ANOTHER ROME BOY KILLED IN FRANCE
Clarence I. Houck killed in action - was a native of Lee Cemter
Another Rome boy had made the supreme sacrifice in the great world war. On Thursday afternoon a telegram was received in this city by Miss Lillian Houck stating that her brother, Private Clarence I. Houck, was killed in action in France on Sept. 29. He enlisted in March 1917, and was sent to Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, for training and was later transferred to Spartanburg, S.C. where he remained until last spring, when he went overseas.
Private Houck was born in Lee Center on Jan. 7, 1899 and had lived in this city for about six years. Before this enlistment he was employed for about one year in the bare wire department of the Rome Wire Company and the men under whom he worked speak in hightest terms of his reliability and workmanship. He attended the Baptist Church. Private Houck is survived by five sisters and two brothers: Misses Lillian and Gertrude Houck of this city, Mrs, Lucy Scott of Watertown, Mrs, Grace Smith of Buffalo, Mrs Keeney Mores of West Branch, Enos Houck of Blossvale and Charles Houck of Buffalo.
Published in The Rome Daily Sentinel, Friday Evening, November 29, 1918.
Clarence was a Private in the U.S. Army, 107th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division. He entered the Service from New York. He served during World War I and died on September 29, 1918. Clarence is buried at Somme American Cemetery, Bony, France.
Clarence I. Houck killed in action - was a native of Lee Cemter
Another Rome boy had made the supreme sacrifice in the great world war. On Thursday afternoon a telegram was received in this city by Miss Lillian Houck stating that her brother, Private Clarence I. Houck, was killed in action in France on Sept. 29. He enlisted in March 1917, and was sent to Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, for training and was later transferred to Spartanburg, S.C. where he remained until last spring, when he went overseas.
Private Houck was born in Lee Center on Jan. 7, 1899 and had lived in this city for about six years. Before this enlistment he was employed for about one year in the bare wire department of the Rome Wire Company and the men under whom he worked speak in hightest terms of his reliability and workmanship. He attended the Baptist Church. Private Houck is survived by five sisters and two brothers: Misses Lillian and Gertrude Houck of this city, Mrs, Lucy Scott of Watertown, Mrs, Grace Smith of Buffalo, Mrs Keeney Mores of West Branch, Enos Houck of Blossvale and Charles Houck of Buffalo.
Published in The Rome Daily Sentinel, Friday Evening, November 29, 1918.
Clarence was a Private in the U.S. Army, 107th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division. He entered the Service from New York. He served during World War I and died on September 29, 1918. Clarence is buried at Somme American Cemetery, Bony, France.
ANOTHER ROME BOY KILLED IN FRANCE
Clarence I. Houck killed in action - was a native of Lee Cemter
Another Rome boy had made the supreme sacrifice in the great world war. On Thursday afternoon a telegram was received in this city by Miss Lillian Houck stating that her brother, Private Clarence I. Houck, was killed in action in France on Sept. 29. He enlisted in March 1917, and was sent to Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, for training and was later transferred to Spartanburg, S.C. where he remained until last spring, when he went overseas.
Private Houck was born in Lee Center on Jan. 7, 1899 and had lived in this city for about six years. Before this enlistment he was employed for about one year in the bare wire department of the Rome Wire Company and the men under whom he worked speak in hightest terms of his reliability and workmanship. He attended the Baptist Church. Private Houck is survived by five sisters and two brothers: Misses Lillian and Gertrude Houck of this city, Mrs, Lucy Scott of Watertown, Mrs, Grace Smith of Buffalo, Mrs Keeney Mores of West Branch, Enos Houck of Blossvale and Charles Houck of Buffalo.
Published in The Rome Daily Sentinel, Friday Evening, November 29, 1918.
Clarence was a Private in the U.S. Army, 107th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division. He entered the Service from New York. He served during World War I and died on September 29, 1918. Clarence is buried at Somme American Cemetery, Bony, France.
Clarence I. Houck killed in action - was a native of Lee Cemter
Another Rome boy had made the supreme sacrifice in the great world war. On Thursday afternoon a telegram was received in this city by Miss Lillian Houck stating that her brother, Private Clarence I. Houck, was killed in action in France on Sept. 29. He enlisted in March 1917, and was sent to Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, for training and was later transferred to Spartanburg, S.C. where he remained until last spring, when he went overseas.
Private Houck was born in Lee Center on Jan. 7, 1899 and had lived in this city for about six years. Before this enlistment he was employed for about one year in the bare wire department of the Rome Wire Company and the men under whom he worked speak in hightest terms of his reliability and workmanship. He attended the Baptist Church. Private Houck is survived by five sisters and two brothers: Misses Lillian and Gertrude Houck of this city, Mrs, Lucy Scott of Watertown, Mrs, Grace Smith of Buffalo, Mrs Keeney Mores of West Branch, Enos Houck of Blossvale and Charles Houck of Buffalo.
Published in The Rome Daily Sentinel, Friday Evening, November 29, 1918.
Clarence was a Private in the U.S. Army, 107th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division. He entered the Service from New York. He served during World War I and died on September 29, 1918. Clarence is buried at Somme American Cemetery, Bony, France.
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