William V. Smithpeter 

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165th Depot Brigade, 74th Company - Camp Travis Detachment #2

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William Van Smithpeter - Fort Cobb, Oklahoma

Army Rank: Private (1918).

Assigned Unit: 165th Depot Brigade, 74th Company

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Inducted:

Army Discharge: Eternal Watch

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – KIA

   Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

   Address: Fort Cobb, Oklahoma (1916)

   Address: Willow Township, Caddo County, Oklahoma (1910)

Fathers Name: William Gatha Smithpeter

  (b. March 18, 1860 Cobbs Creek, TN)(d. June 21, 1936 Geary, OK)

Mothers Name: Estella Hesteline Kite

  (b. Feb. 23, 1863 Johnson County, TN)(d. Feb. 11, 1950 Geary, OK)

    Married: Feb. 9, 1881 Johnson County, TN)

Brothers: Oliver, Robert, Dewey, Elbert, and Delmar Smithpeter

Sisters: Laura & Iris Smithpeter

Born: March 8, 1892, Rockvale, Colorado

Died: Feb. 5, 1918 KIA at Sea, Coast of Scotland

   Buried at the Mull of Oa, Feb. 8, 1918

   Body exhumed and relocated to America, 1920 or sometime after

Cemetery: ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

Plot: SITE 1015

   

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