PVT. JESSE ECTOR was the son of Isom Ector and Mrs. Angeline (Smith) Ector. He was born in 1889 in Marshall, Texas in Harrison County.
PVT. JESSE ECTOR enlisted in the U.S. Army on November 3, 1913, and he was a respected member of Company H, 25th Infantry.
The news of the brutal and murderous death of PVT. JESSE ECTOR, and the military inquiry surrounding it, was reported and boldly featured on Saturday, January 29, 1916 in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. (The article was printed on Page 2 in the 3:30 Edition of the 24-page newspaper of Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii).
The newspaper reported that the body of PVT. JESSE ECTOR was discovered by two other soldiers on Kole Kole Road near the Schofield Barracks in Honolulu.
On Tuesday, February 29, 1916, the local newspaper, the Marshall News Messenger Semi-Weekly edition, reported a brief announcement about him with the headline "Dead Soldier Returned". The newspaper article reported the following:
"Dead Soldier Returned ---
The body of Jesse Ector, Negro, son of Isom Ector and wife of Marshall, arrived Tuesday from Honolulu. Jesse was 27 years of age. ... The government sent the body to Marshall on request of the parents, and the funeral was held Tuesday."
The unfortunate circumstances of both of Isom Ector's sons, Albert and Jesse, were reported in this same edition of the local newspaper.
Sources
~ US Military Records
~ Newspapers: Marshall News Messenger and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
~ 1900-1910 US Census Records of Harrison County, Texas
To remember PVT. JESSE ECTOR and honor his life, this memorial and its biography has been respectfully submitted courtesy of FindingOurLott, Contributor #48513572.
PVT. JESSE ECTOR enlisted in the U.S. Army on November 3, 1913, and he was a respected member of Company H, 25th Infantry.
The news of the brutal and murderous death of PVT. JESSE ECTOR, and the military inquiry surrounding it, was reported and boldly featured on Saturday, January 29, 1916 in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. (The article was printed on Page 2 in the 3:30 Edition of the 24-page newspaper of Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii).
The newspaper reported that the body of PVT. JESSE ECTOR was discovered by two other soldiers on Kole Kole Road near the Schofield Barracks in Honolulu.
On Tuesday, February 29, 1916, the local newspaper, the Marshall News Messenger Semi-Weekly edition, reported a brief announcement about him with the headline "Dead Soldier Returned". The newspaper article reported the following:
"Dead Soldier Returned ---
The body of Jesse Ector, Negro, son of Isom Ector and wife of Marshall, arrived Tuesday from Honolulu. Jesse was 27 years of age. ... The government sent the body to Marshall on request of the parents, and the funeral was held Tuesday."
The unfortunate circumstances of both of Isom Ector's sons, Albert and Jesse, were reported in this same edition of the local newspaper.
Sources
~ US Military Records
~ Newspapers: Marshall News Messenger and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
~ 1900-1910 US Census Records of Harrison County, Texas
To remember PVT. JESSE ECTOR and honor his life, this memorial and its biography has been respectfully submitted courtesy of FindingOurLott, Contributor #48513572.
PVT. JESSE ECTOR was the son of Isom Ector and Mrs. Angeline (Smith) Ector. He was born in 1889 in Marshall, Texas in Harrison County.
PVT. JESSE ECTOR enlisted in the U.S. Army on November 3, 1913, and he was a respected member of Company H, 25th Infantry.
The news of the brutal and murderous death of PVT. JESSE ECTOR, and the military inquiry surrounding it, was reported and boldly featured on Saturday, January 29, 1916 in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. (The article was printed on Page 2 in the 3:30 Edition of the 24-page newspaper of Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii).
The newspaper reported that the body of PVT. JESSE ECTOR was discovered by two other soldiers on Kole Kole Road near the Schofield Barracks in Honolulu.
On Tuesday, February 29, 1916, the local newspaper, the Marshall News Messenger Semi-Weekly edition, reported a brief announcement about him with the headline "Dead Soldier Returned". The newspaper article reported the following:
"Dead Soldier Returned ---
The body of Jesse Ector, Negro, son of Isom Ector and wife of Marshall, arrived Tuesday from Honolulu. Jesse was 27 years of age. ... The government sent the body to Marshall on request of the parents, and the funeral was held Tuesday."
The unfortunate circumstances of both of Isom Ector's sons, Albert and Jesse, were reported in this same edition of the local newspaper.
Sources
~ US Military Records
~ Newspapers: Marshall News Messenger and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
~ 1900-1910 US Census Records of Harrison County, Texas
To remember PVT. JESSE ECTOR and honor his life, this memorial and its biography has been respectfully submitted courtesy of FindingOurLott, Contributor #48513572.
PVT. JESSE ECTOR enlisted in the U.S. Army on November 3, 1913, and he was a respected member of Company H, 25th Infantry.
The news of the brutal and murderous death of PVT. JESSE ECTOR, and the military inquiry surrounding it, was reported and boldly featured on Saturday, January 29, 1916 in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. (The article was printed on Page 2 in the 3:30 Edition of the 24-page newspaper of Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii).
The newspaper reported that the body of PVT. JESSE ECTOR was discovered by two other soldiers on Kole Kole Road near the Schofield Barracks in Honolulu.
On Tuesday, February 29, 1916, the local newspaper, the Marshall News Messenger Semi-Weekly edition, reported a brief announcement about him with the headline "Dead Soldier Returned". The newspaper article reported the following:
"Dead Soldier Returned ---
The body of Jesse Ector, Negro, son of Isom Ector and wife of Marshall, arrived Tuesday from Honolulu. Jesse was 27 years of age. ... The government sent the body to Marshall on request of the parents, and the funeral was held Tuesday."
The unfortunate circumstances of both of Isom Ector's sons, Albert and Jesse, were reported in this same edition of the local newspaper.
Sources
~ US Military Records
~ Newspapers: Marshall News Messenger and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
~ 1900-1910 US Census Records of Harrison County, Texas
To remember PVT. JESSE ECTOR and honor his life, this memorial and its biography has been respectfully submitted courtesy of FindingOurLott, Contributor #48513572.
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