People who die from natural causes or in cases such as accidents, wars or drug abuse are there every day. Therefore, it is important to deal with this issue to understand that life will not always be easy. In this category we will explain in a few words the most important facts about deceased persons, resting places such as the Arlington National Cemetery and who has what right to what resting place.
A deceased person is a human being from the moment of his death until the expiration of his post-mortem personality protection. The memory of the deceased is protected from disparagement under criminal law. After the burial or finding of a lifeless missing person, one (also) speaks of a dead person. The term deceased must be distinguished from the term corpse, which refers only to the body.
When people are dying due to the natural aging process or a serious illness, they go through the incipient dying process. In contrast to the sudden death caused, for example, by a fatal accident in a war to a military service member or veteran, the natural dying process extends over a longer period of time. This is divided into the phases of dying, in which certain signs of impending death can often be identified.
Primarily buried at Arlington National Cemetery are deceased persons who died in a military action, or their family members. However, presidents such as Kennedy family William Howard Taft, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, world boxing champion Joe Louis, the seven Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts and the Tuskegee Airmen are also buried.
BRIGADIER GENERAL WALTER F. DANIEL Retired, Died September 13, 1974 Brigadier General Walter F. Daniel was inspector general for the Air Force Systems Command at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. General Daniel was born in Fletcher, Oklahoma, in 1925. He grew up in Oklahoma City, Okla., and graduated from Central High School. He has a … Read more
Press Report: Thursday, Mar 4, 2004 By XPISTOS EKIMOGLOY/Staff Writer A former grand marshal of the Mule Day Parade and member of the 1952 Central High School State Championship football team will be burried with full military honors April 26, 2004, in Arlington National Cemetery. Major General William E. Potts , 68, died February 29, … Read more
Theodore Anderson Baldwin of New Jersey Private, and Quartermaster Sergeant, 19th United States Infantry, 3 May 1862 to 3 May 1865 Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant, 19th United States Infantry, 9 February 1865 Regimental Quartermaster, 23 November 1866 to 23 July 1867 Captain, 23 July 1867 Unassigned 31 March 1869 Assigned to 10th United States … Read more
John Sidney Owen of Pennsylvania was an early Army aviator who scored five (5) victories in World War I and was therefore an American Ace. Name: John Sidney Owens Country: United States Rank: Lieutenant Service: United States Air Service Units: 139th Aero Victories: 5 Born: 26 May 1898 Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died: 14 … Read more
The man for whom the Berlin Wall’s “Checkpoint Charlie” was named died in 1982 at Asheville, North Carolina, after a long illness. He was a highly decorated general who retired from the Headquarters Staff of U.S. Forces in Tokyo, Japan, also served in World War II. In July 1953 he became commander of the Berlin … Read more
Religious Leader The Presbyterian Church leader who baptized and confirmed President Dwight D. Eisenhower and was chaplin of the United States Senate for a dozen years, died August 25, 1993 at Presbyterian Hospital and Home in Washington, D.C. He was 86 and the cause of death was heart failure and complications from Parkinson’s Disease. He … Read more
My father-in-law’s cremins are in Arlington National Cemetery. His name was David W. Howe. He was a World War II Ace, and a recepient of the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with 13 Oak Leaf Clusters. He was an Experimental Aircraft Test Pilot for Bell Aircraft. He flew the country’s first Jet VTOL … Read more
David Rumsey Donovan: David R. Donovan, 84, of Chapel Hill Farm, Berryville, died Wednesday, September 8, 1999, at his home. David Donovan was the son of General William J. Donovan. David R. Donovan, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy, July 7, 1915 September 8, 1999. Section , Grave 4874A-RH (Buried 6 October 1999). David Rumsey Donovan (Harvard … Read more
Commander Switzer was a Naval Aviator and was killed in an aircraft accident. He is buried in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery with his father, Wendell Gray Switzer, Vice Admiral, United States Navy, his mother, Anna Lamar Switzer, and his brother, Wendell Gray Switzer Jr, Lieutenant (jg), United States Navy, also a Naval aviator and also killed in an … Read more
Charles Frederick Leonard of Massachusetts Served in the United States Army as Private, Company K, 1st D. C. Infantry, 16 March to 20 November 1898 Private and Corporal, Company K, 21st U. S. Infantry, 18 February 1899 to 17 August 1900 Second Lieuteant, 20th U. S. Infantry, 14 August 1900 Colonel Leonard’s wife, Hannah Margaret … Read more
Courtesy of the United States Air Force Suggested By Russell C. Jacobs, June 2007 MAJOR GENERAL LEO A. WALTON Retired June 30, 1949. Died September 7, 1961 Leo Andrew Walton was born October 7th 1890 in Salem, Marion County, Oregon. Leo Walton was married and had a son and a daughter. Leo Walton died in Orlando, … Read more
From a contemporary press report Angus Boyd MacLean, 76, a retired Army Colonel who helped found the Metro Transit police department before serving as its chief until 1990, died of pulmonary fibrosis January 11, 2001, at his home in Burke, Virginia. Colonel MacLean, a World War II and Vietnam War veteran, began his career with … Read more
IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 8, 2004 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Second Lieutenant John T. Wroblewski, 25, of Oak Ridge, New Jersey, died April 6, 2004, due to injuries received from hostile fire in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was … Read more
William M.Mace, a former resident of Brooklyn, New York, and a veteran of the Civil War, died in the United States Naval Hospital atWashington on Tuesday at the age of 81. He was buried with military honors in Arlington Cemetery yesterday afternoon. Mr. Mace had been called several weeks ago toBrooklyn from the Southern Branch … Read more
Another of my personal heroes Colonel “Nick” Rowe graduated from West Point in 1960 and made the Army his career. When his country became engaged in Vietnam, he served there as a Special Forces Officer (Green Beret) and was captured by enemy forces on October 29, 1963. He struggled against the depravity of the prison … Read more
U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) News Release IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 572-10 July 03, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sergeant First Class Kristopher D. Chapleau, 33, of LaGrange, Kentucky, died June … Read more
ADMIRAL WILLITS DIES IN 75TH YEAR After Serving the Nation Two-Score Years, Resumed Duty During World War Helped Build Battleships Funeral to Be Held This Afternoon in Philadelphia – Will Rest In Arlington PHILADELPHIA, January 7, 1926 – Rear Admiral Albert Bower Willits, USN, retired, died at the United States Naval Hospital here today in … Read more
Robert Purcell had a funeral before he needed one. It was held in the mid-1960s during the Vietnam War. Purcell, an Air Force fighter pilot and Louisville native, was shot down, and for the next three and a half years, his family didn’t know he was alive. Eventually Purcell was able to mail a post … Read more
Abner Doubleday was born in upstate New York of a family outstanding in military and civil life, he graduated from West Point in 1842, 25th in a class of 56, and was assigned to the Artillery-Infantry. He is popularly credited with inventing the modern game of baseball in 1835. Before entering West Point, he had … Read more
Rear Admiral William Renwick Smedberg IV passed away at his home in Ponte Vedra Beach Florida on July 8, 2008 after a long valiant battle with ALS. Admiral Smedberg was born in Coronado, California, September 13, 1929, the son of the late Vice Admiral William Renwick Smedberg III and Claudia B. Smedberg. His military legacy goes back … Read more
From a contemporary press report: Louis P. McCuller, 83, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who later was dministrator of the Chestnut Lodge mental facility in Rockville, died November 28, 2001, at Inova Alexandria Hospital after a heart attack. Colonel McCuller, who lived in Annandale, was born in Sanford, Florida. He graduated from the University of … Read more
I am signing in for my mother, Eyvonne Grace Pawer Geise. 47 years after her brother JACOB LOUIS PAWER, JR. was reported missing in action, he was finally laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetary. This was a very special act of memoriam for Jacob’s family. Thank you. Bethanne Welson, Appleton, Wisconsin, July 2000. Jacob … Read more
Noel W. McVay Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces Service # 38522387 570th Bomber Squadron, 390th Bomber Group, Heavy Entered the Service from: Louisiana Died: 14-Feb-45 Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Tablets of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery Margraten, Netherlands Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart We attended a memorial service for my father, … Read more
My father, a career soldier, is buried at Arlington National Cemetery as is my mother. He is Billie Raymond Chaney, deceased in August of 1967, killed in Viet Nam while working as a civillian security officer for RMK-BRJ. He had extensive military service and fought in WWII and Korea. My mother was buried there back … Read more
From a contemporary press report: Kenneth David Nichols, 93, a retired Army Major General who as a civil engineer helped build plutonium- and uranium-producing facilities for the atomic bomb, died of respiratory failure February 21, 2000 at the Brighton Gardens retirement home in Bethesda, Maryland. General Nichols was also an important figure in the development … Read more
William E. Bernstein, was veteran of 3 wars PALM DESERT, California – William E. Bernstein, 75, formerly of South Hadley Massachusetts, died October 26 at Eisenhower Hospital in Rancho Mirage, California. He worked for TRW-Holyoke Wire and Cable in the 1970s before moving to the TRW Electronics Division in Los Angeles as director of Human … Read more
Courtesy of his classmates, United States Military Academy Class of 1946 William Charles Hall No.15418 Class of 1946 Died May 1982 in Rockville, Maryland, aged 58 years. Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia William Charles Hall, known to his family and friends as Chuck, was born on 29 November 1923 in Cherokee, Iowa. Cherokee is … Read more
Mr. Fred B. Rhodes, age 87, a retired government leader and attorney, died of natural causes Wednesday, November 7, 2001, in Anderson. A Washington, D.C., native, he graduated from Central High School in 1932, received his AB degree from Colgate University in 1936 and his LLB degree from the University of Maryland Law School in … Read more
TRIBUTE TO BRIGADIER GENERAL THOMAS F. RILEY (Mr. COX of California asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. COX of California. Mr. Speaker, today, one of our Nation’s great leaders, one of our California leaders will be laid to rest at Arlington … Read more
Thursday, October 3, 2002 The first burials took place in 1864, in Section 27 of the cemetery. Those buried in Section 27 include: Private William Henry Christman, 67th Pennsylvania Infantry, first military serviceman interred in Arlington National Cemetery, May 13, 1864. Private William H. McKinney, 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry, interred May 13, 1864, age 17, first … Read more
The daughter of Palmer Gaylord Wood, she died on March 12, 1903 and is buried among other family members in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery. Read our general and most popular articles Phallosan Forte Anaboloxan Huusk Messer Hanfosan Nutra Digest SWISS FX Ketogen Tropfen Slimymed Hondrostrong Slim XR Elixfett Reduslim Medioxil 24 Hondrox Prima Kapseln … Read more
John R. Clifford, the son of Isaac and Satilpa Clifford, was born at Williamsport, Grant County, West Virginia, on September 13, 1849. During the Civil war, he was a Union soldier in Company F, 13th United States Heavy Artillery, attaining the rank of Corporal. Volunteering at Chicago and serving for three years, John R. Clifford … Read more
From a press report: 5 December 2001: Dr. Ricardo M. Madojana, who had a dermatology practice in Maryville, died Monday at home in Knoxville at age 61 after a three-year battle with cancer. He was a native of Tucuman, Argentina. Mandojana had a distinguished medical career as a research and practicing certified dermatologist, pathologist and … Read more
“On October 27, 1994, the Air Force announced that they had identified the remains of thirteen servicemen killed during the Vietnam War, including twelve who were on an AC-130A shot down over the A-Shau Valley on June 18, 1972. According to a news report from Travis Air Force Base, California, three of the twelve members … Read more
Joyce, Paul R Born March 3, 1922 Died July 15, 1944 United States Army Second Lieutenant Arlington National Cemetery: Section 12, Grave 5168 Buried April 23, 1999 Research regarding this individual continues Read our general and most popular articles Phallosan Forte Anaboloxan Huusk Messer Hanfosan Nutra Digest SWISS FX Ketogen Tropfen Slimymed Hondrostrong Slim XR … Read more
From a contemporary press report Thomas W. Hancock, 54, a retired Navy Captain who was Vice President of a software company, died November 28, 1998 in a kayaking accident on Lake Erie, offshore from Cleveland. The Fairfax Station resident had gone to Cleveland to visit his parents. The Coast Guard reported that Captain Hancock’s body … Read more
WEEKS, ADRIAN MAJOR USA VETERAN SERVICE DATES: Unknown DATE OF BIRTH: 05/16/1887 DATE OF DEATH: 12/28/1955 DATE OF INTERMENT: 01/04/1956 BURIED AT: SECTION 1 SITE 196-D ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Read our general and most popular articles Phallosan Forte Anaboloxan Huusk Messer Hanfosan Nutra Digest SWISS FX Ketogen Tropfen Slimymed Hondrostrong Slim XR Elixfett Reduslim Medioxil … Read more
18 January 2005: Jonathan Godfrey, the flight nurse injured in the crash of an air ambulance, has been released from the hospital. Godfrey, 36, of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, was discharged Sunday from the Washington Hospital Center, a hospital spokesman said yesterday. Godfrey spent nearly a week in the hospital after his helicopter crashed January 10, … Read more
Halford Clark was born in 1894. He was an early Army aviator and was presumably killed in World War I while serving as a Second Liutenant, Aviation Section, Signal Reserve Corps, United States Army. INFORMATION NEEDED. Read our general and most popular articles Phallosan Forte Anaboloxan Huusk Messer Hanfosan Nutra Digest SWISS FX Ketogen Tropfen … Read more
Cary Travers Grayson (11 October 1878-15 February 1938) was a surgeon in the United States Navy who served a variety of roles from personal aide to President Woodrow Wilson, to chairman of the American Red Cross. Received From Bill Gonyo Grayson was born in Culpeper, Virginia. After completing his medical studies, he was appointed Acting … Read more
MAJOR A. B. OWENS A SUICIDE Retired Marine Corps Officer Shoots Himself On Maryland Farm ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, September 9, 1932 -Major Arthur B. Owens, United States Marine Corps (retired), committed suicide last night by shooting himself at his home near Mount Zion, sixteen miles from Annapolis. He left a note saying that he was shooting … Read more
CLEARWARTER, Florida – November 17, 1934 – Colonel W. Robert Davis, 62 years old, who established the first leper colony in the Philippines and who was Chief Flight Surgeon of the Army at the time of his retirement in 1927, died today at his home im Dunedin. He is survived by his widow and a … Read more
Biography Courtesy of “The North Carolina Museum of History.”: October 2006 “John Wesley Armsworthy was thirty-one years old when the war broke out in 1861. He and his wife, Edna, aged twenty-six, had three children under five years old-Branch, Ella, and Matthew. Armsworthy owned a 270-acre farm in Yadkin County, where he and his young … Read more
Brigadier General George Haywood Young Jr. Born January 21, 1921 Died October 23, 1996 Second Lieutenant 1942 Brigadier General 1966 Battalion Commander, 3rd Infantry Division 1949-50 Served with the Army General Staff 1952-54 & 1958-61 Chief of Plans Branch (DCOS Logistics), US.Army-Europe 1962-64 Commanding Officer, 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division 1964-66 Chief of Staff, Army … Read more
Born at Fort Steele, Wyoming, June 1, 1878, the son of Calvin and Josephine (Lesesne) DeWitt. He was a student at Princeton (1894-95), and received an M.D. degree from the University of Maryland in 1900. He married Bessie S. Foster, September 27, 1904 and they had one son, Wallace, Jr. He began as a Contract Surgeon, United States Army, in … Read more
From a contemporary press report e, a retired Major General in the Army Corps of Engineers and former president of the Consolidated Edison Company, died on Thursday, October 6, 1994, at home in San Antonio, Texas. He was 84. The cause was leukemia, his family said. A native of Selma, Alabama, he grad from the … Read more
Sergeant Major Lacy McDougald, Jr., Distinguished Service Cross, passed away recently and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Captain William C. Raposa, Navy Cross With Gold Star, reported his death and members of the Washington, D.C. Chapter announced his illness at the April 15, 2000 Founder’s Day meeting. Sergeant Major McDougald received his Distinguished Service … Read more
Robert Ross Ralston of Pennsylvania Appointed from Pennsylvania, Cadet, United States Military Academy, 20 June 1898 (4) Second Lieutenant, U. S. Engineers, 12 June 1902 ROBERT ROSS RALSTON Born March 9, 1878. Military History—Cadet at the Military Academy, June 20, 1898 to June 12, 1902, when be was graduated and promoted in the Army to … Read more
Samuel Willard Saxton of Massachusetts Captain and Assistant Aide de Camp, 30 Apr 1862 Brevet Major of U.S. Volunteers, 12 January 1865 Honorably mustered out of the volunteer service 20 July 1866 S. Willard Saxton, Brevet Major of United States Volunteers (1829-1933), (Samuel Willard Saxton of Massachusetts Captain and Assistant Aide de Camp, 30 April … Read more
The Changing of the Guard at The Tomb of the Unknowns The Presidential Wreath At The Tomb of The Unknowns Presented By President George W. Bush The National Moment of Remembrance Wreath Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington National Cemetery The Plaza of the Memorial Amphitheater (Rear View) Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Day 2001 Many thanks … Read more
Biography And Photo Courtesy of Russell C. Jacobs: June 2007 John Howard Cassady (1896-1969) Born on April 3, 1896 in Spencer, Indiana. Commissioned from Annapolis in 1919. Designated a Naval Aviator in 1928. Assistant Naval Attache in Rome 1937-1939. Operations Officer on the staff of the Commander of Aircraft, Atlantic Fleet 1940-1941. Chief of Staff … Read more
Private Homer Broxton, Co. E, 3rd Georgia Volunteer Infantry Homer Broxton, son of Louis and Margaret Ann Royal Broxton, was born ca 1840 in Georgia. He appears on the 1850 U.S. Federal Census for Burke County, Georgia, with his family.[1] On April 26, 1861, Homer Broxton enlisted in Company E, known as the “Governor’s Guards,” … Read more
His private memorial in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery reads: Alexander Macomb Wetherill Captain and Brevet Major, United States Army Killed July 1, 1898, leading the charge on San Juan Hill Santiago de Cuba In 1900 the fort was renamed in honor of Captain Alexander Wetherill, an infantryman killed in the Battle of San … Read more
Elizabeth P. Hoisington, who led the Women’s Army Corps through a period of dramatic change in the 1960s and ’70s and was one of the first two women in the U.S. military promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, died of congestive heart failure August 21, 2007, at an assisted-living facility in Springfield, Virginia, where … Read more
From a contemporary press report: Unidentifiable remains of victims of the September 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, the military said Friday. The September 12, 2002, ceremony will hold special significance for families of five people whose remains have never been identified, said Colonel Jody Draves, a spokeswoman … Read more
Full Name: JESSE LYNN KESTLER Date of Birth: 4/28/1950 Date of Casualty: 11/12/1970 Home of Record: DALLAS TEXAS Branch of Service: ARMY Rank: PFC Casualty Country: SOUTH VIETNAM Casualty Province: QUANG NGAI December 20, 1970: Killed-in-action in Vietnam, he became the central focus in a controversy between his divorced parents, each of whom wanted him … Read more
John Joseph O’Connell of Ireland Served in the United States Army as Private, 3 February 1865 to 11 November 1867 Second Lieutenant, 1st U. S. Infantry, 28 October 1867 First Lieutenant, 28 June 1878 Captain, 14 April 1887 Major, 2 March 1899 Lieutenant Colonel, 3rd U. S. Infantry, 5 July 1901 Colonel, 30th U. S. … Read more
Theodore Frelinghuysen Jewell August 5, 1844-July 26, 1932 Place of birth Washington, D.C. Place of death Washington, D.C. Years of service 1861-1904 Rank Rear Admiral Commands USS Essex USS Marblehead USS Minneapolis USS Columbia USS Brooklyn USS Olympia Battles/wars American Civil War Spanish-American War Battle of Manila Bay Theodore Frelinghuysen Jewell (1844-1932) Rear Admiral United … Read more
ROGERS, J H B CUTTS GEORGIA BATTALION DATE OF DEATH: 04/18/1865 BURIED AT: SECTION CONF SITE 100 Read our general and most popular articles Phallosan Forte Anaboloxan Huusk Messer Hanfosan Nutra Digest SWISS FX Ketogen Tropfen Slimymed Hondrostrong Slim XR Elixfett Reduslim Medioxil 24 Hondrox Prima Kapseln Diaetolin Cardione PHC Beauty C+ Kapseln Colon Broom … Read more
Born on October 29, 1929 in Hartford, Connecticut, he received the Medal of Honor while serving with the US Marine Corps in Korea on October 26, 1952, where he was killed in action. He was temporarily buried in Korea and his body was returned to the United States in January 1953 where it was buried in Section … Read more
From a contemporary press report: HAWKINS, EUGENE D., COL, US ARMY (Ret.) Airborne Ranger Gene Hawkins passed away in Tallahassee, Florida, on July 28, 2003 at the age 68 of lymphoma cancer. Gene served in the Army for 32 years. His many assignments included two combat tours in Vietnam, Head of the Airborne and Ranger … Read more
Erik Niles Rudziak: An engineer fireman in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War, Rudziak was the son of a career military officer. Born in Germany on 28 April 1949, he spent much of his formative years at various military posts both in the United States and abroad. Nicholas Rudziak, the boy’s father, graduated … Read more
NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of Defense No. 537-03 IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jul 23, 2003 DoD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today that Sergeant (posthumous promotion) Brett T. Christian, 27, North Royalton, Ohio, was killed on July 23, 2003, in Mosul, Iraq. Christian was in a convoy that came under attack … Read more
Ben F. Dixon III, 83, a retired Foreign Service officer and Washington lawyer whose posts included those of politico-military affairs counselor to the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and foreign policy adviser to the Coast Guard commandant, died March 15. 2002, at his home in Washington after a heart attack. Dixon, Ben F. III. Died on … Read more
John G. Sheehan Watertown, Massachusetts Born 1922 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Service Number O-59822 Killed in Action Died November 29, 1950 in Korea First Lieutenant Sheehan was a member of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on November 29, … Read more
NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of Defense No. 981-04 IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oct 03, 2004 DoD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Specialist Rodney A. Jones, 21, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died September 30, 2004, in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne … Read more
From a contemporary press report: Fran Moulin, 48, an Army Colonel who served as the staff judge advocate of the 3rd Infantry Division before retiring in 1998, died of a heart attack March 11, 2000 at his home in Annapolis, Maryland. Colonel Moulin, who had lived in Annapolis since his retirement from active duty, served … Read more
Rear Admiral Augustus Joseph Wellings Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts February 1, 1897 Died November 29, 1956 Commissioned from US. Naval Academy 1919 Commodore 1945 Rear Admiral Served with Naval Gun Factory, Washington Navy Yard 1935-37 Gunnery Officer, USS. California 1937-39 Commanding Officer, USS. Arctic 1939-40 Inspector of Naval Material, Bethlehem Steel Company 1940-42 Director of … Read more
His private memorial in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery reads:Colonel, 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Quartermaster, 7th United States Infantry Killed In Action At Grovetown, Virginia, August 28, 1862, aged 29 years Erected By Survivors Of The Regiment The Iron Brigade The battle of Gainesville, Virginia, August 28, 1862. It was in this battle that … Read more
NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of Defense No. 210-05 IMMEDIATE RELEASE DoD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died February 26 in Abertha, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated while they were on patrol. Both Soldiers were … Read more
Courtesy of the United States Navy Captain Joy Bright Hancock, USN (1898-1986) Later, Mrs. Ralph A. Ofstie Joy Bright was born in Wildwood, New Jersey, on 4 May 1898. During World War I, after attending business school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she enlisted in the Navy as a Yeoman (F), serving at Camden, New Jersey and … Read more
From a contemporary press report William Henry Stiver, 82, died Sunday, January 9, 2000, at Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home. Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Bicentennial Chapel, Fort Gordon. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. Stiver, a native of Youngstown, Ohio, had retired as a First Sergeant in … Read more
NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of Defense No. 1035-04 IMMEDIATE RELEASE October16, 2004 DoD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died on October 13, 2004, in Mosul, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their convoy vehicle. Killed were: … Read more
From contemporary press reports: 27 January 2004: Andy Aviles still collected basketball cards. They remain stacked in orderly piles on a bookcase at the foot of his bed, competing for space with toy cars, high school letterman awards, graduation photos and other markers of a boy’s life. On the wall above where he slept, near … Read more
U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) News Release IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 705-11 August 11, 2011 DOD Identifies Service Members Killed In CH-47 Crash The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of 30 servicemembers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died August 6, 2011 in Wardak province, … Read more
From a contemporary press report: Gilbert G. Brinckerhoff, 94, a retired Army colonel and resident of Leisure World in Silver Spring, died December 17, 1999 at Suburban Hospital of injuries suffered in a November 23 automobile accident near Montrose Road and Route 270 in North Bethesda, Maryland. Colonel Brinckerhoff settled in Leisure World in 1990. … Read more
Born in Orangeville, New Jersey,on February 24, 1848 he earned the Medal of Honor in the Civil War on October 19, 1864 at Cedar Creek, Virginia, while serving as a Private, Company A, 9th New York Volunteer Cavalry. He died on October 19, 1927 and was buried in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery. PARKS, … Read more
From a contemporary press report Robert F. Eldridge, 86, a retired Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, died July 2, 2005, at his home in Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg. He had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Colonel Eldridge was born in Washington and graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1937. He … Read more
Newsday’s Jimmy Breslin wrote the following article for the New York Herald Tribune in November 1963. Washington — Clifton Pollard was pretty sure he was going to be working on Sunday, so when he woke up at 9 a.m., in his three-room apartment on Corcoran Street, he put on khaki overalls before going into the … Read more
Peter H. Allabach, Colonel, United States Army, 131st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Commanded the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, V Army Corps. Born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, September 5, 1824. Died at Washington, D.C., February 11, 1892. Buried with full military honors in Section 1, Grave 253-WS, of Arlington National Cemetery. Nancy Gertrude Blanchard Allabach, the wife of … Read more
From a contemporary press report: Retired U.S Army Colonel Joseph W. Dale Jr. of Baton Rouge died January 9, 2002. The New Orleans native was 81. Larry Dallam, a friend of Dale’s from their families’ attendance at Trinity Episcopal Church, remembered him in glowing terms. “He just is dedicated to his church, his country, his … Read more
Colonel Benjamin Alvord Spiller, U.S. Army Born in South Carolina November 8, 1918 Died in Colorado Springs May 23, 1993 Cadet U.S. Military Academy 1937-41 Graduated as No. 12583, Class of 1941 Second Lieutenant 1941 First Lieutenant (AUS) 1942 Captain (AUS) 1942 First Lieutenant 1944 Major (AUS) 1945 Captain 1948 Lieutenant Colonel (AUS) 1951 Major … Read more
Robert B. Horner Private, U.S. Army 35760587 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division Entered the Service from: West Virginia Died: September 18, 1944 Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Tablets of the Missing at Lorraine American Cemetery St. Avold, France Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart Tuesday, October 14, 2003 WWII vet finally comes home … Read more
Christian Wahl was born in 1874 and died in 1949. There is no evidence that he is related to the Wahl Family buried in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery. During his time in the military he served in the Army Signal Corps. WAHL, CHRISTIAN MAJOR SIG CORPS USA VETERAN SERVICE DATES: Unknown DATE OF DEATH: 02/28/1949 … Read more
From a contemporary press report: Gary Robert Smith, 53, an Army Special Forces medic who suffered disabling wounds including loss of almost all his vision during the Vietnam War, died August 29, 2002, at his home in Beltsville, Maryland. He had diabetes. Smith, who had lived in the Washington area for the last 15 years, … Read more
He was a relative (son-in-law) of General Nelson Appleton Miles, athough there is no record of his military service in the records of Arlington National Cemetery, I have located a Major Samuel Reber in other files. This person was affiliated with early Army Aviation and later became a Colonel and Chief of Aviation in 1913. Samuel … Read more
A small, 3MW experimental BWR called SL-1 (Stationary Low-Power Plant No. 1) in Idaho was destroyed on January 3, 1961, when a control rod was removed manually. At 9:01pm, alarms sounded at the fire stations and security headquarters of the U.S. National Reactor Testing Station where the reactor was located. Investigation found two operators dead … Read more
From a contemporary press report: Elviro D. Todino, 89, who played the clarinet in the Army Band for 25 years before retiring in 1971 as a master sergeant, died October 13, 1999 at Arlington Hospital. He died of injuries suffered in a fall. An Alexandria resident since 1947, Mr. Todino was born in Milford, Massachusetts. … Read more
Courtesy of the United States Military Academy: Herbert Patton Underwood, NO. 17666 8 February 1927 – 28 February 1987 Died 28 February 1987 in Sylacauga, Alabama, aged 60 years Inurnment: Columbarium at Arlington National Cemetery Herbert Patton Underwood was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on 8 February 1927, the son of the late Clarence Woody Underwood … Read more
Courtesy of Russell C. Jacobs, July 2007 Frank Edmund Beatty (1894-1976) Born on June 17, 1894 in Washington, D.C. Commissioned from Annapolis in 1916. B.S. from MIT in 1922. Served aboard the New York in World War I. Commanding Officer of the Long 1933-1934. Aide to Commander Destroyers, Scouting Force 1934-1935. Executive Officer of the … Read more
Courtesy of the United States Air Force MAJOR GENERAL JAMES MILLIKIN BEVANS Died May 1, 1977 James Millikin Bevans was born in San Francisco, California, in 1899. He entered the U.S. Military Academy in June 1917, and was discharged in June 1918. The following September he enlisted in the Student Army Training Corps at Princeton … Read more
Wallace Macdonald Craigie of California Appointed from Pennsylvania, Second Lieutenant, 7th U. S. Infantry, 10 April 1899 First Lieutenant, 12th U. S. Infantry, 2 February 1901 Transferred to the 7th U. S. Infantry, 2 July 1901 Seems to have originated from California Serial number O13596 Second Lieutenant, 1899 First Lieutenant, 1901 Served with 7th United … Read more
Orlando Metcalfe Poe was born March 7, 1832, at Navarre, Ohio. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1856, 6th in his class, and was appointed to the Corps of Topographical Engineers (merged into Corps of Engineers in 1863). During the interval before the Civil War, he was in the field on the … Read more
Edward McKeever Hudson of Connecticut Appointed from Connecticut, Cadet, United States Military Academy, 1 July 1845 (22) Breveted Second Lieutenant, 3rd United States Artillery, 1 July 1849 Second Lieutenant, 4th United States Artillery, 12 September 1850 First Lieutenant, 30 April 1855 Captain, 14th United States Infantry, 14 May 1861 Lieutenant Colonel and Aide-de-Camp, 28 September … Read more
Full Name: CHARLES JACK GIRARD Date of Birth: 7/23/1917 Date of Casualty: 1/17/1970 Home of Record: SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA Branch of Service: ARMY Rank: BGEN Casualty Country: SOUTH VIETNAM Casualty Province: GIA DINHAs a member of the Army, General Girard served our country until January 17th, 1970 in Gia Dinh, South Vietnam. He was 52 … Read more
Courtesy of the United States Army Brigadier General Dan Christie Kingman Chief of Engineers (October 12, 1913-March 6, 1916) Born March 6, 1852, in Dover, New Hampshire, Dan Kingman graduated second in the Military Academy class of 1875 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. He served as an instructor at the Military Academy … Read more
Luther Leonidas Terry (1961-1965) Luther Leonidas Terry was born on September 15, 1911 in Red Level, Alabama. He earned a B.S. degree at Birmingham Southern University in 1931, followed by an M.D. degree at Tulane University in 1935. After interning at the Hillman Hospital in Birmingham and serving a residency in Cleveland Hospitals, Terry moved … Read more
Born at Smith’s Mills, Chautangua County, New York, May 7, 1850, he graduated from the Collegiate Institute, Jamestown, New York, 1869, and from West Point in 1875. He married Corrine Barrett of Jamestown, August 19, 1879. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, 12th U. S. Infantry, June 16, 1875; promoted to First Lieutenant, January 11, 1881; … Read more
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John Green was born in 1730, he was a veteran of the American Revolution. He was Colonel of the 10th Virginia Volunteers and, as such, fought throughout the Revolution.He died in 1793 and was originally buried in Liberty Hall, Virginia. He was reinterred in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery on April 23, 1931. He … Read more