PAUL G WALTERS (1892 - 1918)

WALTERS

Posted By: Melissa Mayhew Grandt (email)
Date: 5/14/2009 at 07:16:26

Iowa City Citizen, Iowa City (Johnson Co.), Iowa, 17 October 1918.

JOHNSON COUNTY BOY DIES AT OGLETHORPE
Paul Walters, son of Andrew Walters, of Sharon township is dead at Fort Oglethorpe officers training camp, of pneumonia and influenza. The young man died on October 11 but on account of the telegram going astray the parents were not aware of the death until today.

PAUL WALTERS IS DEAD IN CAMP
Paul Walters, who was reported dead some days ago, is believed to be the identical Paul G. Walters, who left here last summer and who is the son of Andrew Walters of Sharon Township.
Mr. Walters received word of the death of the young man but on account of the fact that the telegrams were sent to other parties than the father, and the further fact that Mr. Walters believed his son had been transferred from Camp Oglethorpe, lead him to believe there was a mistake in the identity. Several messages have been exchanged and the father is now convinced that the dead man is his son and has ordered the body shipped here and it is expected to arrive Thursday afternoon.
Source: Iowa City Press Citizen, 23 Oct 1918, pg 1