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Eight On Our Honor Roll.The names of four more Crawfordcounty boys have been added to the1county'8 honor roll, Luther Lane, j Lloyd Thompson, Edward L. Easter j and Arthur Turner, making a total of' eight who have given their lives for ■I their country and ours, eight who have ; died that freedom may not perish from the earth, eight reasons why Crawford ; county must go over the top in the ■ Fourth Liberty Loan. Four have 1 made the supreme sacrifice on the battlefields of France, four have ; fought a losing fight with disease in training camps, but these four died as*inoble deaths as did those who fell fac-ii ing the Hun, in a rain of shells, across the seas. The first of these was j ; Alfonso L. Hall, of English, who died 1 of pneumonia at C*vnp Grant, Keck*i; ford, 111., Septemb *r 28, after being in j the service but twenty-five days.; Luther Lane, ag d twenty-three, died at Puget Sound, Wash., of pneuj monia, following an attack of Spanishinfluenza, October 2 He was the only son cf Barze’.l Lane, of Wickliffe,where the body was brought for inter-m e n t.Lloyd Thompson died at the Great Lakes Naval training station, October 5, after fighting against an attack of Spanish influenza for two weeks. It developed into pneumonia which sent him to the hospital, where he died in a few hours. Young Thompson was seventeen years old June 12, and enlisted in the navy at Indianapolis July 25, going at once to Great Lakes. He was a son of John C. Thompson, ofPilot Knob, where the funeral was held.Edward L. Easter, aged 26, a drafted man, whose home was at Marengo, died at the base hospital at Camp Taylor, Ky , of influenza, October 8. He was inducted into military service in July. He was the only son of a widowed mother, Mrs. Laura Easter. Besides his mother he is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Jannie Marry, Mrs. Earl Montgomery and Mrs. Lena Conklin. The funeral was held at Newton Stewart.Crawford county mourns her fourth son killed in France. Arthur Turner has made the supreme sacrifice according 10 a telegram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Turner, of Grnntsburg. He was about thirty-three years old, and had been in the service almost five years. He was at Vera Cruz, and with General Pershing on the border, and going to France more than a year ago. Shall these boys die and parents mourn in vain? ’Jo your duty in the Fourth Liberty Loan, citizens of Crawford county.
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English Crawford County Democrat
English, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 17, 1918
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