Bugler Louis Jackson Tabor

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Parents: Erasmus and Susan Tabor
Birth: Aug 4, 1900, Brownstown, Indiana
Moved with parents to Columbus, Indiana in 1909
Occupation: Laborer
Enlisted: U.S. Regular Army, November 2, 1916, Columbus Barracks, Ohio
Transferred to: Fort Houston, Texas
Assigned to: Co E. 28th Infantry
Embarked Overseas: June 14, 1917
Attached to: 1st Division
Death: Killed in action Jul 18, 1918, near Soissons, France
Cited by General Summerall, Division Commander, for bravery in action

The Republic
Columbus, Indiana
Tuesday, December 30, 1919
Page 4

LEWIS TABOR IS KILLED IN ACTION

News of His Death Received by Aged Mother in This City Yesterday.

KILLED IN JULY, 1918

Congressman Benham Helps Mrs. Tabor To Get Word Of Her Son Who Was Silenced By Death.

Mrs. Sarah Tabor, an aged widow living at 135 Washington street, received word yesterday that her son, Lewis Tabor, from whom she had not heard for a year and a half, was killed in action in France in the world war. Mrs. Tabor had previously received word that her son was wounded in action, but she was under the belief that he had recovered from his wounds and was much worried by his long silence.

Killed On July 18, 1918

She made every possible effort to get word from or of her absent son but without success until she enlisted the help of Congressman John S. Benham, who took the matter up with the war department with the result that yesterday, Mrs. Tabor received the following letter from the department, enclosed with one from Congressman Banham:

Washington, Dec. 22, 1919
Honorable John S. Benham.
House of Representatives.
My Dear Sir:

With further reference to your letter of November 10, concerning Private Lewis Tabor, No, 57,365, Company E, 28th Infantry, who was reported as wounded severely in action July 18, 1918, I have the honor to inform you that an exhaustive investigation has failed to elicit any further information regarding this soldier's fate. In view of the fact that he was never seen alive subsequent to July 18, 1918, the day on which he was reported wounded, it is accepted by gthe war department that he was killed in action on that date and a notation that he was killed in action July 18, 1918, has been placed upon the official records.

Very Respectfully,
P. D. Harris,
Per the Adjutant General.
Congressman Writes Letter.

Following is the letter received by Mrs. Tabor from Congressman Benham:

Washington, Dec. 23, 1919.
Mrs. Susan Tabor.
135 S Washington St.
Columbus, Indiana.
My Dear Mrs. Tabor,

"I enclose berewith a copy of the letter I have just received from the adjutant general of the army. Your son has been declared to have been killed in action July 18, 1918, as no record can be found of him in the A.F.F. files."

"I am writing today to the bureau of war risk insurance in regard to collecting your insurance. I will write you again as soon as I hear from the bureau. They will porbably send you some papers to make out in the near future."

Most sincerely yours,
J.S. Benham.

Jackson County Banner
Brownstown, Indiana
Wednesday, August 7, 1918
Page 1

LOUIS TABOR INJURED

Columbus, Ind., Aug. 6.-Mrs. Susan Tabor, an elderly widow of this city, received a telegram today from the War Department informing her that her son, Private Lewis Tabor was wounded severely while in action in France on July 18. Private Tabor enlisted in the infantry here two years ago, when he was 18 years old, and among the first soldiers sent to France from the United States.

Louis Tabor was born and reared in Brownstown, where his mother resided until she moved to Columbus a few years ago. He is a brother of Ed Tabor of this place./p>

The Tribune
Seymour, Indiana
Monday, February 12, 1920
Page 3

MOTHER GETS MESSAGE WRITTEN BY DYING SON

Mrs. Susan Tabor, Formerly of Jackson County, Gets Information From Red Cross Nurse.

Mrs. Susan Tabor, of Columbus, a former resident of Jackson county, has received the following message which was written by her son, Louis Tabor, just before he died of wounds received in the battle of the Argonne:

"Mother, dear, do not worry, over me. I am all right. Tell all my friends that I died happy. I was just shot and I know I will die. So, good-by all, and let God bless you. I can not write more, I am too weak."

The message was sent to the mother by Miss Bertha Kilain, a Red Cross nurse, who had charge of young Tabor's case at a base hospital in France, but who is now in Cleveland, O. Accompanying the message was a letter from the nurse in which the writer gave the mother the details of her son's death.