Horton, Lloyd 1889 - 1918

HORTON, BURNS

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 7/17/2024 at 10:48:47

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Sept. 6, 1918, LP C1

Our people were great{ly} shocked to learn on Wednesday that Lloyd Horton had died that day at Camp Grant, Ill., as the result of infection from a gathering back of one of his eyes.

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Sept. 13, 1918, LP C1-3
DEATH OF LLOYD HORTON
Little we thought last December when in the flush of young manhood Lloyd L. Horton answered the call to arms that his star, of blue would be the first to turn to gold. God in his infinite wisdom has called him from the service of his country in the army to a higher service in the life beyond. He has been promoted from the training camp here below where he served his country so faithfully and dil{i}gently and has entered the presence of the great Commander of the Army of Heaven. Of all the young men who have enlisted from this community Lloyd Horton is the first one called upon to give his life. Although he had not been permitted to go to the front as he had hoped to in the near future, yet his life was as truly consecrated to the cause of Liberty as those who have fallen on the battlefields of Flanders.
He had made his supreme sacrifice when he volunteered his service. Sergeant Horton’s home life was an unusually happy one. The sweet companionship of a loving wife and little daughter together with the members of the Frank Burns family. To Mr. Burns Lloyd was a very close friend. He was to him as an own son, and to Mrs. Kohout, Mrs. Luhman and Miss Beryl he was as dear as a brother could be, Mrs. Horton has so often said to her close friends, Lloyd can stay home, and I would rather be with him than any where else.” She has those pleasant evenings together to comfort her now.
As soon as school was out last spring Mrs. Horton and Bernice went to Rockford, Ill., and took an apartment and were there where Sergeant Horton could spend all of his time off with them. They came home only a few days before he was taken sick.
At the time of his enlistment Lloyd Horton was one of our most prominent business men and held many offices of great responsibility in this village. He was at the head of the Commercial club, held an office in the band organization, was secretary of the firemen, was a member of the town cou{n}cil and held other places of trust.
Mrs. Horton received such a splendid letter of condolence from Lieut. Dallstream who was Lloyd’s commanding officer. He is sending Mrs. Horton true copies of all orders and promotions.
The services were held at the home on the lawn Saturday afternoon, Sept. 7, 1918, and about one thousand or more people were present. Probably the largest funeral ever held in Lime Springs. The male quartet sang, Rev. David Edwards offered a beautiful prayer and his pastor Rev. W. E. Caldwell preached the funeral sermon.
The funeral procession headed by the bugler and the military escort was probably the longest procession ever seen here. It reached almost from the town to the cemetery. The services at the grave were conducted by the Masons using their splendid form for the occasion. D. H. Thomas spoke. After the Masons had finished their service the military escort gave the salute of honor for their departed comrade, six guns fired three times. Then while they were standing at attention from afar came the bugle call “Taps.” At camp this call is the last thing they hear. “Taps” is sounded at 11 o’clock and all are supposed to be resting. Their comrade was “At Rest.”
Those who attended the funeral from away were: Mrs. W. T. Haye, St. Charles, Minn. Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Daray, Sioux City, Iowa, Dr. and Mrs. Cal Horton and daughter, Calmar, Iowa, Thomas Horton, Orelia, N. D., Roy Horton, New Rockford, N. D., Llyn{sic} Horton, Orelia, N. D., Mrs. Charles Kohout, Cass Lake, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Luhman, Postville, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Luhman, Postville, Iowa, Mrs. Thompson and daughter of Northwood, Iowa, Mrs. Brown, Austin, Minn., Merle Anderson, Preston, Minn.
Sergeant Starkey in his address said:
“It is with sadness and regret, yet with quite a bit of pride that we come here to do honor to our comrade in the Quartermasters Corps at the Base Hospital at Camp Grant, Ill. It is hardly necessary to tell you that we loved Sergeant Horton. You of this community know him and know that to know him was to love and respect him. On Dec. 10, 1917, he enlisted in the Quartermaster’s Reserve Corps, was called into active service on January 25, 1918, and was sent to Camp Johnston, at Jacksonville, Fla, understanding that he was to be put in the officers’ training school. On account of the large number at the camp and lack of officers his best points were not discovered. On Feb. 27, 1918, he was transferred to Detachment Q. M. C. Base Hospital, Camp Grant, Ill. On arrival at our camp he was brought before the Lieutenant in command and myself. He was recommended as Private first class and fireman from the camp from which he came. As soon as his very fine qualities were noticed Lieut. Dallstream, his commanding officer, said “There is a man of great power;” and gave him a position of very great responsibility. He was promoted to Sergeant First Class Q. M. C. on Apr. 6, 1918, and placed in charge of all outside work of the hospital grounds and buildings. On May 9, 1918, he was again promoted to the grade of Quartermaster-Sergeant Q. M. C. which is next to the highest non-commissioned office in the army.
“I have just learned today that on the day of his death orders were issued for him to go to Camp Zachary Taylor, Va., as candidate for a commission in the artillery branch. On yesterday the camp headquarters called him up by phone, not knowing of his death and requested that he be placed in charge of all the man going from our camp. This is quite an honor and we regret very much that he was not able to live and achieve the end toward which he was constantly working.
“He was never considered seriously ill until eleven o’clock on the day of his death. His death was caused from an ab{s}cess of the frontal sinus which finally caused acute Leptomeningitis. The ab{s}cess was caused by old catarrhal conditions. From the time he went to the hospital until the death he was given the very best of care, at one time a consultation of seven of the best surgeons was held, trying to determine the trouble.
“Immediately after his death which was a great blow to all of us, the men of the hospital organization began to take up collections for flowers which expresses their outward feeling for our Sergeant. The day following, as we walked from one place to the other we were constantly stopped by his friends with the inquiry, ‘Is it true, is true?’ He was beloved by all, every member of the organization. They said there was nothing too good for him. On Thursday at 4:30 o’clock a military funeral was held from the Chapel at the Base Hospital and an address was made by the chaplain of the Y. M. C. A. All of the members of the Hospital Detachment were present, about 300. He was given an escort of sixteen men which together with the military ban, officers, pall bearers, honorary pall bearers and other members of Detachments marched to the depot at Rockford to the music of the funeral march. He was the first and only enlisted man to receive this honor.
“The loss to us is very great. We have lost a comrade, our best comrade, his family have lost a noble husband and father. His country has lost one of its best leaders. He was a born leader of men of which there are very few.”
Quartermaster-Sergeant Lloyd L. Horton was born at Winnebago, Minn., on March 4th, 1889, and passed away at the Base Hospital at Camp Grant, Ill., Sept. 4, 1918, being 29 years and six months of age.
His boyhood days were spent in Northwood, Iowa. He came to Lime Springs in 1906 and this has been his home since with the exception of a few years spent in and around Minot, N. D.
He was united in marriage with Gladys M. Burns on Sept. 14, 1909. One daughter has been born to them.
Brother Horton was a faithful member of the Order of the Eastern Star and a very enthusiastic Mason, holding the office of Junior Warden of Howard Lodge 214 of this place
When about 11 years old he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Northwood, Iowa, and over three years ago united with the Presbyterian church of Lime Springs and since that time has been a faithful and loyal member.
There remain to mourn his death, his beloved wife, and daughter Bernice, also his father and mother, and his two brothers Roy and Lynn, together with uncles, aunts and cousins who were very near and dear to him.
The whole community bows in sorrow over the death of their beloved fellow citizen and faithful friend.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

Pleasant Hill Cemetery
 

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