COX, USN, WW II.
Joe was the son of Joseph A. & Cora Neeley Cheatham. He was born in Boyle County and raised in Lancaster and Harrodsburg. During World War II, he joined the U.S.N. and had advanced to the rank of Coxswain. He was killed in action in the Pacific Ocean Theater.
The original interment was at the Guam National Cemetery in the Marianas Islands. After the end of the war, his family contacted the government and asked that his remains be disinterred and brought home to Kentucky. That permission was granted, by the Veterans Administration, and he was re-interred at Camp Nelson National Cemetery, on April 28, 1948, with full military honors.
Joe was the son of Joseph A. & Cora Neeley Cheatham. He was born in Boyle County and raised in Lancaster and Harrodsburg. During World War II, he joined the U.S.N. and had advanced to the rank of Coxswain. He was killed in action in the Pacific Ocean Theater.
The original interment was at the Guam National Cemetery in the Marianas Islands. After the end of the war, his family contacted the government and asked that his remains be disinterred and brought home to Kentucky. That permission was granted, by the Veterans Administration, and he was re-interred at Camp Nelson National Cemetery, on April 28, 1948, with full military honors.
COX, USN, WW II.
Joe was the son of Joseph A. & Cora Neeley Cheatham. He was born in Boyle County and raised in Lancaster and Harrodsburg. During World War II, he joined the U.S.N. and had advanced to the rank of Coxswain. He was killed in action in the Pacific Ocean Theater.
The original interment was at the Guam National Cemetery in the Marianas Islands. After the end of the war, his family contacted the government and asked that his remains be disinterred and brought home to Kentucky. That permission was granted, by the Veterans Administration, and he was re-interred at Camp Nelson National Cemetery, on April 28, 1948, with full military honors.
Joe was the son of Joseph A. & Cora Neeley Cheatham. He was born in Boyle County and raised in Lancaster and Harrodsburg. During World War II, he joined the U.S.N. and had advanced to the rank of Coxswain. He was killed in action in the Pacific Ocean Theater.
The original interment was at the Guam National Cemetery in the Marianas Islands. After the end of the war, his family contacted the government and asked that his remains be disinterred and brought home to Kentucky. That permission was granted, by the Veterans Administration, and he was re-interred at Camp Nelson National Cemetery, on April 28, 1948, with full military honors.
Inscription
JOE CHEATHAM, JR.
KENTUCKY
COX
US NAVY
WORLD WAR II
April 12, 1924
April 16, 1942
Gravesite Details
Inter: 04-28-1948. DOB is from the birth record. Military records and his headstone inscription list the YOB as 1924.
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