MY GRANDFATHER

******* UNITED STATES ARMY *******

9-9-1942 to 10-31-1945
Battery 515th F A BN
Toxic Gas Handler
CAMPAIGNS ~
............Air Offensive Europe
............Northern France
............Rhineland
............Central Europe

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Tread lightly, 'tis a soldiers grave,
A lonely, mossy mound;
And yet to hearts like mine and thine
It should be holy ground~

Speak softly, let no careless laugh,
No idle, thoughtless jest,
Escape your lips where sweetly sleeps
The hero in his rest~

For him no reveille will beat
When morning beams shall come;
For him, at night, no tattoo rolls
Its thunders from the drum~

Tread lightly! for a man bequeathed,
Ere laid beneath this sod,
His ashes to his native land,
His gallant soul to God ~

~*~Codladh sámh~*~
{TRANSLATION: I wish you a peaceful sleep}

PARENTS
Joseph & Daisy McElhiney

WIFE
Rose Alma Beaudry

CHILDREN
Rose Carol
Ruth Alice
Mary Helen

SIBLINGS:
Laura McElhiney Childs (1910 - 2009)*
Grace Josephine McElhiney Beaudry (1915 - 1999)*
Dorothy M. McElhiney (1916 - 1922)*
Frederick O. Heath (1923 - 1979)**
Barbara Irene Heath Hunter (1924 - 1984)**
James A Heath (1926 - 2010)**
LeRoy M. Heath (1930 - 1999)**

GRANDPARENTS:
George ~ 07-01-1852 / 04-02-1905
Margaret ~ 04-04-1863 / 07-24-1944
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Ludlow Malcolm ~ 10-14-1849 / 05-15-1919
Nancy Elvina ~ 10-1-1853 / 03-7-1929

GREAT-GRANDPARENTS:
John ~ b.1818 / 04-01-1888
Isabella ~ b.1827 / 04-07-1901
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Joseph ~ b.1829 / 11-17-1897
Sarah Jane ~ 07-12-1831 / 08-30-1922
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Daniel Malcolm ~ 12-20-1804 / 1880
Martha Jane ~ 03-3-1802 / 06-5-1898
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Isaac ~ b.1812 / 03-1888
Elizabeth ~ b.1818 / 05-05-1877

UNCLES/AUNTS:
John A. ~ b.07-29-1882 / 11-6-1937
Sarah Jane ~ b.02-16-1885
James Reid ~ b.03-19-1887 / 5-5-1954
Elizabeth ~ b.11-23-1892
Isabelle ~ 3-13-1894 / 3-27-1894
Florance Grace ~ b.01-01-1897 / 11-24-1909
Ernest Oliver ~ 4-6-1901
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Gertrude E. ~ b.1875
(Married George W. Belyea)
Thaddeus Daniel ~ b.09-05-1879/07-28-1977
(Married Hattie Clair Belyea/1905)
Martha Jane ~ 11-24-1882/3-7-1961
(Married George Beckwith)
Lucy Agnes ~ b.11-14-1885/05-25-1952
(Married Wilmot Archie Nickerson/1905)
Ethel ~ b.03-31-1892/1932
Inez ~ b.01-23-1895/07-23-1900

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Married on April 18th ~
At 11:13 p.m. on 10-5-1981 he went home with Jesus~

Thank you Lil for sponsoring this Memorial