SHELBY COUNTY OHIO OBIT
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INFORMATION PROVIDED BY LORRI FRENCH:

Also have this in the Sidney Ohio paper a couple of years ago. It
is one of those "out of the past" columns. It was for July 18,
1898 and said that :
 "Mrs. Philip Smith this morning received a
letter from her son, Joseph French, who is at Santiago, Cuba
and who was reported, through a wounded soldier at Tampa,
FL, to have been killed in action during the fighting at Santiago.
The letter was dated at Santiago, July 6, several days after the
fierce fighting during which he was supposed to have been
killed."

Surnames:  French, Rich, Smith