Putnam patriot., 1918-01-18
CORPORAL COVELL
 DIED RATURDAY
Was First Tsk ken III With Mea- sIes at Camp Green, N. C.,
 Christmas Day
Son of Town Clerk and Mrs. Willis CoveH of Pemfrct. Graduate
 of Putnam High School

pomfrat.Tae eatee esmH 4as was shocked and me4eI. sunday manme Haea Che news se tarouea tle taaa laat Corporal Her mon E Cosel bad died Saturday night at eIqat o'clocE at Camp Greene. Charlotte. North Carolina
 t vas but week ago that his parents. Mr and Mrs. Willis Cogel. received letter from him stating that he was recovering from an at tack of measles. Nothing more sas heard until telegram was received i from the camp hospital, Saturday night. stating that he was seriously ill Mrs eovel was preparing to 20 there Sunday afternoon unless she heard that he was better Then came i the news of his death
 Hermon was born in Pomfret Landing. June 20th. I894, the second son of Willis and Myrtle fBennett Coyel He attended the school i'll Abingdon and finished his education at the Putnam high school, where he graduated in the class of 1913. He was rather quiet of manner, but was fagorite with his schoolmates and won distinction as an athlete. He was good basket ball player and his chums said of him He was as strong as an ox.
 After graduating Hermon lived at home. assisting his father, who for years he has held the office of town clerk in Romfret, about the farm and at the grist mill A year ago he left home and went to Springfield. where he secured position in the city WA ter department
 The Last time the parents saw thelr son was when he came home on June 1 10th to help them observe their silver wedding anniversary The next day was his birthday When they bade hin good bye ali outward signs of any feeling that they may have harbored in their breasts regarding the uneer= tainty of his return to them, was hid= den. The mother, like thousands of other mothers, said good bye witb a smile on her lips. well knowing in her heart that her boy was starting forth to the uncertain life of sol dier She could not possibly have forcseen. however, that his healthy young manhood would be stricken down with disease in an army camp
 Hermon enlisted in the regular ar my. June 29th. 1917, member ef ee. l 1, 38th Infantry. He was sent to camp at Syracuse. \ Y nd later trans ferred south Young Covell had the distinction of being the first Pomfret boy to answer his country's call to the colors He is also the first Pom fret boy whose life has been saeri- feed III the service of his country
 It was on Christmas day that he was taken i'll and 1t was on the same day that he received his appointment as corporal
 Mrs Covell is experiencing tho heart suffering that will be eXperiene ed by thousands of American moth CTS. unless the bloody world war end, before American boys get into tn, front firing line She IS bearing hei loss, as will these other thousands ei mothers. with that American strengtt 5 and forttude that has come doWf from generation to generation Sh, finds consolation in the fact that hei boy die on this side of the ocean an, that loYne hearts and tender handi can teuderly lay hlm away in his las sleep
 Hermon was born on the same da, and date as Herbert F Watson sol ; of Mrs 5eaaie eFenm Watsoa for merly of Pa.e.m Young Watsoa ea wirelesz operator and lost his Hf' when the Antilles was sunk The fac that the two boys were born on In, same day impressed Mrs GoYeti whose heart anu sympathy went ou to the hereaYed mother. whose sol would never come home It seem strange that within few short week her own sons lifeless body is brough home to her
 Corporal Covell leaves besides hr parents. brother, Ellsworth wh, enlisted m the navy and is now hom' on furlouEh and two sisters, Glady' and Eva, living at home.
 The funeral Will be from the Ah iurtou Congregational church. Sat urday at o'clock. Rev Frank \ Fuller officiating The bearers vii be classmates of the Putnam higf school Arthur Keith, Norman ken uedy, Edward Lowry James Murray John Slattery Putnam and Wallac, Salisbury of Pomfrrt