John Oscar Judd (1875-1912)

JUDD, RASMUSSEN, MONTGOMERY

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Date: 5/8/2021 at 12:26:30

From Nevada Evening Journal January 1, 1913 (page 1)

DEATH OF J. O. JUDD

Young Man Passes Away at Colfax, California

J. O. Judd, only son of Mr. and Mrs. V. W. Judd of this city, died yesterday evening at Colfax California, according to a message received by Mr. Judd this morning. The death was sudden but as yet no particulars have been received regarding his illness nor the circumstances surrounding the death. The deceased, who had been away from home almost continually for 21 years, visited his parents last in 1908. He had been in California since April previous to which time he had been in the government service in the canal zone. Twelve years he had spent in the Philippines.

The body will be prepared for interment and shipped to this city, but at this time it will not be possible to say when it will arrive. It is not probable that any funeral services will be held here other than short services at the grave. The deceased was single and leaves besides his parents, two sisters, Mrs. Rasmussen of Spencer, and Mrs. Bess Judd Montgomery of Chicago.

From Nevada Evening Journal January 6, 1913 (page 1)

INTERMENT OF JOHN JUDD.

Body Arrived From California Yesterday Forenoon.

The body of the late John O. Judd arrived yesterday morning over the Northwestern and was interred in the family lot in the Nevada cemetery after short services at the graveside. Rev. W. E. Hardaway of the Methodist church read the services and offered prayer. The young man was little known in this city having visited here but once during the residence of the family in this neighborhood.

Obituary.

John Oscar Judd was born June 21, 1875 at Mansfield, Ill. He finished high school there at the age of sixteen. He then worked in a drug store in that city for two years and also in Bloomington, Ill. At the beginning of the Spanish-American war he enlisted in the Fifth Illinois regiment. He soon was made first sargeant and was in camp at Springfield, Ill., Chattanooga, Tenn. and Newport News, Virginia. At the close of the war he was mustered out in October and the following August he enlisted in the Philippine service in the 30th U. S. V. Infantry and remained in the Philippines nine years. In 1908 he spent a part of the summer with his parents in Nevada.

In March 1909 he accepted a government position in the Panama Canal zone. He died Dec. 31, 1912 at Colfax, California, at the age of 37 years, 6 months and 10 days.