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James Neilly
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Becky Dirks Haugsted provided the images and Janet A. Brandt transcribed the text.
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The first soldier boy of the World War to be buried in Jones County was Private James Neilly. Word was received here on Jan. 29, 1918, that Private Neilly had died in a training camp hospital in Texas. He was the youngest son of Thomas Neilly, an old veteran of the Civil War who resides in Buffalo township, Linn County, Iowa. James was a member of the National Army from the state of Washington where he had been residing for several years. The body was brought to Anamosa for burial and was attended by a local lodge, the Knights of Columbus of which order Private Neilly was a member, joining in the west Burial was in the Cemetery in Anamosa Private Neilly was a single man. The surviving relatives are his father and a number of brothers and sister | ||||
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