Jesse Root
Services for Jesse Frank Root, 59, who died at Camp White Thursday, will be held in Conger-Morris Chapel Monday at 9:30 a.m. with Chaplain L.H. Camp officiating. Committal will be in Central Point Cemetery.
Mr. Root was born Nov. 18, 1891, in Lewtown, Mont., the son of the late Horace L. and Katie Root. He was a veteran of World War I, serving from June 27, 1918 to May 22, 1919, as a private, Company "C," 302nd field signal battalion.
He is survived by three children, Louella, Lenora, and Frank, all of Walla Walla, Wash.,a sister, Mrs. Edna M. Hawley, Shady Cove; and five brothers, George F., Walla Walla; Lloyd, Crescent City, Cal., William, Central Point; Monroe, Walla Walla, and Horace, Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune
July 15, 1951
Corrections:
Name: Jesse Franklin Root
Birth - Lewistown, Montana
Father - Lincoln Horace Root
During WW I, Jesse was hit in the head by a shell fragment and later said he had a steel plate in his head. He told me that it bothered him (hurt) and he was afraid he would hurt one of his family if he stayed, so he left them. He deserted his wife Margaret and their three children. Margaret waited for Jesse for several years, but she finally divorced him and eventually moved on with her life. In 1945 she married his brother, Monroe Root. Jesse and Margaret's children have regarded Monroe as their father.
Source: Barbara Jean Root Murphy, Niece
After spending many years in and out of VA care, Jesse died on "July 12th at 3-15 oclock," in 1951, at the Camp White VA Hospital in Jackson County, near Medford, Oregon. Source: Lincoln H. Root, Father
Services for Jesse Frank Root, 59, who died at Camp White Thursday, will be held in Conger-Morris Chapel Monday at 9:30 a.m. with Chaplain L.H. Camp officiating. Committal will be in Central Point Cemetery.
Mr. Root was born Nov. 18, 1891, in Lewtown, Mont., the son of the late Horace L. and Katie Root. He was a veteran of World War I, serving from June 27, 1918 to May 22, 1919, as a private, Company "C," 302nd field signal battalion.
He is survived by three children, Louella, Lenora, and Frank, all of Walla Walla, Wash.,a sister, Mrs. Edna M. Hawley, Shady Cove; and five brothers, George F., Walla Walla; Lloyd, Crescent City, Cal., William, Central Point; Monroe, Walla Walla, and Horace, Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune
July 15, 1951
Corrections:
Name: Jesse Franklin Root
Birth - Lewistown, Montana
Father - Lincoln Horace Root
During WW I, Jesse was hit in the head by a shell fragment and later said he had a steel plate in his head. He told me that it bothered him (hurt) and he was afraid he would hurt one of his family if he stayed, so he left them. He deserted his wife Margaret and their three children. Margaret waited for Jesse for several years, but she finally divorced him and eventually moved on with her life. In 1945 she married his brother, Monroe Root. Jesse and Margaret's children have regarded Monroe as their father.
Source: Barbara Jean Root Murphy, Niece
After spending many years in and out of VA care, Jesse died on "July 12th at 3-15 oclock," in 1951, at the Camp White VA Hospital in Jackson County, near Medford, Oregon. Source: Lincoln H. Root, Father
Jesse Root
Services for Jesse Frank Root, 59, who died at Camp White Thursday, will be held in Conger-Morris Chapel Monday at 9:30 a.m. with Chaplain L.H. Camp officiating. Committal will be in Central Point Cemetery.
Mr. Root was born Nov. 18, 1891, in Lewtown, Mont., the son of the late Horace L. and Katie Root. He was a veteran of World War I, serving from June 27, 1918 to May 22, 1919, as a private, Company "C," 302nd field signal battalion.
He is survived by three children, Louella, Lenora, and Frank, all of Walla Walla, Wash.,a sister, Mrs. Edna M. Hawley, Shady Cove; and five brothers, George F., Walla Walla; Lloyd, Crescent City, Cal., William, Central Point; Monroe, Walla Walla, and Horace, Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune
July 15, 1951
Corrections:
Name: Jesse Franklin Root
Birth - Lewistown, Montana
Father - Lincoln Horace Root
During WW I, Jesse was hit in the head by a shell fragment and later said he had a steel plate in his head. He told me that it bothered him (hurt) and he was afraid he would hurt one of his family if he stayed, so he left them. He deserted his wife Margaret and their three children. Margaret waited for Jesse for several years, but she finally divorced him and eventually moved on with her life. In 1945 she married his brother, Monroe Root. Jesse and Margaret's children have regarded Monroe as their father.
Source: Barbara Jean Root Murphy, Niece
After spending many years in and out of VA care, Jesse died on "July 12th at 3-15 oclock," in 1951, at the Camp White VA Hospital in Jackson County, near Medford, Oregon. Source: Lincoln H. Root, Father
Services for Jesse Frank Root, 59, who died at Camp White Thursday, will be held in Conger-Morris Chapel Monday at 9:30 a.m. with Chaplain L.H. Camp officiating. Committal will be in Central Point Cemetery.
Mr. Root was born Nov. 18, 1891, in Lewtown, Mont., the son of the late Horace L. and Katie Root. He was a veteran of World War I, serving from June 27, 1918 to May 22, 1919, as a private, Company "C," 302nd field signal battalion.
He is survived by three children, Louella, Lenora, and Frank, all of Walla Walla, Wash.,a sister, Mrs. Edna M. Hawley, Shady Cove; and five brothers, George F., Walla Walla; Lloyd, Crescent City, Cal., William, Central Point; Monroe, Walla Walla, and Horace, Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune
July 15, 1951
Corrections:
Name: Jesse Franklin Root
Birth - Lewistown, Montana
Father - Lincoln Horace Root
During WW I, Jesse was hit in the head by a shell fragment and later said he had a steel plate in his head. He told me that it bothered him (hurt) and he was afraid he would hurt one of his family if he stayed, so he left them. He deserted his wife Margaret and their three children. Margaret waited for Jesse for several years, but she finally divorced him and eventually moved on with her life. In 1945 she married his brother, Monroe Root. Jesse and Margaret's children have regarded Monroe as their father.
Source: Barbara Jean Root Murphy, Niece
After spending many years in and out of VA care, Jesse died on "July 12th at 3-15 oclock," in 1951, at the Camp White VA Hospital in Jackson County, near Medford, Oregon. Source: Lincoln H. Root, Father
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