I saw the following in SOMEBODY'S LINKS NEWSLETTER and hope that it will help someone. I have no connection to any BARNETT and have no further information. I just subscribed to this list long enough to post the following and I will now unsub. In clearing out some old boxes in my mother-in-law's home, I found a book cover and front page with a newspaper article, obituary, and photographs pasted to them. The newspaper article is titled "How Lieut. Leland BARNETT Died" and concerns the death in France of this Lieutenant in World War I. The article is dated 24 December 1919, and describes the battle, attempted rescue, and burial of BARNETT and says he was from the Old First Regiment of Cincinnati, and from Norwood. His captain was Robert TAVENNER, and the Chaplain conducting the service was Chaplain HUGHES. The obituary states BARNETT died near Verdun, not far from where his great-great-grandfather fought under Napoleon. He evidently was of French descent, as in the obituary it states "`We will have it all back again, the country where our people came from.' He wrote this in a letter to his wife, dated Sept 27th just before entering the battle in which he was killed." The obituary lists BARNETT's wife as Sara Mildred EVANS, and a brother, Sergeant Lowell BARNETT, also serving in France. Included with the article and obituary are two newspaper photographs, one of Lieut. BARNETT and one of his wife. Written on the front page above the photographs is "Thomas PARKER, dated 12/25/1916 from Lt. Lee BARNETT," evidently a Christmas gift from the Lieutenant. If anyone knows of this family or is connected in anyway with a descendant, I would love to get with you to find a way to pass it on to a rightful descendant. Anyone who can prove his line back to Lieut. Barnett, or his brother, please contact me and we can work out a way to get this to his family. Holly M. Snead [email protected] PERMISSION TO REPRINT NOTICES FROM SOMEBODY'S LINKS is granted, PROVIDED: (1) the reprint is not used for a commercial purpose; and (2) this notice appears at the end of the message: Previously published by Julia M. Case [email protected], SOMEBODY'S LINKS NEWSLETTER: Genealogical Treasures Found, Vol. 2, No. 19, 28 October 2000.