Name:
John O. Laws
Rank:
Private
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Unit:
2nd Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Infantry Division
Date of Death:
1918-05-29
State:
Kentucky
Cemetery:
McDowell Cemetery, Ohio County, Kentucky
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When John O. Laws was born on September 5, 1889, in Kentucky, his father, Richard, was 35 and his mother, Mattie, was 29. He had four brothers and four sisters. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I as a Private in Company C, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action on May 29, 1918 and is now buried in McDowell Cemetery, Ohio County, Kentucky, USA.