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John J O'Connor

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John J O'Connor

Birth
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8 Oct 1918 (aged 29–30)
Burial
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
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28-X-118-12
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John J. O'Connor, US Army, 30, died on October 8, 1918 at Camp Sherman, Ohio. He had been been afflicted with pneumonia for two weeks. As of October 14th, a toll of over 938 lives had been lost at Camp Sherman due to the Spanish influenza epidemic.

Funeral services for O'Connor were held at 9:00 a.m. October 14, 1918 at the home of his parents with burial at Calvary Cemetery.

O'Connor was employed at Ware & Bradstreet plumbing for 13 years before enlisting. In a letter home from France in January, 1918, O'Connor told his parents, "Civilization is ten thousand centuries ahead of the Germans, and they will never catch up. If you could only realize what a real battlefield is, you would certainly want to get the Kaiser by the ears. The treatment which one of the men we buried received makes my blood boil. Burning these Germans to ashes before your eyes would be too good for them."

O'Connor was survived by his wife Marie and parents Mr. and Mrs. John O'Connor of 38 South Ringgold Street; six sisters, Kathleen, Margaret, Elizabeth, Theresa, Agnes and Mary, and three brothers, Lieutenant William O'Connor, an army chaplain in France, Edward and Francis.
John J. O'Connor, US Army, 30, died on October 8, 1918 at Camp Sherman, Ohio. He had been been afflicted with pneumonia for two weeks. As of October 14th, a toll of over 938 lives had been lost at Camp Sherman due to the Spanish influenza epidemic.

Funeral services for O'Connor were held at 9:00 a.m. October 14, 1918 at the home of his parents with burial at Calvary Cemetery.

O'Connor was employed at Ware & Bradstreet plumbing for 13 years before enlisting. In a letter home from France in January, 1918, O'Connor told his parents, "Civilization is ten thousand centuries ahead of the Germans, and they will never catch up. If you could only realize what a real battlefield is, you would certainly want to get the Kaiser by the ears. The treatment which one of the men we buried received makes my blood boil. Burning these Germans to ashes before your eyes would be too good for them."

O'Connor was survived by his wife Marie and parents Mr. and Mrs. John O'Connor of 38 South Ringgold Street; six sisters, Kathleen, Margaret, Elizabeth, Theresa, Agnes and Mary, and three brothers, Lieutenant William O'Connor, an army chaplain in France, Edward and Francis.

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