Charles HERSMAN

HERSMAN, HANSON, PARTLOW

Posted By: Susan Coleman (email)
Date: 4/16/2005 at 00:38:40

Charles Hersman Dies in England From War Injuries
The first of Clarion's men to die in war since the Civil War has been the destiny of Charles Hersman, 36, son of Mrs. Margaret Hersman and the late Aldon Ralph Hersman of Clarion.

On January 2, Mrs. Hersman was visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lorena Hanson in Woodward, Iowa, when she received a telegram from the Dominion Government, Ottawa, Canada, informing her that her son Charles who I in England with the Royal Canadian Engineers, was seriously injured to the extent of a fractured pelvis and thigh, abdominal, spinal and other internal injuries. The occasion was not given.

On January 6, the mother received another telegram notifying her of her son's death on January 5. He was a Lance Corporal and has been in England for a year and a half after enlisting with the Engineers in Canada two years ago.

Lance Corporal Hersman was born in Ida Grove, Iowa, Feb. 3, 1906. He moved to Clarion with his mother and sister. Lorena, in 1919 and graduated from the Clarion high school as president of this class in 1925. he studied law at the University of South Dakota.

He spent twelve years in the abstract business, nine of those years he worked in the employment of M. H. Austin & Son and three as Head abstraactor for Carroll Brothers Abstract Company, Davenport, Iowa. He was a member of the Masonic lodge.

In 1940 he enlisted with the second Battalion of the royal Canadian Engineers in England at the time of his death, January 5, 1942.

Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Margaret Partlow Hersman, and sister, Mrs. Norman Hanson, and other relatives, His father, Alden Ralph Hersman, passed away in 1935. Special memorial services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Methodist church with L. N. Archerd giving the address assisted by the Rev. Pruel and Rev. Beebe.
Wright County Newspaper
(He was not a relative of mine)