Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Chester Adam MILLER, 1940

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Chester Adam Miller obituary
 
 
Coatesville Record, June 17,1940

"Chester Adam Miller, a World War veteran who saw service 
overseas and was wounded in action three times, died 
yesterday at his home, 363 South First avenue, in his 52nd 
year. Death was due to a complication of ills from which he 
had been suffering for more than a year and a half. For some 
time past his condition had been serious.

     After having been exempted from war service, Mr.Miller 
decided to go anyhow  and he joined the regular army early 
in the struggle. After a period of intensive training in this 
country he sailed for France with his outfit in April, 1918. 
He was attached to the 18th company, 154th depot brigade and 
was a member of Company C, 14th machine gun battalion.

  He took part in the battle of St. Mihiel salient and was 
wounded three times. The first two wounds did not put him out 
of action, but after receiving the third wound in the hand he 
was sent to the hospital and was out of action for the rest of 
the war. He was one of the first Coatesville boys wounded in 
action to return to his home.

   Mr.Miller was a son of the late John S. and Rachel R. McNelly 
Miller and was born in Lancaster county, but he had spent the 
most of his life in Coatesville. For many years he was employed 
in the flanging department of the Lukens Steel company. He was 
compelled to give up his work on account of ill health in 
December,1938.

    He was a member of the Grace United Brethren church of this 
city. He also belonged to Sahler-Sedan Post, Veterans of Foreign 
Wars, which will honor his memory with a military funeral. The 
services will take place at the Grace U.B. churfch on Thursday 
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Fairview cemetery. 
Friends have been invited to call at his home on Wednesday evening.

    Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Mary M. Donnelly Miller; two 
daughters, Dorothy and Eleanor, at home; four sisters and three 
brothers asa follows: Mrs. Elizabeth R. Marshall and Mrs. Charles 
Davis, of Compass; Mrs. Elwood Zell, of Coatesville; Harry A. 
Miller, of Sparrow's Point; William R. Miller,Coatesville; Mrs. 
Carrie C. Woodward, Compass, and J.Willis Miller, Altoona."




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