Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....McClanahan, Thomas 1918
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Payette Enterprise 10-17-1918
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, October 17, 1918

THOMAS McCLANAHAN DIES ON BATTLEFIELD

Horrors of War Again come Home to Payette People

A telegram was received last Saturday by A. I. McClanahan, announcing the 
death of their son Thomas who was killed in action on the battlefield in 
France September 23rd. Thus another Payette boy had made the supreme sacrifice 
for his country and freedom for the world.

Tom was 23 years old and a graduate from the Payette High School in 1915. He 
had lived in Payette almost all his life and had many friends and intimate 
associates who will learn of his death with sadness yet proud to know that he 
was a true American and died a hero fighting for the greatest cause the world 
has ever known. He was a volunteer in the service, leaving Payette April 26th, 
1918, and enlisted at Brighton, Colorado, going from there to Camp Funston, 
and sailed for Europe about June 10, landing in England June 20th. He was a 
private in a Machine Gun Battalion. His older brother Ross, is now First 
Lieutenant at Camp Fremont, California. The Enterprise joins with the entire 
community in extending to the bereaved family their heartfelt sympathy, and 
share with them a degree of pride that another gold star will be placed on the 
service flag in memory and in honor of another Payette son who has surrendered 
his life that the world might live in freedom and peace.

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