Obituary of Harry Talmadge Jeffords, Baker County, Oregon
Surnames: Jeffords, Page

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Eagle Valley News; Richland, OR; 17 Oct 1918

DIES IN SERVICE

Again we are calle dupon to chroncile the death of one of our "home boys"
serving under the Stars and Stripes in the war for world democracy but who had
not yet reached the battle front.

Word reached here about two weeks ago that Harry Jeffords was ill but getting
along nicely. On the 6th inst. a telegram announced that he had pneumonia,
later messages state that his condition was serious but not hopeless, but on
last Saturday evening the message came that he passed away at 3:25 p.m. on
October 12th.

Harry Talmadge Jeffords was born Decmeber 19, 1897, at Mt. Vernon, Lawrence
county, Mo., and in 1903 came to Eagle Valley with his parents and other
members of the family, residing near Richland untila few years ago when the
family moved to a ranch near West Lookout. On Sept. 5th, with his brother Wm.
Page, entered army service; both were assigned to 27th Co., 166 D.P. at Camp
Lewis and remained there until a few weeks ago they were transferred with
others to Camp Fremont, Calif.

He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Jeffords, who with four sisters and six
brothers, survive. A number of other relatives also reside in Baker county.

He was steady, honest and true a loyal American in ever sense of the word, and
his death was a sad blow to his parents and to his host of friends.

The funeral will be held at 1:30 on tomorrow (Friday) afternoon, at the Eagle
Valley cemetery, Rev. J. M. Johnson officating. It is expected that the people
of this community will turn out enmasse to do honor to the dead soldier,
health authorities having stated there would be little or no danger of
contracting "flu" in the open air under the present climatic conditions.