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Collin County Servicemen and Women
Who Died During Service In World War I
The following obituaries of men (and one woman) who died during service in World War I tell
the story of sacrifice for our country. By presenting the obituaries in chronological order we hope to not
only honor these men and women, but provide a greater understanding of the war.
This list of soldiers is based upon the work of Ronnie D. Foster, a Collin County singer,
songwriter, author, and United States Marine Corps veteran who has devoted hundreds of hours to
researching the lives of Collin County's servicemen and women. For more information about these
soldiers, see Ronnie D. Foster's Web site: Collin County Freedom Fighters:
http://ccfreedomfighters.com/WWI%20memorial.htm.
1917
James Robert GANTT
ROBBIE GANTT TO BE BURIED WITH HONORS TOMORROW AT PRINCETON
The remains of Robbie Gantt, who died at the Naval Training station at Chicago, Sunday
evening, April 29, will arrive in Princeton at 11 o'clock Thursday, May 3, accompanied by his brother,
Ray Gantt, and his brother-in-law, Ben D. Sheppard. The body will be borne to the family residence, one
mile north of Princeton, where the funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock, tomorrow (Thursday)
afternoon. The services will be conducted at the home by the Rev. L. A. Hanson, assisted by the Rev.
Geo. A. Dale. The burial will follow in the I. 0. O. F. cemetery at Princeton. The active pallbearers are
Ernest Hooten, Jesse Hooten, George Dalton, Irby Dalton, Ben Milligan, Paul Gray Boorman, Elmer
Hooper and Cleburne Cave. Honorary pallbearers-Prof. J. W. Neal, County Superintendent W. S. Smith,
Melvin G. West, Floyd Huddleston, Ed E. McMurray, F. A. Kluttz, Prof. Clarence Cox and T. T. Blagg. The
burial will take place under the auspices of the Princeton W. O. W. camp, of which he was a member.
The solemn rites will be assisted in by the uniformed teams of McKinney, Farmersville, Altoga, Climax
and Culleoka. The Princeton Yeomen Lodge of which the deceased was also a member will participate
in the burial ceremony. The deceased had been a member of the Methodist church for about two years.
He was a young man of the brightest intelligence and of noble Christian character. He was raised on a
farm at Princeton, very largely self educated and taught in the Princeton High school until about the
first of April at which time he responded to his country's call upon the declaration of war against
Germany and enlisted for service in the navy. He was sent to the naval training station at Chicago,
where his death occurred as heretofore notes in these columns. The cause of his death was cerebial
[sic] meningitis. His death was very sudden. Below is a letter which he wrote April 28 to his mother,
brothers and sisters at Princeton, only about 24 hours before his death. The deceased is survived by his
mother and father and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Ben D. Sheppard, Ray, Vida, Irma,
Elbern, Walter B., Ruth, Hugh and Anita.
The sudden and pathetic death of this young patriot who freely gave his life on his country's
altar has caused sadness to fall like a pall of gloom over his home town and in fact the entire
community. People will come from almost every part of the county tomorrow to pay tribute to the
memory of the lamented death.McKinney Daily Courier Gazette, 2 May 1917, page 1, col. 4.
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