Compiled by W. E. Welch, J. S. Aldridge, and L.
V. Aldridge
Published by the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1920
HASKELL COUNTY
FRED D. LEE, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lee, Stigler, Oklahoma, was born in Paris, Ark., September 5, 1895, educated in the grammar and high school of Paris, and the Central State Normal at Edmond, Okla.; entered the service October 3, 1917, and ordered to Camp Funston, Ft Riley, Kansas, and became a member of Company 3, 89th Division, 342nd Machine Gun Battalion; promoted to Sergeant. He was ordered overseas in May, 1918, and landed in France, where he was engaged in the battles of Argonne Forest and Chateau Thierry. He was wounded in the ankle, arm and side, and died November 12, 1918, and was buried in the American Cemetery at Baume, France. Just in the flower of manhood he heard the call of a despairing world and marched forth to conquer the foul thing that was devastating the world. On that battle front he offered up his life, the greatest sacrifice that can be made, that Liberty and Peace might still prevail, that a Christian world might live.