Son of Thomas Jefferson Deans and Lucy Cornelius Cross of Hertford county living southeast of Murfreesboro near Mt Tabor church in 1888.
Cecil Sr. in uniform was at Fort Lee, VA in 1918 at 29 years of age training for WWI when the flu epidemic hit and young men started dieing at his camp. He volunteered to go to Europe early figuring his chances were better fighting than losing his life to the worldwide flu epidemic that eventually killed millions.
Cecil Sr. avoided the flu but ended up in the battle of Argonne Forest in Sep-Nov 1918 with 117,000 US casualties mainly due to machine guns and mustard gas.
He survived that battle, came home, married Francis in 1919 and after a few years in Norfolk, Virginia moved to Raleigh, NC where they had a good life raising two children and he working for the railroad as a claims agent. He lived to 72 years and her to 90 years.
Cecil Sr. in uniform was at Fort Lee, VA in 1918 at 29 years of age training for WWI when the flu epidemic hit and young men started dieing at his camp. He volunteered to go to Europe early figuring his chances were better fighting than losing his life to the worldwide flu epidemic that eventually killed millions.
Cecil Sr. avoided the flu but ended up in the battle of Argonne Forest in Sep-Nov 1918 with 117,000 US casualties mainly due to machine guns and mustard gas.
He survived that battle, came home, married Francis in 1919 and after a few years in Norfolk, Virginia moved to Raleigh, NC where they had a good life raising two children and he working for the railroad as a claims agent. He lived to 72 years and her to 90 years.
Son of Thomas Jefferson Deans and Lucy Cornelius Cross of Hertford county living southeast of Murfreesboro near Mt Tabor church in 1888.
Cecil Sr. in uniform was at Fort Lee, VA in 1918 at 29 years of age training for WWI when the flu epidemic hit and young men started dieing at his camp. He volunteered to go to Europe early figuring his chances were better fighting than losing his life to the worldwide flu epidemic that eventually killed millions.
Cecil Sr. avoided the flu but ended up in the battle of Argonne Forest in Sep-Nov 1918 with 117,000 US casualties mainly due to machine guns and mustard gas.
He survived that battle, came home, married Francis in 1919 and after a few years in Norfolk, Virginia moved to Raleigh, NC where they had a good life raising two children and he working for the railroad as a claims agent. He lived to 72 years and her to 90 years.
Cecil Sr. in uniform was at Fort Lee, VA in 1918 at 29 years of age training for WWI when the flu epidemic hit and young men started dieing at his camp. He volunteered to go to Europe early figuring his chances were better fighting than losing his life to the worldwide flu epidemic that eventually killed millions.
Cecil Sr. avoided the flu but ended up in the battle of Argonne Forest in Sep-Nov 1918 with 117,000 US casualties mainly due to machine guns and mustard gas.
He survived that battle, came home, married Francis in 1919 and after a few years in Norfolk, Virginia moved to Raleigh, NC where they had a good life raising two children and he working for the railroad as a claims agent. He lived to 72 years and her to 90 years.
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