James Lung Bevans – Colonel, United States Army

James Lung Bevans of Wisconsin
Appointed from Illinois, Captain, Assistant Surgeon, 5th Illinois Infantry, 1 May 1898
Honorably mustered out of the volunteer service, 16 October 1898
Assistant Surgeon, United States Army, 26 November 1901
He progressed through the ranks to Colonel and served as a Medical Officer in World War I.

Looking for information on Eleanor Lung who married James Haney Bevans. They had a son James Lung Bevans, born in 1869 in Platteville, Wisconsin, and married to Dessie Millikin of Decatur, Illinois.

NOTE: He is possibly the father of James Millikin Bevans, Major General, United States Air Force, who is buried in aqn adjacent site in Section 4 of Arlington National Cemetery.  Also see Floyd Kramer, Colonel, United States Army, and Stuart Milliken Bevans, Captain, United States Army.

BEVANS, JAMES L
Colonel, United States Army

• DATE OF DEATH: 02/05/1944
• BURIED AT: SECTION 6  SITE 9305
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

BEVANS, DANELE W

• DATE OF DEATH: 01/08/1946
• BURIED AT: SECTION 6  SITE 9305
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
• WIFE OF JL BEVANS, COL, USA

BEVANS, DESSIE M WID/O JAMES L

• DATE OF DEATH: 01/08/1946
• BURIED AT: SECTION 6  SITE 9305
• ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
• WIFE OF JL BEVANS, COL, USA

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