This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Geise Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/222 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, December 2, 1918 DEATH CLAIMS ANOTHER OF OUR AMERICAN BOYS SON OF ADOLPH GEISE DIES IN ACTION IN FRANCE SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH WAS ON THE MEXICAN BORDER Went to France at the Beginning of the War with Germany – Had Attained Corporalcy >From Friday’s Daily. A letter from his mother at Council Bluffs conveys the sad news to Adolphe GEISE of this city of the killing of his son in action in France on September 15th. Corporal Earnest GEISE, the only son of Adolphe Geise, of this city, was about 23 years of age, and was a member of the Iowa National Guards, serving on the Mexican border, and upon his return from there, he was soon afterward called into federal service with the rest of his company and was among the first leaving here for France in the early part of the summer of 1917. Earnest was a member of Co. H [looks like] 168 Infantry, and was attached to the 42nd Division, know as the Rainbow Division by reason of its being among the first over. While Corporal Geise was killed in action on September 15th, no definite information was received of his death until Wednesday morning, by his grandparents at [Council Bluffs? Blurred], from which place as enlisted when he last entered the service. Earnest was a son of Adolph Geise of Plattsmouth, by a former marriage. Mr. Geise and wife have the sympathy of the citizens of Plattsmouth in their loss. The young man has paid in full his devotion to country and the principles of Liberty. At the time of his return from the Mexican border he insisted on going with the first to France, and carried out his desire in that respect. He went through all the privations and heavy fighting from the time he set his foot on foreign soil until that of his death on September 15th, and in all that time never failed to demonstrate the fact that he was a valiant soldier, who cared equally for the freedom of the world and winning the war as he did about his own personal safety. Earnest had last written to his parents in August at which time he told them of the prospect of early termination of the fighting. Earnest, who always made his home with his grandparents, had visited this city a number of times since his parents resided here and was very well known to everyone.