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Cline, Gymal Wesley
Navy Reserves Seaman 2nd class

Gymal Wesley Cline, age 19, from Warrick County Elberfeld, Indiana .

Parents: Charles Peter Cline

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Monday, October 16, 1944
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Houston
Cemetery: Memorialized at Maple Grove

Source: National Archives, grave marker

Snow, Willis
National Guard Private

Willis Snow from Elberfeld, Indiana, Warrick county.

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: Barnett Chapel near Elberfeld

Source: Princeton Daily Clarion

Riley, Gilbert Grover
Private

Gilbert Grover Riley, age 22, from Warrick County Elberfeld, Indiana .

Parents: Joseph (1862 – 1954 and Mary Catherine Riley (1870 – 1956)

Service era: World War I

Date of death: Tuesday, October 8, 1918
Death details: Died of pneumonia at Camp Taylor, Kentucky
Cemetery: Barnett Cemetery, Greer Township, Warrick County

Source: Indiana Historical Commission, grave marker

Deneke, Edgar C.
Army Private

Edgar C. Deneke, age 29, from Elberfeld, Indiana, Warrick county.

Parents: Ferdinand and Frederica Deneke

Service era: World War I

Date of death: Thursday, July 18, 1918
Death details: Killed in action in battle of Soissons
Cemetery: Buried in France; memorialized at Zion in Elberfeld

Source: Soldiers of the Great War, Indiana Historical Commission, grave marker

Morrison, Ivor Wesley
Private

Ivor Wesley Morrison, age 27, from Elberfeld, Indiana, Warrick county.

Parents: Charles F. and Josephine Morrison
Spouse: Lessie S. Morrison
Children: Mildred Leone and Ivor Bluford; Charles (Jan. 19, 1916 – Feb. 17, 1916)

Service era: World War I

Date of death: Saturday, January 12, 1918
Death details: Died of pneumonia, Camp Taylor, Kentucky
Cemetery: Morrison Cemetery, Hart Township, Warrick County

Source: Indiana Historical Commission, grave markers

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