Harry Edward Lower (1895 - 1918)

Born 26 May 1895 in Montville Township, Medina, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Died 20 Oct 1918 at age 23 in Argonne, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France

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Biography

Harry was born in 1895. He was the son of Eli Lower and Mary Welday. He passed away in 1918. From his mother's 1920 obituary: "Harry, serving over-seas in the American army during the terrible world war, and during the fierce battle waged in the Argonne forest, France, he paid the supreme sacrifice by pouring out his lifeblood as a libation upon the alter of his country in order that liberty, freedom and democracy might be made safe for the oppressed people of many lands and distant climes and that the Stars and Stripes, the glorious banner of freedom and proud emblem of liberty, might forever float over the rock and rills and native sun-kissed hills of the noble land of the free and the home of the brave."

Sources

• Source: S130 Reunion Committiee Welday Family List of 1908 Publication: Welday Family Reunion Committiee 20 Aug 1908 Repository: #R4 ROOTS III 10 JAN 1997
• Repository: R4 Note: Wayne County Library, Wooster, Ohio. Vertical files. Placed there after Esther Strock found a copy in the keepsakes of her grandmother Alice Miller.
• Source: S239 The Medina County Genealogical Society, compiler Tombstone Inscriptions from the Cemeteries in Medina County, Ohio 1983 Publication: Whipporwill Publications, Evansville, IN 1984 Repository: #R18 Book, Comp. Records 20 NOV 1994
• Repository: R18 Note: Wayne County Library, Wooster, OH
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