ANOTHER COFFEE BOY ON LIST OF IMMORTALS..WILLIAM J. BEVERLY OF WILLACOOCHEE DIES OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN FRANCE
Coffee County Progress.... dated Thursday, December 12, 1918 Willacoochee. Dec. 8, 1918

News had just reached here of the death of William J. Beverly in a hospital at Fort McHenry, Md.. His brother, Ed Beverly, in response to a telegram from authorities there stating that his brother was in critical condition, left Tuesday to be with him in his illness, but on reaching Baltimore found he was dead. Bill, as he was known to his many friends here was a member of the famous 82d Division; helped to wipe out ___ St. Mahiel salient and was engaged in the fighting that turned the tide of the war. It was in this fighting that he was wounded in four different places, which wounds caused his death after he was returned to the United States. He entered the service April 2, 1918, was assigned to the 82d, and departed for France April 29th following. He was reared on a small farm near this place; was bookkeper for the Merchants and Farmers Bank for several years and held a position as bookkeeper for the Atlanta National Bank in 1917. Few young men had more friends among his acquaintances than did Bill Beverly, who was a man of fine Christain character and lived it every day, in fact, every one who knew him loved him for his quiet, unassuming but commanding disposition and noble, patriotic sentiments and his whole community is shocked and grieved to learn of his death, which came to him in defense of his country and in a cause that he knew to be right. Surviving him are his mother, Mrs. Martha Beverly, and two brothers, Ed and Micheal Beverly of this place.

SOURCE: Satilla Regional Library, Genealogy Dept., Douglas, Coffee Co., GA Microfilm Rolls, old newspapers

Submitted by Lourice Lott Merritt