Sgt. Jeremiah Daniel Reilly served with the 114th Field Artillery during World War I. He was the driver for a group Tennesseans who went along with Col. Luke Lea in what Gen. Pershing called the "amazingly indiscreet" plot to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany to have him stand trial at Versailles after the war ended.
Suggested edit: (Published in "The Nashville Tennessean," Tuesday, 12 May 1953; p 26)
Services Today For Dan Reilly
Franklin Veteran One of Seven Who Tried to Kidnap Kaiser
Franklin, Tenn. – Requiem high mass for Dan Reilly, 64, who participated in the attempt to kidnap the German kaiser after World War I, will be at 9 a.m. today at St. Phillips Catholic church. Father J. W. Cunningham will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery. Mr. Reilly died yesterday morning at his home on Columbia avenue. He had been ill about a week. He was a native of Franklin, and the son of Albert and Nora Shea Reilly. During the last 12 years Mr. Reilly had been maintenance engineer for the state health department. He served as superintendent of highway garages for the state two years, and was a salesman for a motor company several years. Prior to this employment, he worked for Southern Bell Telephone Co., where he was employed when he entered the service during World War I. He was the first man from Williamson county to volunteer in the armed forces in that war. When he went into the army, he was assigned to Battery F, 114th field artillery. He was a first sergeant in Battery F for a year under Capt. Tom Henderson, who is now a Franklin lawyer. At the end of the year he was made sergeant major. He served in France one year, and was mustered out of service April 8, 1919, when his regiment went out of service. Sgt. Reilly drove one of the automobiles used by a party of seven Tennesseans who made the attempt to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm II at the close of the war.
"He was one of the best soldiers and one of the most efficient men in the regiment," Henderson recalled yesterday. "Anything he undertook he did well." Other members of the party which made the kidnapping attempt were Sgt. Owen Johnston, now deceased; Captain Henderson; Col. Luke Lea, former published of THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN; Capt. Larry MacPhail, formerly of Nashville and former president of the New York Yankee baseball club; Sg. Marmaduke Clokey, formerly of Knoxville, now of Birmingham, and Lt. Ellsworth Brown of Chattanooga. The kidnap party was delayed at the Dutch frontier by its inability to produce passports and the soldiers had to flee from Dutch guards after finding their way into the room adjoining that of their intended captive. Mr. Reilly is survived by his widow, Mrs. Orlena Parry Reilly; a son, Lt. J. Dan Reilly, U. S. Navy in Philadelphia, now on submarine duty; a daughter, Miss Alma Parry Reilly of Kingsport, Tenn.; three sisters, Miss Mary E. Reilly and Miss Norine Reilly, both of Franklin, and Mrs. R. J. Watson of Nashville, and two grandsons, John and David Reilly of Philadelphia. The remains are at the chapel of Bethurum, Henry & Robinson. Leaving the Chapel Tuesday morning, at 8:45, requiem mass will be said at St. Phillips Catholic Church at 9 o'clock conducted by Father J. W. Cunningham, the following will pleas serve as active pallbearers: Capt. Tom Henderson, Moses Rucker, Joe Pinkerton, Will Shea, Jim Conway, O. C. Hatcher, Will Moss, Tom Robinson. Interment Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bethurum, Henry & Robinson, Co., funeral directors, Franklin, Tenn.
Suggested edit: (Published in "The Nashville Tennessean," Tuesday, 12 May 1953; p 26)
Services Today For Dan Reilly
Franklin Veteran One of Seven Who Tried to Kidnap Kaiser
Franklin, Tenn. – Requiem high mass for Dan Reilly, 64, who participated in the attempt to kidnap the German kaiser after World War I, will be at 9 a.m. today at St. Phillips Catholic church. Father J. W. Cunningham will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery. Mr. Reilly died yesterday morning at his home on Columbia avenue. He had been ill about a week. He was a native of Franklin, and the son of Albert and Nora Shea Reilly. During the last 12 years Mr. Reilly had been maintenance engineer for the state health department. He served as superintendent of highway garages for the state two years, and was a salesman for a motor company several years. Prior to this employment, he worked for Southern Bell Telephone Co., where he was employed when he entered the service during World War I. He was the first man from Williamson county to volunteer in the armed forces in that war. When he went into the army, he was assigned to Battery F, 114th field artillery. He was a first sergeant in Battery F for a year under Capt. Tom Henderson, who is now a Franklin lawyer. At the end of the year he was made sergeant major. He served in France one year, and was mustered out of service April 8, 1919, when his regiment went out of service. Sgt. Reilly drove one of the automobiles used by a party of seven Tennesseans who made the attempt to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm II at the close of the war.
"He was one of the best soldiers and one of the most efficient men in the regiment," Henderson recalled yesterday. "Anything he undertook he did well." Other members of the party which made the kidnapping attempt were Sgt. Owen Johnston, now deceased; Captain Henderson; Col. Luke Lea, former published of THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN; Capt. Larry MacPhail, formerly of Nashville and former president of the New York Yankee baseball club; Sg. Marmaduke Clokey, formerly of Knoxville, now of Birmingham, and Lt. Ellsworth Brown of Chattanooga. The kidnap party was delayed at the Dutch frontier by its inability to produce passports and the soldiers had to flee from Dutch guards after finding their way into the room adjoining that of their intended captive. Mr. Reilly is survived by his widow, Mrs. Orlena Parry Reilly; a son, Lt. J. Dan Reilly, U. S. Navy in Philadelphia, now on submarine duty; a daughter, Miss Alma Parry Reilly of Kingsport, Tenn.; three sisters, Miss Mary E. Reilly and Miss Norine Reilly, both of Franklin, and Mrs. R. J. Watson of Nashville, and two grandsons, John and David Reilly of Philadelphia. The remains are at the chapel of Bethurum, Henry & Robinson. Leaving the Chapel Tuesday morning, at 8:45, requiem mass will be said at St. Phillips Catholic Church at 9 o'clock conducted by Father J. W. Cunningham, the following will pleas serve as active pallbearers: Capt. Tom Henderson, Moses Rucker, Joe Pinkerton, Will Shea, Jim Conway, O. C. Hatcher, Will Moss, Tom Robinson. Interment Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bethurum, Henry & Robinson, Co., funeral directors, Franklin, Tenn.
Sgt. Jeremiah Daniel Reilly served with the 114th Field Artillery during World War I. He was the driver for a group Tennesseans who went along with Col. Luke Lea in what Gen. Pershing called the "amazingly indiscreet" plot to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany to have him stand trial at Versailles after the war ended.
Suggested edit: (Published in "The Nashville Tennessean," Tuesday, 12 May 1953; p 26)
Services Today For Dan Reilly
Franklin Veteran One of Seven Who Tried to Kidnap Kaiser
Franklin, Tenn. – Requiem high mass for Dan Reilly, 64, who participated in the attempt to kidnap the German kaiser after World War I, will be at 9 a.m. today at St. Phillips Catholic church. Father J. W. Cunningham will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery. Mr. Reilly died yesterday morning at his home on Columbia avenue. He had been ill about a week. He was a native of Franklin, and the son of Albert and Nora Shea Reilly. During the last 12 years Mr. Reilly had been maintenance engineer for the state health department. He served as superintendent of highway garages for the state two years, and was a salesman for a motor company several years. Prior to this employment, he worked for Southern Bell Telephone Co., where he was employed when he entered the service during World War I. He was the first man from Williamson county to volunteer in the armed forces in that war. When he went into the army, he was assigned to Battery F, 114th field artillery. He was a first sergeant in Battery F for a year under Capt. Tom Henderson, who is now a Franklin lawyer. At the end of the year he was made sergeant major. He served in France one year, and was mustered out of service April 8, 1919, when his regiment went out of service. Sgt. Reilly drove one of the automobiles used by a party of seven Tennesseans who made the attempt to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm II at the close of the war.
"He was one of the best soldiers and one of the most efficient men in the regiment," Henderson recalled yesterday. "Anything he undertook he did well." Other members of the party which made the kidnapping attempt were Sgt. Owen Johnston, now deceased; Captain Henderson; Col. Luke Lea, former published of THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN; Capt. Larry MacPhail, formerly of Nashville and former president of the New York Yankee baseball club; Sg. Marmaduke Clokey, formerly of Knoxville, now of Birmingham, and Lt. Ellsworth Brown of Chattanooga. The kidnap party was delayed at the Dutch frontier by its inability to produce passports and the soldiers had to flee from Dutch guards after finding their way into the room adjoining that of their intended captive. Mr. Reilly is survived by his widow, Mrs. Orlena Parry Reilly; a son, Lt. J. Dan Reilly, U. S. Navy in Philadelphia, now on submarine duty; a daughter, Miss Alma Parry Reilly of Kingsport, Tenn.; three sisters, Miss Mary E. Reilly and Miss Norine Reilly, both of Franklin, and Mrs. R. J. Watson of Nashville, and two grandsons, John and David Reilly of Philadelphia. The remains are at the chapel of Bethurum, Henry & Robinson. Leaving the Chapel Tuesday morning, at 8:45, requiem mass will be said at St. Phillips Catholic Church at 9 o'clock conducted by Father J. W. Cunningham, the following will pleas serve as active pallbearers: Capt. Tom Henderson, Moses Rucker, Joe Pinkerton, Will Shea, Jim Conway, O. C. Hatcher, Will Moss, Tom Robinson. Interment Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bethurum, Henry & Robinson, Co., funeral directors, Franklin, Tenn.
Suggested edit: (Published in "The Nashville Tennessean," Tuesday, 12 May 1953; p 26)
Services Today For Dan Reilly
Franklin Veteran One of Seven Who Tried to Kidnap Kaiser
Franklin, Tenn. – Requiem high mass for Dan Reilly, 64, who participated in the attempt to kidnap the German kaiser after World War I, will be at 9 a.m. today at St. Phillips Catholic church. Father J. W. Cunningham will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery. Mr. Reilly died yesterday morning at his home on Columbia avenue. He had been ill about a week. He was a native of Franklin, and the son of Albert and Nora Shea Reilly. During the last 12 years Mr. Reilly had been maintenance engineer for the state health department. He served as superintendent of highway garages for the state two years, and was a salesman for a motor company several years. Prior to this employment, he worked for Southern Bell Telephone Co., where he was employed when he entered the service during World War I. He was the first man from Williamson county to volunteer in the armed forces in that war. When he went into the army, he was assigned to Battery F, 114th field artillery. He was a first sergeant in Battery F for a year under Capt. Tom Henderson, who is now a Franklin lawyer. At the end of the year he was made sergeant major. He served in France one year, and was mustered out of service April 8, 1919, when his regiment went out of service. Sgt. Reilly drove one of the automobiles used by a party of seven Tennesseans who made the attempt to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm II at the close of the war.
"He was one of the best soldiers and one of the most efficient men in the regiment," Henderson recalled yesterday. "Anything he undertook he did well." Other members of the party which made the kidnapping attempt were Sgt. Owen Johnston, now deceased; Captain Henderson; Col. Luke Lea, former published of THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN; Capt. Larry MacPhail, formerly of Nashville and former president of the New York Yankee baseball club; Sg. Marmaduke Clokey, formerly of Knoxville, now of Birmingham, and Lt. Ellsworth Brown of Chattanooga. The kidnap party was delayed at the Dutch frontier by its inability to produce passports and the soldiers had to flee from Dutch guards after finding their way into the room adjoining that of their intended captive. Mr. Reilly is survived by his widow, Mrs. Orlena Parry Reilly; a son, Lt. J. Dan Reilly, U. S. Navy in Philadelphia, now on submarine duty; a daughter, Miss Alma Parry Reilly of Kingsport, Tenn.; three sisters, Miss Mary E. Reilly and Miss Norine Reilly, both of Franklin, and Mrs. R. J. Watson of Nashville, and two grandsons, John and David Reilly of Philadelphia. The remains are at the chapel of Bethurum, Henry & Robinson. Leaving the Chapel Tuesday morning, at 8:45, requiem mass will be said at St. Phillips Catholic Church at 9 o'clock conducted by Father J. W. Cunningham, the following will pleas serve as active pallbearers: Capt. Tom Henderson, Moses Rucker, Joe Pinkerton, Will Shea, Jim Conway, O. C. Hatcher, Will Moss, Tom Robinson. Interment Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bethurum, Henry & Robinson, Co., funeral directors, Franklin, Tenn.
Inscription
DAN REILLY
Tennessee
Regtl Sgt Maj Fld Aty
World War I
May 29, 1888 May 11, 1953
