----Source: Greenwood Gleaner 4/18/1923

OBITUARY FOR JOHN MOOREHEAD

John Joseph Moorehead was born Dec. 6, 1893, in Chicago, Ill. He graduated from the public school of that city and entered the services of the Chicago City Railway Co. as time keeper's assistant.

In 1912 he moved with his parents, brothers and sisters to Eau Claire, Wis. While here he was an employee of the Soo Line Railroad. In 1914 John and his two brothers Tom and Dave purchased a farm in the town of Hendren, Clark County on which he and the family have since resided.

John Moorehead entered the services of the U.S. Army July 25, 1918, in his twenty fourth year. From Camp Grant he was sent across, sailing from the United States in Sept. 1918, with the 86th Division. Over There he was in a Replacement Camp in France, and at the time Armistice was signed was within seven hours of the battlefront. He was returned to the United States and received his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army July 6, 1919. Since his return he has resided on his farm near Willard except for a time he has been employed by Mr. Floyd Potts, south of Greenwood.

His health has always been very good, except for contracting the influenza in the service. During the past winter he has suffered from nervous disorders and a short time ago he contracted the influenza again, which developed into an infection of the nerves, causing his death Sunday morning April 8, 1923 at two A.M. at his home near Willard.

John Moorehead was an honorable upright young man, whose early death leaves a sense of loss to his numerous relatives and friends, which is hard to be filled.

Besides his hosts of friends he leaves to mourn his death, his mother, Mrs. Annie Moorehead, and brothers Tom and Dave, who reside on the home place near Willard four sisters, Mrs. O. Swanson of La Porte, Indiana, Mrs. R. H. Bradford, Wichita, Kasas, Mrs. Homer Potter, Mrs, Wm. McKenna of Greenwood. He was a kind brother, a sincere friend and a devoted son. The bereaved family has the sympathy of the entire community in their sad bereavement.

Funeral services were conducted from St. Mary's Catholic Church at Greenwood. Father Novak read the Solemn Requiem Mass. The soldiers of the American Legion and the Band met the funeral group at Rock Creek Bridge and formed a bodyguard to the church, and from the church to the cemetery, where they performed their last rites over a dead comrade.