Raymond Barbour

Private Wallace Raymond Barbour, S.A.T.C.

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Parents: Francis W. and Carrie Bradford Barbour
Birth: November 1, 1896, Burnsville, Bartholomew County, Indiana
Occupation: Farmer
Entered: Student Army Training Corps, October 15, 1918, Winona Lake, Indiana
assigned to Company C. Motor Truck Service
Contracted pneumonia; removed to McDonald Hospital, Warsaw, Indiana
Death: October 29, 1918
Burial: in family cemetery, Burnsville, Bartholomew County, Ind

The Republic
Columbus, Indiana
Wednesday, October 30, 1918
Page 4

ANOTHER VICTIM

RAYMOND BARBOUR, OF ROCK CREEK TOWNSHIP, DIED OF SPANISH INFLUENZA AT WINONA LAKE TUESDAY.

The Spanish influenza has claimed another Bartholomew county soldier in the person of Raymond Barbour, the 21 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barbour, of Rockcreek township, who died of the disease in a military camp at Winona Lake yesterday afternoon. Word was received of his death at Grammer late yesterday afternoon.

The young soldier was a 1918 registrant and had been in camp but about two weeks. Besides his parents the soldier is survived by a brother and sister, harold Barbour, who is at Camp Taylor, and Florene Barbour, at home. The dead soldier was an exemplary young man, who had many friends and admirers in the neighborhood in which he lived.

Funeral from the late home near Burnsville at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon will be conducted by Rev. J.H. Allen, of the Burnsville Episcopal church. The funeral will be private. The body was expected to be brought to this city this afternoon.

The Republic
Columbus, Indiana
Thursday, October 31, 1918
Page 4

RAYMOND BARBOUR FUNERAL.

The funeral of the late Raymond Barbour, of near Burnsville, a soldier who died at Winona Lake, which was announced for this afternoon has been postponed until tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. The funeral will be held from the late home and the body will be buried in the Burnsville cemetery.