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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SECOND LIEUTENANT JAMES J. SWOFFORD, JR.

Forty-third Field Artillery. Died at Fort Sill, Okla., on November 7, 1918, after ten

days' illness.

��2nd Lt. JAS. J. SWOFFORD, JR.

��Lieutenant Swofford was born in Kan- sas City, Mo., on September 5, 1893. After receiving a public school education he entered Princeton University, gradua- ting in 1915, v^inning the Junior Ora- tion. He then entered the banking busi- ness with the Commerce Trust Co. of Kan- sas City. As a member of the State National Guard of Missouri he had been awarded a sharpshooter's medal. Lieuten- ant Swofford resigned his position to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, w^here he was assigned to the First Battery. Upon receipt of his commission he was ordered to Fort Sill, where he instructed and v^as finally as- signed to the 43rd Field Artillery. During the latter part of October, 1918, he was taken ill, and later succumbed on Novem- ber 7th. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James J. Swofford, Sr., he is survived by one brother and one sister, all of w^hom reside in Kansas City, Mo. He was un- married.

��MAJOR JOHN L. TAYLOR

Ninth Infantry, Second Division. Died on August 30, 1918, in A. E. F. hospital from wounds received in action at Chateau Thierry on July 18, 1918.

��Major Taylor was born in Middleburg, Kentucky, on July 28, 1886. He was educated in the public schools of that city and graduated from Middleburg Col- lege in 1905. He served with the Na- tional Guard along the Mexican border with the i 4th Cavalry. He was ad- mitted to the Second Officers' Train- ing Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was commissioned a captain and ordered over- seas, sailing in January, 1918. After fur- ther instruction in France he was assigned to the 28th Infantry of the First Division, later being transferred to the 9th in- fantry of the Second Division, v^here he was promoted to a majority. On July 18, 1918, Major Taylor received wounds during the Chateau Thierry fighting which caused his death on August 30, 1918. He is survived by his w^idow and two children, who reside in Laredo, Texas, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Taylor, who reside in Middleburg, Ky.

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��Maj. JOHN L. TAYLOR

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