Benjamin Humes
Benjamin Humes, private, Co. I, 346th Infantry, son of Peter and Mary Humes, was born May 16th, 1888, on a farm near Patoka and died at Camp Pike Ark., Dec. 17th, aged 29 years, 6 months and 1 day.
Sept. 19th, 1917, he in company with other young men left his home for Camp Taylor, Kentucky. After nearly three months of intensive training he was transferred to camp Pike, Ark., and on the 17th day of December word was received of his death. His body arrived December 19th after and absence of three months.
To leave home in the prime of life for a training camp and return three months later, alone and silent in death is one of the vicissitudes of life which no human being can foretell or change.
His body rests near his loved ones in the little cemetery at Patoka, Illinois.
Son of Peter Humes and Mary Schmering. Cemetery listing has his birth year 1838. The stone is worn but zooming in on the photo confirms 1888. Further confirmation from his World War 1 record showing May 16,1888 born Fayette Co., Il.
Benjamin Humes, private, Co. I, 346th Infantry, son of Peter and Mary Humes, was born May 16th, 1888, on a farm near Patoka and died at Camp Pike Ark., Dec. 17th, aged 29 years, 6 months and 1 day.
Sept. 19th, 1917, he in company with other young men left his home for Camp Taylor, Kentucky. After nearly three months of intensive training he was transferred to camp Pike, Ark., and on the 17th day of December word was received of his death. His body arrived December 19th after and absence of three months.
To leave home in the prime of life for a training camp and return three months later, alone and silent in death is one of the vicissitudes of life which no human being can foretell or change.
His body rests near his loved ones in the little cemetery at Patoka, Illinois.
Son of Peter Humes and Mary Schmering. Cemetery listing has his birth year 1838. The stone is worn but zooming in on the photo confirms 1888. Further confirmation from his World War 1 record showing May 16,1888 born Fayette Co., Il.
Benjamin Humes
Benjamin Humes, private, Co. I, 346th Infantry, son of Peter and Mary Humes, was born May 16th, 1888, on a farm near Patoka and died at Camp Pike Ark., Dec. 17th, aged 29 years, 6 months and 1 day.
Sept. 19th, 1917, he in company with other young men left his home for Camp Taylor, Kentucky. After nearly three months of intensive training he was transferred to camp Pike, Ark., and on the 17th day of December word was received of his death. His body arrived December 19th after and absence of three months.
To leave home in the prime of life for a training camp and return three months later, alone and silent in death is one of the vicissitudes of life which no human being can foretell or change.
His body rests near his loved ones in the little cemetery at Patoka, Illinois.
Son of Peter Humes and Mary Schmering. Cemetery listing has his birth year 1838. The stone is worn but zooming in on the photo confirms 1888. Further confirmation from his World War 1 record showing May 16,1888 born Fayette Co., Il.
Benjamin Humes, private, Co. I, 346th Infantry, son of Peter and Mary Humes, was born May 16th, 1888, on a farm near Patoka and died at Camp Pike Ark., Dec. 17th, aged 29 years, 6 months and 1 day.
Sept. 19th, 1917, he in company with other young men left his home for Camp Taylor, Kentucky. After nearly three months of intensive training he was transferred to camp Pike, Ark., and on the 17th day of December word was received of his death. His body arrived December 19th after and absence of three months.
To leave home in the prime of life for a training camp and return three months later, alone and silent in death is one of the vicissitudes of life which no human being can foretell or change.
His body rests near his loved ones in the little cemetery at Patoka, Illinois.
Son of Peter Humes and Mary Schmering. Cemetery listing has his birth year 1838. The stone is worn but zooming in on the photo confirms 1888. Further confirmation from his World War 1 record showing May 16,1888 born Fayette Co., Il.
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