Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Trossy Vernon Burns, age 24, from Francesville, Indiana, Pulaski county.
Parents: Dell and Martha Burns
Spouse: Nellie Roush Burns
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Friday, October 27, 1893
Death details: Died of pneumonia, Camp Taylor, Kentucky
Cemetery: Buried at Monon, Indiana
Source: Indiana Historical Commission
Alva Cicero Hollis, age 26, from Newcastle, Indiana, Henry county.
Parents: Alvah H. and Sarah Ann Hollis
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Wednesday, January 11, 1893
Death details: Wounded in action July 21, 1918 at battle of Soissons. Invalided to U.S. in November 1918 and treated in hospital at Ft. McPherson, Georgia. Furloughed home, and died in Madisonville, Kentucky.
Cemetery: Buried in Madisonville, Kentucky
Source: Indiana Historical Commission
Leslie Selby from Princeton, Indiana, Gibson county.
Parents: Newton S. and Margaret E. Selby
Service era: World War I
Schools: Arsenal Technical School, Indianapolis; Purdue University
Date of death: Wednesday, July 1, 1891
Death details: Sent to Great Lakes Naval Training, Illinois, where he contracted pneumonia after three weeks duty, and died
Cemetery: Buried in Vincennes, Indiana
Source: Indiana Historical Commission
Frederick Louis Adkins, age 35, from Lawton, Oklahoma, Comanche county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Saturday, October 28, 1882
Death details: Died of disease
Cemetery: Highland in Lawton
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com