Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Harcum, Joseph C., 1918 

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JOSEPH CLIFTON HARCUM

FRANKLIN BOY KILLED

IN BATTLE IN FRANCE

     Intelligence was received here last week of the death on the battlefield 
of Jos. C. Harcum, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Harcum of this community. 
The telegram was an official message from the Government bearing the sad news 
to his wife and parents that this Southampton boy had paid with his life his 
offering for Liberty over there, his death occurring on August 8.  While their 
friends sympathize with them deeply, they feel at the same time that a 
glorious privilege is theirs to give their loved one in the great cause for 
which America fights today, and his honorable death will ever remain 
perpetuated in the annals of the county as our first to die in action for his 
country.  He is also survived by his young wife, who is the daughter of Mr. 
Samuel Carr of Isle of Wight and a brother, William Emory Harcum, is now with 
the American Expeditionary Forces in France. 

     The war is beginning to come home to us in Southampton, recent dispatches 
telling for the death by pneumonia in France on September 16, of Leonard Cobb 
Brittle, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Brittle of Ivor; the death by 
pneumonia on September 14 in France of Allen Drake of the Statesville 
community, and this week we publish the distressing news that Corporal G. 
Herbert Yates of Courtland has been missing since September 14.  Besides these 
fatalities, Rev. and Mrs. J. L. McCutcheon of Franklin have been advised that 
their son, Captain Royal H. McCutcheon of the Medical Corps, was gassed on 
September 10, although he is improving now in a convalescent camp, and Mr. and 
Mrs. J. A. Jackson of this town were recently advised that their son, Corporal 
Edgar B. Jackson, had been slightly wounded in action, while there are 
probably other casualties which have not come to the attention of this paper. 


Joseph Clifton HARCUM, 
   b. 21 May 1889, Southampton Co., KIA 8 Aug 1918, France; 
Leonard Cobb BRITTLE, of Ivor, d. (pneumonia) 16 Sep 1918, France; 
Allen F. DRAKE, of Statesville, d. (pneumonia) 14 Sep 1918, France; 
G. Herbert YATES, of Courtland, MIA 14 Sep 1918, France; 
Royal H. MCCUTCHEON, WIA (gassed)  10 Sep 1918, France; 
Edgar B. JACKSON, WIA (slight) 1918, France; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 18, 1918 


Additional information: 

*Joseph has a cenotaph in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery, near Carrsville. 
   Beaver Dam list (BC-39 & -30) - an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

His widow remarried 14 Jun 1925, to widower Lloyd M. BYRD. 
   They are buried in Olive Branch Cemetery (C-090), Portsmouth. 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 4, 1938, p. 5) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h625w1ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 18, 1939, p. 5), 
   with their marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h625a1ob.txt 

They are buried in Sycamore Baptist Church Cemetery (Row 4, Plot 33). 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-39): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

His brother Emory's obit ("Virginian-Pilot," Dec. 28, 1968) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h625w2ob.txt 


L. Cobb BRITTLE's obits ("Tidewater News," Oct. 4, 1918, p. 6; Nov. 15, 1918, 
   p. 2) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b34l1ob.txt 
   He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. 

Allen F. DRAKE is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Newsoms.
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
   Hollywood list (N-24):
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Carol Stevens, 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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