OBIT: Raymond B. McCOY, 1918, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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R. B. McCoy Was Killed on Battlefield

  Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McCoy of 104 Chestnut avenue received a message 
from the war department yesterday, stating that their son, Raymond B. 
McCoy had been killed in action on the battlefield in France.
  The telegram gives no information other than that the young man was 
killed in action on Oct. 14.  He was a member of Company L, 329th 
infantry.  He was among the Altoona boys who were sent to Camp Lee on 
May 27 and was only in training at that place about six weeks when he 
was sent overseas.
  The young man was born Jan. 8, 1895 at Cross Roads, Clearfield 
county, but had resided in Altoona for two years.  He had been employed 
as a brakeman by the railroad company.  He was a member of the Lutheran 
church of Juniata, the railroad relief, the Brotherhood of Trainmen and 
the P.O.S. of A. lodge at Blandburg.  Besides his parents he is 
survived by a brother, Myers McCoy of this city, and a sister, Mrs. L. 
H. Jones of Bradford City.
  The last letter received by the parents was written on Sept. 22.  
Among other things he stated that he was just getting ready to go to 
church.

Altoona Times, Tuesday Morning, November 26, 1918

DIED FACING FOE
Raymond B. McCoy, Killed at Cunel, France, October 14, Quit Himself 
Like a Man.

  A letter from Captain E. J. Rasch, of the 60th Infantry just received 
by the parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. I. L. McCoy of 104 Chestnut avenue, 
under date of January 21,1919, in reply to a letter of inquiry written 
by the parents on December 18, states that Private McCoy died fighting 
valiantly on October 14, at Cunel, France.
  He entered the service as a drafted man on May 27, 1918, going to 
Camp Lee, with a local contingent.  At the outstart he was made a 
member of Company L, 329th Infantry, but had been transferred to 
Company E, 60th U. S. Infantry, on October 1.

Altoona Tribune, Monday, February 24, 1919, page 10