The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-08-15
TO HOLD FUNERAL.
FOR MARINE HERO.
Body of G. M. Burnsides
Arrived in Tulsa
Saturday.
MARINES IN CHARGE
Military Respects Will BE
Paid to Tulsan Next
Sunday.

After a rest 81 two yoa'. .u = shall
low grave iu France, whrro ne was
laid away Sergeant George Monroe
Burnside, son Of Mrs Jennie Burn
sides. 500 South quaker who dIed
for his country during the conflict
across the water. viii be laid 90 final
rest next Sunday IN Rose litll burial
park.
Tho body was shipped from France
about Iuly 70 and II arrived ~ Tulsa
yesterday afternoon. A large Am"rl-
can flag accompanied the body of
tho young man from the other side
and VIII be buried with him here.
Funeral services viii be In charge
OF the Joe Carson post 70 Tho Amril-
can Legion and the Marine corps
and will be appropriate for the oc'a-
sion. a strictly military funeral VIII
be had. the deceased sergeant
going To- his final resting place with
fun military honors.
Members Of the local marine re-
cruiting station and memhors OF the
American Legion will furnish the
pail bearers, the firing squad, and
the escort Services Will be held at
Convention hall at 2;30 o'clock IN
the afternoon. From there the eh-
cort and friends viii march TO tho
municipal building whore, cars WI,
be taken TO the cemetery. pahu
playing appropriate pieces VIII lenu
the march to the grave. TINS WIZ
he followed by the colors ana theh
ovorscaB eN-service men ana ma
rines. These will be followed M
order by the firing squad, the casket
and it's escort, other members OF the
Legion, members OF the family, ana
friends OF the dead soldier.
.'NVc want to make this an impor-
tant affair to give II the rumerunce
that Il deserves" said q. r. pbrlen f,
member Of the Joe Carson post, ana
chairman of committee on fWeral
arrangements. 1T ls lmmhteilHl
whether Burnsidcs lost his life from
disease or an oncmy's bullet, ne gave
Il for his country
Sergeant Furnishes was one OF tho
first to enlist In the regular army
when war was declared, HIS body
Is the first of a Tulsan to be ra's'd
from It's resting place In france anu
sent home to mother
lie enlisted In the marines on
Apru G. 1917. shortly after he vls-
tied his family hore and then leit ior
pensa cola, Ella. lie served Mt Pensn .
cola and Qnniice, Va, for thrc
years. In July. 1913. he sailed fol
France as Il member OF company r.
i3th l.. S. mAfincs.
Sergeant Burneidcs never snw
combat or front-line duty. ShoruA
after he arrived In France he becnm,
afflicted with the "flu,' and died oil
pneumonia at the Baison hospital
three weeks after reaching France.
His body was endowed with IA GER
tlficatc equivalent TO an honorary
croix de guerre in accordance with
the French custom. He also received
the customary acknowledgements OF
service issued by the a. u. Il. ana
signed by General Porshing. These
papers. together with other final rec
ords are nowiin the possession of his
mother.
After Mrs. Burnsides had received
Official notification OF her son Il
death. she tried for six months to
get the government to bring the body
OF her boy back home. But each
message proved fruitlcsH. About
three months ago she received u
telegram from the government ask
Ing II she still wanted the remains
She hastily replied IN the affirma'
tive, and about three weeks ago she
received notice that the remains
guarded by a comradc marine, had
left France aud would arrive home
shortly.
In addition to her son, Mrs, Burn
sides also lost "A daughter during tn,
wfr, Mrs. Jcnnie Lind Washburn
10, contracted influenza and pnou
monia at a camp In Michigan, whcr,
she had gone to visit her husband
The girl died shortly after reaching
home.