Honor Roll: Becket, Massachusetts, Ballou Park

The Town of Beckett, Massachusetts, was first settled in 1740 and officially incorporated in 1765. It was named for an estate in Shrivenham, England, which belonged to William Barrington, Admiral Lord Barrington, a great friend of Sir Francis Bernard, the royal governor of Massachusetts at the time the town was incorporated.

Ballou Park is located at the intersection of Main Street (Route 8) and Prentice Place. The park contains four honor roll memorials commemorating the men and women who served in the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam Conflict.

Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War Honor Roll (the hames are
listed on the sign to the right); personal collection

In Honor
of those from
Becket
Who Served in the

Revolutionary War
1775-1783

War of 1812
1812-1815

Civil War
1861-1865

Revolutionary War (1775-1783)

Barnabas Adams
Ebenezer Adams
Asahel Alford
Elijah Alford
James Allen
Asa Baird
Comfort Barnes
Oliver Brewster
Andrew Broga
David Brown
Ebenezer Bush
Gideon Bush
Anthony Church
Jonah Cushman
John Davis
Samuel Gibbs
James Harris
Joseph Higley
Micah Higley
Zadock Hunn
Amos Kingsley
David Kingsley
Ebenezer Kingsley
Elijah Kingsley
Enos Kingsley
Isiah Kingsley
Jedediah Kingsley
Jeremiah Kingsley
Libbens Kingsley
Martin Kingsley
Nathaniel Kingsley
David Lee
Samuel Lester
Bille Messenger
John Messenger
Peter Porter
John Seely
Daniel Shaw
Asa Snow
Levi Snow
Jabez Wadsworth
Jonathan Wadsworth
Ebenez Walden
Jonathan Walker

War of 1812

Austin Barber
Austin Davis

Civil War

Charles Abbott
Elisha Allen
George A. Allen
Arvid C. Barnes
George N. Barnes
Alexis Baron
Samuel Bennett
Jules Besoncon
Alvin Bliss
George Blood
Levi Bosquet
Philias Bosquet
Francis Bourn
Frank Bourn
Oliver H. Bowman
George S. Brewster
John Brewster
Charles T. Broga
George W. Broga
George W. Brown
James Burns
Jeremiah Burns
John Burns
George W. Caldwell
Henry B. Cannon
Albert B. Champlin
Lyman Chapel
Abram M. Chapman
E. Arvord Chapman
George Clark
George W. Clark
Henry Clark
Holly C. Clark
Stephen Coburn
George Cone
George J. Daniels
Robert Davidson
Dewitt Davis
Isaac Denslow
Frederick Dickinson
Philander Dickinson
Richard Dion
Patrick Divan
Patrick Dwire
Horace Eldridge
Orrin W. Eldridge
James A. Ellsworth
John Forrest
William Fuller, Jr.
William Fuller, Sr.
Calvin Goodboo
Paul L. Granger
Aella Greene
Chester E. Hamilton
Walter Harrington
Henry B. Harris
Calif C. Hinman
William H. Hinman
Eugene Holmes
Levi Huntley
Charles Ingham
Orton W. Jennings
Ira D. Jones
George Kelly
Anthony King
George King
Charles O. Kingsley
Henry E. Lee
Truman Lemley
Timothy Leonard
Walter J. Lester
Watson J. Lester
John S. Lynch
Dwight Mallison
Attien Marteau
David Martin
George Martin
Edward McDonald
Robert D. McCauley
Robert H. McCauley
John McNerny
Adelbert N. Messenger
Adelbert W. Messenger
Henry L. Messenger
Abbott M. Messer
Edwin Messinger
Lysander Miller
Harrison Mills
Herbert Morin
Edward Murphy
Thomas Newman
Thomas Noonan
Andrew Noonan
Isaac Nye
John O'Sullivan
Anselm Parsons
James Pecoy
Henry P. Phelps
George Prentiss
Lorenzo R. Putnam
Lester H. Quigley
William H. Randall
Edward Raymond
William Rice
James B. Rudd
John N. Rudd
Charles E. Saringer
Chaplin John F. Severance
Dwight Sherman
Luke Simmons
Luther A. Simons
Henry Smith
Theodore Sparks
Andrew Stanley
Michael Stanley
Henry Sterger
Charles E. Surriner
Francis Taylor
Rufus L. Thayer
James Thomas
Patrick Tobin, Jr.
Lemley Truman
Charles R. Turner
Edmund B. Turner
Henry Turner
James Turner
George R. Walker
Philemon Walker
James L. Warner
Allen H. Wheeler
James Whipple
Frederick A. Willis
Hiram Winters
Gilbert Worden, Jr.
Richard Young

Becket, Massachusetts, World War I Honor Roll; personal collection

World War I

*HONOR ROLL*
The men from Becket
Who served in the
World War 1917-1918

Leon L. Ballou
Edward Beck
Howard Bennett
George M. Bullard
William Burns
William F. Chandler
Norman Clark
George E. Crane
Eli L. Crochiere
Gordon C. Farnham
Carl McN. Flynn
Frank T. Galliher
Thomas A. Galliher
Frank Galoch
William Gordon
James H. Gray, Jr.
Said Hamzy
Maurice E. Lynch
Emil Maak
George B. Marsh
Uhlan J. Mitchell
Henry Morin
Frederick Morse
Frederick Munn
Sidney E. Pomeroy
Arthur D. Snow
Thomas Snow
Elliott H. Syms
Howard Tinker
William H. Tobin
Harold M. Tower
Dana B. Turner
Eugene S. Wheeler

Becket, Massachusetts, World War II Honor Roll; personal collection

World War II

HONOR ROLL
The men from Becket
Who served in the
World War II 1941-1945

Charles Baker
Charles Balch
Donald Balch
Edward Barnes
Robert Bowen
Thomas Broadhurst
Frank Garrington
George Carrington
Frank Clark
Leo Colleato
Harold Collins
Elliot Conner
Albert Crochiere
Fulbert Daigle
Gaston Baigle
Laurier Daigle
Roland Daigle
Alfred Deane
Fred Dupont
Harry Dupont
Ralph Dupont
Richard Dupont
Richard Ellsworth
Robert Ellsworth
Robert Englander
Everett Fuller
Ralph Gage*
James Galliher
Richard Galliher
Edward Gargan
Donald Hastings
Kenneth Hastings
Scott Hastings
Norman Hulse
Walter Hulse
William LaMontagne
Ernest Lampro
Lawrence Lampro
James Letourneau
George Lowell
Donald McSweeney*
Francis Meher
John Meiers
Henry Mertons
George Meskevich
Edward Murray
Samuel Murray
Stanley Noll
Arthur Panzeri
Clifton Phelps
Edward Popek
Frank Popek
Stephen Popek
Theodore Popek
Phillip Raymond
William Raymond
William Richards
Burt Rod
Saul Rod
John Runz*
Fred Snow
William Stone
Charles Strout
Freddie Strout
Albert Sullivan
Jerome Sullivan
Robert Suriner
Wayne Suriner
Eugene Trudeau
John Trudeau
Arthur Valrose
Charles Valrose
Kenneth Washington
Orrick White
George Will
Joseph Winters
Alfred Young
Gilbert Young

*Denotes killed in action

Becket, Massachusetts, Korean and Vietnam Conflicts Honor Roll; personal
collection

Korean Conflict 1950-1953

Richard T. Bedell
Charles J. Broadhust
Francis I. Broadhurst
John O. Broadhurst
Lester W. Chandler
Bert L. Curtis
Victor I. Curtis
George L. Davenport
Grace E. Deming
William A. Engwer
William J. Gargan
Claude A. Goodell
Harry A. Goodell
Richard E. Gore
Arthur L. Johnson, Sr.
Francis H. Lanpro
Kenneth J. Lampro
Fred L. Larock
Paul U. Mitchell
Mitchell J. Mulholland
Kenneth A. Murray
Stanley R. Noll
Norman T. O'Brien
Earl L. Palmer, Jr.
Hubert S. Saivini
Eric W. Svenson

Vietnam Conflict 1964-1973

Douglas G. Balch
Thomas E. Broga
Sandra P. Broga
Wilson W. Broga, Jr.
John F. Carpenter
Earl L. Chandler
Richard Coburn
Paul A. Conner*
John F. Connor
John P. Connor
Lewis D. Coryell
Brian S. Crowley
Albert E. Dean
Raymond Ellsworth
William H. Elovirta
Robert S. Feder
Glenn R. Fletcher
Ray A. Fletcher
John S. Freeman, Jr.
Richard E. Furlong
Howard K. Jenks
Arthur L. Johnson, Jr.
Kenneth R. Keiper
Paul G. Keiper
Francis W. Lane, Jr.
Rudolph A. Lapointe, Jr.
Robert B. Meiers
John C. Moore
Mitchell T. Mulholland
William D. Mulholland
Robert T. Murray
Thomas J. Murray
David A. O'Brien
Stephen C. Palmer
Alfred W. Pelkey
Gustave L. Seehorst
Thomas H. Smith
William J. Smith
Joseph E. Vanwert
Franklin R. Williams, Jr.
David A. Young

*Denotes killed in action

This post was written as a contribution to the Honor Roll Project, which was created by Heather Wilkinson Rojo, author of Nutfield Genealogy.