OBIT: Charles F. KING, 1931, Middlecreek Twp., Somerset County, PA

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CHARLES F. KING

Laid to Rest in National Shrine

Charles F. King's Last Wish, to Be Buried in Arlington, Realized

  In compliance with a last request found scribbled on a small sheet of white 
paper, the body of Charles F. King, of Middlecreek Township, who expired last 
Thursday afternoon at the Somerset Community Hospital, of pneumonia, was buried 
in Arlington National Cemetery, Wednesday morning.
  The body was prepared for burial by Mills & Mickey, Rockwood undertakers, and 
was shipped to Washington from their mortuary Tuesday night.
  Arriving in Washington, the casket was received by a detail of Regular Army 
soldiers and taken across the Potomac River to historic Arlington in which 
thousands of the Nation's dead have found sepulture.  It was a strictly military 
funeral.
  When Capt. Ernest O. Kooser learned that Mr. King had expressed a desire to be 
buried in Arlington, he immediately sought permission through the War Department 
of the Arlington Cemetery Commission by telegraph.  Later Capt. Kooser and 
Attorney Joseph Levy got in telephone communication with the War Department, and 
completed arrangements for the funeral.
  Charles F. King was a member of Company I, Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, and served under Capt. Kooser in the Spanish-American War, rising to 
the rank of Sergeant.  He was a member of Somerset Post Veterans of Foreign 
Wars.
  Sergeant King was 64 years old and unmarried.  He is survived by one brother, 
Jefferson King, of Middlecreek Township.  Sergeant King was widely known as one 
of Somerset County's most officient school teachers.  He was teacher of the 
Philson School, Northampton Township, the last two years.

Meyersdale Republican, April 23, 1931