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Show lie cimii Stricken With Pneumonia, Earl Mace Dies in Two Days He is First Bingham Soldier to Die in Service of His Country-Enlisted Country-Enlisted February 16 Military Burial Service Held in, Salt Lake. i William Earl Mace, son of Mr. an Mrs. William Mace, of Copperfield, died last Friday night at Vancouver, Washington, after an illness of. two days of pneumonia. ' s t Mr. Mace enlisted with a number of other Copperfield boys and left for th-encampment th-encampment February 16th. After being be-ing there about two weeks he was, stricken with pneumonia and died in two days after the attack. When the seriousness of his case was known his mother was notified and she set. out at once for the encampment, but he died before she could reach his bed- -side. lie was 26 years of age and had re-Bided re-Bided in Copperfield ror about eighteen eigh-teen years. For a number of years he-had he-had been In the employ of the Utah Copper Company. He wes a splendid young man and when news reached. 4 here of his sudden death it cast a gloom over the entire camp. 'He is the first soldier of this camp to meet death in the service of hiss country since the war commenced. HJs remains were shipped to Salt Lake Wednesday, where fitting mill-tary mill-tary burial services will be held at noon today. iBurial will be in Mt. Olivet Oli-vet cemetery. |