OBIT: Cloyd S. CROFT, 1918, Sproul, Bedford County, PA

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CROFT.

  Cloyd S. Croft, aged 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Croft of Sproul, 
Bedford county, died on Thursday at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, from 
pneumonia following an attack of influenza, according to word sent 
relatives last night.  The young man entered the federal service June 1 
and after preliminary training at Camp Lee, Virginia, was sent to the 
eastern camp.  The young man left here with a contingent of Blair 
county men and spent but a short while at Camp Lee, being subsequently 
transferred to Company D, 31st battalion, U.S. guards, at Fort Ethan 
Allen.  The remains will be brought home under military escort and will 
be interred in the Holtzinger cemetery at Baker's Summit.  Before 
leaving for the army the young man was employed as a blacksmith's 
helper at the General Refractories plant at Sproul.

Altoona Times, Saturday Morning, October 12, 1918