Harris-Troup County GaArchives History .....Telegram September 30, 1944 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kemis Massey sobbygenealogy@knology.net October 23, 2005, 11:02 am Book Title: WESTERN UNION RECEIVED AT Hamilton, Georgia Nov 22nd 1944 625 pm cwt MC WC 31 PAID GOVERNMENT WUX Washington DC 543 pm 22nd Mrs. Dora R Evans Rout 2 Hamilton, Ga. The Secretary of War desires me to express his deep regret that your Son Private First Class William B Evans was killed in action on Twelve November in Germany Letter follows. Witsell Actg The Adjutant General 625 pm cwt Additional Comments: According to Ivy EVANS the youngest of Jeff and Dora Rosamond EVANS children – when the telegraph arrived the gentleman at the office in Hamilton said he couldn’t deliver the telegraph to my grandmother so he sent word to my Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim went to the office, picked up the telegraph and went to his mothers. At that time it was Grandmamma, Aunt Ivy (who was still in school), Aunt Lurline and her son, Sonny (her husband was in the Army so she had moved back home) when he got there. Uncle Jim’s wife Aileen was pregnant at the time, Grandmamma thought something happened to the baby. When Uncle Jim told her the news that her oldest child was killed, she past out. Aunt Lurline started crying and Aunt Ivy was in total shock. William was born in raised in Harris County. He was buried in Shadowlawn Cemetery in Lagrange GA beside his dad. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/harris/history/other/telegram265ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb