Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Frank Crenshaw August 28 1900
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The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia, August 31, 1900

Frank Crenshaw Dies of Wounds

Frank F. Crenshaw, of this county, captain of Company A, Twenty-eighth Regiment 
of United States Volunteer Infantry, died at the Cooper Elkin sanitarium in 
Atlanta Tuesday morning at 7:30 o’clock. Saturday afternoon last he was 
operated upon by Drs. Cooper and Elkin for a wound received in the head while 
leading his company against the insurgents in the Philippines about two months 
ago. The friends of the deceased officer are confident that his death was 
caused by neglect en route to San Francisco and after he had reached that city. 
Captain Crenshaw himself told the story in Atlanta of his treatment on board 
the transport Sherman and there was great indignation among those who heard it.

Captain Crenshaw had been recommended for promotion and the papers which would 
have made him a major were in course of preparation at the time of his death. 
His death has caused much sorrow as he had many friends everywhere. He was 
twenty-eight years of age.

He was married in 1890 to Miss Julia Eppinger of Molena and she and their four 
children survive him.

No young Georgian who went to fight the battles of his country served with more 
distinction either during the Spanish American War or against the Philippines 
than did Captain Crenshaw. He had received a military training at Bingham, N.C. 
and after leaving the school, kept up with the changes in tactics.

During June 1898, he was given the commission of a lieutenant for service 
against Spain and was assigned to the Third United States Volunteer Infantry, 
of which Col. Patrick Henry Ray was commander. He served in Cuba and there, was 
sunstruck which caused him to remain in the hospital many weeks although he did 
not seek a discharge, he was mustered out with the regiment. When the Twenty-
eighth was being organized last year, he was appointed to a captaincy by 
President McKinley  and was assigned to Company A. He was at Camp Meade, Pa., 
and from there went with his command to the Philippines. He arrived there last 
November and thirty minutes after the command had landed it was on the firing 
line.

Captain Crenshaw’s company was fighting almost continually. Once while acting 
as Major, his horse was shot from under him, another time his belt was severed 
by a bullet and upon several other occasions he had very narrow escapes.

He had been mentioned for gallantry in the report of Colonel Birkheimer, the 
commander of the Twenty-eighth, several times.

The body of Captain Crenshaw was embalmed by Undertaker Patterson and the 
casket containing the remains was transferred to the State house, where they 
remained until Wednesday afternoon when they were carried to LaGrange and 
interred with Masonic and military honors.

(Transcribed 09/30/03 Lynn Cunningham)

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