Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mathis, John D. June 6, 1918
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The Butler Herald, June 20, 1918
The Butler Herald
Thursday, June 20, 1918
Page Two

Lieut. Mathis Of Americus Killed

Americus, June 16 – The War Department today officially notified Dr. and Mrs.
Evan T. Mathis of the death June 6th of their son, Lieut. John D. Mathis, who
was killed in action in France.  He is the first of the Americus soldiers to
give up his life for his country on the battlefields of Europe and profound
sorrow has been caused by announcement of his fate.

His brother, Lieut. Evan T. Mathis, Jr., also is in France, having gone over
several months after Lieut. John Mathis, who was one of the first large party of
American officers sent to France early in the war to study European methods of
warfare.  He was a graduate of the first officers’ training school at Fort
McPherson and a young man of splendid business qualifications, being a member of
one of the most prominent families in this section.


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