Official word has been received here of the death of Floyd B. Huffman of Waynesburg, a member of Co. K, 110th Reg., which occurred in France, August 23, from wounds received August 22. His grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Phillips were informed about three weeks ago by the War Department that he had been wounded.
Floyd Huffman had lived practically all his life with his grandparents here, his mother, Mrs. Ida Phillips Jackson, residing at Mannington, W. Va. He would have been 21 years of age Sept. 27, 1918, had he survived. He had graduated from the Waynesburg high school in 1917 and enlisted in Co. K. He is the second one of that class to give up his life for the great cause of freedom. Seven of the class went with Co. K to France.
He was a most exemplary young man, kind-hearted, bright, cheerful in disposition and won the friendship of all his acquaintances. He was always kind and considerate to his grandparents and never spoke a harsh word to them in his life. Upon leaving home for service in the war he said to them that "he hoped to return, but that if he did not he would cheerfully give his life for the cause." The example of such young men as he is worth much to a nation. He is the eighteenth young man from Greene county to make the supreme sacrifice on the battle-front in France.
Floyd Huffman had lived practically all his life with his grandparents here, his mother, Mrs. Ida Phillips Jackson, residing at Mannington, W. Va. He would have been 21 years of age Sept. 27, 1918, had he survived. He had graduated from the Waynesburg high school in 1917 and enlisted in Co. K. He is the second one of that class to give up his life for the great cause of freedom. Seven of the class went with Co. K to France.
He was a most exemplary young man, kind-hearted, bright, cheerful in disposition and won the friendship of all his acquaintances. He was always kind and considerate to his grandparents and never spoke a harsh word to them in his life. Upon leaving home for service in the war he said to them that "he hoped to return, but that if he did not he would cheerfully give his life for the cause." The example of such young men as he is worth much to a nation. He is the eighteenth young man from Greene county to make the supreme sacrifice on the battle-front in France.
Official word has been received here of the death of Floyd B. Huffman of Waynesburg, a member of Co. K, 110th Reg., which occurred in France, August 23, from wounds received August 22. His grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Phillips were informed about three weeks ago by the War Department that he had been wounded.
Floyd Huffman had lived practically all his life with his grandparents here, his mother, Mrs. Ida Phillips Jackson, residing at Mannington, W. Va. He would have been 21 years of age Sept. 27, 1918, had he survived. He had graduated from the Waynesburg high school in 1917 and enlisted in Co. K. He is the second one of that class to give up his life for the great cause of freedom. Seven of the class went with Co. K to France.
He was a most exemplary young man, kind-hearted, bright, cheerful in disposition and won the friendship of all his acquaintances. He was always kind and considerate to his grandparents and never spoke a harsh word to them in his life. Upon leaving home for service in the war he said to them that "he hoped to return, but that if he did not he would cheerfully give his life for the cause." The example of such young men as he is worth much to a nation. He is the eighteenth young man from Greene county to make the supreme sacrifice on the battle-front in France.
Floyd Huffman had lived practically all his life with his grandparents here, his mother, Mrs. Ida Phillips Jackson, residing at Mannington, W. Va. He would have been 21 years of age Sept. 27, 1918, had he survived. He had graduated from the Waynesburg high school in 1917 and enlisted in Co. K. He is the second one of that class to give up his life for the great cause of freedom. Seven of the class went with Co. K to France.
He was a most exemplary young man, kind-hearted, bright, cheerful in disposition and won the friendship of all his acquaintances. He was always kind and considerate to his grandparents and never spoke a harsh word to them in his life. Upon leaving home for service in the war he said to them that "he hoped to return, but that if he did not he would cheerfully give his life for the cause." The example of such young men as he is worth much to a nation. He is the eighteenth young man from Greene county to make the supreme sacrifice on the battle-front in France.
