Soldiers at the Waynesburg & Washington Railroad Station

Photograph

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Greene Connections

Name/Title

Soldiers at the Waynesburg & Washington Railroad Station

Entry/Object ID

2019.16.1

Description

Panorama photograph believed to be of Company K, 10th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry soldiers (later 110th Infantry, 28th Division) as they headed to a training in the era just before or during the Mexican Border War (1916) or World War I (1917-1918). The soldiers are standing at the Waynesburg & Washington Railroad Station in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Members of the local Company K have been identified in this group, but only 67 soldiers are pictured, which may indicate peace-time enlistment levels. At the time the Company left for WWI on 7 September 1917, we know that approximately 150 men were in the group that boarded the W & W to go to training at Camp Hancock, Georgia. It also may be possible that some of the soldiers photographed were not members of Company K at all, but trained with them before receiving their own orders. Identified: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Believed to be John Milton Paden (6) Believed to be Ralford Baily Purman (7) (8) Believed to be Floyd Spragg Strosnider (9) (10) Believed to be Russell Kenneth Yoders (11) Believed to be Harry Dunn (12) (13) Believed to be Albert "Bert" Buchanan (14) (15) Believed to be Walter C. Montgomery (16) (17) (18) (19) Believed to be Charles Austin Dille (20) Believed to be Ernest Clayton (21) (22) (23) Believed to be Silva E. Hartley (24) Believed to be Fred Roland Cleavenger (25) (26) (27) Believed to be Charles Leroy Bosworth (28) Believed to be William Walter McVay (29) Believed to be Lawrence Leslie Staggers (30) (31) Believed to be Edward Jay Hatfield (32) (33) Believed to be Charles Edward Hewitt (34) (35) (36) Believed to be Joseph Bryan Varner (37) Believed to be Edward McNicholas (38) Believed to be Dors W. Patterson (39) (40) Believed to be Howard Louis Leckey Sr. (41) Believed to be Clarence Earnest (42) (43) (44) Believed to be Allen T. Hill (45) Believed to be Floyd Whitlatch Patterson (46) (47) (48) Believed to Samuel Morris Thompson (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) Believed to be Frederick W. Marshall (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) Believed to be Ralph Dudley Durbin (64) Believed to be Charles Edward Murphy (65) (66) (67) *Glenn Alonzo Ross. *Identified by his granddaughter Susan Goerss Brown, 2019. Original, professional photograph by Babbitt-Ely, Waynesburg, Pa.

Collection

Roy Huffman Collection

Made/Created

Studio

Babbitt-Ely Studio

Date made

circa 1914 - circa 1917

Place

Location

Pennsylvania / Greene County / Waynesburg

Lexicon

Search Terms

Bosworth family, Buchanan family, Military, Rain Day Boys, Ross family, Trains, United States. Army. Infantry Division, 28th. Regiment, 110th. Company K., Veterans--World War I, Veterans--Mexican Border War, 1916, Waynesburg & Washington Railroad

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

HUFR-AN001-0001

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Bosworth, Charles Leroy [1893-1980]

Person or Organization

Buchanan, Albert (a/k/a Bert) [1892-1918]

Person or Organization

Clayton, Ernest

Person or Organization

Cleavenger, Fred Roland [1890-1961]

Person or Organization

Dille, Charles Austin

Person or Organization

Dunn, Harry [1895-1918]

Person or Organization

Durbin, Ralph Dudley

Person or Organization

Earnest, Clarence Russell [1898-1962]

Person or Organization

Hartley, Silva Elijah [1894-1958]

Person or Organization

Hatfield, Edward Jay

Person or Organization

Hewitt, Charles Edward

Person or Organization

Hill, Allen T.

Person or Organization

Leckey, Howard Louis (Sr.) [1892-1951]

Person or Organization

Marshall, Frederick W. [1897-1918]

Person or Organization

McNicholas, Edward [1888-1918]

Person or Organization

McVay, William Walter

Person or Organization

Montgomery, Walter Curry [1879-1963]

Person or Organization

Murphy, Charles Edward [1897-1918]

Person or Organization

Paden, John Milton [1885-1918]

Person or Organization

Patterson, Dors W. [1894-1973]

Person or Organization

Patterson, Floyd Whitlatch [1890-1942]

Person or Organization

Purman, Ralford Baily [1894-1935]

Person or Organization

Ross, Glenn Alonzo [1890-1973]

Person or Organization

Staggers, Lawrence Leslie [1896-1918]

Person or Organization

Strosnider, Floyd Spragg [1891-1918]

Person or Organization

Thompson, Samuel Morris [1893-1952]

Person or Organization

Varner, Joseph Bryan

Person or Organization

Yoders, Russell Kenneth [1899-1918]

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Provenance

Provenance Detail

World War I - Roy Huffman Collection

Notes

The Roy Huffman Collection was assembled by Roy and his mother Audrey (Benjeski) Huffman from photographs shared by relatives. Roy shared the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2019. Source Citation: Soldiers at the Waynesburg & Washington Railroad Station; item no. HUFR-AN001-0001, Roy Huffman Collection; Greene Connections Archives Project (GreeneConnections.com).