David Reed was the son of Robert and Anna Theodora (Reath) Reed; he was born on September 12, 1896. He graduated from Bedford High School in 1915 and went to work as a draughtsman at the Reed Powers Cut Stone Company. His family lived at 1227 16th Street, Bedford. 1
He enrolled in Company F, 4th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Indiana National Guard, Bedford, on May 23, 1917. 2 He trained at Fort Benjamin Harrison and was sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi with Battery C, 139th Field Artillery until deployed to France. He returned home with tuberculosis.
The 1920 Census shows him as manager of a taxi stand. For his health, at first he spent Winters in Florida, then, later, he went to Phoenix, Arizona, but nevertheless, died there in April, 1922.
LARGELY
Attended Was the Military Funeral Of David Reed Here Sunday
BURAL IN GREEN HILL
“Military honors were accorded to the memory of David Reed the young World War veteran who passed away in Phoenix, Arizona on Easter Sunday, by the Gillen Post American Legion Sunday afternoon and a large concourse of relatives and friends paid their last sad tribute to his memory by attending the funeral services which were held at two thirty o’clock at the St. John’s Episcopal Church.
“The alter of the church was massed with an unusually large collection of floral offerings (very seldom in this city has such a wealth of exquisite blossoms been seen) which carried to the heats of the sorrowing ones their own sweet message of sympathy.
“The World War veterans in uniform formed the military escort of whom Leslie Pitts, Alfred Campbell, Maurice Zollman, John and Cress McBeith and Fred McCune were pallbearers.
“The services at the church were impressively conducted by Rev. Gentle, rector of the church. “It Is Well With My Soul” and “Lead Kindly Light” were sweetly sung by the Misses Bess and Florence Smith, cousins of the deceased.
“The funeral cortege under escort of the Gillen Post headed by the color bearers – Clifford Noe and Dewey Gresham and the Color Guards – Alvin Mitchell and Chester Carlton and the Firing Squad –Charles Shoulty , Anthus Oldham, Harry Short, Clyde Montgomery, Paul Denniston, Lloyd Trissler, Stanley Wilder and John McVey winded its way to Green Hill cemetery where the beautiful ritualistic services of the Legion were given the last salute was fired and taps sounded by Bugler Steve Pauline as the mortal remains of their beloved comrade were consigned to their last resting place.
”The relatives from out of the county who were here for the funeral were Misses Ottilia and Lizzie Roth of Worthington, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Roth of Terre Haute, Mrs. Samuel [Harriet] Reed and her son George, and Alfred [indecipherable] of Bloomington.”
'The Bedford Daily Mail', Monday, April 24, 1922, Bedford, Indiana*
Our Service Flag
“During the World War St. John’s Church had a Service Flag as a reminder of our boys in the Army. Around the large star for the Bishop, who was Chaplain of Base Hospital No. 32, the others were arranged. There were no gold stars, but there would be one today representing David Reed, whose sufferings ended three and one-half years after the Armistice, and whose death by disease was as truly a war loss as those that occurred in the struggle itself….”
"20th Anniversary Yearbook, 1924", St. John's Episcopal Church, p. 29.
Bedford Daily Mail, April 24, 1922.
Information Provided By: RabbitTrack
1. City Directory, 1915, Bedford, Indiana.
2. Indiana Digital Archives
* Thanks to Joyce Shephard of the Lawrence County Historical Society for help and considerable patience in searching out the Obituaries for David Reed.
He enrolled in Company F, 4th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Indiana National Guard, Bedford, on May 23, 1917. 2 He trained at Fort Benjamin Harrison and was sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi with Battery C, 139th Field Artillery until deployed to France. He returned home with tuberculosis.
The 1920 Census shows him as manager of a taxi stand. For his health, at first he spent Winters in Florida, then, later, he went to Phoenix, Arizona, but nevertheless, died there in April, 1922.
LARGELY
Attended Was the Military Funeral Of David Reed Here Sunday
BURAL IN GREEN HILL
“Military honors were accorded to the memory of David Reed the young World War veteran who passed away in Phoenix, Arizona on Easter Sunday, by the Gillen Post American Legion Sunday afternoon and a large concourse of relatives and friends paid their last sad tribute to his memory by attending the funeral services which were held at two thirty o’clock at the St. John’s Episcopal Church.
“The alter of the church was massed with an unusually large collection of floral offerings (very seldom in this city has such a wealth of exquisite blossoms been seen) which carried to the heats of the sorrowing ones their own sweet message of sympathy.
“The World War veterans in uniform formed the military escort of whom Leslie Pitts, Alfred Campbell, Maurice Zollman, John and Cress McBeith and Fred McCune were pallbearers.
“The services at the church were impressively conducted by Rev. Gentle, rector of the church. “It Is Well With My Soul” and “Lead Kindly Light” were sweetly sung by the Misses Bess and Florence Smith, cousins of the deceased.
“The funeral cortege under escort of the Gillen Post headed by the color bearers – Clifford Noe and Dewey Gresham and the Color Guards – Alvin Mitchell and Chester Carlton and the Firing Squad –Charles Shoulty , Anthus Oldham, Harry Short, Clyde Montgomery, Paul Denniston, Lloyd Trissler, Stanley Wilder and John McVey winded its way to Green Hill cemetery where the beautiful ritualistic services of the Legion were given the last salute was fired and taps sounded by Bugler Steve Pauline as the mortal remains of their beloved comrade were consigned to their last resting place.
”The relatives from out of the county who were here for the funeral were Misses Ottilia and Lizzie Roth of Worthington, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Roth of Terre Haute, Mrs. Samuel [Harriet] Reed and her son George, and Alfred [indecipherable] of Bloomington.”
'The Bedford Daily Mail', Monday, April 24, 1922, Bedford, Indiana*
Our Service Flag
“During the World War St. John’s Church had a Service Flag as a reminder of our boys in the Army. Around the large star for the Bishop, who was Chaplain of Base Hospital No. 32, the others were arranged. There were no gold stars, but there would be one today representing David Reed, whose sufferings ended three and one-half years after the Armistice, and whose death by disease was as truly a war loss as those that occurred in the struggle itself….”
"20th Anniversary Yearbook, 1924", St. John's Episcopal Church, p. 29.
Bedford Daily Mail, April 24, 1922.
Information Provided By: RabbitTrack
1. City Directory, 1915, Bedford, Indiana.
2. Indiana Digital Archives
* Thanks to Joyce Shephard of the Lawrence County Historical Society for help and considerable patience in searching out the Obituaries for David Reed.
David Reed was the son of Robert and Anna Theodora (Reath) Reed; he was born on September 12, 1896. He graduated from Bedford High School in 1915 and went to work as a draughtsman at the Reed Powers Cut Stone Company. His family lived at 1227 16th Street, Bedford. 1
He enrolled in Company F, 4th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Indiana National Guard, Bedford, on May 23, 1917. 2 He trained at Fort Benjamin Harrison and was sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi with Battery C, 139th Field Artillery until deployed to France. He returned home with tuberculosis.
The 1920 Census shows him as manager of a taxi stand. For his health, at first he spent Winters in Florida, then, later, he went to Phoenix, Arizona, but nevertheless, died there in April, 1922.
LARGELY
Attended Was the Military Funeral Of David Reed Here Sunday
BURAL IN GREEN HILL
“Military honors were accorded to the memory of David Reed the young World War veteran who passed away in Phoenix, Arizona on Easter Sunday, by the Gillen Post American Legion Sunday afternoon and a large concourse of relatives and friends paid their last sad tribute to his memory by attending the funeral services which were held at two thirty o’clock at the St. John’s Episcopal Church.
“The alter of the church was massed with an unusually large collection of floral offerings (very seldom in this city has such a wealth of exquisite blossoms been seen) which carried to the heats of the sorrowing ones their own sweet message of sympathy.
“The World War veterans in uniform formed the military escort of whom Leslie Pitts, Alfred Campbell, Maurice Zollman, John and Cress McBeith and Fred McCune were pallbearers.
“The services at the church were impressively conducted by Rev. Gentle, rector of the church. “It Is Well With My Soul” and “Lead Kindly Light” were sweetly sung by the Misses Bess and Florence Smith, cousins of the deceased.
“The funeral cortege under escort of the Gillen Post headed by the color bearers – Clifford Noe and Dewey Gresham and the Color Guards – Alvin Mitchell and Chester Carlton and the Firing Squad –Charles Shoulty , Anthus Oldham, Harry Short, Clyde Montgomery, Paul Denniston, Lloyd Trissler, Stanley Wilder and John McVey winded its way to Green Hill cemetery where the beautiful ritualistic services of the Legion were given the last salute was fired and taps sounded by Bugler Steve Pauline as the mortal remains of their beloved comrade were consigned to their last resting place.
”The relatives from out of the county who were here for the funeral were Misses Ottilia and Lizzie Roth of Worthington, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Roth of Terre Haute, Mrs. Samuel [Harriet] Reed and her son George, and Alfred [indecipherable] of Bloomington.”
'The Bedford Daily Mail', Monday, April 24, 1922, Bedford, Indiana*
Our Service Flag
“During the World War St. John’s Church had a Service Flag as a reminder of our boys in the Army. Around the large star for the Bishop, who was Chaplain of Base Hospital No. 32, the others were arranged. There were no gold stars, but there would be one today representing David Reed, whose sufferings ended three and one-half years after the Armistice, and whose death by disease was as truly a war loss as those that occurred in the struggle itself….”
"20th Anniversary Yearbook, 1924", St. John's Episcopal Church, p. 29.
Bedford Daily Mail, April 24, 1922.
Information Provided By: RabbitTrack
1. City Directory, 1915, Bedford, Indiana.
2. Indiana Digital Archives
* Thanks to Joyce Shephard of the Lawrence County Historical Society for help and considerable patience in searching out the Obituaries for David Reed.
He enrolled in Company F, 4th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Indiana National Guard, Bedford, on May 23, 1917. 2 He trained at Fort Benjamin Harrison and was sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi with Battery C, 139th Field Artillery until deployed to France. He returned home with tuberculosis.
The 1920 Census shows him as manager of a taxi stand. For his health, at first he spent Winters in Florida, then, later, he went to Phoenix, Arizona, but nevertheless, died there in April, 1922.
LARGELY
Attended Was the Military Funeral Of David Reed Here Sunday
BURAL IN GREEN HILL
“Military honors were accorded to the memory of David Reed the young World War veteran who passed away in Phoenix, Arizona on Easter Sunday, by the Gillen Post American Legion Sunday afternoon and a large concourse of relatives and friends paid their last sad tribute to his memory by attending the funeral services which were held at two thirty o’clock at the St. John’s Episcopal Church.
“The alter of the church was massed with an unusually large collection of floral offerings (very seldom in this city has such a wealth of exquisite blossoms been seen) which carried to the heats of the sorrowing ones their own sweet message of sympathy.
“The World War veterans in uniform formed the military escort of whom Leslie Pitts, Alfred Campbell, Maurice Zollman, John and Cress McBeith and Fred McCune were pallbearers.
“The services at the church were impressively conducted by Rev. Gentle, rector of the church. “It Is Well With My Soul” and “Lead Kindly Light” were sweetly sung by the Misses Bess and Florence Smith, cousins of the deceased.
“The funeral cortege under escort of the Gillen Post headed by the color bearers – Clifford Noe and Dewey Gresham and the Color Guards – Alvin Mitchell and Chester Carlton and the Firing Squad –Charles Shoulty , Anthus Oldham, Harry Short, Clyde Montgomery, Paul Denniston, Lloyd Trissler, Stanley Wilder and John McVey winded its way to Green Hill cemetery where the beautiful ritualistic services of the Legion were given the last salute was fired and taps sounded by Bugler Steve Pauline as the mortal remains of their beloved comrade were consigned to their last resting place.
”The relatives from out of the county who were here for the funeral were Misses Ottilia and Lizzie Roth of Worthington, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Roth of Terre Haute, Mrs. Samuel [Harriet] Reed and her son George, and Alfred [indecipherable] of Bloomington.”
'The Bedford Daily Mail', Monday, April 24, 1922, Bedford, Indiana*
Our Service Flag
“During the World War St. John’s Church had a Service Flag as a reminder of our boys in the Army. Around the large star for the Bishop, who was Chaplain of Base Hospital No. 32, the others were arranged. There were no gold stars, but there would be one today representing David Reed, whose sufferings ended three and one-half years after the Armistice, and whose death by disease was as truly a war loss as those that occurred in the struggle itself….”
"20th Anniversary Yearbook, 1924", St. John's Episcopal Church, p. 29.
Bedford Daily Mail, April 24, 1922.
Information Provided By: RabbitTrack
1. City Directory, 1915, Bedford, Indiana.
2. Indiana Digital Archives
* Thanks to Joyce Shephard of the Lawrence County Historical Society for help and considerable patience in searching out the Obituaries for David Reed.
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DAVID REED
1896-1922
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