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LIEUT. Q.'s7mJLLS~KILLED.ni\I«c:nf!■AfsDeath Inflicted Bv High Explos- bive Shell.“Quincy was killed by high explo-1 rive shell near Epeids July 20. Buried! •*there by chaplain of the .103th infan- s?try,” is the text of a telegram re- t]reived here by Mrs. R. E. Nooe from | oMr. T. M. Mills in New York. Themessage had reference to Lieut.Mills, who had been reported missing in action on the battlefields of France.Quincy Sharpe Mills was horn in Statesville January In, 183-1. being the only child of Mr. Thos. M. and Mrs. Nannie Sharpe Mills- lie spent his boyhood days here and was educated j j in the Statesville public schools. !!lt;’ | graduated at the University of North Carolina in lbi)7 and that fall began work for the New 'York Evening Sun.\.t iiivt he was City Mall reporter | j, but in ia'er years lie did special polit-! ; leal writing for the paper, lie entered the RhiUsburg training camp and was commissioned iirst lieutenant of hi-.m11try. Ju -t before Christmas he j i wont to France as an officer in Com- j ' pany 0. infantry. j jMis friends in ibis, his home town, i ( had been apprehensive of the worst j. unco the news first came that Lieut, j j. Mdls wavs missing: in action and had j . hoped that he iiad been spared. Now j that this hope has lu-on lost, the' pangj .a* sorrow grips. strongly t heir hearts, j ( comfort conic to his parents in j j' !i*e knowledge that he has done his j *dni v.avYtsI! II! t *(
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Statesville Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina, US
Fri, Sep 06, 1918
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