Don Elbert Jeffryes (1918)

JEFFRYES, HOLLINGSWORTH

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 12/26/2007 at 19:08:28

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
November 13, 1918

DON ELBERT JEFFRYES

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Jeffryes, received official notice from the war department on Sunday that their son, Don Elbert Jeffryes, had died of pneumonia in France, on Oct 14, 1918.

He was a member of Co. B, 334th Infantry while at Camp Dodge, but had the measles and was held at Camp Custer and there transferred to Co. K, 349th Infantry. To these bereaved relatives goes the sympathy of all people in this community.

Note: Son of George and Nora (Hollingsworth) Jeffryes. Born in 1894.
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Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
November 27, 1918

DON ELBERT JEFFRYES

Another soldier from Madison county died of pneumonia, Oct. 14, 1918, in France. Don Elbert Jeffryes, son of George and Nora Jeffryes, left Winterset May 28 for Camp Dodge, where he was assigned to Co. K, 349th Infantry. An attack of measles kept him at Camp Custer and his company went on without him. He endeavored to rejoin it, but was sent to Camps Upton, Merritt and Mills, and at Camp Merritt was assigned to Co. B, 344th Infantry, sailing about Sept. 2, 1918.

His overseas card reached here about about Sept. 13, and word of his death came on Nov. 10. Private Jeffryes came from Kansas to Adair county, 23 years ago, when but one year old. About seven years ago, the family moved to Madison county, his residence being in and near Winterset since that time. Besides his parents, two brothers and other relatives survive him.

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