Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stewart, George E. 1900
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The Belding Banner, Thursday, March 1, 1900

The remains of George E. Stewart, the soldier boy who gave up his life in the 
Philippines, arrived in this city last week, Thursday.  He was a member of Co. 
B, Twenty-second United States Infantry, and had served in the Cuban as well 
as the Philippine war.  He was shot March 13, near Guadelape, and was buried 
there until, through the efforts of his brother William, also a member of the 
same regiment, it was taken up and encased in a fine casket and started on its 
long journey to this city.

It was proposed to hold a military funeral Tuesday, under the auspices of the 
G.A.R. and the Cuban soldier boys, but this movement was thwarted by the 
authorities acting under the advice of the board of health insisting upon 
immediate burial, and the interment was accordingly made Saturday.  It looks 
very strange that such haste was necessary.  His death occurred nearly one 
year ago, the remains were properly cared for and shipped 10,000 miles, only 
to be hustled out of the way like a dead dog.  It seems like a shameful 
proceeding.  

Besides the brother William spoken of above, who is now at Hot Springs, Ark., 
and is expected to return about May 10th, he leaves his parents and four 
sisters.  Two of the sisters, Edith and Alice, are employed in Belding Bros. & 
Co.’s silk mill in this city and the parents live at Westville, his father 
being an invalid.  He was 29 years of age.



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