OBIT: Maurice B. WILLIAMS, 1918, Newburg, Blair County, PA

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M. B. WILLIAMS VICTIM OF WAR

  Mr. and Mrs. James R. Williams of Newburg have received a message 
from the war department that their son, Maurice B. Williams, was 
reported killed in action on Sept. 27.
  The telegram announcing the death was received here on Nov. 9 but was 
not delivered for several days owing to the incorrect names and wrong 
address.
  The Washington message was addressed to Mrs. James L. Williams of Box 
No. 179, Altoona R.D. No. 2, and the soldier's middle name given as P. 
instead of B.  The correct rural route box of the family is No. 196.
  Members of the family, unable to believe that their son and brother 
lost his life in action, have telegraphed to Washington for additional 
information, a brother today writing to the unit in France for further 
details.  The parents heard from their son during October, the message 
at that time being written on Red Cross stationery and enclosed in a 
Red Cross envelope, the parents being under the impression that he was 
then in a hospital wounded.  A letter dated Oct. 14 and written by 
William Cromer "over there" to the family stated that Maurice was in 
good health.
  Maurice B. Williams was a member of Company G, the Blair unit in the 
110th regiment, and was assigned to scout duty.  He enlisted in Altoona 
in July, 1917, and was formerly employed by Contractor Charles Singiser 
in constructing the Strand theatre.
  He was born 21 years ago, the son of James R. and Mary D. Williams 
and is survived by five brothers and one sister, as follows: Claude of 
1208 Sixteenth street, J. L. of South Altoona, W. H. of Picture, Okla., 
Grover L. of 1633 1/2 Union avenue and C. R. of this city and Mrs. 
Maude Gates of Dry Gap.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Morning, November 14, 1918

Note: Maurice B. Williams' death is recorded in Hauslee's Soldiers of 
the Great War, which is online here -
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/military/ww1/haulsee/wwi.html