I have listened to stories about my Great Uncle Johnny Defreece from several of my much older distant cousins that also listened to stories about Uncle Johnny which were told to them by their mothers who were Uncle Johnny's sisters. As they talked about him, they all referred to him as "Johnny", so I am going to assume that is what everyone called him. Story has it that he was in the Army and stationed out of the country in the Philippines when he died of the Measles and Pneumonia when he was only 19 or 20yrs old. Johnny was a Soldier in the HC (hospital corps) when he died. I ordered his death certificate and this is what I have come up with: It says he died on Feb 5th 1915 but was not buried until April 9th 1915, that is because he died out of the country, and it took the army a while to get his body back to the USA, but they made his death cert in San Francisco where they brought his body and also where he is buried in the National Cemetery in San Francisco. I tried to order Johnny's military records from Saint Louis MO. where I was told they would be, but found out that his records were some of which got destroyed in a 1973 fire that burnt millions of records there at the National Personnel Records Center. I do know that he was stationed in San Antonio TX at FORT SAM HOUSTON and was there in Sept - Dec of 1913 and was working in the Post Hospital there. I tried to find out information on his Army suite (we have photos of him in it), but the only thing I could find out for sure was the HOSPITAL CORPS badge on the neck of his suite. My cousin Dorothy Tally's mother was Leni Leota who was Johnny's sister, and this is what Dorothy wrote and told me in a letter: Mother always told me that he died in the Philippines, he got Measles and then Pneumonia. Back then families had to be responsible for bringing the soldiers that died back home, they didn't have the money, so his body was sent back to the place of deployment which was San Francisco and buried there. Mother said his death just about destroyed her parents, and it was the first time she ever saw her father Hardin cry. Dorothy's mother Leni Leota who was Johnny's sister wrote down a series of events that took place in her life, and on that paper she specified that life was not the same after Johnny's death.