Moved from Old Deport Cemetery 12 Aug 1950.
5-2-2018
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Find A Grave contributor, Veterans Researcher
Paris News
Wed., June 20, 1917
Pg. 4
BODY OF NAVY RECRUIT TO BE BURIED AT DEPORT
About three months ago Hugh Jackson, the son of W. H. Jackson, a former resident of Deport, who is now living in Clarksville, enlisted in the navy and was sent to Portsmouth, N. H. training school. About two weeks ago he started across the Atlantic for France with three hundred other naval recruits, but was taken sick on the vessel with meningitis before getting out of sight of land. The vessel put in shore and he was taken off and carried to a New York hospital, where he died last Friday from typhus fever. The body has been shipped back for burial at his old home and is expected to arrive today.
As the young man was living in Clarksville when he enlisted the patriotic people of that town were anxious to give him a soldier's burial and to confer special marks of honor on him. As the family had lived for years at Deport, however, it was their desire that the body be buried there; but in recognition of the claims of the Clarksville people it was agreed and arranged that the body should be shipped there and conveyed from Clarksville to Deport on an automobile truck, accompanied by a funeral party of Clarksville people in autos.
The deceased was twenty-one years old the second day of this month, was a young man of fine moral and Christian character and was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. He was sick only about ten days. The New York health officer wired the Clarksville health officer and the father of the young man not to permit the casket to be opened after the corpse arrived, as there was danger of the typhus from which he died proving contagious.
5-2-2018
Info. From:
Find A Grave contributor, Veterans Researcher
Paris News
Wed., June 20, 1917
Pg. 4
BODY OF NAVY RECRUIT TO BE BURIED AT DEPORT
About three months ago Hugh Jackson, the son of W. H. Jackson, a former resident of Deport, who is now living in Clarksville, enlisted in the navy and was sent to Portsmouth, N. H. training school. About two weeks ago he started across the Atlantic for France with three hundred other naval recruits, but was taken sick on the vessel with meningitis before getting out of sight of land. The vessel put in shore and he was taken off and carried to a New York hospital, where he died last Friday from typhus fever. The body has been shipped back for burial at his old home and is expected to arrive today.
As the young man was living in Clarksville when he enlisted the patriotic people of that town were anxious to give him a soldier's burial and to confer special marks of honor on him. As the family had lived for years at Deport, however, it was their desire that the body be buried there; but in recognition of the claims of the Clarksville people it was agreed and arranged that the body should be shipped there and conveyed from Clarksville to Deport on an automobile truck, accompanied by a funeral party of Clarksville people in autos.
The deceased was twenty-one years old the second day of this month, was a young man of fine moral and Christian character and was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. He was sick only about ten days. The New York health officer wired the Clarksville health officer and the father of the young man not to permit the casket to be opened after the corpse arrived, as there was danger of the typhus from which he died proving contagious.
Moved from Old Deport Cemetery 12 Aug 1950.
5-2-2018
Info. From:
Find A Grave contributor, Veterans Researcher
Paris News
Wed., June 20, 1917
Pg. 4
BODY OF NAVY RECRUIT TO BE BURIED AT DEPORT
About three months ago Hugh Jackson, the son of W. H. Jackson, a former resident of Deport, who is now living in Clarksville, enlisted in the navy and was sent to Portsmouth, N. H. training school. About two weeks ago he started across the Atlantic for France with three hundred other naval recruits, but was taken sick on the vessel with meningitis before getting out of sight of land. The vessel put in shore and he was taken off and carried to a New York hospital, where he died last Friday from typhus fever. The body has been shipped back for burial at his old home and is expected to arrive today.
As the young man was living in Clarksville when he enlisted the patriotic people of that town were anxious to give him a soldier's burial and to confer special marks of honor on him. As the family had lived for years at Deport, however, it was their desire that the body be buried there; but in recognition of the claims of the Clarksville people it was agreed and arranged that the body should be shipped there and conveyed from Clarksville to Deport on an automobile truck, accompanied by a funeral party of Clarksville people in autos.
The deceased was twenty-one years old the second day of this month, was a young man of fine moral and Christian character and was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. He was sick only about ten days. The New York health officer wired the Clarksville health officer and the father of the young man not to permit the casket to be opened after the corpse arrived, as there was danger of the typhus from which he died proving contagious.
5-2-2018
Info. From:
Find A Grave contributor, Veterans Researcher
Paris News
Wed., June 20, 1917
Pg. 4
BODY OF NAVY RECRUIT TO BE BURIED AT DEPORT
About three months ago Hugh Jackson, the son of W. H. Jackson, a former resident of Deport, who is now living in Clarksville, enlisted in the navy and was sent to Portsmouth, N. H. training school. About two weeks ago he started across the Atlantic for France with three hundred other naval recruits, but was taken sick on the vessel with meningitis before getting out of sight of land. The vessel put in shore and he was taken off and carried to a New York hospital, where he died last Friday from typhus fever. The body has been shipped back for burial at his old home and is expected to arrive today.
As the young man was living in Clarksville when he enlisted the patriotic people of that town were anxious to give him a soldier's burial and to confer special marks of honor on him. As the family had lived for years at Deport, however, it was their desire that the body be buried there; but in recognition of the claims of the Clarksville people it was agreed and arranged that the body should be shipped there and conveyed from Clarksville to Deport on an automobile truck, accompanied by a funeral party of Clarksville people in autos.
The deceased was twenty-one years old the second day of this month, was a young man of fine moral and Christian character and was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. He was sick only about ten days. The New York health officer wired the Clarksville health officer and the father of the young man not to permit the casket to be opened after the corpse arrived, as there was danger of the typhus from which he died proving contagious.
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