Private James Harold Pruden

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Parents: George and Minnie Broadaker Pruden
Birth: November 5, 1890, Cortland Jackson County, Indiana
Sent to: Camp Taylor, Kentucky
Assigned to: 28th Co 7th Training Battalion, 159th Depot Brigade
Transferred to: 2nd Co 1st Development Battalion
Death: heart failure, August 30, 1918, Camp Taylor, Kentucky
Burial: Cortland

The Tribune
Seymour, Indiana
Saturday, August 31, 1918
Page 1

PRIVATE JAMES M. PRUDEN SUCCUMBS AT CAMP TAYLOR

Son of George Pruden, of Cortland Dies at Hospital-Father Did Not Know of His Illness.

George Pruden, well known Hamilton township citizen, this afternoon received a telegram stating that his son, James Harold Pruden, had died at the base hospital at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville. The cause of his death is not known. Mr. Pruden did not know that his son was sick. Private Pruden was at home last Sunday. He was twenty-seven years old and entered the service last June. The body will be shipped here for burial, but the arrangements have not been made. The funeral will probably be held sometime Monday.