AMERICAN WAR MOTHERS - FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY CHAPTER

Soldiers Who died while in World War I Military Service

1. BEAVERS, ELMER P. -

• Company A, 17^th Infantry. Died of pneumonia, Camp Meade, July 1918

2. BLAKEMAN, FRED MARSHALL -

• Company K, 28^th Infantry, 1^st Division. Killed in action, battle of Cantigny, May 28^th 1918.

3. BURRIS, DON MULLIS -

• Enlisted U.S. Navy, April 1917. Died of pneumonia, Great Lakes. Training Station, March 11, 1918; 22 years old.

4. COCHRAN, CAPTAIN GRIFFIN -

• 326^th Ammunition Train, 84^th Division. Died at Tours, France, February 22, 1919.

5. CORUM, MARSHALL UNDERWOOD -

• United States Navy, lost his life when the U.S.S. Rochester was sunk off the Irish Coast November 2, 1917; torpedoed by German submarine.

6. COX, GEORGE -

• Third Training Battalion, 159^th Depot Brigade. Died of influenza, November 17, 1919.

7. CRAIG, BUFORD G. -

• United States Navy, killed in railroad wreck at Gail, France, October 26, 1918.

8. CUNNINGHAM, HENRY WOOD -

• Entered service April 1917, Company B, 18^th Infantry, 1^st Division. Killed in action in Argonne Forest, October 8. 1918.

9. CURTIS, EVERETT R. -

• Entered service July 1918, 20 years old; Company C, 13^th Regiment. Died at Brest, France, of pneumonia, November 17, 1918.

10. DAVIS, ROBERT MILLER -

• Utilities Detachment, Construction Division, Q. M. C. Died of pneumonia at Camp Taylor, February 28, 1919.

11. EADS, LEE S. -

• 60^th Infantry. Died of wounds received in battle of St. Mihiel Offensive; awarded Distinguished Service Cross.

12. EALES, JOHNSON CLAY -

• U.S. Navy; lost on U. S .S. Cyclops, March 1918.

13. ELLETT, ANDREW LOUIS -

• 165^th Regiment, Company E, Rainbow Division. Killed in action in Argonne Forest, October 14, 1919; awarded Distinguish Service Cross and Legion of Honor.

14. GAUGH, CLARENCE R. -

• Company I, 5^th Provisional Battalion. Died of influenza, Camp Benjamin Harrison, October 11, 1918.

15. GILROY, BERNARD J. -

• Company K, 9^th Infantry. Killed in action, battle of Soissons, July 18, 1918.

16. GOODPASTER, ROBERT ALLEN -

• 32^nd Company, 8^th Battalion, 159 Depot Brigade. Died of pneumonia. Base Hospital, Camp Taylor.

17. HOBBS, JOSEPH C. -

• First Lieutenant, 173d Supply Train. Died of pneumonia at Base Hospital in France, 1918.

18. HOOVER, CHARLES THOMAS -

• U.S. Navy; died of pneumonia, Great Lakes Training Station, September 1919.

19. MARTIN, LOUIS -

• Died of pneumonia, Base Hospital, France, 1918.

20. MATTINGLY, ALEXANDER FRANKLIN -

• Died of pneumonia February 25, 1919, at Great Lakes Training Station, aged 18.

21. McCLANAHAN, CARY REXALL -

• Entered U.S. Navy July 1918, not quite 17 years old. Died of pneumonia Great Lakes Training Station, December 23, 1918.

22. McCLINTOCK, ALEXANDER -

• First Lieutenant, Infantry. Died in New York City, June 28, 1918. Distinguished Conduct Medal.

23. MOORES, HERMAN GREY -

• Enlisted in U. S. Navy in 1917; lost with U. S. Collier Cyclops, March 1918.

24. PENNINGTON, GEORGE A. -

• Entered service 1917, 18 years old; Company K, 165^th Infantry. Killed in action Argonne Forest, October 14, 1918.

25. POWELL, JAMES H. -

• Company C, 149^th Regiment. Killed in action, Argonne Forest, October 1918.

26. PULLIAM, HAROLD A. -

• Ensign; entered U.S. Navy, April 1917. Died in line of duty in accident at Hampden Roads, April 4, 1919.

27. ROCKETT, STERLING -

• S. A. T. C. Cincinnati; died of pneumonia October 28, 1918. Twenty-one years old.

28. ROGERS, CAPTAIN GEORGE CLARK -

• 81^st, F. A., A. E. F. Died of pneumonia at American Red Cross Hospital, at Liverpool, England, November 13, 1918.

29. SHARP, LIGHTBURN P. -

• Died of influenza October 6, 1918 at Camp Harrison.

30. SLUSHER, ONZA -

• Entered U.S. Navy in June 1918, nineteen years old. Died at Boston, Mass, of pneumonia, June 1919.

31. STALEY, JOHN E. -

• Medical Detachment, 318^th Field Remount Squad. Died of pneumonia at hospital at France. (No date of death given)

32. STONE, ENOCH -

• Entered Naval Reserve May 3, 1918, sixteen years old. Died of influenza on troop ship Agamemon, October 3, 1918, on sixth return from France.

33. STRAYER, MAURICE KIRBY -

• Entered U. S. Navy, December, 1917. Died of pneumonia January 1, 1918.

34. TILTON, MORTON -

• U.S. Navy; died of pneumonia at Great Lakes Training Station in 1918.

35. TRIPP, CHARLES B. -

• Battalion A, 322d Field Artillery. Was in battle of Verdun and Meuse-Argonne offensive and died at Lexington, February 24, 1920, as result of having been gassed several times while Serving with 83d Division.

36. WASHINGTON, CORPORAL GEORGE T. -

• Company H, 6^th Marine Corps. Killed in action in Argonne Forest on October 6, 1918. Twenty years old.

37. WIERMAN, BENJAMIN -

• Entered service May 1917, 83d Company, 6^th Division. Killed in action in Belleau Woods, June 8, 1918.

38. WILSON, SERGEANT RAYMOND ALLEN -

• Entered service April 1917, 6^th Company, 2^nd Battalion, 1^st Regiment. Wounded in Marne offensive July 18, 1918. Died from wounds, July 24, 1918.

"They bravely laid down their lives for the cause of their county."

"Their souls shall be where the heroes are.

And their memory shine like the morning star."

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