NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC - OBITUARUES - Joseph Murdock Loftin, 28 Dec 1916
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KILLED IN BELGIUM - News has been received by relatives in the city of the 
dath of Mr. Joseph Murdock Loftin, a member of the Canadian Casualty Clearing 
Station No. 2, who was accidentally killed on December 28, while serving with 
the Canadian troops in Belgium.  Mr. Loftin was born at Kenansville and was 
41 years old.  He is survived by his mothr, Mrs. Anne Elizabeth Pearsall 
Loftin, and the following brotghers and sisters:  Mrs. T. R. Ames, of this 
city, and Mrs. J. E. Johnson, of Fair Bluff, and Messrs. J. P., I. C. and S. 
E. Loftin.  On Sunday, when the news of Mr. Loftin's death was learned here, 
Rotarian T. R. Ames communicated with Rotarian Magnussen, in Ottawa, Canada, 
and within six hours received the information that Mr. Loftin was buried at 
Lijssenhoeck cemetery at Poperingbe, Belgium.  This information was secured 
from the Canadian War Office.  Wilmington Dispatch, March 21, 1917.  

Joseph Murdock Loftin was the son of Dr. Ila Croom Major Loftin and Anne 
Elizabeth Pearsall.  Joseph Murdock Loftin and Daisey McIntyre were married 
in Wilmington on December 26, 1901.