You will need to get his service number to start,Jefferson Barracks will most likely have this. I was not able to get much info.on my grt.gf.WW1 service,but I did get a medal,& MHS just sent me what they had for him & his brother. Hope this helps a little. Nannette "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: Can anyone give me some directives on what to do next with this information? I found on the Jefferson Barracks website that my grandfather is buried there. The listing states: Von Gerichten, Philip: b 03/31/1869, d 01/29/1950. US Army PVT. Plot: 71 0 424D, bur. 02/01/1950. He died at the VA Center, Leavenworth, KS, where he had been for two years. I remember as a 7-yr old going to the funeral (and wondering how they got that big flag folded into such a little triangle). That's all I know, other than the funeral book which says Philip was buried by the VFW 11th Dist/MO. I don't have enough information to request military records from NARA, do I? I downloaded the 180 but hesitate to send it in with the limited info above; I'm not sure how to proceed from here. Any help appreciated. Ranee in Kirkwood/St Louis ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] or if you are on the Digest List [email protected] Nannette Reasearching Surnames: WARFIELD Mitchell McConnell HEUGELE Rowbotham STIENECKE Summerman VanGels Berger COLLINS DUNNAVANT PARRISH . States: Md,Mo.,WV.,Wi. --------------------------------- Sell on Yahoo! Auctions - No fees. Bid on great items.

My buddy Nanette is correct; you need his Service number to be sure the folks at the records holding area out on Page Blvd know who you are talking about. For the past five years I have been working on getting info on my "Vie" family records and have been told repeatedly that they did not exist due to a great fire in 1973 in which all the records for this time period were destroyed. This turned out to be not so true. My grandmother, Mabel Vie, had two brothers, the oldest of the two, Oliver, was killed in action in the Marne Valley of France in 1918. The youngest brother, Archie, was gassed in the very same battle and was destroyed for life but survived in the VA hospital in Danville, IL and died in 1966, he was placed in the hospital in 1921. At the beginning of this year I contacted my Congresswoman, Heather Wilson, and strange things started to happen. Small bits and pieces of information have been reaching me from all sorts of obscure parts of the country. One piece that has reached me that I did not know was that Oliver and Archie had a first cousin, named Fred Vie who was also killed in the Marne Valley. Both Oliver and Fred have their names inscribed at Soldiers Memorial on the Marble Tomb on the rotunda at the memorial on Pine Street in downtown St Louis. There is one final Vie name on the tomb that has not been identified yet, but who knows, maybe it will be one of my Vies. The two Vie brothers lie at rest at Jefferson barracks, their cousin Fred lies at rest in a family cemetery plot elsewhere in St Louis. The Point is: Don't accept a "No information" answer from those folks at NARA. Keep searching, the info is there somewhere.----Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Nannette<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] Military Records You will need to get his service number to start,Jefferson Barracks will most likely have this. I was not able to get much info.on my grt.gf.WW1 service,but I did get a medal,& MHS just sent me what they had for him & his brother. Hope this helps a little. Nannette "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Can anyone give me some directives on what to do next with this information? I found on the Jefferson Barracks website that my grandfather is buried there. The listing states: Von Gerichten, Philip: b 03/31/1869, d 01/29/1950. US Army PVT. Plot: 71 0 424D, bur. 02/01/1950. He died at the VA Center, Leavenworth, KS, where he had been for two years. I remember as a 7-yr old going to the funeral (and wondering how they got that big flag folded into such a little triangle). That's all I know, other than the funeral book which says Philip was buried by the VFW 11th Dist/MO. I don't have enough information to request military records from NARA, do I? I downloaded the 180 but hesitate to send it in with the limited info above; I'm not sure how to proceed from here. Any help appreciated. Ranee in Kirkwood/St Louis ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> or if you are on the Digest List [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Nannette Reasearching Surnames: WARFIELD Mitchell McConnell HEUGELE Rowbotham STIENECKE Summerman VanGels Berger COLLINS DUNNAVANT PARRISH . States: Md,Mo.,WV.,Wi. --------------------------------- Sell on Yahoo! Auctions - No fees. Bid on great items. ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> or if you are on the Digest List [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

Jim several years ago I corresponded with a lady from the Kansas City area who was researching the name VIE I remember because I believe I looked at city directories for her If I remember more will let you know I may be wrong but seems to me they were in a business in St Louis the ones I found in city directories pat JAa MES O BRASHER <[email protected]> wrote: My buddy Nanette is correct; you need his Service number to be sure the folks at the records holding area out on Page Blvd know who you are talking about. For the past five years I have been working on getting info on my "Vie" family records and have been told repeatedly that they did not exist due to a great fire in 1973 in which all the records for this time period were destroyed. This turned out to be not so true. My grandmother, Mabel Vie, had two brothers, the oldest of the two, Oliver, was killed in action in the Marne Valley of France in 1918. The youngest brother, Archie, was gassed in the very same battle and was destroyed for life but survived in the VA hospital in Danville, IL and died in 1966, he was placed in the hospital in 1921. At the beginning of this year I contacted my Congresswoman, Heather Wilson, and strange things started to happen. Small bits and pieces of information have been reaching me from all sorts of obscure parts of the country. One piece that has reached me that I did not know was that Oliver and Archie had a first cousin, named Fred Vie who was also killed in the Marne Valley. Both Oliver and Fred have their names inscribed at Soldiers Memorial on the Marble Tomb on the rotunda at the memorial on Pine Street in downtown St Louis. There is one final Vie name on the tomb that has not been identified yet, but who knows, maybe it will be one of my Vies. The two Vie brothers lie at rest at Jefferson barracks, their cousin Fred lies at rest in a family cemetery plot elsewhere in St Louis. The Point is: Don't accept a "No information" answer from those folks at NARA. Keep searching, the info is there somewhere.----Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Nannette To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] Military Records You will need to get his service number to start,Jefferson Barracks will most likely have this. I was not able to get much info.on my grt.gf.WW1 service,but I did get a medal,& MHS just sent me what they had for him & his brother. Hope this helps a little. Nannette "[email protected]" > wrote: Can anyone give me some directives on what to do next with this information? I found on the Jefferson Barracks website that my grandfather is buried there. The listing states: Von Gerichten, Philip: b 03/31/1869, d 01/29/1950. US Army PVT. Plot: 71 0 424D, bur. 02/01/1950. He died at the VA Center, Leavenworth, KS, where he had been for two years. I remember as a 7-yr old going to the funeral (and wondering how they got that big flag folded into such a little triangle). That's all I know, other than the funeral book which says Philip was buried by the VFW 11th Dist/MO. I don't have enough information to request military records from NARA, do I? I downloaded the 180 but hesitate to send it in with the limited info above; I'm not sure how to proceed from here. Any help appreciated. Ranee in Kirkwood/St Louis ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] or if you are on the Digest List [email protected] Nannette Reasearching Surnames: WARFIELD Mitchell McConnell HEUGELE Rowbotham STIENECKE Summerman VanGels Berger COLLINS DUNNAVANT PARRISH . States: Md,Mo.,WV.,Wi. --------------------------------- Sell on Yahoo! Auctions - No fees. Bid on great items. ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] or if you are on the Digest List [email protected] ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== If you haven't visited Dave Lossos' "Genealogy in St. Louis" website (http://genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com/) you might want to take a look. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone.