Elza McKinley Cummins
Kentucky Post, Friday, 29 October 1948, page 25
CHOSEN-In the first days of October 42 young northern Kentuckian enlisted in the Army and Air Force at the Newport and Covington recruiting stations. They include; Elza Cummins, 21, of 821 Second Avenue, Dayton Ky.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 20 January 1954, page 2
KIA-Campbell countians who lost their lives during the Korean War are as follows: Elza McKinley Cummins, Mrs. Mary Buschard, 921 Second street, Dayton Ky.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 7 April 1955, page 20
KIA-Services for Army Pfc. Elza M Cummins, who was killed in action in Korea Sept. 2, 1950, will be held at 10 am Saturday at the Dobbling Funeral home, Bellevue. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Erlanger. Pfc. Cummins, an employee of the C&O Railway before enlisting Aug 29, 1945, was 22 at the time of his death. He was a native of Augusta.
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Buschard, his stepfather and mother, recently moved from Dayton to Butler. Besides the parents, he leaves three brothers, Richard, Dayton; Cline, Butler and Pfc. Floyd Cummins, Ft Riley, Kansas and two sisters, Mrs. Loretta Clements and Mrs. Mary Rooney, both of Butler.