Historical Info of Adams County, Iowa
COOK BURIED AS A SOLDIER Oldest Of A. E. F. Veterans Gets Warrior’s Rites Corning,, Iowa, Dec. 27 – They buried Kokomo Jones Sunday, not as a cook, but a soldier. Former Gov. Dan Turner, Col. Claude Stanley of the Iowa national guard, and “buddies” of three wars paid their respects to Kokomo, 77-year-old army cook, the oldest man in the A. E. F. The bugler, born years after Kokomo joined company K of the national guard, blew taps. “And that is all we could do even though Kokomo had been a general,” one of the veterans whom he fed in France, said. Kokomo’s war record started in 1893 when he joined company K as a cook, and extended through the Spanish-American, the Mexican border clashes and the World war. The only citation for “Private Frank Jones” was the army report that he was the oldest enlisted man in the American expeditionary force in France.The Oklahoman 12/28/1936 Transcribed by Dale Donlon Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.