Military: Legionnaires Memorials, Lincoln Parish, LA
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Ruston Daily Leader, Saturday, May 28, 1932

MEMORIALS OF LEGION TO BE HELD SUNDAY

Will Attend Methodist Church in Body Here Tomorrow Morning.
Hico at Three O'Clock.
Thirty-five graves of fallen comrades will be decorated.

Planning to attend Memorial services in a body at the Methodist Church tomorrow
morning, going to Hico in the afternoon for Memorial Services and decorating the
graves of veterans in the afternoon comprises the schedule of McFarland Post No.
2 American Legion for its Memorial Exercise this year.

The following graves will be decorated by the Legionnaires tomorrow.

DIED IN SERVICE

Elmo Andrews, Hilly, LA; John L. Beatty, Wesley Chapel; Emmett H. Colvin,
Vienna; Claude Enloe, Hico (Memorial service at his grave); Hubert Farmer,
Downsville; Roy Farmer, Downsville; Genie Gaar, Hico; Emmett K. Gibson, Vienna,
Lawrence E. Matthews, Ruston; A. L.  Hamlet, Douglas, Charlie Hollis, Simsboro;
William W. McFarland, Downsville ( McFarland Post named for) ; Edwin Parnell,
Sibley; Elton Richardson, Ruston; Howard E. Ware, Ruston; Howard O. White,
Ruston; Jackson A. Wright, Simsboro; Edwin McGhee, Ruston; Stewart Simonton,
Ruston.

DIED SINCE WORLD WAR

Edward J. Geiger, Choudrant; T. L. Brewster, Hopewell, C. E. Holstead, Douglas;
Andy A. Hedgepeth, Wilder Cemetery; John W. Saint, Saint Rest Cemetery; Henry
Bogler, Arat Cemetery, Elder Autly, Arat Cemetery, Dee Clinton, Ruston; Zack
Barnett, Harmony Chapel; W. P.  Lott, Ruston; John W. Gaskin, Vienna; Jim
Holstead, and George D. Hedgepeth, Cooktown.

SPANISH WAR VET DECEASED

Horace Knowles, Ruston, Bill Holland, Vienna, Nick Goff.