The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-06-11
3 WAR VICTIMS
LAID TO REST
LOCAL POST AMERICAN LEGION,
BAND AND CITY OFFICIALS
SPENT DAY SUNDAY PAYING
LAST TRIBUTE TO DEPARTED
SOLDIERS.

Vivid memories of the World Wal
and some of the supreme sacrifices
made in that great struggle by the
boys of Uncle Sans fighting forces
were recalled with tear-dimmed eyes
Sunday in Pleasantville and Absecon
when three former soldiers were laid
to rest in their home soil after having
been stricken down and inferred in
far away France. The funerals held
were those of John Long, Roland Nay
Tor and Charles A. Hammell, the lat
ter of Absecon.
The first service was that of John
Long, who went away with Company
l., Third New Jersey Infantry, which
was later transferred to the Engineers
Corps as Company e, 104th Regiment.
Headed by Chief of Police Robert Mar
shall, Sergeant Belville Naylor, Pa
trolmen George Adams, and Howard
Clark, the Junior Mechanics Band and
Mainland Post, American Legion, in
command of w. j. Hudson, Post Com
mander, the cortege marched down
Main street from the home of Longs
brother to Salem M. e. Church. Here
a great crowd of people were in wait
ing to pay respect to the deceased sol
der. The service included selections
by the choir, the ritualistic service of
the American Legion and an address
by Rev. Thos. H. Hicks.
The Legion ritualistic service was
very impressive and solemn. Pastor
Hicks in part said: "You have been
called to do great things. There is
no victory without its sacrifice. With
no cross you can have no crown. The
form that lies before us teaches us a
great lesson. There are times when
hearts are wrung and empty and no
thing can fill the void but the mercy
of God. This man made the supreme
sacrifice for us to enjoy what we could
not have had without the suffering
and death of him and others like him"
Following the church service the Le-
gion officers conducted services at the
grave in Salem Cemetery, after which
a firing squad fired three volleys and
the buglers sounded taps"
At two o'clock in the afternoon the
Legion and band, escorted by the po-
lice and Mayor Crawford, marched to
the home of Walter Naylor on Dough-
ty Road, where the body of his son,
Roland Naylor, lay. The remains
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neighbors and friendsy ere in waiting
to pay a last tribute 10 the boy who
left home in 1914 to join the regular
army. From Texas he was sent to
France and died with pneumonia.
The regular American Legion SER
vice was held here, in addition to
special music by the choir and an adj
dpoac hr Dow VIZ Chaapnnlyar who
said in part: Greater love hath no
man than this-that a man lays down
his life for his friend. Today you are
honoring men who worked for you and
| and the American nation should eve
honor them. You and l cannot give
honor enough to these men who fought
and many of them died for us. Where
would you and l have been today had
it not been for such men,"
MAYORS remains We're then escort
ed to Pleasantville Cemetery, where
the last honors were paid to the dead
soldier.
Late in the afternoon Mainland Post,
headed by the Band, went to Absecon
to pay honor to the memory of Charles
A. Hammell, son of William A. Ham
nell, a World Var soldier who died
in France. Services were held in the
M. e. Church, where the Legion per-
formed its ritualistic ceremony, the
choir sang abide With Me" and
Jesus Lover of My SOUP, and Rev.
John w. Wainwright delivered an ad-
dress. In part he said: "He that los
eth his life for my sake shall find it.
The most triumphant thing we can
do with life is to surrender it. The
martyrs are the makers of history.
Had the boys not responded when the
call anne we would not have the Re-
public we enjoy today. Our boys
went across the water because there
was back of them American liberty
and some of them laid down their
lives that posterity might still enjoy
that liberty"
The remains were then laid away
in the old Methodist burial plot be-
side those of his neighbors and life
long friends, as three volleys were
fired by his comrades in arms and
taps" sounded by the buglers.
Commander Hudson had over fifty
uniformed men under him at the triple
burials and the Legion acquitted it.
self with great credit in the in
which all the details were carried out
with strict military precision. The
general populace of both P~leasantville
and Absecon came out In force to do
honor to the three men who made the