The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-12
OKMULGEE: HERO
! | Asst HUN-K|LLER
TO ALL IN WAR
SGT. EDWARD K. WHITE Be
LIEVED TO HAVE THAT
PATHETIC DISTINCTION
HOME MAN FOUND BODY
DR.. o. A. Lambert of Okmulgee,
"Y" Worker, Tells of Heroic
Death Of His Former Employe IN
Oil acknowledgements Had
Gone Out After Snipers Just
Before Armistice.


Gone Out After Snipers Just
Before Armstice.
Okmulgee, Okla, Feb. il.-Dr.
Oscar A. Lambert OF this city for
mer mayor OF Marietta, Ohio, and
prominent Oklahoma oil man,
who was Y. NJ. c. A. worker with
the S9th Division in France, has
returned home with records which
he believes show that a westcrner
a member of the Doth Division
which was made up OF Oklahoma
and Texas boys, was the last sol
der Of the allies to lose his lie
in the great war. This man was
Sergt. Edward X. White OF Ok
mulgee, Okla, whose body Dr..
Lambert found in a German field
hospital in Stenay within a few
minutes OF the time the firing
ceased with the armistice terms.
DR.. Lambert has received re-
ports from nearly all parts OF the
French and British front indicat-
ing the time firing actually ceased
and showing the activity OF the
allied forces Just before the hour
arrived when the war officially
ended. The drive on Stenay was
the last OF the allied offensives,
and at II o'clock the day OF the
armistice, members OF the 89th and
Doth Divisions were further with
in the German lines than any other
soldiers of the allies Finally, the
German hospital records show that
White was the last man in either
oi these divisions TO give up his
life.
Aside from the significance OF
the hour OF the Oklahoma man,
death, the finding of his body by
pr. Lambert was dramatic. There
had been some rivalry between the
Soth and Doth Divisions in the
drive on Stcnay. The S9th, though
nearer to the town, had been held
mp by machine gun nests along the
MeuSe, so that on the night before
from Lotb d;v;sions had fouobt ~
into the outskirts OF the town, the
r:v,l, IN cten,v
Tbcre u.3s ho,y,. foo tbo doc.
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