James Flaherty Dies in France
Mrs. Peter Flaherty, of High View, has received a dispatch from the War Department conveying the sad intelligence that her son, Corporal James Flaherty, died of wounds in France, November 27. He was 24 years of age and when he left here was a member of Co. I, having enlisted the second time. The young man has a host of friends.
Besides his mother, Corporal Flaherty is survived by four brothers and three sisters. Two of the brothers are also in the service of their country. They are: Corporal Frank Flaherty, of the 42d Balloon Company A. E. F.; and First Sergeant William P. Flaherty, of the 25th Field Artillery, Camp McClellan, Alabama. The other brothers are Thomas Flaherty, of High View; and John Flaherty, of New York. The sisters are Mrs. Daniel Cody and Mrs. Frank Ware, of Boston, and Miss Anna Flaherty, of New York.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times-Press, Monday, December 23, 1918, page 1
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Bloomingburg, Nov. 19 - The Red Cross Society of this place has placed a service flag of 44 stars on the public square, which is very attractive, and the public should feel very grateful and proud to know how well this vicinity was represented overseas. One gold star which now adorns the flag is for James Flaherty, who was corporal of what was known as the "suicide squad." He was a great athlete and no doubt threw bombs with telling effect, and it is safe to say when the end came to this young man that he was facing the enemy.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times-Press, Tuesday, November 19, 1918, page 5
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FINAL TRIBUTE IS PAID FOUR HEROES
Tears in Eyes of Many Person at Services in Armory For Boys Who Gave Lives for Their Country
EXERCISES IMPRESSIVE
Caskets Draped With American Flags and Strewn With Flowers - Gold Star Mothers, Relatives and Friends Occupy Seats in Front - Mayor Cox Speaks
Final tribute was paid four American heroes who paid the supreme sacrifice on the battlefields of France at Memorial services conducted by the local post of the American Legion in the armory Saturday night.
The services were adequate, inspiring, pathetic. From a raised dais overlooking four caskets, each covered with an American flag, and strewn with flowers, the four principals in the services looked down upon an assemblage that nearly filled the large drill hall.
The four boys for whom the services were held were Floyd M. Carter, James Flaherty, Virgil Bogardus, and John Elmore Terwilliger.
Gold star mothers, near relatives, friends and other mourners occupied seats in front near the caskets. Two members of Company I, facing each other, stood at attention near the outermost caskets.
"In Flanders Field," the most wonderful of poems inspired by the war and set to music by Spross, was rendered by Mrs. C. S. Harmon. The number was particularly appropriate in view of the fact that the first touch of was censed by these boys "in Flanders Field." It was here that they struck their first blow for Democracy and for the rights of all mankind. Only providence, however, prevented them from paying the supreme sacrifice on the blood-soaked soil of Belgium and saved them to died a most glorious death a few months later in an advance that threatened for a time to end with the star-spangled banner placed aloft the tallest spire in Berlin.
Tears came to the eyes of many while Mrs. Harmon was singing. The whole tragedy of the great struggle was brought back in that brief space of time that it took to complete the song. Much is forgotten in the space of three years In a few minutes, words written by Colonel McRae, who later died in the war, had brought it all back.
The Rev. Thomas H. Saunders, chaplain of the American Legion, led the assemblage in prayer. Then followed an address by Rosslyn M. Cox who paid tribute to the dead heroes "who had given their all."
The Rev. J. L. McCabe, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel then said a few prayers over the bodies.
The services were concluded with a short prayer by the Rev. Thomas H. Saunders.
The bodies rested in state for a few minutes while those present surged about the flag-draped caskets. Each box had been labeled with the name, regiment and company of the inclosed body.
Funeral services for the heroes were held yesterday and today.
Requiem high mass was celebrated at 10 o'clock this morning at Bloomingburg for the repose of the soul of James Flaherty. Interment followed in the family plot, St. Joseph's cemetery, Wurtsboro.
Members of the American Legion acted as pall bearers. Four firing squads from Company I accompanied the bodies to the graves.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Herald, Monday, March 21, 1921, page 1
Mrs. Peter Flaherty, of High View, has received a dispatch from the War Department conveying the sad intelligence that her son, Corporal James Flaherty, died of wounds in France, November 27. He was 24 years of age and when he left here was a member of Co. I, having enlisted the second time. The young man has a host of friends.
Besides his mother, Corporal Flaherty is survived by four brothers and three sisters. Two of the brothers are also in the service of their country. They are: Corporal Frank Flaherty, of the 42d Balloon Company A. E. F.; and First Sergeant William P. Flaherty, of the 25th Field Artillery, Camp McClellan, Alabama. The other brothers are Thomas Flaherty, of High View; and John Flaherty, of New York. The sisters are Mrs. Daniel Cody and Mrs. Frank Ware, of Boston, and Miss Anna Flaherty, of New York.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times-Press, Monday, December 23, 1918, page 1
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Bloomingburg, Nov. 19 - The Red Cross Society of this place has placed a service flag of 44 stars on the public square, which is very attractive, and the public should feel very grateful and proud to know how well this vicinity was represented overseas. One gold star which now adorns the flag is for James Flaherty, who was corporal of what was known as the "suicide squad." He was a great athlete and no doubt threw bombs with telling effect, and it is safe to say when the end came to this young man that he was facing the enemy.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times-Press, Tuesday, November 19, 1918, page 5
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FINAL TRIBUTE IS PAID FOUR HEROES
Tears in Eyes of Many Person at Services in Armory For Boys Who Gave Lives for Their Country
EXERCISES IMPRESSIVE
Caskets Draped With American Flags and Strewn With Flowers - Gold Star Mothers, Relatives and Friends Occupy Seats in Front - Mayor Cox Speaks
Final tribute was paid four American heroes who paid the supreme sacrifice on the battlefields of France at Memorial services conducted by the local post of the American Legion in the armory Saturday night.
The services were adequate, inspiring, pathetic. From a raised dais overlooking four caskets, each covered with an American flag, and strewn with flowers, the four principals in the services looked down upon an assemblage that nearly filled the large drill hall.
The four boys for whom the services were held were Floyd M. Carter, James Flaherty, Virgil Bogardus, and John Elmore Terwilliger.
Gold star mothers, near relatives, friends and other mourners occupied seats in front near the caskets. Two members of Company I, facing each other, stood at attention near the outermost caskets.
"In Flanders Field," the most wonderful of poems inspired by the war and set to music by Spross, was rendered by Mrs. C. S. Harmon. The number was particularly appropriate in view of the fact that the first touch of was censed by these boys "in Flanders Field." It was here that they struck their first blow for Democracy and for the rights of all mankind. Only providence, however, prevented them from paying the supreme sacrifice on the blood-soaked soil of Belgium and saved them to died a most glorious death a few months later in an advance that threatened for a time to end with the star-spangled banner placed aloft the tallest spire in Berlin.
Tears came to the eyes of many while Mrs. Harmon was singing. The whole tragedy of the great struggle was brought back in that brief space of time that it took to complete the song. Much is forgotten in the space of three years In a few minutes, words written by Colonel McRae, who later died in the war, had brought it all back.
The Rev. Thomas H. Saunders, chaplain of the American Legion, led the assemblage in prayer. Then followed an address by Rosslyn M. Cox who paid tribute to the dead heroes "who had given their all."
The Rev. J. L. McCabe, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel then said a few prayers over the bodies.
The services were concluded with a short prayer by the Rev. Thomas H. Saunders.
The bodies rested in state for a few minutes while those present surged about the flag-draped caskets. Each box had been labeled with the name, regiment and company of the inclosed body.
Funeral services for the heroes were held yesterday and today.
Requiem high mass was celebrated at 10 o'clock this morning at Bloomingburg for the repose of the soul of James Flaherty. Interment followed in the family plot, St. Joseph's cemetery, Wurtsboro.
Members of the American Legion acted as pall bearers. Four firing squads from Company I accompanied the bodies to the graves.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Herald, Monday, March 21, 1921, page 1
James Flaherty Dies in France
Mrs. Peter Flaherty, of High View, has received a dispatch from the War Department conveying the sad intelligence that her son, Corporal James Flaherty, died of wounds in France, November 27. He was 24 years of age and when he left here was a member of Co. I, having enlisted the second time. The young man has a host of friends.
Besides his mother, Corporal Flaherty is survived by four brothers and three sisters. Two of the brothers are also in the service of their country. They are: Corporal Frank Flaherty, of the 42d Balloon Company A. E. F.; and First Sergeant William P. Flaherty, of the 25th Field Artillery, Camp McClellan, Alabama. The other brothers are Thomas Flaherty, of High View; and John Flaherty, of New York. The sisters are Mrs. Daniel Cody and Mrs. Frank Ware, of Boston, and Miss Anna Flaherty, of New York.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times-Press, Monday, December 23, 1918, page 1
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Bloomingburg, Nov. 19 - The Red Cross Society of this place has placed a service flag of 44 stars on the public square, which is very attractive, and the public should feel very grateful and proud to know how well this vicinity was represented overseas. One gold star which now adorns the flag is for James Flaherty, who was corporal of what was known as the "suicide squad." He was a great athlete and no doubt threw bombs with telling effect, and it is safe to say when the end came to this young man that he was facing the enemy.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times-Press, Tuesday, November 19, 1918, page 5
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FINAL TRIBUTE IS PAID FOUR HEROES
Tears in Eyes of Many Person at Services in Armory For Boys Who Gave Lives for Their Country
EXERCISES IMPRESSIVE
Caskets Draped With American Flags and Strewn With Flowers - Gold Star Mothers, Relatives and Friends Occupy Seats in Front - Mayor Cox Speaks
Final tribute was paid four American heroes who paid the supreme sacrifice on the battlefields of France at Memorial services conducted by the local post of the American Legion in the armory Saturday night.
The services were adequate, inspiring, pathetic. From a raised dais overlooking four caskets, each covered with an American flag, and strewn with flowers, the four principals in the services looked down upon an assemblage that nearly filled the large drill hall.
The four boys for whom the services were held were Floyd M. Carter, James Flaherty, Virgil Bogardus, and John Elmore Terwilliger.
Gold star mothers, near relatives, friends and other mourners occupied seats in front near the caskets. Two members of Company I, facing each other, stood at attention near the outermost caskets.
"In Flanders Field," the most wonderful of poems inspired by the war and set to music by Spross, was rendered by Mrs. C. S. Harmon. The number was particularly appropriate in view of the fact that the first touch of was censed by these boys "in Flanders Field." It was here that they struck their first blow for Democracy and for the rights of all mankind. Only providence, however, prevented them from paying the supreme sacrifice on the blood-soaked soil of Belgium and saved them to died a most glorious death a few months later in an advance that threatened for a time to end with the star-spangled banner placed aloft the tallest spire in Berlin.
Tears came to the eyes of many while Mrs. Harmon was singing. The whole tragedy of the great struggle was brought back in that brief space of time that it took to complete the song. Much is forgotten in the space of three years In a few minutes, words written by Colonel McRae, who later died in the war, had brought it all back.
The Rev. Thomas H. Saunders, chaplain of the American Legion, led the assemblage in prayer. Then followed an address by Rosslyn M. Cox who paid tribute to the dead heroes "who had given their all."
The Rev. J. L. McCabe, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel then said a few prayers over the bodies.
The services were concluded with a short prayer by the Rev. Thomas H. Saunders.
The bodies rested in state for a few minutes while those present surged about the flag-draped caskets. Each box had been labeled with the name, regiment and company of the inclosed body.
Funeral services for the heroes were held yesterday and today.
Requiem high mass was celebrated at 10 o'clock this morning at Bloomingburg for the repose of the soul of James Flaherty. Interment followed in the family plot, St. Joseph's cemetery, Wurtsboro.
Members of the American Legion acted as pall bearers. Four firing squads from Company I accompanied the bodies to the graves.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Herald, Monday, March 21, 1921, page 1
Mrs. Peter Flaherty, of High View, has received a dispatch from the War Department conveying the sad intelligence that her son, Corporal James Flaherty, died of wounds in France, November 27. He was 24 years of age and when he left here was a member of Co. I, having enlisted the second time. The young man has a host of friends.
Besides his mother, Corporal Flaherty is survived by four brothers and three sisters. Two of the brothers are also in the service of their country. They are: Corporal Frank Flaherty, of the 42d Balloon Company A. E. F.; and First Sergeant William P. Flaherty, of the 25th Field Artillery, Camp McClellan, Alabama. The other brothers are Thomas Flaherty, of High View; and John Flaherty, of New York. The sisters are Mrs. Daniel Cody and Mrs. Frank Ware, of Boston, and Miss Anna Flaherty, of New York.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times-Press, Monday, December 23, 1918, page 1
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Bloomingburg, Nov. 19 - The Red Cross Society of this place has placed a service flag of 44 stars on the public square, which is very attractive, and the public should feel very grateful and proud to know how well this vicinity was represented overseas. One gold star which now adorns the flag is for James Flaherty, who was corporal of what was known as the "suicide squad." He was a great athlete and no doubt threw bombs with telling effect, and it is safe to say when the end came to this young man that he was facing the enemy.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times-Press, Tuesday, November 19, 1918, page 5
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FINAL TRIBUTE IS PAID FOUR HEROES
Tears in Eyes of Many Person at Services in Armory For Boys Who Gave Lives for Their Country
EXERCISES IMPRESSIVE
Caskets Draped With American Flags and Strewn With Flowers - Gold Star Mothers, Relatives and Friends Occupy Seats in Front - Mayor Cox Speaks
Final tribute was paid four American heroes who paid the supreme sacrifice on the battlefields of France at Memorial services conducted by the local post of the American Legion in the armory Saturday night.
The services were adequate, inspiring, pathetic. From a raised dais overlooking four caskets, each covered with an American flag, and strewn with flowers, the four principals in the services looked down upon an assemblage that nearly filled the large drill hall.
The four boys for whom the services were held were Floyd M. Carter, James Flaherty, Virgil Bogardus, and John Elmore Terwilliger.
Gold star mothers, near relatives, friends and other mourners occupied seats in front near the caskets. Two members of Company I, facing each other, stood at attention near the outermost caskets.
"In Flanders Field," the most wonderful of poems inspired by the war and set to music by Spross, was rendered by Mrs. C. S. Harmon. The number was particularly appropriate in view of the fact that the first touch of was censed by these boys "in Flanders Field." It was here that they struck their first blow for Democracy and for the rights of all mankind. Only providence, however, prevented them from paying the supreme sacrifice on the blood-soaked soil of Belgium and saved them to died a most glorious death a few months later in an advance that threatened for a time to end with the star-spangled banner placed aloft the tallest spire in Berlin.
Tears came to the eyes of many while Mrs. Harmon was singing. The whole tragedy of the great struggle was brought back in that brief space of time that it took to complete the song. Much is forgotten in the space of three years In a few minutes, words written by Colonel McRae, who later died in the war, had brought it all back.
The Rev. Thomas H. Saunders, chaplain of the American Legion, led the assemblage in prayer. Then followed an address by Rosslyn M. Cox who paid tribute to the dead heroes "who had given their all."
The Rev. J. L. McCabe, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel then said a few prayers over the bodies.
The services were concluded with a short prayer by the Rev. Thomas H. Saunders.
The bodies rested in state for a few minutes while those present surged about the flag-draped caskets. Each box had been labeled with the name, regiment and company of the inclosed body.
Funeral services for the heroes were held yesterday and today.
Requiem high mass was celebrated at 10 o'clock this morning at Bloomingburg for the repose of the soul of James Flaherty. Interment followed in the family plot, St. Joseph's cemetery, Wurtsboro.
Members of the American Legion acted as pall bearers. Four firing squads from Company I accompanied the bodies to the graves.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Herald, Monday, March 21, 1921, page 1
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