OBIT: Elmer Elwood MONG, 1919, of Altoona, Blair County, PA

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ALTOONA SOLDIER BOY DIES AT CAMP HANCOCK

Sergeant Elmer E. Mong Succumbs to Pneumonia on Tuesday Night

  Sergeant Elmer Elwood Mong, former member of the Sheridan troop, died 
Tuesday evening at 6:15 o'clock at the military hospital at Camp Hancock, Ga., 
of pneumonia, according to a telegram received by the parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles C. Mong, of 112 Ninth street.
  He was born at Warriors Mark, Huntingdon county, and was 25 years old last 
July.  He was a resident of this city since 1913, and was employed on the 
Middle division as fireman, but was prior to that employed as a plumber by 
Elway & Chamberlain.  At the camp he was in charge of the plumbing work.
  He is survived by the following brothers and sisters, besides the parents: 
Ida May, a student nurse at the Bellefonte hospital; Corporal Daniel L. Mong, 
located at Long Branch, N.J.; Eleanor and Paul, at home.  He was a member of 
the Eighth avenue Methodist church and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen 
and Engineers.  The remains will be brought to this city about Saturday.

Altoona Tribune, Thursday, January 9, 1919, page 10

MILITARY FUNERAL FOR SERGEANT MONG

All Service Men With Uniforms Requested to Meet This Afternoon at 112 Ninth 
Street

  Full military honors will be accorded the late Sergeant Elmer E. Mong, a 
former member of the Sheridan troop and who died last Tuesday at Camp Hancock, 
Ga., this afternoon when his funeral takes place from his late home 112 Ninth 
street.  The cortege, with an escort of soldiers, will leave the house at 2 
o'clock and proceed to Eighth avenue Methodist Episcopal church where services 
will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock.  Interment will be made in Oak Ridge 
cemetery.
  Captain McKinney, of the Sheridan troop, of Tyrone, has notified the family of 
the deceased soldier boy, that men of the command will come to the city to act 
as an honorary escort.  Members of the troop will officiate as pall bearers.  
All service men in the city and vicinity are invited to attend.

Altoona Tribune, Monday, January 13, 1919, page 2

SERGEANT MONG BURIED.

Soldier Boys Are Pall Bearers and Sheridan Troopers Act as Escort

  Sergeant Elmer E. Mong, a soldier of Altoona who died at Camp Hancock, was 
laid to rest in Oak Ridge cemetery yesterday afternoon with all the honors of 
war.  He gave his life to his country, in whose army he was when taken down with 
pneumonia at the southern camp.
  The cortege left the late home, 112 Ninth street, at 2 o'clock with these 
Sheridan Troopers of Tyrone acting as a military escort: Sergeant Major Ruggles, 
Sergeant Johnson, Corporal Candy, Corporal Cody, Privates Meredith, Little, Reed 
and Rothenberger, and proceeded to the Eighth Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, 
where services were conducted.  The auditorium was filled to its capacity with 
relatives and friends and members of the church, of which he was a highly 
esteemed member.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday, January 14, 1919, page 7