PFC Elwood Evert Newville

PFC Elwood Evert Newville was born 17 Jun 1924 in Hesperia, Michigan. He was the oldest of the 4 sons born to Howard and Dora P. (Fairchild) Newville. His father worked as a machine operator in a factory reporting a 1939 income of $1636. Elwood had just started working when the census was taken in 1940 and he had completed just 3 years of high school. On 5 May 1942 he married Doris Mae Wiers and they had a daughter in October 1942. Their daughter died 25 December 1942 of pneumonia resulting from influenza.

Elwood was drafted in March 1943. After basic training he probably had another assignment before being sent to the replacement depot from which he was transferred to F Company 116th Infantry on 18 Jun 1944. PFC Newville was killed in action on 19 Jun 1944.

PFC Newville was repatriated in 1948 and re-interred in West Hesperia Cemetery in Hesperia, Michigan.

Great-grandfather, Byron Fairchild, served as a PVT in F Company 36th Pennsylvania Infantry in the Civil War. 2X great-grandfather, Nathaniel P. Wolcott, served in A Company 29th Indiana Infantry, was captured and died in Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Doris would re-marry and is still living as this is written.