INDIANA WORLD WAR RECORDS, GOLD STAR HONOR ROLL: A Record of Indiana Men and Women Who Died in the Service of the United States and the Allied Nations in the World War, 1914-1918, (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1921), p. 170. James Benjamin Geltmaker.Private Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Geltmaker, born July 5, 1897, Floyd Knobs, Floyd County, Indiana. Farmer and butcher. Enlisted in U. S. Regular Army June 26, 1917. Ft. Thomas, Ky. Sent to Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis; assigned to Company G, Medical Officers Training Corps; later to Evacuation Hospital No. 22. Died of influenza February 10, 1918, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Buried t Galena, Floyd County, Indiana.