- Photograph of the sixty-six Burt
county boys taken in front of the Court House, Friday
morning, June 28th, 1918, before going to the train for
Fort Riley and Camp Funston - Leon C Fontenelle, Decatur;
Roy Pearson, Oakland; Benj. H. Knight, Russ, Mo.; Donald
C. Dean, Tekamah; James T. Hansen, Oakland; Robert
Bowden, Tekamah; Floyd Watts, Waterloo, Iowa; Albert
Christenson, Lyons; Harold Douglas, Lyons; Arthur Niberg,
Oakland; George Travis, Red Cloud, Minn.; Chas. Burmer,
Fremont; Ray Fried, Oakland; Richard Bohman, Rawlins,
Wyo.; Thomas Dempsey, Tekamah; Hilton Swanson, Oakland;
Carl H. Johnson, Oakland; Alfred Nelson, Oakland; Harry
Cedergreen, Oakland; Robt. V. Tollinger, Lyons; Joseph
Kramse, Oakland; Henry Lundstrom, Craig; Herman Miller,
Lyons. Above men went to Fort Riley, Kansas, for
training. The following 33 went to Camp Funston. Kansas:
David Dobyns, East St. Louis, Ill.; Arthur Wahlstrom,
Craig; Albert Froid, Lyons; Floyd Larson, Oakland; Chas.
Lee Potts, White, S. D.; Albert Keller, Tekamah; Ray
Harrison, Tekamah;
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- Edward Hogan, Herman; Robt. Hampton,
Craig; Rex. Willey, Lyons; Geo. Billgren, Geneva; Victor
Ashley, Decatur; Nicholas Rounds, Tekamah; Geo.
Earlewine, Tekamah; Chas. Engle, Tekamah; William
Engelhaupe, Lyons; Orville Darling, Decatur; Bruce
McCusky, Decatur; Andrew Nordstrom, Oakland; John Cherry,
Morill; Erick Fredrickson, Craig; Axel J. Schodeen,
Oakland; Oscar W. Johnson, Oakland; Carl E. Anderson,
Oakland; Michael Neary, Decatur; Joseph Freedstrom,
Oakland; Rudolph Peterson, Lyons; Elmer F. Johnson,
Oakland; Carl G. C. Wahl, Oakland; Edwin C. Lund,
Oakland; George W. Lester, Craig; Jesse Leroy Mickell,
Avoca, Iowa; Albert Tady, Oakland; Otto Tarbutton, Craig;
Claude Cline, Craig; Oscar F. Anderson, Craig; Henry A.
Jacobsen, Lyons; James F. Ellis, Decatur; Edgar Larson,
Oakland; Alf. L. Bloomquist, Oakland; Verine A.
Frederickson, Oakland; Henry W. Fontenelle, Decatur;
David Streed, Oakland. Notice the busy Red Cross workers
in the window above the boys
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