Private John Wesley Hovis

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Parents: Lewis and Mary C. Hovis
Birth: August 30, 1886, Van Buren Township, Brown County Indiana
Occupation: Farmer
Entered service: October 21, 1917, Columbus, Ind. Sent to Camp Taylor, Kentucky
Assigned to: 42nd Co., 11th Training Battalion, 159th Depot Brigade
Transferred to: Camp Shelby, Mississippi
Assigned to: Machine Gun Co 152nd Infantry
Death: pneumonia Jan 2, 1918, Camp Shelby, Mississippi
Burial: Grand View Cemetery
Survived by widow, Grace Hovis, Ogilville, Bartholomew County Indiana

The Columbus Republican
Columbus, Indiana
Thursday, January 10, 1918
Page 5

BODY OF SOLDIER BOY RETURNED FOR BURIAL

Remains of John Hovis Who Died in Hattiesburg, Miss., Brought Back to Home Near Ogilville.

The body of John Hovis, the Bartholomew county soldier who died last week in Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss., from pneumonia, arrived in Columbus Sunday morning on the Pennsylvania railroad, and was taken to the undertaking rooms of Walter Hathaway & Company, where it was turned over to Undertaker William Trempe, of Waynesville, and then taken to the home of the dead soldier's parents in the Grand View neighborhood, west of Ogilville. The funeral was held this afternoon from the Grand View church, with burial in the adjoining cemetery.

Hovis was not quite 31 years of age when the draft was made, and his number came well toward the tip, he being among the first called and sent to the cantonment. There he contracted pneumonia which resulted in his death. He leaves a young wife, having been married only about a year.