Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-06-10
tenor of his life, something that alb

tenor of his life, something that alb
ruptly moved him from the small
sphere of his rustic community and
/ transplanted him upon the bosom OF
the Atlantic ocean and beyond to
scenes of roaring guns and tramping
over dead and MANNED bodies. For
then had come the World war-the
selective draft to arms-and by Sept.
20, 1917, ely 0. Dump Leonard
was moving with the vanguard into
soldier training at Camp Sherman.
The SD division under Major Cen
eral E. r. Glenn was going over SO
with little more than eight months
of military training, one day in June,
1918, he was marching aboard the
liner, Nevissa, at Long Island.
He crossed the sea as thousands of
other young men did, landing first
at the English coast, then on the
30th of June, 1918, entered the har-
bor at LIE Havre, France Now, ely
O. Leonard has entered his last har-
bor, the Harbor of Death. His death
from respiratory ailment, sudden
and unexpected came May 8, 1897,
at the government hospital at Day
I
! while before for special treatment.
Again taking up the thread Of his
military life after reaching France,
we find that there he was trans
ferred from the 330th to the 319th
regiment, and it was as replace
ment that he saw four days of hard
fighting in ''Death Valley" between
Verdun and Metz, where the scene
might have been compared to a
reaper going through field Of
wheat Relieved at the front after
three or four of his machine gun
squad had been picked off and he
had seen men curl up and clutch at
their throats when the misty gray
green cloud caught them, he too,
found that he had been quite severe
ly burned with mustard gas and
that was the reason his lieutenant
had ordered him to the hospital.
Amid all that shrieking, terrifying
situation of warfare, wherein it
seemed that sympathy and justice
could not speak if they wanted to,
they did speak through the hospital
corps and his disability though aD-
parently not serious at the time wae
envisioned by those whose duty 1t
was and he was ordered to return 10
America and home. With the cas-
ualty troops he went aboard the
Huron, the former German vessel,
Frederick de Goss. This vessel was
haloed with sort of distinctiveness
explained by saying that it had once
carried the German Kaiser around
the world. He landed at Newport
News, Jan. 49,, and returning to
Camp Sherman was discharged from
there, Feb. IL, 1919. In readjust-
ing himself to a quiet civilian life
akin to that he left when entering
the army, he could not but have been
much affected at times by the
travail of those maddening war
scenes. That procrastinating but re-
lentless enemy-gas, though it may
not have been the immediate cause
of his death, contributed to his grad
ua1 decline and forced hospitaliza-
tion upon him. He was married to
Miss Lena Rammage, and aside FROM
the wife he leaves family of four
children, Irene, Eugene. Zailand and
Lila Of the home. At the time of
his death, his residence was four
miles southwest of Cumberland. OF
brothers and sisters, he leaves Cy-
renus of Stockport; BENJAMIN, near
Reinersville; William of Cumber
land and one sister, Mrs. Roy (Cora)
Ellison of Olive Green. The late