Plennie Hiram Williamson

WILLIAMSON, ECKHUND

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 6/11/2006 at 22:15:50

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
October 13, 1920

PLENNIE WILLIAMSON's Remains Reach St. Charles

The last chapter in the war history of Plennie Hiram Williamson of St. Charles was written when his body reached his old home on Saturday, just two years and one day after his death on shipboard, Oct. 9, 1918.

Mr. Williamson left St. Charles on July 22, 1918, to enter government service. Pneumonia attacked him with fatal results on the way to France, and his body was buried in the American cemetery at St. Nazaire.

Private Fred Eckhund of Camp Grant accompanied the remains to St. Charles. Funeral services held in the Christian church, conducted by his former pastor, Rev. Mr. Dennis of Osceola, were attended by the largest concourse ever seen at a funeral in St. Charles. His body was laid to rest beside that of his mother, who died twenty years ago, when Plennie was a lad of nine years.