Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1918 — GEORGE FRITZ DIES AT CAMP TAYLOR. [ARTICLE]

GEORGE FRITZ DIES AT CAMP TAYLOR.

George B. Fritz of Walker township, who went to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, on September 6 with sevlenbeen other men from this county, died at 9 a. m. Monday from pneumonia. The young man was taken sick the first of last week and his mother, Mrs. Tracy Fritz, was notified and accompanied by her son-in-law, Louie Warren, went to Camp Taylor to see him. He was some better *hen they returned home the last of the week, and it was hoped would get along alright, but Monday evening a message* was received telling them of his death. The body was sent home for burial and was expected to arrive at Medaryville last evening. Ernest Clark, the young man in Milroy township whom The Democrat in its Saturday issue mentioned as being critically ill with pneumonia, died Friday night and was buried at 4 p. m., Sunday in the Benson cemetery. The young man was about nineteen years of age and hadbeen sick only about one week, his illness starting with • in-, fluenza, it is said, which developed in pneumonia. He was a son of Mrs. Elsie Clark of Milroy township, his father having died some years ago. The Kentland four deaths at that place—Lester, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ocey Franklin; Mrs. Harry Brown; Mrs. Henry Epler and John O. Ade, the latter a son of Will Ade and a nephew of George Ade, the well-known autnor and playwright. Many other serious cases were also mentioned. The last issue of the Morocco Courier contained mention of seven deaths at or near that place from pneumonia, following influenza. In addition to. those of Elisha P. Dungan of Conrad, Mrs. Verne Pollock and Charles Sells, which were' reported in Saturday’s Democrat, the

victims were: Geo. L- Posey, aged 29, of near Enos, died at Camp Taylor, Ky.; Ethel May Thomas, aged 21, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas of north of Morocco; Freda, '2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Cory; Carl Peterson, aged 31, of north_ of Morocco.