| Name |
Freeman Goff SQUIRES |
| Born |
12 Jun 1890 |
Grove, Doddridge Co, WV  [1, 2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Military |
Pvt, Co D, 310th Rep Shop Unit, Motor Trans Corps, US Army, World War I [4, 5] |
| Census |
1900 |
Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV |
| Census |
1910 |
Coal District, Harrison Co, WV |
- Listed as boarder Freeman G. Squires, 18, single, laborer in glass house, in household of his sister Rosa and her husband William H. Greathouse.
|
| Occupation |
1910 [6] |
| glass worker |
| Occupation |
1917 [2] |
| chauffeur in Salem |
| Residence |
1917 |
Industrial, Harrison Co, WV [2] |
| Died |
21 Nov 1918 |
Brest, France [3, 7] |
| Cause: influenza, pneumonia |
| Buried |
Kerfautras Cemetery, Brest, France [5] |
| Notes |
- Freeman Goff Squires was a son of Virgil B. Squires (a stone mason) and Elizabeth Laverna Gaston. The eighth of their ten children, he had five brothers and four sisters. He was sometimes known by his middle name Goff.
At the time of the 1910 Census, he was a glass worker. When he registered for the military draft in June 1917, he was working as a chauffeur. One of the questions on the draft registration form was "Do you claim exemption from draft (specify grounds)?" His answer was "Father & Mother to support."
He was drafted into the Army, rank Private, unit Co D, 310th Rep Shop Unit, Motor Trans Corps. His obituary states that he died shortly after arriving in Europe with the American Expeditionary Force. "On the voyage across he contracted influenza and pneumonia, and he was immediately taken to a hospital on landing, where he died after a brief illness."
In November 1929, his mother appeared in a War Department list of mothers and widows of deceased soldiers killed in World War I. The U.S. Government offered such women the opportunity to travel to their loved one's final resting place in Europe, a program which came to be known as the World War I Mothers Pilgrimage. Such all-expense paid trips were offered in the years 1930 through 1933. Listed as Mrs. Eliza L. Squires of Industrial, West Virginia, Freeman's mother apparently declined to make the trip to France in 1930 and further indicated that she did not wish to participate at a later date.
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| Person ID |
I13537 |
Doddridge County Roots |
| Last Modified |
20 Nov 2018 |
1890 - 1918 (28 years)
