18 year old Claude Herbert, Spanish-American war veteran, was at his job as a store Santa Claus at the Haven and Geddes Department Store, downtown Terre Haute, a few days before Christmas, 1898.
When a devastating fire broke out, Claude heroically saved several children as well as several others, before losing his own life in the fire. His few remains were interred at Highland Lawn Cemetery.∼Death Record Book CH46/Page 60 & H37/Page 37
Interred 19 Dec 1898
Source: OLD CEM Database/City of Terre Haute Website
https://www.wane.com/news/indiana/monument-to-indiana-soldier-hero-of-1898-fire-to-be-moved/
A monument to a young soldier who died in 1898 after rescuing children and workers from a fire at a western Indiana department store where he was portraying Santa Claus will be refurbished and moved next year to the site of the fire.
Contributor: LMafera (48395226) • [email protected]
When a devastating fire broke out, Claude heroically saved several children as well as several others, before losing his own life in the fire. His few remains were interred at Highland Lawn Cemetery.∼Death Record Book CH46/Page 60 & H37/Page 37
Interred 19 Dec 1898
Source: OLD CEM Database/City of Terre Haute Website
https://www.wane.com/news/indiana/monument-to-indiana-soldier-hero-of-1898-fire-to-be-moved/
A monument to a young soldier who died in 1898 after rescuing children and workers from a fire at a western Indiana department store where he was portraying Santa Claus will be refurbished and moved next year to the site of the fire.
Contributor: LMafera (48395226) • [email protected]
18 year old Claude Herbert, Spanish-American war veteran, was at his job as a store Santa Claus at the Haven and Geddes Department Store, downtown Terre Haute, a few days before Christmas, 1898.
When a devastating fire broke out, Claude heroically saved several children as well as several others, before losing his own life in the fire. His few remains were interred at Highland Lawn Cemetery.∼Death Record Book CH46/Page 60 & H37/Page 37
Interred 19 Dec 1898
Source: OLD CEM Database/City of Terre Haute Website
https://www.wane.com/news/indiana/monument-to-indiana-soldier-hero-of-1898-fire-to-be-moved/
A monument to a young soldier who died in 1898 after rescuing children and workers from a fire at a western Indiana department store where he was portraying Santa Claus will be refurbished and moved next year to the site of the fire.
Contributor: LMafera (48395226) • [email protected]
When a devastating fire broke out, Claude heroically saved several children as well as several others, before losing his own life in the fire. His few remains were interred at Highland Lawn Cemetery.∼Death Record Book CH46/Page 60 & H37/Page 37
Interred 19 Dec 1898
Source: OLD CEM Database/City of Terre Haute Website
https://www.wane.com/news/indiana/monument-to-indiana-soldier-hero-of-1898-fire-to-be-moved/
A monument to a young soldier who died in 1898 after rescuing children and workers from a fire at a western Indiana department store where he was portraying Santa Claus will be refurbished and moved next year to the site of the fire.
Contributor: LMafera (48395226) • [email protected]
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