1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

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then sent on to the port of embarkation. It was at the time of the
breaking of the British front in France during the great spring drive
of the Germans. Shaughnessy was on the British front in May, 1918,
and in a Belgian sector. In June, he was in the Vosges Mountains.
He was at St. Mihiel September 12th and from September 26 to October
2 was in the terrible fighting in the Argonne Forest, and later
in the Meuse sector, five miles south of Verdun. He passed through
the terrible fighting without hurt, but while waiting for home orders,
he was taken sick and pneumonia developing he died at Base Hospital,
No. 9, Bazoilles, France, on February 7, 1919.
Willard Shea, of Eveleth, succumbed to pneumonia in an American
camp on September 25, 1918. His body was brought to Eveleth
for burial.
Joseph Shepatz was of Virginia, son of John Shepatz of that place.
James Shannon, of Virginia, had a distinguished military career.
He was the son of the late C. E. Shannon, of Duluth, and brother of
Mrs. Harry Sleepack. of 2419 East Fourth Street, and had passed
through West Point, having been appointed to that military academy
by Judge Page Morris, then congressman from this district. He
was killed in France in 1918, having attained the grade of lieutenantcolonel
and a place on the staff of General Pershing, in France.
George E. Sigel, who is listed as a volunteer from Virginia, was
a native of Duluth, born there on June 28, 1900. The family, however,
has lived in Virginia for many years, and the boy was in school there.
In fact, he volunteered in his senior high-school year and was graduated
by proxy, with seven others who received diplomas. He enlisted
on May 25, 1918, and became a member of Company B, One Hundred
and Twenty-sixth Engineers, with which regiment he went
overseas. He passed through the exciting latter half of 1918, but
in February, 1919, suffered from bronchitis, at Brest, France, from
which he never recovered. He returned to this country and was
sent to Fort Bayard, New Mexico, his lungs having become affected.
He died there on June 14, 1919, of tuberculosis. "A serious, rightliving,
clean-minded young man," Father J. O'Brien, army chaplain
at Fort Bayard testified of him.
Matt Smuky, who made the Supreme Sacrifice, lived in McKinley
before the war.
Mike Simney, of Duluth, was the son of Albert Simney, of 2631
West Fifth Street, Duluth, and was a member of the first detachment
of Duluth manhood called into service under the Selective
Draft. They left Duluth in September, 1917, for Camp Grant. Simney
eventually saw much service in France. He was in the Engineers
and on October 6, 1918, succumbed to wounds received in
action.
Otto Smuland, son of Christian Smuland. Bangsund, Namdalen,
Norway, and brother of Helmar Smuland, of 504 East Fourteenth
Street, Duluth. was in the fishery business at Isle Royale before he
was selected to give military service. He was twenty-eight years
old when enlisted on July 25, 1918, at Duluth. He left at once for
Camp Wadsworth, Spartansburg, South Carolina, and there was
assigned to an infantry regiment. He died at Camp Wadsworth in
August, 1918. Funeral services were held on .August 28. 1918, at
Bethesda Norwegian Lutheran Church, Duluth. following the return
of the body to Duluth under military escort.
Anthony Snider was of Tower, although, unfortunately, in(jre
regarding his life and military service is now not available.