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Obituary- Monroe, Arthur

A memorial service for Arthur Sam Monroe, the Willard colored boy who died in France, will be held next Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in the West Union church, south of Willard. Rev. Shaffer will give the address. Sam was well known this side the river and was highly respected by his acquaintances. He was a member of the 5th Provisional Co., 805th Inf. He died shortly after landing in France, of pneumonia. Returned soldiers are especially invited to the service.

The Leavenworth Times gives the following account of the return of the remains of Sam Monroe, a colored boy well known here and especially around Willard where he was raised. Mr. and Mrs. Walier Jones went to Leavenworth Wednesday of last week to attend the funeral.

Yesterday marked the first arrival in Leavenworth of a soldier’s body from the graveyards of France. The body is that of Arthur Samuel Monroe, colored, who died September 15, 1918, at Brest, France. The body accompanied by a soldier from the Fort Jay, New York, command, arrived yesterday morning and was received by the Carter Undertaking Company. A military burial will be held this afternoon at the family lot in Mount Munice cemetery, the Rev. Mr. Curtis, pastor of the Second Baptist church officiating.

Arthur Samuel Monroe was born twenty-seven years ago this month in Topeka. He was reared on a farm in Wabaunsee county, this state. He was drafted into the military service and after a short period of training at Camp Funston was sent overseas as a member of the Fifth Provisional Company of the Eight-Hundred and Fifth Pioneer Infantry. On board the transport, Monroe contracted pneumonia and upon debarkation he was taken immediately to the base hospital at Brest, France, where he died within a short time after his arrival.

His sister, Mrs. William Simpson, who is the only living relative, lives at 407 Pennsylvania avenue, this city.

The body of Monroe is the first to be received in Leavenworth county from the government cemeteries in France. Several more may be expected soon from their resting places, where “popies grow” Leavenworth city and county relatives of the men who made the supreme sacrifice during the war have been notified that the bodies would be returned if the request was made.

The casket containing Monroe’s body is under government seal and cannot be opened except in violation of government and state laws, regulating the matter of disinterred bodies.

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