Lima News January 15, 1954

 

Alger Soldier Declared Dead.

Alger: Mr and Mrs H. H. Tackett, Alger were advised by  the  Defense   Department  that their

son , Pfc Wiber Tackett, missing in action since   Dec . 6, 1950 has been officiially listed as dead.

The Alger soldier is one of the 3,500 Americans reported missing since the Korean War and for

whom no evdience of survival has been found since the end of hostilities.

Pvt. Tackett enlisted in the Army on APRIL 6, 1950 and was sent over seas in August . He was 18 years old at the time he was reported missing.

His father is a World War One veteran.
Besides his parents he is survived by two brothers
and two sisters at home

Submitted By

Norita Shepherd Moss

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Lima News

Jan., 11, 2008

It’s sometimes said that old soldiers never die, they just fade away. I recently tripped over some evidence that suggests some of them fade away at quite advanced ages.

Allen County’s last Civil War veterans not only survived that cataclysmic conflict, they lived through the next two American wars and saw the entry of the U.S. into World War II.

John M. Reed, who enlisted during the final weeks of the Civil War at age 16, died Aug. 24, 1942, at age 94. He grew up in Putnam and Hancock counties and moved to Lima in old age. His son, J. McLean Reed, was superintendent of Lima’s public schools and later the first dean of Ohio State University’s Lima Campus.

Allen County’s last Civil War veteran was John Alexander Ream, who died Dec. 30, 1943, eight months after his 100th birthday.

Ream, nearly a lifelong resident of the county, enlisted at age 19 in 1862. Wounded in the elbow at Wytheville, Va., in 1863, he was captured and spent nine months as a prisoner of war.

The wound, The Lima News reported at the time of his death, “crippled his arm for life.”

Submitted by

Norita Moss