Homer Smith Jarvis is buried in the Field of Honor and was a Recipiant of the American Distinguished Service Cross and a Purple Heart. According to his World War II Resigistraion Card he had a scar on his seventh rib on the right side. In other words he had been shot in the chest durring World War I. He was a career military man. After World War I he settled in Pocatello, Idaho in the army reserves. He maried Bessie Myrtle Kinney/Curtis of Island Park on the Snake River just outside of Payette, Idaho. (This island has been renamed and no living relative can verify exactly which Island it was.)
Homer and Bessie had three children, two boys and a girl. Bessie had a severly toxic pregnancy after the third child and it was a choice to either terminate the pregnacy or die. Homer wanted her to carry it to her death, so that he could have the baby. Bessie, of course, chose life and had the pregnacy terminated to save her life. Bessie and Homer divorced in May of 1930. Homer disappears afterward until the mid 1950's when he returned to the Boise area and began working for members of his son-in-law's family.
In 1938 and 1940, he registered to vote in Los Angels, California giving his half-sister's, Grace Peirce, home as his place of residence. His Draft Registration Record for World War II gives his address as a hotel in Akron, Ohio. Dated 25 April 1942.
Those who remember Homer, remember him as being an extremely selfish man, a character put here to remind us of how much we are loved by those around us, and how much we miss it when the love just isn't there.
He went into the Veteran's Hospital in early December 1963. He asked his daughter to stay with him, but her son was having a birthday and she felt she needed to be there for it. She lived high in the mountains above Boise and was snowed in until after Homer's death in January. His daughter made all his funeral arangements alone.
In the years following Homer's death, his daughter, Betty, recived a letter from someone in Iowa for Homer. There was no identifying information on the envelope, so she opened it to see who was trying to contact her father. The letter was written to the individual's father. Betty sent a letter to this unknown child explaining Homer's death, but never heard back. It is not know if Homer remaried, or how many more children he had.
Of Homer and Bessie's children non are left living. Their oldest son, Curtis, just past in December 2010. His remains were cremated, and are to be spread at Smith Prairie, Elmore, Idaho. Homer and Bessie's second child Homer Eugene Jarvis is burried in Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home, Idaho. Their daughter, Betty May Jarvis Davison, died of lukemia in Mountain Home on January 16, 2009.
Distiguished Service Cross Citation
Jarvis, Homer S.
1rst Lieutenant, US Army
11th Machine-Gun Batallion, 4th Division, A.E.F.
Date of Action: September 26, 1918
Citation:
The Distiquished Service Cross is presented to Homer S. Jarvis, First Lieutenant, US Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Nantillois, France, September 26, 1918. Lieutenant Jarvis, with another officer and a soldier, using captured German Maxim guns,pushed forward to a heavily shelled area from which the infantry had withdrawn, and by their accurate and effective fire kept groups of the enemy from occupying advantageous positions. Maintaining fire superiority, all afternoon, Lieutenant Jarvis withdrew from his dangerous position only when it became too dark to see.
General Orders No. 138, W.D.,1918
Home Town: Caldwell, Idaho
The following excerpts taken from "History of Idaho:Gem of the Mountains"
"... Soon after the declaration of war, orders to mobilize the Second Idaho were received by Governor Alexander, who transmitted the order to Adjutant General C. S. Moody,and within a comparatively short time the twelve companies composing the regiment were quartered at the Boise Barracks to await further orders. As late as the middle of June the regiment was 380 men short of the required war strength, and C. F. Clark was appointed to conduct a recruiting campaign. Offices were opened at Boise, Idaho Falls, Pocatello and Twin Falls, with the result that when the regiment was drafted into the United States service on August 5, 1917, it consisted of twelve full infantry companies, a machine gun company, a supply company and a headquarters company twelve men more than the full war strength, and these twelve were turned over to the regular army. ...
... The machine gun company was composed of men from different sections of the state, with Woodson Jeffreys as captain and Homer S. Jarvis, first lieutenant. ...
... On September 21, 1917, the regiment was ordered to Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina, where it lost its identity much to the regret of the officers and men. The first battalion was assigned to the One Hundred and Forty-Sixth Field Artillery; the second battalion to the One Hundred and Sixteenth Engineers ; the third battalion to the One Hundred and Forty-Sixth machine gun battalion; the machine gun company to the One Hundred and Forty-Seventh machine gun battalion, and the field hospital company was divided among four companies. All these organizations were attached to the Forty-First Division. ...
... After a short time at Camp Greene, the regiment was moved to Camp Mills, and from points of embarkation near there boarded transports for France, where the Idaho boys gave a good account of themselves on the firing line. ..."
Homer and Bessie had three children, two boys and a girl. Bessie had a severly toxic pregnancy after the third child and it was a choice to either terminate the pregnacy or die. Homer wanted her to carry it to her death, so that he could have the baby. Bessie, of course, chose life and had the pregnacy terminated to save her life. Bessie and Homer divorced in May of 1930. Homer disappears afterward until the mid 1950's when he returned to the Boise area and began working for members of his son-in-law's family.
In 1938 and 1940, he registered to vote in Los Angels, California giving his half-sister's, Grace Peirce, home as his place of residence. His Draft Registration Record for World War II gives his address as a hotel in Akron, Ohio. Dated 25 April 1942.
Those who remember Homer, remember him as being an extremely selfish man, a character put here to remind us of how much we are loved by those around us, and how much we miss it when the love just isn't there.
He went into the Veteran's Hospital in early December 1963. He asked his daughter to stay with him, but her son was having a birthday and she felt she needed to be there for it. She lived high in the mountains above Boise and was snowed in until after Homer's death in January. His daughter made all his funeral arangements alone.
In the years following Homer's death, his daughter, Betty, recived a letter from someone in Iowa for Homer. There was no identifying information on the envelope, so she opened it to see who was trying to contact her father. The letter was written to the individual's father. Betty sent a letter to this unknown child explaining Homer's death, but never heard back. It is not know if Homer remaried, or how many more children he had.
Of Homer and Bessie's children non are left living. Their oldest son, Curtis, just past in December 2010. His remains were cremated, and are to be spread at Smith Prairie, Elmore, Idaho. Homer and Bessie's second child Homer Eugene Jarvis is burried in Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home, Idaho. Their daughter, Betty May Jarvis Davison, died of lukemia in Mountain Home on January 16, 2009.
Distiguished Service Cross Citation
Jarvis, Homer S.
1rst Lieutenant, US Army
11th Machine-Gun Batallion, 4th Division, A.E.F.
Date of Action: September 26, 1918
Citation:
The Distiquished Service Cross is presented to Homer S. Jarvis, First Lieutenant, US Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Nantillois, France, September 26, 1918. Lieutenant Jarvis, with another officer and a soldier, using captured German Maxim guns,pushed forward to a heavily shelled area from which the infantry had withdrawn, and by their accurate and effective fire kept groups of the enemy from occupying advantageous positions. Maintaining fire superiority, all afternoon, Lieutenant Jarvis withdrew from his dangerous position only when it became too dark to see.
General Orders No. 138, W.D.,1918
Home Town: Caldwell, Idaho
The following excerpts taken from "History of Idaho:Gem of the Mountains"
"... Soon after the declaration of war, orders to mobilize the Second Idaho were received by Governor Alexander, who transmitted the order to Adjutant General C. S. Moody,and within a comparatively short time the twelve companies composing the regiment were quartered at the Boise Barracks to await further orders. As late as the middle of June the regiment was 380 men short of the required war strength, and C. F. Clark was appointed to conduct a recruiting campaign. Offices were opened at Boise, Idaho Falls, Pocatello and Twin Falls, with the result that when the regiment was drafted into the United States service on August 5, 1917, it consisted of twelve full infantry companies, a machine gun company, a supply company and a headquarters company twelve men more than the full war strength, and these twelve were turned over to the regular army. ...
... The machine gun company was composed of men from different sections of the state, with Woodson Jeffreys as captain and Homer S. Jarvis, first lieutenant. ...
... On September 21, 1917, the regiment was ordered to Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina, where it lost its identity much to the regret of the officers and men. The first battalion was assigned to the One Hundred and Forty-Sixth Field Artillery; the second battalion to the One Hundred and Sixteenth Engineers ; the third battalion to the One Hundred and Forty-Sixth machine gun battalion; the machine gun company to the One Hundred and Forty-Seventh machine gun battalion, and the field hospital company was divided among four companies. All these organizations were attached to the Forty-First Division. ...
... After a short time at Camp Greene, the regiment was moved to Camp Mills, and from points of embarkation near there boarded transports for France, where the Idaho boys gave a good account of themselves on the firing line. ..."
Homer Smith Jarvis is buried in the Field of Honor and was a Recipiant of the American Distinguished Service Cross and a Purple Heart. According to his World War II Resigistraion Card he had a scar on his seventh rib on the right side. In other words he had been shot in the chest durring World War I. He was a career military man. After World War I he settled in Pocatello, Idaho in the army reserves. He maried Bessie Myrtle Kinney/Curtis of Island Park on the Snake River just outside of Payette, Idaho. (This island has been renamed and no living relative can verify exactly which Island it was.)
Homer and Bessie had three children, two boys and a girl. Bessie had a severly toxic pregnancy after the third child and it was a choice to either terminate the pregnacy or die. Homer wanted her to carry it to her death, so that he could have the baby. Bessie, of course, chose life and had the pregnacy terminated to save her life. Bessie and Homer divorced in May of 1930. Homer disappears afterward until the mid 1950's when he returned to the Boise area and began working for members of his son-in-law's family.
In 1938 and 1940, he registered to vote in Los Angels, California giving his half-sister's, Grace Peirce, home as his place of residence. His Draft Registration Record for World War II gives his address as a hotel in Akron, Ohio. Dated 25 April 1942.
Those who remember Homer, remember him as being an extremely selfish man, a character put here to remind us of how much we are loved by those around us, and how much we miss it when the love just isn't there.
He went into the Veteran's Hospital in early December 1963. He asked his daughter to stay with him, but her son was having a birthday and she felt she needed to be there for it. She lived high in the mountains above Boise and was snowed in until after Homer's death in January. His daughter made all his funeral arangements alone.
In the years following Homer's death, his daughter, Betty, recived a letter from someone in Iowa for Homer. There was no identifying information on the envelope, so she opened it to see who was trying to contact her father. The letter was written to the individual's father. Betty sent a letter to this unknown child explaining Homer's death, but never heard back. It is not know if Homer remaried, or how many more children he had.
Of Homer and Bessie's children non are left living. Their oldest son, Curtis, just past in December 2010. His remains were cremated, and are to be spread at Smith Prairie, Elmore, Idaho. Homer and Bessie's second child Homer Eugene Jarvis is burried in Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home, Idaho. Their daughter, Betty May Jarvis Davison, died of lukemia in Mountain Home on January 16, 2009.
Distiguished Service Cross Citation
Jarvis, Homer S.
1rst Lieutenant, US Army
11th Machine-Gun Batallion, 4th Division, A.E.F.
Date of Action: September 26, 1918
Citation:
The Distiquished Service Cross is presented to Homer S. Jarvis, First Lieutenant, US Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Nantillois, France, September 26, 1918. Lieutenant Jarvis, with another officer and a soldier, using captured German Maxim guns,pushed forward to a heavily shelled area from which the infantry had withdrawn, and by their accurate and effective fire kept groups of the enemy from occupying advantageous positions. Maintaining fire superiority, all afternoon, Lieutenant Jarvis withdrew from his dangerous position only when it became too dark to see.
General Orders No. 138, W.D.,1918
Home Town: Caldwell, Idaho
The following excerpts taken from "History of Idaho:Gem of the Mountains"
"... Soon after the declaration of war, orders to mobilize the Second Idaho were received by Governor Alexander, who transmitted the order to Adjutant General C. S. Moody,and within a comparatively short time the twelve companies composing the regiment were quartered at the Boise Barracks to await further orders. As late as the middle of June the regiment was 380 men short of the required war strength, and C. F. Clark was appointed to conduct a recruiting campaign. Offices were opened at Boise, Idaho Falls, Pocatello and Twin Falls, with the result that when the regiment was drafted into the United States service on August 5, 1917, it consisted of twelve full infantry companies, a machine gun company, a supply company and a headquarters company twelve men more than the full war strength, and these twelve were turned over to the regular army. ...
... The machine gun company was composed of men from different sections of the state, with Woodson Jeffreys as captain and Homer S. Jarvis, first lieutenant. ...
... On September 21, 1917, the regiment was ordered to Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina, where it lost its identity much to the regret of the officers and men. The first battalion was assigned to the One Hundred and Forty-Sixth Field Artillery; the second battalion to the One Hundred and Sixteenth Engineers ; the third battalion to the One Hundred and Forty-Sixth machine gun battalion; the machine gun company to the One Hundred and Forty-Seventh machine gun battalion, and the field hospital company was divided among four companies. All these organizations were attached to the Forty-First Division. ...
... After a short time at Camp Greene, the regiment was moved to Camp Mills, and from points of embarkation near there boarded transports for France, where the Idaho boys gave a good account of themselves on the firing line. ..."
Homer and Bessie had three children, two boys and a girl. Bessie had a severly toxic pregnancy after the third child and it was a choice to either terminate the pregnacy or die. Homer wanted her to carry it to her death, so that he could have the baby. Bessie, of course, chose life and had the pregnacy terminated to save her life. Bessie and Homer divorced in May of 1930. Homer disappears afterward until the mid 1950's when he returned to the Boise area and began working for members of his son-in-law's family.
In 1938 and 1940, he registered to vote in Los Angels, California giving his half-sister's, Grace Peirce, home as his place of residence. His Draft Registration Record for World War II gives his address as a hotel in Akron, Ohio. Dated 25 April 1942.
Those who remember Homer, remember him as being an extremely selfish man, a character put here to remind us of how much we are loved by those around us, and how much we miss it when the love just isn't there.
He went into the Veteran's Hospital in early December 1963. He asked his daughter to stay with him, but her son was having a birthday and she felt she needed to be there for it. She lived high in the mountains above Boise and was snowed in until after Homer's death in January. His daughter made all his funeral arangements alone.
In the years following Homer's death, his daughter, Betty, recived a letter from someone in Iowa for Homer. There was no identifying information on the envelope, so she opened it to see who was trying to contact her father. The letter was written to the individual's father. Betty sent a letter to this unknown child explaining Homer's death, but never heard back. It is not know if Homer remaried, or how many more children he had.
Of Homer and Bessie's children non are left living. Their oldest son, Curtis, just past in December 2010. His remains were cremated, and are to be spread at Smith Prairie, Elmore, Idaho. Homer and Bessie's second child Homer Eugene Jarvis is burried in Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home, Idaho. Their daughter, Betty May Jarvis Davison, died of lukemia in Mountain Home on January 16, 2009.
Distiguished Service Cross Citation
Jarvis, Homer S.
1rst Lieutenant, US Army
11th Machine-Gun Batallion, 4th Division, A.E.F.
Date of Action: September 26, 1918
Citation:
The Distiquished Service Cross is presented to Homer S. Jarvis, First Lieutenant, US Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Nantillois, France, September 26, 1918. Lieutenant Jarvis, with another officer and a soldier, using captured German Maxim guns,pushed forward to a heavily shelled area from which the infantry had withdrawn, and by their accurate and effective fire kept groups of the enemy from occupying advantageous positions. Maintaining fire superiority, all afternoon, Lieutenant Jarvis withdrew from his dangerous position only when it became too dark to see.
General Orders No. 138, W.D.,1918
Home Town: Caldwell, Idaho
The following excerpts taken from "History of Idaho:Gem of the Mountains"
"... Soon after the declaration of war, orders to mobilize the Second Idaho were received by Governor Alexander, who transmitted the order to Adjutant General C. S. Moody,and within a comparatively short time the twelve companies composing the regiment were quartered at the Boise Barracks to await further orders. As late as the middle of June the regiment was 380 men short of the required war strength, and C. F. Clark was appointed to conduct a recruiting campaign. Offices were opened at Boise, Idaho Falls, Pocatello and Twin Falls, with the result that when the regiment was drafted into the United States service on August 5, 1917, it consisted of twelve full infantry companies, a machine gun company, a supply company and a headquarters company twelve men more than the full war strength, and these twelve were turned over to the regular army. ...
... The machine gun company was composed of men from different sections of the state, with Woodson Jeffreys as captain and Homer S. Jarvis, first lieutenant. ...
... On September 21, 1917, the regiment was ordered to Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina, where it lost its identity much to the regret of the officers and men. The first battalion was assigned to the One Hundred and Forty-Sixth Field Artillery; the second battalion to the One Hundred and Sixteenth Engineers ; the third battalion to the One Hundred and Forty-Sixth machine gun battalion; the machine gun company to the One Hundred and Forty-Seventh machine gun battalion, and the field hospital company was divided among four companies. All these organizations were attached to the Forty-First Division. ...
... After a short time at Camp Greene, the regiment was moved to Camp Mills, and from points of embarkation near there boarded transports for France, where the Idaho boys gave a good account of themselves on the firing line. ..."
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