Son of William Penn Lewelling and Ada Davis
THE LARNED CHRONOSCOPE
Larned, Kansas
Thursday, December 12, 1918
MADE SUPREME SACRIFICE
Corporal Merle Lewelling, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lewelling of Larned, was killed in action on the morning of November 11th, the last day of the war. The sad news came to his parents here late yesterday afternoon, in a telegram from the war department. No particulars were given.
This is the second time in two weeks that this community has received the message that men from here had paid the last supreme tribute of their devotion to their country on the battlefields of France. The circumstances surrounding the death of Sergeant Clark Whiting and of Corporal Merle Lewelling were almost the same. They were both members of the 356th Infantry, 89th Division, both from Larned and both were killed on the morning of November 11th, a few hours before the armistice was signed.
Merle Lewelling was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lewelling. While he had lived in Kansas City up to the opening of the war, he had visited his parents here frequently, and spent the last few weeks prior to entering the service in Larned. He had made many friends here and has always been claimed as a Pawnee county soldier, and his star is in this county's service flag.
He was an optician by profession and held a responsible position in Kansas City. When the United States declared war he made application for entry into the first officers training school, but was unable to pass the strict physical examination.
He was in the very first call under the universal draft law, and was sent to Camp Funston. He had the distinction of being the first man of the national army to arrive at the training camp at Camp Funston, where hundreds of thousands of men have since been trained, and was met in person by the commanding officer of that camp and congratulated upon the distinction.
He went to Camp Funston on September 5th, 1917, and was assigned to Co. E, 356th Infantry. His regiment became part of the famous 89th Division, which has made such a great record in France, and has been given the honor of being a part of the army of occupation of the Rhine country.
Soon after his entrance into the service he was made a non-commissioned officer, and had made an excellent record. In the last letter received by his parents, written November 5th, he stated that he had been detached from his company and been assigned as messenger or runner at battalion headquarters, a most dangerous and responsible position.
Merle Lewelling was twenty-eight years old. He was of the clean, manly type of young manhood, capable, and with a very promising future. He gave to his country and to the great cause all he had, bravely, gladly, and it is to the men of his high character, and to the hundreds of thousands like him who have made the supreme sacrifice, that the greatest war for humanity and righteousness has been won.
To the sorrowing father and mother, who have given so much to the cause, the sympathy of the entire community goes out. In their grief they will find comfort in the thought that their son gave his life in the greatest cause for which ever man died.
THE LARNED CHRONOSCOPE
Larned, Kansas
Thursday, December 12, 1918
MADE SUPREME SACRIFICE
Corporal Merle Lewelling, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lewelling of Larned, was killed in action on the morning of November 11th, the last day of the war. The sad news came to his parents here late yesterday afternoon, in a telegram from the war department. No particulars were given.
This is the second time in two weeks that this community has received the message that men from here had paid the last supreme tribute of their devotion to their country on the battlefields of France. The circumstances surrounding the death of Sergeant Clark Whiting and of Corporal Merle Lewelling were almost the same. They were both members of the 356th Infantry, 89th Division, both from Larned and both were killed on the morning of November 11th, a few hours before the armistice was signed.
Merle Lewelling was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lewelling. While he had lived in Kansas City up to the opening of the war, he had visited his parents here frequently, and spent the last few weeks prior to entering the service in Larned. He had made many friends here and has always been claimed as a Pawnee county soldier, and his star is in this county's service flag.
He was an optician by profession and held a responsible position in Kansas City. When the United States declared war he made application for entry into the first officers training school, but was unable to pass the strict physical examination.
He was in the very first call under the universal draft law, and was sent to Camp Funston. He had the distinction of being the first man of the national army to arrive at the training camp at Camp Funston, where hundreds of thousands of men have since been trained, and was met in person by the commanding officer of that camp and congratulated upon the distinction.
He went to Camp Funston on September 5th, 1917, and was assigned to Co. E, 356th Infantry. His regiment became part of the famous 89th Division, which has made such a great record in France, and has been given the honor of being a part of the army of occupation of the Rhine country.
Soon after his entrance into the service he was made a non-commissioned officer, and had made an excellent record. In the last letter received by his parents, written November 5th, he stated that he had been detached from his company and been assigned as messenger or runner at battalion headquarters, a most dangerous and responsible position.
Merle Lewelling was twenty-eight years old. He was of the clean, manly type of young manhood, capable, and with a very promising future. He gave to his country and to the great cause all he had, bravely, gladly, and it is to the men of his high character, and to the hundreds of thousands like him who have made the supreme sacrifice, that the greatest war for humanity and righteousness has been won.
To the sorrowing father and mother, who have given so much to the cause, the sympathy of the entire community goes out. In their grief they will find comfort in the thought that their son gave his life in the greatest cause for which ever man died.
Son of William Penn Lewelling and Ada Davis
THE LARNED CHRONOSCOPE
Larned, Kansas
Thursday, December 12, 1918
MADE SUPREME SACRIFICE
Corporal Merle Lewelling, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lewelling of Larned, was killed in action on the morning of November 11th, the last day of the war. The sad news came to his parents here late yesterday afternoon, in a telegram from the war department. No particulars were given.
This is the second time in two weeks that this community has received the message that men from here had paid the last supreme tribute of their devotion to their country on the battlefields of France. The circumstances surrounding the death of Sergeant Clark Whiting and of Corporal Merle Lewelling were almost the same. They were both members of the 356th Infantry, 89th Division, both from Larned and both were killed on the morning of November 11th, a few hours before the armistice was signed.
Merle Lewelling was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lewelling. While he had lived in Kansas City up to the opening of the war, he had visited his parents here frequently, and spent the last few weeks prior to entering the service in Larned. He had made many friends here and has always been claimed as a Pawnee county soldier, and his star is in this county's service flag.
He was an optician by profession and held a responsible position in Kansas City. When the United States declared war he made application for entry into the first officers training school, but was unable to pass the strict physical examination.
He was in the very first call under the universal draft law, and was sent to Camp Funston. He had the distinction of being the first man of the national army to arrive at the training camp at Camp Funston, where hundreds of thousands of men have since been trained, and was met in person by the commanding officer of that camp and congratulated upon the distinction.
He went to Camp Funston on September 5th, 1917, and was assigned to Co. E, 356th Infantry. His regiment became part of the famous 89th Division, which has made such a great record in France, and has been given the honor of being a part of the army of occupation of the Rhine country.
Soon after his entrance into the service he was made a non-commissioned officer, and had made an excellent record. In the last letter received by his parents, written November 5th, he stated that he had been detached from his company and been assigned as messenger or runner at battalion headquarters, a most dangerous and responsible position.
Merle Lewelling was twenty-eight years old. He was of the clean, manly type of young manhood, capable, and with a very promising future. He gave to his country and to the great cause all he had, bravely, gladly, and it is to the men of his high character, and to the hundreds of thousands like him who have made the supreme sacrifice, that the greatest war for humanity and righteousness has been won.
To the sorrowing father and mother, who have given so much to the cause, the sympathy of the entire community goes out. In their grief they will find comfort in the thought that their son gave his life in the greatest cause for which ever man died.
THE LARNED CHRONOSCOPE
Larned, Kansas
Thursday, December 12, 1918
MADE SUPREME SACRIFICE
Corporal Merle Lewelling, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lewelling of Larned, was killed in action on the morning of November 11th, the last day of the war. The sad news came to his parents here late yesterday afternoon, in a telegram from the war department. No particulars were given.
This is the second time in two weeks that this community has received the message that men from here had paid the last supreme tribute of their devotion to their country on the battlefields of France. The circumstances surrounding the death of Sergeant Clark Whiting and of Corporal Merle Lewelling were almost the same. They were both members of the 356th Infantry, 89th Division, both from Larned and both were killed on the morning of November 11th, a few hours before the armistice was signed.
Merle Lewelling was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lewelling. While he had lived in Kansas City up to the opening of the war, he had visited his parents here frequently, and spent the last few weeks prior to entering the service in Larned. He had made many friends here and has always been claimed as a Pawnee county soldier, and his star is in this county's service flag.
He was an optician by profession and held a responsible position in Kansas City. When the United States declared war he made application for entry into the first officers training school, but was unable to pass the strict physical examination.
He was in the very first call under the universal draft law, and was sent to Camp Funston. He had the distinction of being the first man of the national army to arrive at the training camp at Camp Funston, where hundreds of thousands of men have since been trained, and was met in person by the commanding officer of that camp and congratulated upon the distinction.
He went to Camp Funston on September 5th, 1917, and was assigned to Co. E, 356th Infantry. His regiment became part of the famous 89th Division, which has made such a great record in France, and has been given the honor of being a part of the army of occupation of the Rhine country.
Soon after his entrance into the service he was made a non-commissioned officer, and had made an excellent record. In the last letter received by his parents, written November 5th, he stated that he had been detached from his company and been assigned as messenger or runner at battalion headquarters, a most dangerous and responsible position.
Merle Lewelling was twenty-eight years old. He was of the clean, manly type of young manhood, capable, and with a very promising future. He gave to his country and to the great cause all he had, bravely, gladly, and it is to the men of his high character, and to the hundreds of thousands like him who have made the supreme sacrifice, that the greatest war for humanity and righteousness has been won.
To the sorrowing father and mother, who have given so much to the cause, the sympathy of the entire community goes out. In their grief they will find comfort in the thought that their son gave his life in the greatest cause for which ever man died.
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