ADKINS, Ben H.

ADKINS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 6/3/2006 at 22:24:25

"Fairfield Ledger-Journal", June 17, 1921

Funeral, Ben H. ADKINS.

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"Fairfield Ledger-Journal", June 20, 1921

Ben ADKINS, who fell in France.

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"Fairfield Weekly Ledger-Journal", June 23, 1921, Pg. 2, Col. 4

FUNERAL FOR BEN H. ADKINS. Near 300 Service Men Followed Flag-Draped Casket of Man Who Fell in France.

The funrst funeral here of an American soldier who was killed overseas was held in the Central Park Sunday afternoon. The service was for Ben H. ADKINS, who was killed September 12, 1918, in the St. Mihiel drive. About 300 soldiers in uniform marched in the procession which escorted the flag draped steel casket from Kerrick's undertaking parlors to Central Park and later to the cemetery, Allen Jewett Post No. 47 American Legion having charge.... Rev. R. H. Polly, pastor of the Christian Church, called attention to the fact that this was the first body of a soldier to be brought back to Fairfield for burial, and, in a sense, it was representative of all the boys who gave their lives in the great World War....

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