Edwin Walter Stickney (1894 - 1918)

Born 3 Jan 1894 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, USA

Died 13 Jun 1918 at age 24 in France

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Edwin Stickney was Killed in Action during World War I.

Biography

Edwin Walter Stickney was born on Jan. 3, 1894 to Nelson Edward Stickney and Annie Hermanson. His mother died in 1901.

In 1913, his father took a homestead south of Bowdon in Wells County, North Dakota.

When the United States entered the war, Edwin was a member of the North Dakota National Guard, but these units were split up as a part of the great National Army scheme, and he was assigned to the 18th Infantry of the 1st Division.^[1]

PFC Stickney trained at Fort Lincoln and arrived overseas on December 1917. reaching France, his division entered upon the last stages of training and in January of the new year, went into action. from the time he first saw a front line up to the day he was wounded, Edwin Stickney was in action on several of the fronts on which many hard battles were fought. He was wounded in the battle of Cantigny. He died of his wounds in France on June. 13, 1918.^[2] He is buried in Plot A, Row 14, Grave 14 at the Somme American Cemetery and Memorial in Bony, Departement de l'Aisne, Picardie, France.^{[3] [4]}

Sources

1. ↑ In The World War 1917-1918-1919 Wells County, ND; Fessenden, ND; Fessenden Free Press (1919) no copyright, page 14.
2. ↑ In The World War 1917-1918-1919 Wells County, ND; Fessenden, ND; Fessenden Free Press (1919) no copyright, page 14.
3. ↑ Find A Grave
4. ↑ American Battle Monuments Commission. World War I Listing; World War II Listing; Korean War Listing. American Battle Monuments Commission.

See also:

• United States Census, 1900, index and images, FamilySearch Edwin W Stickney in household of Nelson E Stickney, Sioux Falls Township Sioux Falls city Ward 2, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States; citing sheet 5B, family 97, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,553.

• United States Census, 1910, index and images, FamilySearch Edwin Stickney in household of Ellef E Ellefson, Edison, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 327, sheet 2B, family 29, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,499.

• South Dakota, State Census, 1915, index and images, FamilySearch Edwin W Stickney; citing State Historical Society, Pierre; FHL microfilm 2,283,937.

• United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index and images, FamilySearch Edwin Walter Stickney, 1917-1918; citing Wells County, North Dakota, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,819,502.