Veterans Graves in Pierce County, WA
WPA Project - 1939
Introduction:
By 1939 at least 2,800 veterans were buried throughout Pierce County. They had served in various wars: Indian, Mexican, Civil, Spanish-American, WWI, and even the Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion. In 1939 a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project was launched to identify graves and record more than 20 pieces of information on 5x8 inch index cards. The data was from cemetery records, death certificates, and service records.
What follows is a Name Index plus two items from the WPA cards. A card might also have rank, organization, birth date, and cause of death. A remarks section might indicate that the veteran was a clergyman, a nurse, a musician, or in one case: “served as a drummer boy for three months and was sent home as being too young for service.” Not all sections were filled in on all cards. These cards are in the holdings of the Northwest Room of the Tacoma Public Library. Contact the Library for additional information. Note that this list does NOT include all veterans buried in Pierce County prior to 1939.
The additional six fields that were extracted can be viewed by clicking on the "eye" symbol next to a veteran's name in the index.
A resource for a cemetery’s physical location and its records’ location (not always the same) is the Pierce County, WA Cemeteries list on our society’s website at:
https://tpcgs.org/cemeteryRecords.php
Note: Dates are in standard American numerical form of month/day/year.
Veteran’s Mini-Biography Project for Pierce County Burials
In the past several years biographies of some of these veterans have been published in the Society's
Researcher. Many of these biographies have also been linked to their entries in this database. For more information click
here.
Interested in writing a veteran's biography? Click
here for more information.
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Surname |
Given Name |
Cemetery |
War |
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Andrews |
Herbert W. |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
WW I |
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Andrews |
Joseph E. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Indian |
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Andrews |
M. M. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Andrews |
Titus Z. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Andrews |
Tristum |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
Civil |
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Andrews |
William B. |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
Civil |
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Angelo |
John T. |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
not given |
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Antrim |
Peter H. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Antrin |
Thomas J. |
Oakwood Hill Cemetery |
Spanish-American |
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Apple |
Samuel L. |
Woodlawn Abbey Mausoleum |
Civil |
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Arkwright |
William |
Oakwood Hill Cemetery |
not given |
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Armstrong |
J. M. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Indian |
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Armstrong |
John B. |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
not given |
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Armstrong |
T. J. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Armstrong |
William W. |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
not given |
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Arndt |
Oscar G. |
Orting IOOF Cemetery |
WW I |
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Arnold |
Herman |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
WW I |
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Arnold |
William S. |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
Civil |
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Arnot |
Robert |
Mountain View Memorial Park |
WW I |
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Arrowsmith |
John W. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Atchinson |
Alfred M. |
Old Tacoma Cemetery Mausoleum |
Spanish-American |
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Atkinson |
John |
Artondale Cemetery |
Civil |
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Atkinson |
John |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
WW I |
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Attridge |
A. D. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Atwell |
James E. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Austin |
Charles A. |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
Civil |
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Austin |
Harvey L. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Spanish-American |
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Austin |
James M. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Auston |
Sands H. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Avery |
G. W. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Avery |
Nettie C. |
Mountain View Memorial Park |
WW I |
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Avery |
William B. |
Mountain View Memorial Park |
not given |
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Axtell |
Theodore |
New Old Tacoma Cemetery Cemetery |
not given |
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Ayres |
Charles G. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Ayres |
Henry K.W. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Babcock |
A. A. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Babcock |
Delosh |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Babcock |
Edwin F. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Backeberg |
Frederick W. |
Mountain View Memorial Park |
WW I |
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Bacon |
George S. |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
Civil |
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Baer |
M. E. |
Roy Cemetery |
Spanish-American |
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Bailey |
Absolom B. |
New Old Tacoma Cemetery Cemetery |
Spanish-American |
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Bailey |
Allen M. |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
not given |
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Bailey |
Friend J.S. |
Oakwood Hill Cemetery |
Civil |
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Bailey |
Joseph A. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Bailey |
Otis B. |
Old Tacoma Cemetery |
Civil |
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Baird |
Robert S. |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Baker |
Andrew |
Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery |
Civil |
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Baker |
Dorman |
Camp Lewis Cemetery |
WW I |
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Baker |
Edwin O. |
Fox Island Cemetery |
Civil |