World War Veteran Buried Last Friday
H.C. Aston, World War veteran, died at the Central Hotel Thursday afternoon about 4 o´clock following a long illness. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church Friday afternoon with Rev. E. L. Yeates officiating. Interment followed in Spur cemetery with Webber Williams in charge.
The American Legion Post at Spur acted as pallbearers and conducted a legion service at the cemetery with Rev. Chaplain R.C. Brown delivering the address.
Henry Clay Aston was a native of Texas and according to his service record was born Dec. 6, 1886 and was 49 years two months and 14 days old at the time of his death. Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Clay Aston and one brother, John Aston of Spur.
Mr. Aston was reared in West Texas and Arizona, going east before the war, enlisting in the army in Pennsylvania June 19, 1915,. He was a horseshoer in Supply Co. 107 F.A. 28th Division overseas, going to France from the U.S., May 18, 1918. He served both in France and Belgium and engaged in the following battles: Fismes-Visle Sector, Olsne Aisne Offensive, Yypres-Lye Offensive. He was awarded the Victory medal while in the service. He returned to the U.S. May 9, 1919. Since the war he had been farming in Dickens County.
©The Texas Spur, February 27, 1936
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
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