This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: OLES STROPE BEACH PITCHER Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACE/2349 Message Board Post: Stevens Point Daily Journal Tuesday, Feb. 19, 1918 front page DIES UPON WAY EAST Soldier Who Passes Away Comes of a Family in Portage County and is Related Here Frank H. Oles, Jr., of La Crosse, who died on his way from Waco to the Atlantic coast, where he was to take ship to France, was a cousin of J.W. Strope of Stevens Point, his mother, who was Miss Addie Beach, being Mr. Strope's first cousin. Mrs. Pitcher of Plover is a sister of Frank H. Oles, Sr. The young man, who was a member of Company B, 128th regiment, was apparently in ordinary health when he left Waco, but enroute it was found that he had been attacked with measles and he was taken off the train and to the army hospital at Camp McClennan, Anniston, Ala. His illness developed into double pneumonia, resulting in his death. Anniston is the camp at which two Stevens Point soldiers died of typhoid fever during the Spanish war. The body of Frank Oles was taken to La Crosse for burial.