Corporal Daniel Gordon Foster 1890 - 1918

CORPORAL DANIEL GORDON FOSTER, who was killed in battle during the World War, was a son of DANIEL E. and MINNIE (OATES) FOSTER, of Hopkinsville. His father's parents were CAREY and ELIZA (BARSEAU) FOSTER, and his mother's parents were W. ROBERT and JANE (BASS) OATES. GORDON FOSTER enlisted July 26, 1917, and was made a Corporal of Company I, 336th Infantry, and went overseas with the 84th Division. He was transferred to the 77th Division on October 8, 1918, and was killed at Argonne Forest November 4, 1918 just one week before the Armistice. His body was brought back to Hopkinsville, and buried in Riverside Cemetery, September 21, 1921. He was born in Christian County, June 1, 1890, and was twenty-eight years old when he died for his country. His pioneer ancestors, BAYLESS and ELIZABETH (RANDOLPH) OATES were early settles in Muhlenberg County, at one time a part of Christian

"I find a great consolation in serving the Old Flag. If I live it is glorious or if I'm crippled I won't regret turning out to my country's call, or if I'm killed there will be nothing to regret, for how could a man die a more glorious death than a soldier in the uniform of his country. It is one thing of my life that there are no regrets about. All I have to do is to do my duty, and do my best to make a success of this job. In fact, I think a man will prove what he is by how he does this work. We men in uniform will never have a greater task in life than the one we are engaged in now. I think a man may be judged by how he does his greatest task. No man except the Son of Man or the Lord Jesus has ever done a greater thing that we are doing now and no man ever will."
A History of Christian County, Kentucky - 1930

Meuse-Argonne Cemetery at Romagne
Frank Winston Dabney Jr.

FRANK WINSTON DABNEY, JR., volunteered for service on April 9, 1917, and was sent to Fort Sill, Camp Doniphan, for his training in the 35th Division. They went to France in May, 1918, and had their first fighting July 20th. He was wounded and in a hospital three weeks in August and rejoined his regiment, the 140th, in time for the great Argonne battle. He was killed on the first day, September 26, 1918, and was reported missing; but in June of the next year, the Graves Registration Service found his body, and it was interred in the Meuse-Argonne cemetery, at Romagne.
 

John C. Gary, Jr.

JOHN C. GARY, JR., who was killed in action in the World War, was running an engine on the Big Four Railroad when he enlisted in a Cincinnati company. when the company disembarked in France, a call was made on it for volunteers to join an aviation corps. He was the only man in the company who did not volunteer, saying Uncle Sam had trained him to shoot a machine gun and he was going to shoot one. He was killed in a trench in the battle of the ARgonne, November 2, only nine days before the Armistice. He was twenty-eight years old, a son of MR. AND MRS. JOHN C. GARY, SR., of Hopkinsville.