OBIT: Chester PARSONS, 1918, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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PARSONS.

  Chester Parsons died at the Altoona hospital yesterday morning at 
6.50 o'clock, death being caused by pneumonia.  While engaged in a sham 
battle on the battlefield at Gettysburg early in the year, he was 
injured and never fully recovered.  He served at Fort Niagara, in Texas 
and on the Mexican border early in 1917.  He was injured at Gettysburg 
when the artillery wagon he was riding was disabled when one of the 
mules fell.  The soldier sustained a kidney ailment [sic].  He was born 
in this city on July 4, 1896, the son of Harry and Sallie J. Parsons of 
314 Maple avenue, and since leaving the army was employed as a yard 
brakeman for the Pennsy.  Surviving are seven brothers and two sisters, 
as follows: Howard of Altoona, Ira in the aviation corps at St. Paul, 
Oscar, William Raymond, Harry and George E., all at home, Mrs. Jessie 
Stackhouse of Altoona and Ruth at home.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, December 5, 1918