Texas Heroes – The Honor Roll

Submitted by: Elaine Walton Lewis

From: Conroe Courier ‑ October 10, 1918

 

(Compliers Note: Part of this paper is torn; therefore a few names are not completely readable.) The following names are of Texas boys who have just given up their lives in defense of their country, or have been wounded, captured or missing on the battlefields of Europe:

 

Army Casualties

Killed in Action

 

___ _______ M. Currie, Austin.                                               ___ ___mon R. Cunningham, Coman__.

___ ____hlon D. Wallace, Mount Calm.                                    ___ Vernon Duggan Hart, Stamford.

___ Henry M. Huff, San Angelo.                                   Pvt. Romeo W. Cox, Childress.

Pvt. Frank B. Mulkey, Celeste.                                      Pvt. Bonnie T. Summers, Hallettsville.

Pvt. Jess Gamble, Austin.                                              Pvt. Rafael Garza, Taylor.

Pvt. Jim W. Claiborne, Jacksonville.

 

Died of Wounds

 

Corp. Andrew Sivley, Beeville.                                       Pvt. Bob Merrill, Mount Vernon.

Corp. Brooklyn Ray Engle, Yoakum.                              Corp. Angus Jimmerson, Henderson.

Pvt. Marcus Armigo, El Paso.                                        Pvt. Walter S. Preddy, Trenton.

Pvt. Clark D. Smith, Galveston.                                      Pvt. Frank Wylie, Bald Prairie.

 

Died of Disease

 

Corp. John C. Long, Anna.                                            Pvt. Willie Truitt, Houston.

Pvt. Waldren Bowers, Canton.                                       Pvt. Nelson Dixon, Clarksville.

Pvt. Herman Harms, Nordhelm.                                     Pvt. James H. Atchley, Godley.

 

Died by Accident

 

Wagoner Charley O., Holmes.                                       Pvt. Jess Gamble, Anson.

 

Wounded in Action

 

Corp. Roger B. Christian, Elgin.                                     Pvt. Joseph Fletcher, Aspermout.

Pvt. James Musiek, Tolar.                                              Pvt. John W. Skeeter, Eagle Lake.

Pvt. Edward F. Wilheim, Seymour.                                 Lt. Francis S. Pearsall, Marshall.

Maj. Chas. F. McKinney, Vernon.                                  Pvt. Ophir Johnson, Wolfe City.

Pvt. Charles G. Lemke, El Paso.                                    Pvt. Anton Rosenbach, Fredericksburg.

Pvt. Florentine Morales, Hondo.                                     Pvt. John Weatherly, Garrison.

Pvt. Henry G. West, Seymour.                                       Pvt. John D. Odle, McKinney.

Lt. Frank D. Scotten, El Paso.                                        Pvt. William I. Miller, Perrin.

Pvt. James C. Stout, Haskell.                                         Pvt. Alvie Ruffin, Alma.

Pvt. Bruce Ray, Decatur.                                              Pvt. George W. Dillon, Dollardsville.

Pvt. Frank Eason, Merkel.                                             Capt. O. F. Holden, Austin.

Corp. Policarpio, Poteet.                                                Pvt. Earl Campbell, Wichita Falls.

Pvt. James H. Williams, Ricardo.                                   Pvt. Andy Miller, Richmond.

Pvt. James C. Ward, Ladonia.                                        Pvt. Fred Theodore Buckholtz, La Porte.

Pvt. Bob Merrill, Mount Vernon.                                    Pvt. Robert C. Wesch, Dallas.

Pvt. Fred White, Mexia.                                                 Pvt. George Walverton, Loma.

Lt. Edwan L. Spencer, Beaumont.                                  Corp. Brooklyn Ray Engles, Yoakum.

Pvt. John Riggs, Lamasco.                                             Pvt. Leonard W. Kirchman, Hamilton.

 

Missing in Action

 

Pvt. Granville Ayers, Chicota.                                        Pvt. Jake Rossman, San Antonio.

Pvt. Daniel O. Sholar, Boston.                                        Pvt. Alvin Staffan, Lincoln.

Pvt. Jo John Ostromskl, McKinney.                                Pvt. Carl Z. Brown, Mexia.

Pvt. Benjamin J. Churco, El Paso.                                  Pvt. Thomas J. Ferguson, Lytton Springs.

Pvt. Roy E. Sebastion, Fate.                                           Pvt. Oliver I. Wheeler, Stockdale.

Corp. Leslie Dale Thompson, Beeville.                           Pvt. Facundo Lucero, El Paso.

 

Prisoners

 

Pvt. Tom Robertson, Granbury.                                      Pvt. Joseph L. Plummer, Personville.


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