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Edgar Carl Barnes - Ranger, Texas
Army Rank:
Private (1918).
Assigned Unit:
357th Infantry, Machine Gun Company
Army Serial Number:
Inducted:
Army Discharge:
Eternal Watch
Remarks:
Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – KIA
Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918
Fathers Name:
James Ephriam Barnes
(b. Nov. 10, 1846 Walton, Florida) (d. Dec. 31, 1922 Ranger,
Texas)
Mothers Name:
Nancy Jane Yates
(b. Oct. 24, 1856 Mississippi) (d. Oct. 1923 Ranger, Texas)
Brothers:
Thomas, George, Ephriam, John, Wesley, Aron, Evan, Martin, Alfonzo, and
Emery Barnes
Sisters:
Martha & Ellen Barnes
Civilian Occupation:
Born:
July 2, 1892 Ranger, Texas
Died:
Feb. 5,
1918 at sea, Scottish Coast (age 25)
Buried at Port Charlotte, Islay February
8, 1918
Body exhumed and relocated to America;
1920 or thereafter
Cemetery:
Bullock Cemetery (Ranger, Texas)
Plot:
unknown
Edgar Carl Barnes was my grandmother's
brother. His grave is in the Bullock Cemetery in Ranger, Texas
Colbert L. Dupree
February 1, 2007 |
