Private Clarence Lockhart

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Parents: Andrew J. and Anna Sharr Lockhart
Birth: February 24, 1894, Vallonia, Jackson County, Indiana
Occupation: Farmer
Entered service: May 4, 1918, Brownstown, Indiana
Sent to: Ft. Thomas, Kentucky
Assigned to: Company G, 52nd Infantry
Transferred to: Camp Taylor, Kentucky
Overseas: July 1918
DEath: pneumonia December 5, 1918. Base Hospital No. 19, France
Burial: Unknown

Jackson County Banner
Brownstown, Indiana
Wednesday, January 1, 1919
Page 1

FREETOWN BOY DIES IN FRANCE OF PNEUMONIA

Pvt. Clarence Lockhart Expired Dec. 5-Was With The 52nd Infantry.

SON OF MRS. ANNA SHARR

Mrs. Anna Sharr, of near Freetown, has received word that her son, Clarence Lockhart, had died of pneumonia in France December 5th.

Deceased was sent from this county by Local Board the fourth of May to Ft. Thomas, Ky. He went overseas the first week in July, where he has been serving as a private in Company E, Fifty-second Infantry.

He was born near Freetown February 25, 1894 and would have been 25 years of age this coming month. Besides his mother he is survived by one brother, Virgil, now Company E, Fifty-second Infantry, and one sister, Nora Lockhart, of Crothersville.

Although he and his brother were aware of each others presence in France they were stationed so far apart that they did not get to meet.