Son of Edward Silas Medlock and Louisa E. Simmons Medlock.
Obit
The Farmers' Vindicator (Valley Falls) Friday, 25 October 1918
Denison Doings Column
DEATH OF LEROY MEDLOCK
LeRoy Medlock was born near Larkinburg 22 years ago and died of pneumonia at Sedalia, Mo., at midnight Saturday night after an illness of only a few days. His father, Edward S. Medlock was with him when he died and his parents and sister and three brothers have the sympathy of everyone in the community in this stroke of cruel fate which snuffed out a brave young life so suddenly.
Roy was always so lively and cheerful that he made friends everywhere both here and in the training camp at Lawrence. His desire to see France was so great that he kept on his feet just as long as he could, making the treatment of his case all the more difficult. It is a co-incidence that many of the boys who have gone away from this community to fight for world freedom, the only two to be brought home so far, should have lived only a half mile apart–Leo Woods and LeRoy Medlock.
Funeral services are to be held in town Wednesday and burial will be in the cemetery here.
His brother, Charles, who is in the U. S. Naval Training camp at Chicago is expected home Tuesday.
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Lawrence, Kan., August 31. - In the list of 126 former students of the University of Kansas who died in service and in whose honor the Memorial Stadium and Kansas Union building are to be built, is included one Jackson county name, Leroy Francis Medlock. According to records compiled by Professor M. W. Sterling, war historian at the University, Medlock was born September, 1896, at Larkinburg, Kansas. He was graduated from Holton high school in 1916. In the fall of 1918 he entered the Student’s Army Training Corps at K. U. and was on his way to Silver Lake, N. J., for further training when he was forced by illness to stop at Sedalia, Mo., where he died of pneumonia on October 20, 1918. Medlock’s picture and record are included in the Memorial galley in Fraser Hall …
The Holton Recorder, September 22, 1921.
Source: Selected Death Notices by Dan Fenton
Contributor: KUfan (47104946)
Obit
The Farmers' Vindicator (Valley Falls) Friday, 25 October 1918
Denison Doings Column
DEATH OF LEROY MEDLOCK
LeRoy Medlock was born near Larkinburg 22 years ago and died of pneumonia at Sedalia, Mo., at midnight Saturday night after an illness of only a few days. His father, Edward S. Medlock was with him when he died and his parents and sister and three brothers have the sympathy of everyone in the community in this stroke of cruel fate which snuffed out a brave young life so suddenly.
Roy was always so lively and cheerful that he made friends everywhere both here and in the training camp at Lawrence. His desire to see France was so great that he kept on his feet just as long as he could, making the treatment of his case all the more difficult. It is a co-incidence that many of the boys who have gone away from this community to fight for world freedom, the only two to be brought home so far, should have lived only a half mile apart–Leo Woods and LeRoy Medlock.
Funeral services are to be held in town Wednesday and burial will be in the cemetery here.
His brother, Charles, who is in the U. S. Naval Training camp at Chicago is expected home Tuesday.
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Lawrence, Kan., August 31. - In the list of 126 former students of the University of Kansas who died in service and in whose honor the Memorial Stadium and Kansas Union building are to be built, is included one Jackson county name, Leroy Francis Medlock. According to records compiled by Professor M. W. Sterling, war historian at the University, Medlock was born September, 1896, at Larkinburg, Kansas. He was graduated from Holton high school in 1916. In the fall of 1918 he entered the Student’s Army Training Corps at K. U. and was on his way to Silver Lake, N. J., for further training when he was forced by illness to stop at Sedalia, Mo., where he died of pneumonia on October 20, 1918. Medlock’s picture and record are included in the Memorial galley in Fraser Hall …
The Holton Recorder, September 22, 1921.
Source: Selected Death Notices by Dan Fenton
Contributor: KUfan (47104946)
Son of Edward Silas Medlock and Louisa E. Simmons Medlock.
Obit
The Farmers' Vindicator (Valley Falls) Friday, 25 October 1918
Denison Doings Column
DEATH OF LEROY MEDLOCK
LeRoy Medlock was born near Larkinburg 22 years ago and died of pneumonia at Sedalia, Mo., at midnight Saturday night after an illness of only a few days. His father, Edward S. Medlock was with him when he died and his parents and sister and three brothers have the sympathy of everyone in the community in this stroke of cruel fate which snuffed out a brave young life so suddenly.
Roy was always so lively and cheerful that he made friends everywhere both here and in the training camp at Lawrence. His desire to see France was so great that he kept on his feet just as long as he could, making the treatment of his case all the more difficult. It is a co-incidence that many of the boys who have gone away from this community to fight for world freedom, the only two to be brought home so far, should have lived only a half mile apart–Leo Woods and LeRoy Medlock.
Funeral services are to be held in town Wednesday and burial will be in the cemetery here.
His brother, Charles, who is in the U. S. Naval Training camp at Chicago is expected home Tuesday.
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Lawrence, Kan., August 31. - In the list of 126 former students of the University of Kansas who died in service and in whose honor the Memorial Stadium and Kansas Union building are to be built, is included one Jackson county name, Leroy Francis Medlock. According to records compiled by Professor M. W. Sterling, war historian at the University, Medlock was born September, 1896, at Larkinburg, Kansas. He was graduated from Holton high school in 1916. In the fall of 1918 he entered the Student’s Army Training Corps at K. U. and was on his way to Silver Lake, N. J., for further training when he was forced by illness to stop at Sedalia, Mo., where he died of pneumonia on October 20, 1918. Medlock’s picture and record are included in the Memorial galley in Fraser Hall …
The Holton Recorder, September 22, 1921.
Source: Selected Death Notices by Dan Fenton
Contributor: KUfan (47104946)
Obit
The Farmers' Vindicator (Valley Falls) Friday, 25 October 1918
Denison Doings Column
DEATH OF LEROY MEDLOCK
LeRoy Medlock was born near Larkinburg 22 years ago and died of pneumonia at Sedalia, Mo., at midnight Saturday night after an illness of only a few days. His father, Edward S. Medlock was with him when he died and his parents and sister and three brothers have the sympathy of everyone in the community in this stroke of cruel fate which snuffed out a brave young life so suddenly.
Roy was always so lively and cheerful that he made friends everywhere both here and in the training camp at Lawrence. His desire to see France was so great that he kept on his feet just as long as he could, making the treatment of his case all the more difficult. It is a co-incidence that many of the boys who have gone away from this community to fight for world freedom, the only two to be brought home so far, should have lived only a half mile apart–Leo Woods and LeRoy Medlock.
Funeral services are to be held in town Wednesday and burial will be in the cemetery here.
His brother, Charles, who is in the U. S. Naval Training camp at Chicago is expected home Tuesday.
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Lawrence, Kan., August 31. - In the list of 126 former students of the University of Kansas who died in service and in whose honor the Memorial Stadium and Kansas Union building are to be built, is included one Jackson county name, Leroy Francis Medlock. According to records compiled by Professor M. W. Sterling, war historian at the University, Medlock was born September, 1896, at Larkinburg, Kansas. He was graduated from Holton high school in 1916. In the fall of 1918 he entered the Student’s Army Training Corps at K. U. and was on his way to Silver Lake, N. J., for further training when he was forced by illness to stop at Sedalia, Mo., where he died of pneumonia on October 20, 1918. Medlock’s picture and record are included in the Memorial galley in Fraser Hall …
The Holton Recorder, September 22, 1921.
Source: Selected Death Notices by Dan Fenton
Contributor: KUfan (47104946)
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