Private, Company "D" 18th Infantry, 1st Division, U. S. Army
Died in Action (Poison Gas) 18 July 1918, France.
Compiled by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.
Photo (left) from Soldiers of the Great War - West Virginia
Photo (right) from Ancestry; permission for use requested.
JAMES FILMORE BROWN, born 30 September 1901 in Tyler County, W.Va., was the son of John Wesley Brown and Harriet Stealey, married in Tyler County in 1891. James was too young to register for the draft, but he overstated his age in order to serve. He would have been 15 when he joined the Regular Army 14 April 1917 at Columbus, Ohio. He said he was 18 and born in Sistersville, W.Va.
The mother, Harriet, died in 1906. The father, John W., remarried; his death occurred in 1912.
Soldiers of the Great War - West Virginia states that James died as a result of an accident.
1910 Census, Ellsworth District, Tyler County, W.Va.
#246
John Brown, Head, 38, Pumper Oil Field, b. Ohio
Ella Brown, Wife (2nd), 33, b. W.Va.
Charles Brown, Son, 16, b. Ohio
Archie Brown, Son, 14, b. Ohio
Lawrence Brown, Son, 12, b. Ohio
Philmer Brown, Son, 8, b. Ohio
Paul Brown, Son, 5, b. Ohio
Harold Brown, Son, 6, b. Ohio
James F. Brown is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
