This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Landreth Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4119 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. June 10, 1937. "MILITARY BURIAL GIVEN TO SADLY AFFLICTED WAR VETERAN. Legionnaires Perform Last Rites for Comrade."-- Funeral services were conducted for John Irvin Landreth, 44, who died at Knoxville last Monday, by Rev. C. M. Corrie Thursday afternoon at the Wildberger funeral home. Burial was made in the Sidney cemetery and services at the grave were in charge of the local post of the American Legion, paying a veteran comrade full military honors. John Landreth was born near Sidney March 6, 1893, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Landreth. John was never married. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary Landreth, a brother, Moses, both living near Sidney; three sisters, Mrs. Abbie Metheny of Grand Island, Nebraska, Mrs. Maude Dye of Tabor, Mrs. Amy Gordon of Clarinda. His father and four sisters preceded him in death. On February 23, 1918, he enlisted as a private and served in the battle lines of France as a member of Company "C", 117th infantry of the 30th or "Old Hickory" division which, in the early stages of its fighting, was brigaded with the British troops northwest of Paris. For many years after his return from overseas he was a member of Williams - Jobe - Gibson American Legion post.