Date of birth: 02 Jul 1920
Date of death: 05 Jul 1943

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Burial Information

Section 04 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0194-01
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

Branch: US ARMY MS Natl Guard - 172 Infantry 43rd Division
Rank: PFC - Private First Class
Years Served: 25 Nov 1940 - 5 Jul 1943
War/Campaign: WORLD WAR II
Killed in Action: Yes
KIA Date: 05 Jul 1943
KIA Location: Died of Wounds
Military Notes: DOW - Died of Wounds, Army personnel who were wounded in action and later died of those wounds.

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Notes

Obituary

Lexington Boy Loses Life In
South Pacific Combat July 5th

Pfc. James Stewart
Injured On Birthday;
Dies Two Days Later

Pfc. James B. Stewart, son of Mrs. Catherine V. Stewart, became Lexington’s first known casualty in World War Two when he died on July 5th of wounds received in action on July 2, somewhere in the Pacific.

The first news of his injury and death was received by his mother late last Thursday, exactly two months from the day he was injured.

He was 23 years old on July 2nd, the day of his injury. He had been in the service nearly three years having gone in with Battery B of the National Guard in November, 1940. Prior to enlisting in the National Guard he was employed by the Western Auto Associate Store in Lexington following his graduation from Lexington High School in 1939.

Young Stewart was well known in Lexington and a wide host of friends extend sympathy to the bereaved family.

Stewart was with the local boys at Camp Blanding and in Texas until they were transferred to Camp Shelby. At that time he was transferred to an infantry outfit in California and sailed overseas on the U. S. S. President Coolidge.

He was the son of the late Benjamin Clyde Stewart who died eleven years ago last Thursday, the day the message was received of the death of James.

Survivors are the mother and one sister, Miss Edrie Stewart, two brothers, Henry and Harry, all of Lexington. One niece and nephew, Henry Stewart, Jr., and Nora Dean Stewart, and their mother, Mrs. Henry (Lenora) Stewart, also survive.

The Lexington Advertiser (Lexington, MS)
Sept 9, 1943, vol. 106, no. 20, pg. 1

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Family Members

Parents
Benjamin Clyde Stewart
1885–1932

Catherine Virginia Zeigler Stewart
1886–1971

Siblings
Henry Clyde Stewart Sr.
1906–1974

Virginia Stewart Cash
1912–1939

Edrie Stewart Logan
1915–1991

Harry Bordan Stewart
1926–2006

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Military Inscription

Mississippi
PFC 172 Inf 43 Inf Div
World War II

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