At Decoration Day every year the town with the help of the Boy Scouts puts an American Flag on the grave of every veteran that is known. We had men from this island in all the wars of the U.S.A., including the following who are buried here.
Revolutionary War Samuel Colby John Dunton
Lt. Stephen Greenleaf Josiah Parsons
Jonas Shattuck
War of 1812 Nearly every able-bodied man was part of the local militia, including:
Ebenezer Greenleaf Stephen Greenleaf
John Thomas and Benjamin Knight who received a pension.
Click here for information submitted by John S. Tarbox
Civil War
There is a list of over 40 names of substitutes who received town bounty as draftees for this town, but none of these men ever lived on Westport. We do have over 15 graves in various cemeteries, including a memorial stone to Jason Bartlett who died at Andersonville.
Joel Bartlett Corp. Jas. Linard
Andrew Bartlett William McKenney
Jason Bartlett William May
Thos. Colbert Patrick Mahan
Ezekil Dunton Jas. McLarney
William Callahan Jas. McGafney
George N. Fields Jno. McCabe
Ezra L. Fowles Jas. Petrie
Bernard Harding Chas. Roan
Corp. Andrew Jackson Alex Ryan
John Jones Phillip Smith
1st Lt. John Kisley Chas. W. Shaw
John Kerby Jas. Thompson
Edw. E. Woods
World War I George Cromwell Melville Knight
Ernest Harriman Geo. Dewey Richardson (radio operator)
Philip Harriman Amos Greenleaf
Jack Harrison
Foreign Enlistments: Sylvanus Bailey Melville Brooks
William H. Colby Ebenezer Greenleaf
Thos. F. Hodgkins Chas. McCarty
Thos. McLullen William Yates U.S.N.
World War II Robert Stacy Charles H. Colby
Archie Cunningham Clarence Colby
Donald Knight * Herbert A. Harriman
Amos Greenleaf George H. Harrison
Robert W. Baker John B. Harrison
Spencer H. Baker Bryant Richardson
William L. Bonyun Eugene E. Whitten
