NEWS: Jesse MURRAY Dies of Wounds in France, 1918, of Roaring Spring, Blair County, PA

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ROARING SPRING'S FIRST GOLD STAR
Jesse Murray, of Rodman, One of First to Go Over, Dies for Freedom
HAD BEEN REPORTED AS WOUNDED

  Roaring Spring, September 9. - The first Roaring Spring young man to make 
the supreme sacrifice for universal liberty and democracy was Jesse Murray, 
only son of Mrs. Myrtle Shaffer, now living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
William Heuston, at Rodman, a village one mile north of this town.
  During the last week of July Mrs. Shaffer received a communication from 
Washington, D.C., stating her son, Jesse Murray, had been seriously injured 
on July 26.  On Saturday last Mrs. Shaffer again received a telegram from 
headquarters saying her son had died from wounds July 22.  There must have 
been some mistake concerning the date he was wounded, for the captain of his 
division wrote to Mrs. Shaffer and told her Jesse had died July 22.  She 
received the letter late Saturday evening.
  Jesse Murray was born and raised here, was one of the first to enlist and 
among those on the first transport to land in Europe, where he fought as a 
machine gunner under the Stars and Stripes.  He would have been 18 years old 
this month.  Rather young to face the horrors of this terrible war, but 
fought as valiantly and met death as bravely as the seasoned soldiers twice 
his age.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday, September 10, 1918, page 1