John Clay Shipp, registered for the World War 1 Draft, while living in Clay County, and subsequently removed to Montana. The Great Falls Tribune, announced Clay's appointment to the marine corps, to report to Mare Island, California for training in 1918.
Clay served two years in the 350th Infantry, 88th Division as a supply company wagoner . Upon returning he set up a homestead in Montana, qualifying for 320 acres, living in the Lismas section, Valley County. Shipp drowned in the Missouri River on September 9, 1926, while returning from a cattle drive. He was unable to swim because he was loaded down with chaps and other paraphernalia. Lismas is now part of the Fort Peck Lake, a man-made reservoir created in the 1930s.
He never married.
Clay served two years in the 350th Infantry, 88th Division as a supply company wagoner . Upon returning he set up a homestead in Montana, qualifying for 320 acres, living in the Lismas section, Valley County. Shipp drowned in the Missouri River on September 9, 1926, while returning from a cattle drive. He was unable to swim because he was loaded down with chaps and other paraphernalia. Lismas is now part of the Fort Peck Lake, a man-made reservoir created in the 1930s.
He never married.
John Clay Shipp, registered for the World War 1 Draft, while living in Clay County, and subsequently removed to Montana. The Great Falls Tribune, announced Clay's appointment to the marine corps, to report to Mare Island, California for training in 1918.
Clay served two years in the 350th Infantry, 88th Division as a supply company wagoner . Upon returning he set up a homestead in Montana, qualifying for 320 acres, living in the Lismas section, Valley County. Shipp drowned in the Missouri River on September 9, 1926, while returning from a cattle drive. He was unable to swim because he was loaded down with chaps and other paraphernalia. Lismas is now part of the Fort Peck Lake, a man-made reservoir created in the 1930s.
He never married.
Clay served two years in the 350th Infantry, 88th Division as a supply company wagoner . Upon returning he set up a homestead in Montana, qualifying for 320 acres, living in the Lismas section, Valley County. Shipp drowned in the Missouri River on September 9, 1926, while returning from a cattle drive. He was unable to swim because he was loaded down with chaps and other paraphernalia. Lismas is now part of the Fort Peck Lake, a man-made reservoir created in the 1930s.
He never married.
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