NOLANDS & PATRICKS By Shirl Oxenrider:Information about Davidson Claire Miller

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Davidson Claire Miller (d. date unknown)

Davidson Claire Miller (son of FerdInand McElheney Miller and Annie L. Peck) died date unknown.

Notes for Davidson Claire Miller:
Davidson served in the Navy in W.W. I. He was on the U.S.S. Texas. He lost his life when he was washed overboard in a severe storm at sea.

His obituary was as follows:

PATRIOT LOST AT
SEA JANUARY 16

DAVIDSON CLAIRE MILLER, NATIVE
PERRY COUNTY SON, WHOSE
GRANDFATHER SERVED IN CIVIL
WAR, FIRST MIFFLIN COUNTY SOLDIER
TO DIE IN PRESENT WAS. GEORGE
HERMAN KREPPS.

Lewistown, Jan. 23--Two Mifflin county young men
in war service met their deaths last week. They were
the first two men of the county to perish in the present
world war. A message Saturday from the bureau of in-
formation, Washington, D.C., to Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand
Miller of Burnham, announced the death of their son,
Davidson Claire Miller, aged 24. His grandfather,
Davidson Miller was a soldier of the Civil War.

The telegram to the parents states that the bureau
deeply regrets to inform you that a despatch from the
U.S.S. Texas, reports your son missing since January
16. The Texas passed through a very strong gale, losing
your son. His body has not been recovered, he having
fallen overboard.

Davidson enlisted to the Navy, June 29 and went through
a three months preliminary training at the naval station at
Newport, R.I. He was an oreman on the ship and spent
Christmas on a Furlow at his parental home here. He was
a member of a family of twelve children, five boys and seven
girls, all living now except Davidson. The parents of the
unfortunate young man are well-known residents of
Burnham.

Davidson has two brothers, Russell and James E. Miller,
who are in military service. Russell, aged 20, in at the Naval
station, Great Lakes, Ill., training for Navy duty and James,
24 years old, is a member of the 126th Company, 9th regiment,
U.S. Marine Corps. He sailed recently from Newport News and
his parents believe he is now in Cuba.

Mr. Miller and his large family, visited for the first time by
death, under the saddest of circumstances, formerly resided in
Ickesburg and Millerstown, Perry County. The mothers maiden
name was Annie Peck.