SLATER, Layton F.

Layton Fink Slater^{1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9}

White Male^3,8,9

Residence: Huntington^2,3

Rank: Sergeant^3,6

Unit: Company F, 150^th Infantry Regiment, 75^th Infantry Brigade, 38^th Division, US Army^5,7,10

Birth: 25 Apr 1897 – Williamson, WV^2,3,4,8,9

Father: Rush Floyd; Mother: Fannie Luatha (Sloan)^2,3,8,9

Death: 26 May 1918 – Williamson, WV^2,3,4,6,9

Cause of Death: Tuberculosis³

Burial: Fairview Cemetery, Williamson^3,4,9

 

Entered Service 16 Jun 1916; Trained at Camp Houston, TX; Was with the troops in Mexico²

Assigned to Companies F & G, 2^nd WV Volunteer Infantry, converted to 150^th Regiment^5,6,7

Filed for a pension 26 Jan 1918 for tuberculosis incurred during service^6,7

 

Sources:

Plaque on Memorial Arch, Huntington, WV; 1929; “Cabell Honor Roll List, Arch Plaque”, Cabell County War Memorial Association.¹

 

W.W. Smith, Honor Roll of Cabell County, W.Va.:  An Illustrated Biographical Record of Cabell County’s Part in the World War 1914-1918 (Chicago, IL:  Severinghaus Printing Company, 1920).  KYOWVA Library, 901 Jefferson Ave, Huntington, WV.²

 

“West Virginia Veterans Memorial Archives Database”, West Virginia Division of Culture & History, WV Culture (http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/wvvetmem.html), “Layton F. Slater” page; Accessed 2017. http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/vetdetail.aspx?Id=2681.³

 

Jim Tipton, FindAGrave, digital images (https://www.findagrave.com/index.html), “Layton F Slater, #55066438” Accessed 2017; Created by Whitney Foskey; Citing Fairview Cemetery, Williamson, Mingo County, WV. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=slater&GSfn=layton&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1918&GSdyrel=in&GSst=52&GScnty=3093&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=55066438&df=all&.⁴

 

West Virginia Humanities Council, e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia (http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/), “West Virginia National Guard” page accessed 2017. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1074.⁵

 

“United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJD3-23FR : 24 May 2014), Layton F Slater, 1907-1933; citing NARA microfilm publication M850 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,636,108.⁶

 

“United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDP-86BH : 3 April 2015), Layton F Slater, 1918.⁷

 

Mingo, West Virginia, Births, 1873-1916, “Layton Fink Slater, 1897” page accessed 2017. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_bcdetail.aspx?Id=3330374; WV State Archives Vital Record Research Project, wvculture.org/vrr/.⁸

 

Mingo, West Virginia, Deaths, 1910-1966, “Layton F. Slater, 1918” page accessed 2017. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcdetail.aspx?Id=695822; WV State Archives Vital Record Research Project, wvculture.org/vrr/.⁹

 

Order of Battle of United States Land Forces in the World War: American Expeditionary Forces: Divisions: Volume 2; CMH Pub 23-2, United States Army Center of Military History (1931; reprint 1988), Page 241; Accessed 9/30/2018; Online Images, United States Army Center of Military History (https://history.army.mil/html/books/023/23-2/CMH_Pub_23-2.pdf).¹⁰