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breast in March, lsbb, and was buried at St. Ann’s cemetery.Sergeant John \V. Jones, of I’pper Lehigh, who was killed at San Juan. Cuba, on July 2, 181)8, while storming the famous hill with his regiment, the Seventh infantry, was buried where he fell, hater the remains were disinterred and taken to Washington. Owing to tin* haste in burial Sergeant Jones could not be identified, and the war department was compelled to refuse the Tribune's request to have the body sent here for burial. It now lies in Arlington cemetery, Washington, the burial place for the nation’s heroes.lu all other towns throughout tin*
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Freeland Tribune

Freeland, Pennsylvania, US

Mon, Oct 21, 1901

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