FLOYD CHRISTIAN HOOVER

 

 

YOUNG HERO BROUGHT HOME TO REST

Floyd Hoover Killed In France Made a Splendid War Record.

Wednesday’s Daily Mail and Post.

   The body of Floyd Hoover, who died in overseas service, was brought to this city, his old home, arriving here this morning, for interment.

   The deceased was born August 19, 1890 in the northern part of Missouri, but when 2 years old moved with his parents to Nevada.

   He lived here for a number of years, finishing the grammar schools, and then went to Kansas where he completed his high school course.

   Later he moved to Iowa and engaged in farming with an uncle.

   In 1915 he went to New Mexico, where he purchased a ranch, and opened a garage at Cuervo, and continued in business until 1917 when he felt his country's call and enlisted at Las Vegas, in August of that year.

   He was assigned as ambulance driver in the Ambulance Co. No. 3, 1st division, and was in training in the Medical Department at Fort Bliss and Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.

   The First Division had the distinction of being the first combatant unit to arrive in France and the first to enter the fighting line.

   In the Aisne-Marne battle his division participated in some of the most desperate fighting of the entire war.

   In the Meuse-Argonne battle his division was twice thrown into the line.

   Floyd was in perfect health and with his company during all this time, his comrades write, "never during our great struggle was he not one of the first, although there are great

numbers just like my deceased comrade."

   Floyd was cited for his devotion to duty and his great courage under heavy shell fire.

   He had worked continuously for over two days and nights. At midnight on October the first, 1918, while Floyd was caring for the wounded in the dressing station of Ambulance Company No. 3, the station was shelled and he was struck by fragments of a high explosive shell in the brain and chest, which killed him instantly.  This was during the great Argonne battle.

   In the Ancient Palace of the Governors in New Mexico's Hall of Fame, the name of Floyd Hoover, his work and his memory will be preserved for all time.

   The body upon arrival here was taken to the Wainscott Undertaking Parlors.

   The funeral will be held at the First M. E. Church Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and burial will be at Deepwood.

   Mrs. W. M. Barnes and children and Mrs. J. W. Northcraft, of Cuervo, New Mexico, mother and sister and nieces of the deceased, are here to attend the funeral of the young soldier.

The Southwest Mail, Nevada, Missouri; Friday 7 October 1921 page 4

 

A SOLDIER LETTER TO A MOTHER

   The following letter was received by Mrs. Northcraft from one of Floyd Hoover's comrades:

Ambulance Co. No. 3,

1st Div. A. E. F.

16th April, 1919.

Mrs. J. W. Northcraft,

   Variaders, New Mexico.

Dear Madam:

   Received your letter of March 24, 1919, this date and am glad that I have the honor to express my thoughts of my honorable and deceased comrade to his mother.

   With honor can we look back upon Floyd as a soldier. Never during our great struggle was he not one of the first. Although there are great numbers just like my deceased comrade, they still remain without mention or decoration. But we know that his reward was Heaven and that the decorations which he received there are glorious and unsurpassable. His work on earth was done and when death called him he was well prepared to meet his creator, for he was an

honorable, noble and courageous soldier who so generously gave his earthly life for his country and home. God was merciful with our comrade on that night. His first call was sudden and painless; there were no tortures and agonies which so many had to face before being called to that last peaceful resting place.

   Floyd was laid to rest some two hundred yards from where he fell, amidst many other noble comrades, on a little hill overlooking a small valley that proved to be the house of sacrifice for many a brave and noble soul.

   You as his mother, though heartbroken with sorrow as you may be, can find rest and consolation in knowing that you have given freely and unselfishly your flesh and blood in the form of a most noble and courageous soldier to our country's call and that he has proven to be in this earthly life all that can be dreamed of honorable manhood, the noble soldier who fell and died gloriously on the battlefield, for his flag, his country, and his mother.

Phillip Bullman, Sgt.

The Southwest Mail, Nevada, Missouri; Friday 7 October 1921 page 4

 

MRS. J. W. NORTHCRAFT, FORMER NEVADA RESIDENT, DIES IN ARKANSAS

   Mrs. J. W. Northcraft, a former resident of Nevada, died Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. W. Barnes, in Mountain Home, Ark., according to a message received by Nevada friends. Her death occurred after a long illness. The body was expected to arrive last evening and be taken to the Hays Service Rooms. The funeral services will probably be held some time Friday but the hour will not be decided on until the arrival of Mrs. Barnes, the former Grace Hoover.

The Southwest Mail and The Weekly Post, Nevada, Missouri; Friday 11 August 1939 page 1

 

Floyd C. Hoover Find A Grave Memorial

 

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