Pvt.
Willie M. Goad
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Pvt., US Army 327th Inf. Reg.,
82nd Div. Date of Death
Oct. 3, 1918 St. Mihiel American Cemetery Thiaucourt, France Plot A Row 25 Grave 33 TWO GOLD STARS AT ONCE FOR TOWN OF SWEETWATER SWEETWATER,
Tenn, Oct. 28--For the first time since the war
began Sweetwater soldiers are given in the casualty list. The blow falls harder, inasmuch as two
soldiers are numbered among the dead.
Willie Goad is dead of disease.
Young Goad's mother was a resident of this community at the time her
son enlisted. He enlisted early in the
war and had seen considerable service.
R.L. Hickey, who is a resident of Sweetwater, received a telegram
yesterday from the war department notifying him that his son, David C.
Hickey, was among those lost when the transport Otranto collided with the
steamer Kashmir off the Scottish coast early in the war and while still under
age, Mr. Hickey has two other sons in the service. Researcher and Designer |