Stephens County GaArchives Obituaries.....Simpson, Devereaux Patton November 5, 1918
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The Toccoa (GA) Record, Toccoa, GA, November 28, 1918
Devereaux Patton Simpson.
  On last Saturday morning an official message was received by Mr. and Mrs. W. 
C. Simpson, Sr., announcing the death of their son, Devereaux Patton, which 
occurred in a hospital in France, Nov. 5th. None of the details are known 
except that he died of pneumonia.
  Mr. Simpson enlisted May 16th, 1918, and was sent to the University of 
Georgia, Athens, where he entered an electrical engineering corps. After two 
months' training there, he was transferred to Camp Devens, Mass. Shortly 
afterward he was sent to New York, from which port he sailed the 8th of August.
  After arriving overseas, his parents received several letters from him, 
stating that he was well and was very comfortably situated in the town of 
Anbire, France, where he was in Battery B, 303rd Field Artillery at the time of 
his death.
  He was in his thirty-first year, just in the prime of his life, with such a 
bright future before him. But he made the supreme sacrifice on the altar of 
patriotism in giving his life for his country, which is the highest service 
that can possibly be rendered.
  Before entering the army he was business manager of the Albemarle Hotel, 
where he proved himself a genial host.
  He is survived by his parents, one sister, Mrs. Jim Thomson, Anderson, S.C., 
and by five brothers, Rev. John A. Simpson, pastor of the Presbyterian church 
of Commerce, Messrs. W. C. Jr. and Robert, of Atlanta, Frank, of the U.S. 
medical corps, stationed at Oswego, N.Y., and Charlie, who is with the American 
Expeditionary Forces in France. Another brother, Archie, died of pneumonia in 
an army hospital in Hoboken.
  And now the service flag which hangs at the entrance of the Albemarle Hotel 
has two gold stars and two blue.
  Their many friends extend deepest sympathy to the relatives in their great 
sorrow.

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