OBIT: David H. SLAGLE, 1918, native of Blair County, PA

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D. H. SLAGLE GIVES LIFE FOR COUNTRY

  Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Slagle of 800 Willow avenue received a 
telegram yesterday from the War Department announcing the death of 
their son, David H. Slagle, Company F, One Hundred and Eleventh 
Infantry of the Twenty-eight division, in France on Sept. 6
  David was a private in Company F and was associated with the same 
division of which Company G, 110th infantry is a part, and probably 
took part in the action in which the entire division was engaged.  He 
left for Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va., on Feb. 23, 1918, and was later 
removed to Camp Hancock, where he was made a member of the company with 
which he was fighting when he made the supreme sacrifice.
  From Camp Hancock, he went to Camp Upton, and from there went 
overseas in April.  He had seen several months of active service.  
Before entering the service, he was a florist in Pittsburgh and had a 
store in Homestead.  He had been in Pittsburgh for the past eight 
years.  Prior to that time he was employed in this city by Myers 
Brothers.  He was a member of the First Methodist church and after 
moving his home to Pittsburgh, had his membership transferred to that 
city.
  David H. Slagle was born in this city on Dec. 15, 1891, and [is 
survived by] his parents and the following brothers and sisters, Mrs. 
Alice Soyster of Lakemont Terrace, Wilbur H., Mrs. Florence Hadleman 
and Mrs. Elsie Davis, all of this city, Miss Ethyl and Joseph, at home, 
Mrs. Lulu Pegg of Pilu? Island, Canada, and Mrs. Katherine Querry of 
Calvin, Huntingdon county.

Altoona Times, Saturday Morning, October 5, 1918