1929 Obituary of U.S. Marine Grady Watson of Wilhite, Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Sharon Ray, 12/2005

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1929 Obituary of U.S. Marine Grady Watson of Wilhite, Union Parish Louisiana

From the Monroe "News-Star", issue of 7 September 1929
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                      Body of Union Parish Marine Arrives Here 

The body of Grady Watson, United States marine killed in action in Nicaragua on 
December 30, 1927, arrived in Monroe this morning from the east over the Illinois 
Central railroad. Corporal B. M. Cox acted as military escort from Nicaragua to 
this city. Relatives and friends met the body at the station here and it was conveyed 
to the home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Watson, in Wilhite, Union Parish. The 
funeral is to be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock in Wilhite cemetery. 
Young Watson was killed from ambush while preceding the main body of troop in hunting 
for Sandino insurgents. Burial was made temporarily in a cemetery in Nicaragua. 
Corporal Cox stated that the body was taken on the U.S.S. Henderson from Nicaragua 
to Quantico, Va. From which place it was sent direct by rail to Monroe. Members of the 
immediate family include beside the parents, two brothers and one sister who are as 
follows: Vaughn and E.J. Watson and Miss Daisy Watson, all of Union Parish. 



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