Roy Maxey, age 21, from Oakland City, Indiana, Gibson county.
Parents: Elmer Maxey
Service era: Post World War I
Military history: Battery D, 139th Field Artillery
Date of death: Sunday, August 13, 1939
Death details: Killed instantly at Fort Knox, Kentucky when a fust for chemical shell, which he was handling, was detonated. He and others were standing together while examining a fuse charged with fulminate of mercury.
Cemetery: Montgomery in Oakland City
Source: Princeton Daily Clarion