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Show LAST RITES FOR CEDARSOLDIER. Headers of The Record will re-ember re-ember Elmer V. Jcspcrson, who resided re-sided in Cedar with his parents in 1017, and who volunteered for servico at tho entrance of tho United States in tho Into war. Ho was a young man who was well thought of and intensely patriotic. pa-triotic. When tho call came for volunteers vol-unteers ho enlisted at Salt Lako in tho 43rd company of tho Fifth marines, ma-rines, August 4, 1917. Ho saw servico ser-vico from tho time of his enlistment until Juno 3, 1918, when ho was killed kill-ed by a machine gun bullet in tho battlo of. Chateau Thierry, while "going over tho top." After his death his parents went to Ft. Lowell, Arizona, and it was thcro that the body of their hero son was sent for burial Sept. 2. Ini-prcssivo Ini-prcssivo services wcro held under tho auspices of tho Tuscon Legion post. Wo clip tho following concerning tho funeral services of Private Jcspcrson Jcs-pcrson from tho Arizona Daily Star: "With impressive military ceremony cere-mony tho remains of Private Elmer V. Jcspcrson, who gavo his lifo at Chateau,Thicrry, wore laid to rest Sunday afternoon at tho Mormon burial ground at Fort Lowell. '.'Tho funeral of tho overseas hero was attended not only by 100 ox-8crvico ox-8crvico men in uniform, who took part in tho solemn rites, but by many Tuscon civilians, who answered answer-ed tho call and paid tribute to tho dead hero. The Legion members, in command of Dr. I. E. Hufman. Morgan Mor-gan McDcrmott post commander, woro well represented. There wcro fully seventy-fivo of these at tho funoral and about -twenty-five from among tho government patients at Pastime Park. These boys wore driven to and from the funoral by Tusconans, who donated their cars that the sick men might honor tho memory of their falUm comrade. .. lho'tuneraKgeryiceH.which were held at 2 o'clock" aiTtho Chm-clT'of Latter-Day Saints at Fort Lowell, was crowded by tho relatives of tho dead hero and their numerous friends from among tho members of tho Mormon colony. Tho Morgan McDcrmott post men, undor whose auspices tho burial was conducted, formed at tho Tusccn armory ar-mory and wcro driven to tho sccno of tho funeral in cars. The military procession, headed, by tho firing squad, formed about tho casket and marched with it from tho church to tho cemetery. When tho last spadeful spade-ful of earth had fallen upon tho filled grave, taps wero sounded by tho bugler .after which tho nearby mountains re-echoed with tho volley firedV acrosdtho, .gravc,A ThSfivo brothers of tho fallen hero and an intimate friend wcro his pall-beaers. Thcro wero many tributes, trib-utes, including two claborato pieces 'sent by tho Morgan McDcrmott post. Tho body of Private Jesperson, which sinco his killing on tho battlefield bat-tlefield on Juno 13, 1918. has filled a grave in tho American military cemetery at t Chateau Thierry, was disinterred, and with 5,000 other bodies brought to tho United States by tho U. S. army, transport Wheat-on. Wheat-on. Private. Jesperson enlisted in tho Fifth marines jus,t eleven months be-foro be-foro hiB death from a machine gun bullet while going over tho top." |