Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Rhoads, John Webster 1918
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Payette Enterprise 6-13-1918
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, June 13, 1918

LIEUT. JOHN W. RHOADS REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION

Effects of War Coming Home -- Lieut. Rhoads Killed On April 27 --Parents 
receive Telegram

At last we are brought face to face with the sad intelligence of the first of 
our boys surrender his life for his country. It brings home to the people of 
this community the realization that our boys are now facing the cruel and 
inhuman Huns. That they are true Americans, willing to face death in defense 
of democracy and freedom. Webster Rhoads, who was a son of Mr. and Mrs. George 
W.. Rhoads of Payette, enlisted in company I five years ago when but seventeen 
years old, and went with his company to the Mexican border in the summer of 
1916, and to Boise in April 1917, where the Company was mustered into the 
service of the National Government. After going to training camp he was 
commissioned to Second Lieutenant and assigned to another detachment which 
left for France in January, 1918. The news of his death came last Monday, and 
was very meager -- just a message to his parents stating he was officially 
reported killed in action April 27th. Further particulars will undoubtedly be 
received later. Mr. and Mrs. Rhoads, who have two more sons at the front have 
the deepest sympathy of a large circle of friends, who share with them a hope 
that Web may yet be alive and only missing in the strange confusion that war 
brings. 

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