Edward Ray Moyer
ENGINEER
BIRTH
SATURDAY | 29 APR 1893
Rushcreek Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, USA
DEATH
MONDAY | 17 MAR 1919
Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, USA
HE GAVE HIS TODAY FOR OUR TOMORROW
Joe McFarland
The Far-Land Legacy
The Publishing Legacy Company
March 1, 2024
BIOGRAPHY
RUSHCREEK TOWNSHIP – Saturday, April 29, 1893, Mary Almeda (Hoshor) Moyer gave birth to a son, Edward Ray Moyer, in Rushcreek Township, Ohio, near Rushville, as she and her husband Edward Cyrus continued to add to their family throughout the years. In 1917, Edward registered for the war and on his registration card listed his occupation as a farm laborer and noted his personal complexion as blue eyed and dark brown hair. Moyer started his journey of accomplishments with joining the ERC Columbus Barracks when called upon for active duty, from Bremen, on Tuesday, July 17, 1917. His military career took him to Company E, 10th Regiment Engineers until November 12, 1918, then to the 36th Company, 20th Regiment Engineers until February 18, 1919, then joined the 6th Company, 2nd Regiment Training Battalion 158 Depot Brigade until his death.
He ranked as a private on Saturday, August 25, 1917 and soon after joined the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on Monday, September 10. He remained there until returning home, and upon being demobilized he caught scarlet fever. His mother was notified upon his departure from France on Tuesday, January 28, 1919, and his arrival to Hoboken, New Jersey on February 9th.
The American Expeditionary Forces, A.E.F, formed on Thursday, July 5, 1917, in France under the command of General John J. Pershing as a formation on the Western Front of World War I for the United States Army.
Bronchial pneumonia developed after an attack of scarlet fever and claimed Moyer at 20:07 (8:07 p.m.) hours on St. Patrick’s Day, Monday, March 17, 1919, six weeks before his twenty-sixth birthday, after returning to Camp Sherman from overseas a few weeks prior.
He breathed his last at Camp Sherman due to the attack of pneumonia after serving twenty months overseas with the 10th Regiment of Engineers Rainbow Division. Contributing to the multiple primary causes noted on his death certificate, there listed first, bronchopneumonia affected the right lung, causing inflammation and infection.
This type of pneumonia specifically targets the lung’s tiny air sacs known as alveoli. Second, pleurisy effusion corrupted the left lung, an inflammation of the pleura, where a fluid buildup between the lungs and chest causes excessive pain when inhaling and exhaling due to poor circulation with the heart.
His interment commenced in the Grandview cemetery on March 20th, located in Bremen, after a funeral service honoring his life at Bremen Presbyterian Church began at 10:00.
BURIAL
GRANDVIEW CEMETERY – Private Edward Ray Moyer lies buried in the Grandview cemetery, in Bremen, forever remembered for his service to the United States Military in the Great War by the tombstone inscription, “He gave his today for our tomorrow.”
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THE REFERENCES
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THE REFERENCES
“Pvt. Edward Ray Moyer,” Find A Grave, last modified March 15, 2009, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34849170/edward-ray-moyer.
Van A. Snider, Fairfield County in the World War (Lancaster: Mallory Printing Co., 1926), 78.
“Young Soldier,” The Lancaster Daily Eagle, Thursday, March 20, 1919, 1.
BACKGROUND PHOTO
LT. John Warwick, Combat from World War I as officer led the 9th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) near Arras, France, 1917, photograph, Imperial War Museum, https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/photos-world-war-i-images-museums-battle-great-war/.
LEGACY ARTICLE
McFarland, Joe. “Valued Veterans And Heroes.” The Far-Land Legacy, January 7, 2022. https://thefarlandlegacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Vol.-1-Issue-2.pdf
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