WORLD WAR II
KIA
Battle of the Bulge
Son of David Onslow and Nora Lee Stevens Elliott, husband of Ileen Plowden.
COLUMBIA - The body of S-Sgt. Robert Cone Elliott, son of the late David O. and Mrs. Nora Stevens Elliott, will arrive in Columbia today and will be taken to the Dunbar Funeral home.
Sergeant Elliott was killed in Belgium, January 15, 1945. Sergeant Elliott was born in Columbia in 1923 and was graduated from Dreher high school and later attended Clemson college. He was a member of the First Baptist church and was in the grocery business before going into service. He was inducted into the army at Fort Jackson in March, 1943 and received training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. and at Camp Breckenridge, Ky. He went overseas in October, 1944 and served with Co. A. 289th Infantry, 75th division in England, France and Belgium.
Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Dunbar Funeral home, conducted by the Rev. Eugene L. Nixon, who was the former chaplain of the 75th division and is now rector of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepard. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery.
Sergeant Elliott is survived by his mother, Mrs. D.S. Elliott; two sisters, Miss Dot Elliott and Daisy I Elliott Fischborn; four brothers, David Onslow Elliott, Thomas Edward Elliott, Jack R. Elliott, and Ronald J. Elliott. He was married to the former Ileen Plowden, now Mrs. Edgar Waters.
Pallbearers will be Thomas Murtishaw, Van Richardson, Jr., Oliver Willis, Harless McSwain, Max Hicks, Pope Truesdale, Ray Jackson and Fred Ramage.
Published in The State, May 14, 1949
KIA
Battle of the Bulge
Son of David Onslow and Nora Lee Stevens Elliott, husband of Ileen Plowden.
COLUMBIA - The body of S-Sgt. Robert Cone Elliott, son of the late David O. and Mrs. Nora Stevens Elliott, will arrive in Columbia today and will be taken to the Dunbar Funeral home.
Sergeant Elliott was killed in Belgium, January 15, 1945. Sergeant Elliott was born in Columbia in 1923 and was graduated from Dreher high school and later attended Clemson college. He was a member of the First Baptist church and was in the grocery business before going into service. He was inducted into the army at Fort Jackson in March, 1943 and received training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. and at Camp Breckenridge, Ky. He went overseas in October, 1944 and served with Co. A. 289th Infantry, 75th division in England, France and Belgium.
Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Dunbar Funeral home, conducted by the Rev. Eugene L. Nixon, who was the former chaplain of the 75th division and is now rector of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepard. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery.
Sergeant Elliott is survived by his mother, Mrs. D.S. Elliott; two sisters, Miss Dot Elliott and Daisy I Elliott Fischborn; four brothers, David Onslow Elliott, Thomas Edward Elliott, Jack R. Elliott, and Ronald J. Elliott. He was married to the former Ileen Plowden, now Mrs. Edgar Waters.
Pallbearers will be Thomas Murtishaw, Van Richardson, Jr., Oliver Willis, Harless McSwain, Max Hicks, Pope Truesdale, Ray Jackson and Fred Ramage.
Published in The State, May 14, 1949
WORLD WAR II
KIA
Battle of the Bulge
Son of David Onslow and Nora Lee Stevens Elliott, husband of Ileen Plowden.
COLUMBIA - The body of S-Sgt. Robert Cone Elliott, son of the late David O. and Mrs. Nora Stevens Elliott, will arrive in Columbia today and will be taken to the Dunbar Funeral home.
Sergeant Elliott was killed in Belgium, January 15, 1945. Sergeant Elliott was born in Columbia in 1923 and was graduated from Dreher high school and later attended Clemson college. He was a member of the First Baptist church and was in the grocery business before going into service. He was inducted into the army at Fort Jackson in March, 1943 and received training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. and at Camp Breckenridge, Ky. He went overseas in October, 1944 and served with Co. A. 289th Infantry, 75th division in England, France and Belgium.
Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Dunbar Funeral home, conducted by the Rev. Eugene L. Nixon, who was the former chaplain of the 75th division and is now rector of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepard. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery.
Sergeant Elliott is survived by his mother, Mrs. D.S. Elliott; two sisters, Miss Dot Elliott and Daisy I Elliott Fischborn; four brothers, David Onslow Elliott, Thomas Edward Elliott, Jack R. Elliott, and Ronald J. Elliott. He was married to the former Ileen Plowden, now Mrs. Edgar Waters.
Pallbearers will be Thomas Murtishaw, Van Richardson, Jr., Oliver Willis, Harless McSwain, Max Hicks, Pope Truesdale, Ray Jackson and Fred Ramage.
Published in The State, May 14, 1949
KIA
Battle of the Bulge
Son of David Onslow and Nora Lee Stevens Elliott, husband of Ileen Plowden.
COLUMBIA - The body of S-Sgt. Robert Cone Elliott, son of the late David O. and Mrs. Nora Stevens Elliott, will arrive in Columbia today and will be taken to the Dunbar Funeral home.
Sergeant Elliott was killed in Belgium, January 15, 1945. Sergeant Elliott was born in Columbia in 1923 and was graduated from Dreher high school and later attended Clemson college. He was a member of the First Baptist church and was in the grocery business before going into service. He was inducted into the army at Fort Jackson in March, 1943 and received training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. and at Camp Breckenridge, Ky. He went overseas in October, 1944 and served with Co. A. 289th Infantry, 75th division in England, France and Belgium.
Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Dunbar Funeral home, conducted by the Rev. Eugene L. Nixon, who was the former chaplain of the 75th division and is now rector of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepard. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery.
Sergeant Elliott is survived by his mother, Mrs. D.S. Elliott; two sisters, Miss Dot Elliott and Daisy I Elliott Fischborn; four brothers, David Onslow Elliott, Thomas Edward Elliott, Jack R. Elliott, and Ronald J. Elliott. He was married to the former Ileen Plowden, now Mrs. Edgar Waters.
Pallbearers will be Thomas Murtishaw, Van Richardson, Jr., Oliver Willis, Harless McSwain, Max Hicks, Pope Truesdale, Ray Jackson and Fred Ramage.
Published in The State, May 14, 1949
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