mexico to settle eight hundred families in East Texas in the Nacogdoches area. Unfortunately for him, most of the land had already been settled---legally and illegally---by the early Spanish, by Indians, and by Anglo squatters. His intrusion caused such a disturbance that the Mexican government revoked his grant. Disappointed over the loss of his grant, on December 16, 1826, Haden and his brother Benjamin rode into Nacogdoches, planted their flag in front of the Stone Fort, and proclaimed the Republic of Fredonia. They had formed an uncertain alliance with the Cherokees, thus the reason for the red and white colors of the flag. The flag carried the words "Independence Freedom and Justice" and the Signatures of sixteen of the original Fredonians. The Fredonian army consisted of no more than thirty men, the Cherokees never joined them, and Stephen F. Austin raised a militia to put down the East Texas rebellion. The Fredonians gave up their cause on January 22, 1827, and retreated eastward across the Sabine.

The Flag of the Republic of Texas 1836 to 1846

Mexican Texas became the Republic of Texas after Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna on the plains of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. The first official flag was a white upside-down star on a blue background with T-E-X-A-S written between the points of the star. This flag never flew. The second flag of the Republic was adopted by the first Texas congress in December 1836. It bore a single, large gold star on a blue field. This flag was the same design as the "Bonnie blue flag that bears a single star" that was so popular among the Southern troops during the Civil War. The Lone Star flag that we now use was designed by Texas Senator William H. Wharton and was officially adopted by the Senate under President Mirabeau B. Lamar in 1839. The new flag kept the white star on the blue field, but now the blue field was a vertical stripe which occupied one-third of the flag, and it was balanced by horizontal white and red stripes, on the other two-thirds. This Texas flag has been prominently displayed for over 150 years.

The Flag of the Confederate States of America 1861 to 1865

For four years, the Stars and Bars flew over Nacogdoches and Texas. After years of conflicts of interest between the North and the South over states rights, slavery, and the right of secession, the Civil War began in March of 1861. Texas seceded and joined the Confederate States of America. It sent its Texas brigades into battle, and suffered for four years with the rest of the Confederacy before General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. The most enduring of the Confederate flags during the War was the Stars and Bars with the square of blue holding a circle of the seven original seceding states. Texas was the seventh star. Because the Confederate Stars and Bars and the Union Stars and Stripes were easily confused in the heat of battle, General P. G. T. Beauregard introduced a Confederate battle flag. This was a square red flag with a white-bordered blue cross running diagonally from corners to corners. The cross contained thirteen stars representing the eleven Confederate states plus Kentucky and Missouri. This battle flag became the flag most closely identified with the Southern cause. The Confederate Stars and Bars came down in Texas after April 1863 and Appomattox, and the United States Stars and Stripes have been flying over this State ever since.

The Flag of the United States of America since 1846

On February 19, 1846, the Lone Star flag was lowered over the Texas state capitol in Austin, and the Stars and Stripes was raised. The Republic of Texas had become the State of Texas. From the beginning of the Republic in 1836, the majority of the Texians, most of whom had come directly from the States, had wanted Texas to join the Union. But many in the Union did not want Texas in the United States. Some did not want one more Southern slave-holding state, and some were afraid of causing a war with Mexico. Nevertheless, on July 4, 1845, the Texas congress voted to accept the articles of annexation offered by United States President James K. Polk, and on December 29, 1845, the congressional resolution proclaiming Texas as a state in the Union was signed by President Polk. The Old Glory that was raised above the Texas state capitol on the following February 19, 1846, had twenty-eight stars in four rows of seven stars each. Except for the four years of the Civil War, 1861 to 1865, these Stars and Stripes have since 1846 flown over the State of Texas.

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Monday, October 9, 2023

Edgar L. Hanna

Edgar Lacy Hanna

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

John Harvey Hanna

John Harvey Hanna

Friday, August 25, 2023

Warren Brewer Fuller

Warren Fuller Obituary

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