Gunners mate, third class
Son of Jesse A. and Mary Elizabeth Sholar Ferguson
At 18 Devoe Ferguson volunteered in the U.S. Navy. At the end of 4 years service, he arrived in Joaquin on August 28, 1917. After 4 months at home, he again volunteered and left on December 17 for Rhode Island to take training in making torpedoes. Four months later "his mother received a message telling of the boy's serious illness of pneumonia, who went immediately to his bedside in the Navy hospital of Newport, R.I." She returned home after a week because of the intensely cold weather, because she herself was not well, and because Devoe was getting better. Unfortunately, he soon died from meningitis.
Rev. W. R. Crawford conducted funeral services on Sunday, April 13, with a military burial.
Sources:
Clara S. Ramsey, "In Memory of Devoe Ferguson," The Champion, April 24, 1918, reprinted in Mildred Cariker Pinkston, Obituaries of Early Pioneers, Shelby County, Texas, Center: Center Printing Co., 1983, I:97-98
1900 Census, Shelby Co, TX
US Naval Deaths, WWI
Gunners mate, third class
Son of Jesse A. and Mary Elizabeth Sholar Ferguson
At 18 Devoe Ferguson volunteered in the U.S. Navy. At the end of 4 years service, he arrived in Joaquin on August 28, 1917. After 4 months at home, he again volunteered and left on December 17 for Rhode Island to take training in making torpedoes. Four months later "his mother received a message telling of the boy's serious illness of pneumonia, who went immediately to his bedside in the Navy hospital of Newport, R.I." She returned home after a week because of the intensely cold weather, because she herself was not well, and because Devoe was getting better. Unfortunately, he soon died from meningitis.
Rev. W. R. Crawford conducted funeral services on Sunday, April 13, with a military burial.
Sources:
Clara S. Ramsey, "In Memory of Devoe Ferguson," The Champion, April 24, 1918, reprinted in Mildred Cariker Pinkston, Obituaries of Early Pioneers, Shelby County, Texas, Center: Center Printing Co., 1983, I:97-98
1900 Census, Shelby Co, TX
US Naval Deaths, WWI
Family Members
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Minnielea Ferguson Lochabay
1886–1973
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Belva Allie Ferguson Lawless
1889–1976
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Buford Iler Ferguson
1889–1937
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Estill Ferguson McLeroy
1891–1971
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David Otis Alton Ferguson
1893–1911
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Martin Van Buren Ferguson
1897–1970
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Era Gay Ferguson Topping
1900–1991
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Mary Ferguson Lee
1903–1983
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Jessie Hazel Ferguson
1905–1910
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John Harland Ferguson
1909–1937
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