Pike County IL
World War I
Those Who Served
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FIRST VOLUNTEERS FROM PIKE COUNTY 
On April 11, 1917, five days after the United States declared war on Germany, Pike county's first volunteers, Harry Barkley and Dewey Parrick, whose picture we present here, enlisted in the Fifth Illinois Infantry at Quincy. This organization was later broken up and these two boys are now with the Headquarters Co.. 129th Infantry, which was stationed at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas. At the time of their enlistment both boys were engaged in farming, Barkley, having just put in a crop for himself on land rented from Frank Lawson. Coming home after bearing of the declaration of war, Barkley said to his father: "Dad, you can't be a soldier and farm, too, so me for the army. I won't be drafted," and he left soon after that. Dewey Parrick was associated with his father in farm work on the farm of Dr. R. H. Main south of Barry, and took the same view as his friend, and the two young men left together. Both these young men have been in service since last spring and have had intensive training as have others from this community who were in the same camp, and are in France now. They will give good accounts of themselves in whatever service they may be called to do. Submitted by Delaine Donaldson - (From The Pike County Republican(Pittsfield), July 3, 1918) |
PFC CO A 42 MACHINE GUN BN WW I 02 October 1895 - 31 July 1963 Buried at Park Lawn Cemetery Contributed by Billie Browning |
VIRDLE BLACKKETTER
Pvt. US Army 15 October 1895 - 03 May 1966 Buried at Park Lawn Cemetery Contributed by Billie Browning |
Pvt. US Army 09 May 1894 -- 10 Aug 1980 Buried at Samuel Taylor Cemetery Contributed by Billie Browning |
