Montgomery, Claud Kent (The Lexington Progress, October 25, 1918) Henderson County Boy Dies at Sea: Claud Kent Montgomery, son of Mrs. G. A. Parker of Sardis, and nephew of both Hon. and Mrs. A. S. Montgomery, also of Sardis, age 21 years on the 4th of last May, died at sea while en route to France at 2:30 o'clock a.m., October 5th, 1918.
He went into the army service on the 6th of September, became a private in Company H., 57 Reserve Infantry, and sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, September 27th, his death occurring just one week after embarkation. Before his entrance into the army he had just graduated with honors from the West Tennessee Normal at Memphis and had he remained in civilian life, had before him promise of success and honor. His earlier years, for some three years after the death of his father, Charlie Montgomery, were spent in the home of our townsman, Mr. W. H. Montgomery, but later he became a member of the family of his uncle and aunt, Hon. A. S. Montgomery and Mrs. Montgomery, both of whom loved him and cared for him as if he had been their own. This noble young man had embraced the religious life and had become a member of the Southern Methodist Church. He had lately also become a member of the Masonic fraternity. The remains left New York Monday night for Lexington to be interred in Old Shady Grove Cemetery between Sardis and Satillo.
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