The Vidette-Messenger Indiana Oct. 7, 1939 WPA To List War Vets In Graves Here A WPA project to make a plot of every cemetery in Porter County and list the graves of all soldiers dead is now under way, it was learned today. Charles PRATT Post No. 94, American Legion of this city, is supporting the project. Under the plan formulated the workers will take one township at a time. The work was started about a week ago, and will require three or four months to complete. Headquarters for the workers has been established in room 312, at the Porter county court house. Members of the Porter county war groups have long been handicapped in decorating graves of veterans on Memorial day. Each year a number of graves have been overlooked because of lack of data as to where some of the heroic dead were buried. The new project is expected to remove this uncertainty. Though the Revolutionary war ended 150 years ago, two veterans of that war are buried in Porter county, they are: Henry BATTAN Joseph JONES Mr. BATTAN, according to early records, came to Valparaiso from Virginia, and was received into the Valparaiso Presbyterian church on July 3, 1840. He died Feb. 1, 1845? at the age of 94. Mr. JONES came here from Ohio in 1841, and died a few years later. BATTAN is buried at Gossett's Mill, and JONES in the Cornell cemetery near Boone Grove. Isaac CORNELL and Robert FOLSOM, soldiers of the war of 1812, are buried in the Cornell Graveyard. John CURTIS, another veteran of that war, is buried near Wheeler, and Myron POWELL, another, is buried near Porter Cross Roads. Two soldiers of the Blackhawk war, Ruel STARR and James BUEL, are buried in the old City cemetery, Valparaiso. No company was organized in Porter county to serve in the Mexican war, but about 30 persons enlisted in a company formed in Lake county by Joseph P. SMITH. Most of them were buried here. A total of 1,136 men were enrolled from Porter county in the Civil war, and the greater majority of these are buried in cemeteries throughout the county, along with many others who removed here. Local cemeteries are also dotted here and there with graves of veterans of the Spanish-American and Philippine wars, and a number from the World war.