Born in Dietz, Sheridan County, Wyoming; Died in Youngs Point, Stillwater County, Montana. [Montana Death Certificate Number 1543]
CLAUDE ELMER ELLIOTT – Navy (USS Nanshan)
Seventeen-year old Claude Elmer Elliott enlisted in the United States Navy in March 1918. After training camp, he was assigned to the USS Nanshan - a transport ship traveling the south seas - where he gained enough experience as a fireman to gain his first class rating in only a few months. A true native son, Claude was born in Dietz, Wyoming, in May 1900. He moved to Ranchester when still a boy, and returned there after the war to ranch. In the mid-1930s he and his family moved to southern California, and by 1940, he worked as a gold miner in Plumas County California (in the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains). While he lived with his mother in California, his wife and children were living in Sheridan. Claude died in Stillwater County, Montana, in 1949; he is buried in the Sheridan Municipal Cemetery.
(Letters Home - Navy trailend.org)
Born in Dietz, Sheridan County, Wyoming; Died in Youngs Point, Stillwater County, Montana. [Montana Death Certificate Number 1543]
CLAUDE ELMER ELLIOTT – Navy (USS Nanshan)
Seventeen-year old Claude Elmer Elliott enlisted in the United States Navy in March 1918. After training camp, he was assigned to the USS Nanshan - a transport ship traveling the south seas - where he gained enough experience as a fireman to gain his first class rating in only a few months. A true native son, Claude was born in Dietz, Wyoming, in May 1900. He moved to Ranchester when still a boy, and returned there after the war to ranch. In the mid-1930s he and his family moved to southern California, and by 1940, he worked as a gold miner in Plumas County California (in the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains). While he lived with his mother in California, his wife and children were living in Sheridan. Claude died in Stillwater County, Montana, in 1949; he is buried in the Sheridan Municipal Cemetery.
(Letters Home - Navy trailend.org)
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