GREER COUNTY
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Compiled by W. E. Welch, J. S. Aldridge, and L. V. Aldridge
Published by the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1920

GREER COUNTY

FLOYD GREEN, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Parker. Mangum. born in Texas, Jan. 2. 1895; educated there. Entered service Sept. 1. 1917: trained with Field Art. Batt. D, 148th. at Camp Greenleaf, and Camp Dix. To France. 1918. Discharged in February at Camp Halibird, Baltimore. Md.

WILLIE ALLEN LOCK, son of Oscar and Emma Lock, Mangum, born at Duke. Okla., September 20, 1894. educated at Mangum. Entered service Sept. 4. 1918: trained at Camp Bowie. Discharged at Camp Logan. Sept. 13, 1918.

ANTHONY Z. HOWARD. Busier, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Howard. Mangum born in Apison. Tenn.: educated in Oklahoma. Entered service Sept. I8. 1917; trained at Camp Travis with 90th Div. Went to France June 20. 1918; fought at St. Mihiel and Argonne. Slightly wounded. Discharged April 8. 1919.

SAMUEL DEWEY HOWARD. Master Engineer, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Howard. Mangum born in Tennessee. June 12. 1895: educated in Oklahoma. Entered service Sept. 1, 1918. trained at Norman with S. A. T. C.

GEORGE WASHINGTON COOK, son of J. W. Cook. Mangum. born in Texas. April 22, 1897; educated in Oklahoma. Entered service Nov. 8, 1918; trained at Camp Cody with Hospital Corps.

CPL. HENRY F BYARS. son of H. G. Byars. Mangum, born Feb. 6. 1891. at that place and educated there. Entered service. Nov. 15, 1917; trained at Camp Logan, with Hosp. Corps. 33rd Div. Sanitary’ Unit No. 1. To France June 2. 1918; served in Convalescent Hospital. Discharged June 12, 1918, at Camp Mills.

DR. FRANK HARRISON McGREGOR, Major, son of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. McGregor, Temple, Texas, was born in Texas, August 7, 1387; received his education in the schools of Texas, Kentucky and New York City. Entered the service August 8, I'M?, and trained at Washington, D. C Embarked overseas October 9, 1917, and landed in England; Staff L. M. H. London, Eng.; Reg. Sur. Seasforth Highlanders. 51st Division, British Army; in battles of Lys, 2nd Marne; transferred to Base Hospital No. 30, B. E. F.; Ch. Surg. Base Hospital No. 35, B. E. F.; received Military Cross by King George, Buckingham, Pal.. March 15, 1919; relieved May l, 1919, ordered to U. S. A. Discharged at Camp Dix, June 3, 1919.

MARVIN FLOYD COX At his birth, the great law of creation marked him for one of those few heroes whose name, down the ages, as long as Time may last, will stand for the greatest sacrifice known to mortal. He gave his life that the world might live and Christianity might be saved. When the whole world, in its darkest hour, stood aghast at the approach of the foul thing that was destroying it, when the cry for succor came, he girded himself and marched forth to the affray. He and his millions of brother soldiers stemmed the mighty tide of evil and the beast slunk, beaten and broken back to its lair. He died that the world might live. Marvin Floyd Cox, son of A. P. and Jennie Cox, Mangum, Okla., was born in Texas, June 17, 1894. Entered service Oct. 4, 1917, and received his military training at Camp Travis and Camp Bowie, Company C, 132nd Machine Gun Battalion. Overseas in July, 1918, landing in France; awarded the Croix de Guerre; killed by bursting shell, Oct. 10, Argonne.

CHESTER LAMON COTTON Private. Son of H. L. and Clista Cotten, was born in Warren County, Tennessee, Nov. 7, 1892. He entered the service August 27, 1918, and received his military training at Camp Pike, Arkansas, Company K, Fourth Training Regiment While there preparing himself to participate in the great world struggle, he contracted pneumonia and died at Base Hospital, Camp Pike, October 15, 1918. He is buried at Mangum, Okla. Another one of those Patriots who in the performance of his duty made the supreme sacrifice. Whether amid the cannon's roar and the red flame of the battle's fiercest hour, or in the camp awaiting the summons to rush to the relief of the battling front, those who pay Destiny's debt with the sacrifice of their lives for the good of all mankind, have given the greatest that man can give. Their names must and will endure forever.

ALEXANDER P. GARRETT Private. Son of A. R. Garrett, Mangum, Okla., was born in Mangum, Okla., November 14, 1890. Destiny marked him for one of those heroes who was to answer the cry of a faltering world and yield his life that it might be saved from destruction. He made the supreme sacrifice in the name of Liberty that all Christianity might be saved and mankind live in peace. Only a patriot, and when the call came he marched with his country's colors above him and saluted with the supreme sacrifice. He was killed in action May 21, 1918. He entered the service April 11, 1917, and received his military training at Ft Bliss, Texas; embarked overseas Sept 7, 1917, and landed in France; assigned to Company B, 1st Ammunition Train, First Army; fought in the Verdun Sector, where he lost his life.

WILLIAM CHARLES SPENCER Sergeant. Son of William H. and Lizzie Spencer (deceased), Mangum, Oklahoma, was born in Decatur, Texas, Dec. 31, 1896; received his education in the schools of Mangum and Oklahoma City, Okla. He entered the service June 1, 1918, and underwent an intensive military training at Ft Logan, O. M. Q. Motor Truck Co. 449. After his stay at the military camp he embarked overseas August 22, 1918, and landed in France. He contracted bronchial pneumonia and died at Base Hospital, Brest, France, Sept. 24, 1918. He made the willing sacrifice in the name of Liberty. Years pass, Time effaces from the minds of men things that are done even for mankind's good, but the eternal pages of history give to the coming generations records of those deeds that they may be always green in the memory of the living. And this soldier's name will ever appear among those who made the greatest sacrifice for all the world—for Liberty and Christianity.

EARL LEE BRADSHAW, Chauffuer, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bradshaw, Mangum, Okla., was born in Big Springs, Texas, May 9, 1899; he was educated in the schools of Oklahoma and Henry Kendall College, Tulsa. Entered the service July 8, 1918, and received his military training at Ft. Logan and Jacksonville, Florida, Co. 48, M. T. C, General Headquarters; embarked overseas September 1, 1918, and was in France, Holland, England, Poland and Germany; fought at St. Quinten; gassed, and wounded twice by motor accidents. Discharged at Camp Pike, Sept. 1, 1919.

DONALD GERALD HOWARD, Second Class Seaman, son of Dr. P. V. and Ida Howard, Mangum, Okla., was born in Woodward, Okla., June 25, 1900; educated in the public schools of Mangum. Entered the service April 7, 1917, and received his Naval training at the Great Lakes Training Station, U. S. S. Gunboat Gaucher, stationed at Indian Head, Md_, and while working there aboard a lighter the line became fouled in the propeller of the ship, he went over the side to help correct the trouble and was caught in some way that caused his death by drowning. The accident occurred August 15, 1918.

GEORGE W. HALL, First Class Private, son of G. W. and Minnie Hall, Mangum, Okla., was born in Baird, Texas, October 5, 1893; educated at Mangum and Norman, Okla. Entered service in September, 1917; trained at Camp Grant, HI., 21st Engineers; embarked over-seas Dec. 24, 1917; landed in France; transferred to Rainbow Division, Motor Dept.; fought at Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel Discharged June 25, 1919, at Camp Pike.

ROY BRADSHAW, Messenger, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bradshaw, Mangum, Okla., was born in Maysville. Okla., Dec. 8, 1890; educated in the schools of Oklahoma. Entered the service April l, 1918, and received his military training at Camp Logan, Company 344, 90th Division, Machine Gun Battalion. Embarked overseas June 27, 1918, and landed in France; was with the Army of Occupation in Germany; fought in the battles at Verdun, Marne, Argonne Forrest and St Mihiel; gassed and slightly wounded. Discharged at Camp Pike.

WILLIAM H. BARNARD, First Class Private, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barnard, was born in Texas, August 10, 1896; educated in the schools of Oklahoma and Texas. Entered the service May 29, 1918, and trained at Camp Bowie, Co. C, with Ammunition Train, 36th Division. Embarked overseas July 31, 1918; landed in France; fought at Meuse-Argonne. Discharged August 20, 1919, at Camp Pike.

DR. J. B. HOLLIS, Captain, son of Mr. and Mrs. a W. HoIIis, of Hollis, Okla., was born in Arkansas. April 10, 1891; received his education at Epworth University, (Oklahoma), University of Tennessee and Chicago Medical School Entered the service August 11, 1917, and received his training at Washington and Philadelphia Medical Schools and at Camps Meade. Bowie and Donaphan, Base Hospital 84; embarked overseas August 31, 1918, and landed in France; promoted from Lieutenant to Captain. Discharged June 6, 1919, at Camp Dix.

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