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Stories in Stone

Post Memorial Day Wrap

5/29/2025

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PictureMount Olivet's Confederate Row
Another Memorial Day has come and gone here at Mount Olivet Cemetery. The weather last Monday, May 26th, was quite gorgeous locally as it was for the entire military holiday weekend. On the previous Saturday, the community, under the leadership of Francis Scott Key Post #11 of the American Legion, placed thousands of flags over the graves of veterans residing here. Our number is nearly 5,000.

Although the majority of this post-Memorial Day week has been rainy and dismal, the appearance of these little flaglets throughout the historic burial ground is pretty awe-inspiring. Upon a walk the other day, one particular scene stood out to me among others. Here, I found a military-issue gravestone in Area M, aka "Strangers Row."

This monument is within the former site of a sizable line of Union soldier graves that once stretched from nearby Confederate Row (to the south) and paralleled the adjacent drive on our western perimeter in a northward (and then eastward) direction giving a glimpse of Lincoln Elementary School on the other side of the fence. The old "Union Row" actually extended to the site of the intersection of this lane with our Broadway Street gate road, and contained roughly 264 men of the Union Army who had died in our Frederick hospital center during the Civil War from either sickness or fatal injuries suffered in nearby conflicts. The vast majority of these soldiers were dis-interred from here in 1867, and moved to the new national cemetery that had been laid out in Sharpsburg. 

A few Northern soldiers were left behind in Mount Olivet, likely due to the request of family to keep them here. The marked veteran I saw has the name of James K. P. Brightwell. More on him in a minute. To the left of Brightwell's grave, was a lone flag atop an unmarked grave. I did a double-take thinking, "Why is there a flag placed there?" I then had a hunch of who it was based on research I did back in 2018 on World War I soldiers. My next question: "How did someone know there was a veteran buried there?" More on that in two minutes. 

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With inspiration to study these two decedents further, I decided first to look at the newspaper of a century ago to see what was happening in Frederick in conjunction with Memorial Day. Back then,  Memorial Day was observed on May 30th, regardless of the day of the week. In 1925, May 30th fell on a Saturday. Our first official Memorial Day commemoration at Mount Olivet took place 27 years earlier on May 30th, 1888. This 1888 date marked the 20th anniversary of Memorial Day on a national level. Here locally, appropriate exercises were held that morning at several cemeteries across the city and county. Within Mount Olivet, a special ceremony sponsored by the G. A. R. (Grand Army of the Republic) commenced at 3pm. The G.A.R. was the largest of all Union Army veterans' organizations.

Things would be no different at Mount Olivet in the year 1925, but the holiday with roots dating back to Decoration Day had taken on new meaning for generations at hand as Civil War veterans were becoming far fewer, and citizens were still feeling the effects and loss associated with the First World War with the majority of its casualties happening in 1918 as far as the American soldier was concerned. Thinking ahead, 1925 would be a critical birth year for boys who, in time, would be called to serve, and sacrifice their lives for the good of the country in the next major military conflict. This would come 17-20 years later with World War II.

I wanted to share a few of the news articles and advertisements of Memorial Day, 1925 as they appeared in the local Frederick Daily News. The main local, news story of this day of May 30th, 1925, still has Memorial Day implications today, but has nothing to do with the US military or warfare. The front page story heralded the opening of the new dam in northern Frederick County that would assist as a major reservoir. We know this today as Hunting Creek Lake, today a part of the William Houck Area of Cunningham Falls State Park. 
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Apparently traffic has always been a problem on Memorial Day as shown by the above article. And what is more fun than reading the "Years Ago Today" segment, and enjoying an evocative cartoon?

​What most impressed me in this particular edition of the Daily News was the newspaper's editorial. This is especially poignant for so many reasons. One being that today we are bombarded with more editorial content than actual news. Editors, reporters, anchors, experts and pundits frame news and the events of the day to match specific narratives. Everything is political, or made so it seems. Now, back in the day, and really up until not that long ago, our life experience, knowledge of the world and critical thinking skills would be called into play while reading about local, state, national and global happenings. The following editorial is purely enlightening. I wish I knew the author.
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Seven years ago, we at Mount Olivet launched an auxiliary website to our business site, MountOlivetCemeteryInc.com, and our history site (the one you find yourself reading this blog) MountOlivetHistory.com. I'm talking about MountOlivetVets.com, a site solely dedicated to the veterans buried here in what is considered one of the most distinguished and beautiful burial grounds in the country. As said earlier, Mount Olivet is home to thousands of patriots who bravely served their country under the same flag "so proudly hailed" in 1814 by fellow cemetery resident and Frederick native, Francis Scott Key.
 
For those in the know, the MountOlivetVets.com website is somewhat like a customized version of FindaGrave.com. Our Friends of Mount Olivet members continue to volunteer their time to research and create memorial pages for men and women connected to military service and every conflict our country has been involved in. This is certainly a work in progress as we have only completed the early wars (American Revolution and War of 1812), World War I and the Union soldiers of the American Civil War, as the Confederate soldiers are soon to be published.

​We are working on building our World War II pages at present, and have plenty more veteran pages to follow in connection to service men ans women in the Korean War, Vietnam War and more modern conflicts such as Desert Storm. And yes, we haven't forgotten about our Mexican War, Spanish-American War and all those brave citizens who served under the flag during times of peace. For now, all get a flag on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Hopefully, if we get full sponsorship for Wreaths Across America, all will receive a memorial wreath on the second Saturday of December. Click here for the sponsorship link to our Friends of Mount Olivet Wreaths Across America page. We also have a FaceBook site I encourage you to check for news and updates.
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The two flags shown at the outset of the story in Area M belong to a Civil War vet and a World War I vet as previously established. Both have memorial pages on the MountOlivet Vets website. Let's start with the man who has a monument behind his flag. This is James K. P. Brightwell. 
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Our subject is from an English family with deep roots going back to the early days of the Maryland colony. James' third great-grandfather is a man I am familiar with thanks to a documentary I researched over 25 years ago, along with a class I teach on Native Americans, early explorers and fur traders of our region in the 1600s/early 1700s. This man's name was Capt. Richard Brightwell (1642-1698). He arrived in Maryland in 1663 as an indentured servant from his home in Mildenhall, Suffolk, England. He served out his indenture in Prince Georges County under Capt. Thomas Trueman and would become quite prosperous over his lifetime.

On appointment by the provincial government, Capt. Richard Brightwell was a commander of the Prince Georges County Rangers who traveled the early Indian trails of the Monocacy Valley and what is today Upper Montgomery County. In 1697, Brightwell reported to the Maryland General Assembly that "This country was "a howling wilderness, with only Indian paths, Indian camps and wild animals. No white settlers would dare these trails. It was only the traders who worked among the Indians that knew these trails."

Capt. Brightwell's grandson, John Lawson Brightwell, married into the Carmack family and relocated from Upper Marlborough in Prince Georges County to eastern Frederick County by 1790. This man was our subject James K. P. Brightwell's great grandfather.
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1850 US Census showing James Brightwell living with his parents and siblings in Libertytown in the 1850 US Census
James Brightwell was born in August, 1845 or 1846, however, this date is up for debate. He was the son of John Robert Brightwell of Libertytown and wife Elizabeth Polly Carr. You will later learn that this, too, may be up for debate. James was one of 9 children and raised in Libertytown despite his mother dying in 1850. Instead of middle initials "K." and "P.," note that the 1850 census above shows James "D." I would also see him later referred to as James "R." and James "B." In the end, literally the end as in his obituary, I would learn that his full name was James Knox Polk Brightwell. Obviously this was an homage to our 11th US president who was in office at the time of James Brightwell's birth.

The 1860 US Census shows James and other siblings living in the home of his oldest sister Rosanna who had married a blacksmith named James Myers. James' father, John, can be found living with another daughter (and sister to James) named Eva Elizabeth Adeline Steele who had married a Mexican War veteran named John Steele.
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1860 US Census showing James living with Rosanna and William H. Myers in Libertytown
I presume that James received a basic education in Libertytown and worked as a laborer. That is, up to the American Civil War. Research from our MountOlivetVets.com site shows that James enlisted in the Union Army in Baltimore on October 1st, 1861. He would serve initially as a private in Company E of the 5th Maryland Infantry. Enlistment papers state, at the start of the war, that our subject was a barkeeper by the name of James K. P. Brightfull, and was born in 1845, so our soldier was a man of deception, mystery or confusion.
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James Brightwell would be captured by the Rebel Army on June 15th, 1863 as part of the 2nd Battle of Winchester, Virginia. He was paroled weeks later at City Point, VA on July 8th, 1863. At this point he returned to duty.
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Brightwell participated in the June 15th, 1863 2nd Battle of Winchester (VA)
James Brightwell served out his original enlistment at Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island, a major Union operated prison fort in the middle of the Delaware River. I am quite familiar with this place as it is positioned off Delaware City, Delaware where my own father's side of the family is from. As a matter of fact, two of my paternal 3rd Great-grandfathers served as carpenters in the building of the fort in the late 1850s. Both men next served in the Union Army and had duty as prison guards at Fort Delaware during the Civil War. One of these, named John Koch and a German immigrant, died at the fort of smallpox early in the war. His wife, my 3rd Great-grandmother named Catherine Sebastian Koch, worked at  Fort Delaware during the war as a laundress and cook. Perhaps she had an occasion to talk to James Brightwell at some point while both were there?
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Civil War era photograph of Fort Delaware in the Delaware River
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Today, Fort Delaware serves as a Delaware State Park with access from Delaware City by boat
Brightwell fulfilled his enlistment and was mustered out on December 31st, 1863 at Fort Delaware. However, he re-enlisted the following day and served until September 1st, 1865. He had been promoted to corporal on June 30th, 1865, and mustered out in Fredericksburg, VA.
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James returned to Libertytown after the war and lived with his sister and siblings. One of these was older brother Alonzo F. Brightwell (1844-1877) who also served with the Union Army during the Civil War. Alonzo enlisted a month before James in Frederick and served with Company B of the Potomac Home Brigade of the First Maryland Infantry. He would be captured at Harpers Ferry in mid-September 1862 at the Battle of Maryland Heights, and was paroled afterwards. Alonzo spent much time guarding the local lines of the railroad and canal before being mustered out of service at Point of Rocks in February, 1864. He would re-enlist and served with Company B of the 13th Maryland until war's end. Like James, Alonzo was promoted to the rank of corporal and finally mustered out of service in Baltimore in late May, 1865.

James worked as a house painter, and Alonzo worked in the copper mines near New London. Yes, this is how Coppermine Road received its name. 
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1870 US Census showing Brightwell brothers back living with Rosanna Myers in Libertytown
Alonzo F. Brightwell came to live in Frederick with his wife and children. He is buried in Mount Olivet like James. Alonzo died of consumption in 1887 and is buried in Mount Olivet's Area Q/Lot 196.
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Frederick News (March 3, 1887)
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Corp. Alonzo Brightwell (1844-1887)
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James Brightwell married Lucinda Heiser of Warfieldsburg, Carroll County in 1874 in Libertytown. They would first live in the vicinity of New London between Libertytown and New Market in the eastern part of Frederick County.
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1880 US Census showing James and Lucinda Brightwell and three children.
By 1880, the Brightwells had three of seven known children. Minnie L. (1876-?), Cora V. (1878-1983) and Zeno (1879-1933). Four more would follow in Benjamin K. (1887-?), Franklin Dallis (1887-1958), Leroy (1890-1968) and Cornelia Irene (1893-1976).

I don't know much about the Brightwells' family life, but I do sense some serious health and well-being challenges associated with James, perhaps something caused as a result of his years in the service. I was clued in to this notion by seeing  this news article carried in the Frederick newspaper in 1884.
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Frederick News (Oct 9, 1884)
From this article, I decided to investigate a little deeper and found out how, and when, James was committed. His new residence was at the Montevue Hospital, the county almshouse, located north of Frederick. 
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Frederick Citizen (July 8, 1884)
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I presume that James was only at Montevue until 1886/87 based on the births of twin sons Benjamin and Franklin in 1887. A year later, he was involved in a buggy accident in Frederick with relatives. James next appears in the 1890 special Veterans Census living in Frederick. That same year, I found a very intriguing clue into his confusing childhood. Perhaps this has a direct correlation to issues encountered as an adult?​
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Frederick News (May 21, 1890)
Was this Rosanna Myers the mother of James K. P. Brightwell, or was she simply his older sister as I had previously believed? Were John and Elizabeth Brightwell our subject's parents or grandparents?  Rosanna appeared as Rosanna Brightwell in the 1850 census and married three years later William Henry Myers. Even though James is not mentioned in Rosanna's obituary in 1900, are we to think that James was the son of Rosanna? Now the questions run deep. Either Rosanna gave birth to James out of wedlock, or perhaps adopted him as her own, or he considered her (Rosanna) his mother since Elizabeth died when he was about 4-5 yearsold. Maybe Rosanna previously married an older  Brightwell son of John and Elizabeth Brightwell and became widowed before 1850?
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Frederick News (Oct 8, 1900)
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Rosanna Myers gravestone in Libertytown's Fairmount Cemetery as shown on FindaGrave.com. The heading for this memorial page interestingly reads "Rosanna Brightful Myers."
James worked as a house painter through the decade. I learned that he would make a return trip to Frederick's Montevue Hospital in 1897. I assume he was visiting or living in Libertytown with relatives at the time of his commitment. 
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Frederick News (June 15, 1897)
​An interesting sidenote is that Sheriff Andrew Clay McBride (1860-1910) is buried only about 50 yards from James Brightwell in neighboring Area L/Lot 193. More so, McBride's son, Brigadier General Allan Clay McBride (1885-1944) was a veteran of both World Wars and is buried at our World War II monument in Area E of Mount Olivet. He is one of our highest, if not the highest ranking veteran in Mount Olivet, and in the spirit of Memorial Day is oft remembered for dying in active duty as a Prisoner of War after serving on the staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific in the Philippines and participating in the infamous Bataan Death March.

James Brightwell was out of the Montevue Hospital by 1898. He and his
 family relocated to Baltimore and can be found there later that year and two years later in the 1900 US Census. James is recorded as continuing to work as a house painter there in Baltimore City directories from 1898-1902. Lucinda is listed as a seamstress in the 1900 census. 
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1900 US Census showing the Brightwells in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Baltimore
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The second rowhome from the right is 102 E Hamburg St in Baltimore, temporary home of the James Brightwell family in 1900
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James K. Brightwell Military Pension Card held by the US Government
In 1901, James had been issued a military pension by the government for his service in the Civil War three decades earlier. Sadly, James Brightwell would be re-committed to Frederick's Montevue Hospital once again by 1903. The following article appeared in the Frederick News in September of that same year.
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Frederick News (Sept 16, 1903)
Thankfully, James would eventually leave Montevue and was back living with Lucinda in Frederick on East Patrick Street, and later South Bentz Street. The only mentions for the next 15 years in the newspapers of James Brightwell  are in announcing that he was either visiting relatives (children) in Baltimore, or recovering at home from illness or injury. 

I found an especially uplifting article which appeared in the local newspaper in advance of Memorial Day, 1908. It dealt with James' efforts to mark the grave of a fellow Civil War colleague buried at Mount Olivet. 
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Frederick News (May 29, 1908)
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Grave of Corp. Samuel Munshower (1835-1907) in Area G/Lot 1
​James can be found living apart from Lucinda by 1910. He, instead, is residing with son Zeno and wife Ella Brightwell with their 2 year-old son Leroy in the 1910 Census. They were living at 16 South Bentz Street. Meanwhile, Lucinda and her youngest children can be found living at 426 West Third Street in Frederick.
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James Brightwell living with son Zeno on Bentz St in Frederick in 1910
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16 S Bentz St is no longer the site of a townhome, but rather the entryway to Mullinix Park
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Lucinda Brightwell and three youngest children living at 426 W 3rd St in Frederick in the 1910 Census
James Brightwell would not be living in the next census of 1920, having died May 1st, 1919. His obituary was carried in the Frederick paper on May 2nd, 1919, however is hard to read based on the microfilm copy I found. He would be laid to rest in Mount Olivet's Area M/Lot 23.
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Frederick Post (May 2, 1919)
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Obituary transcript:

"James K. Polk Brightwell, a civil war veteran and a well-known citizen died at the home of his son Zeno Brightwell, 16 Bentz Street yesterday evening at 7:30 o'clock after a short illness of kidney trouble 72 years old. He had been in failing health for some time. He was a native of Libertytown and enlisted in the Union Army Company E Fifth Maryland Regiment, Captain Lowery, in 1861 and served throughout the conflict. He was a house painter by trade and was a member of the Lutheran church. His wife died one year ago. Three daughters, Mrs. John Apple, Mrs Charles Shannon and Mrs Lewis Rickerd, Baltimore, and three sons, Zeno, this city and Frank and LeRoy Brightwell, Baltimore. One sister, Mrs. James Ely, this city, a half sister Mrs Kate Scott, Baltimore, and two half brothers, Stephen Myers, Liberty and Walter Myers, Baltimore, all survive. The funeral will take place from his late house Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Thomas P. Rice will be the funeral director."

As stated in the obituary, James' wife, Lucinda, had died in 1918. Interestingly, she died exactly one year before her husband on May 1st, 1918. Lucinda Brightwell is not buried in Mount Olivet. Instead she is in an unmarked grave in Dundalk's Oak Hill Cemetery in southeast Baltimore. Her youngest son, Leroy Brightwell (1890-1968), is buried here in this cemetery as well and likely made the arrangements. It is likely that she died at his home in Charm City, located at 432 South Third Street.
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Baltimore Sun (May 3, 1918)
If anything else, I find myself thinking about Lucinda Brightwell for the trials endured in raising her children, all the while caring for husband James. It now makes sense why James is buried in Strangers Row in Mount Olivet. Unlike his Civil War counterparts, he was not buried here as a result of war injury or illness, but more so for being indigent at the time of death. Mount Olivet used this area for paupers graves and for actual strangers that died in town, not claimed by family or friends and brought to respective hometowns for burial. In addition, I've found that the cemetery's board of managers practiced charity by helping widows with little means to bury spouses, and families of similar circumstances to bury children who had died. 
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Part of Area M of Mount Olivet, aka "Strangers Row" showing James K. P. Brightwell's gravestone marked with a flag
Once again we are reminded of the importance of a gravestone. Yes, it only shows a brief amount of information in the form of name, birth and death dates, and either military-based information as is the case of our veterans, or an occasional bible verse for others. These are monuments to lives lived, plain and simple. Think what you will of mortal remains and the soul or spirit of an individual, but the grave marker is a touchstone, both literal and figurative, representing the accomplishments, experiences and occasional mishaps of what the decedent embodied in both life and remembered in death. I'm glad I could learn more about James Brightwell, the man and life behind and beneath this flaglet. Now, what about the flag to the immediate left of his gravestone?
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The decedent under this flag was also a local soldier. He was a private in Company M of the 71st Infantry Regiment and his last name was somewhat similar to his cemetery neighbor Mr. Brightwell. His name was James Lewis Lambright, Jr. He went by the name Lewis Lambright.

Born May 15th, 1889, "Lewis" was the son of James Lewis Lambright who died in 1896. Our subject's mother was the former Georgianna M. Heiser of Carroll County and daughter of Daniel and Susan Heisler. Georgianna was an older sister to Lucinda Heiser Brightwell of whom we just talked about. 

Georgianna would remarry in 1897. This was Harry Westerly. The family of five "Lambright" siblings continued living at mother Georgianna's home of 104 West Sixth Street in Frederick.  
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1900 US Census showing Lambright family in Frederick
The Lambright children attended school in Frederick and Lewis would take up the tonsorial arts becoming a barber. He began working in this profession at age 19 around 1908.
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1910 US Census showing Lewis Lambright living with his parents at 104 W 6th St
To say that Lewis had a straight and narrow upbringing would not be quite correct. He was no stranger to the local police authorities. At age 15, he was arrested for theft of some oranges from a freight train. It was proven later that he was innocent of the theft, though.
 
At age 25, he and another man, Osborne Six, were "engaged in a fracas" because Six accused Lewis of "too much familiarity with Six’s wife." Both men were arrested by Policeman Johnny Adams who we have chronicled in this blog. Each man was fined, and Lewis was "warned by the magistrate to steer clear of other people’s wives." The next year, Lewis was charged with disorderly conduct by Officer Adams. He was fined $5, but ended up staying in the jail for 15 days since he couldn’t pay the fine. 

​As World War I raged in Europe, Lewis registered for the draft in June, 1917. He was now 28. Sometime later that year or the next, he would marry a West Sixth street neighbor in Annie Wickham. Lewis enlisted in the US Army and was inducted into service on June 26th, 1918. As stated earlier, he was assigned to Company M of the 71st Infantry.
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World war I Draft Registration for James Lewis Lambright in 1917
Lewis Lambright was sent to Camp Meade in June of 1918 for basic training. In August 1918, he came home on furlough, but remained at home instead of returning to camp on August 25th as expected. The next night, he attempted suicide by swallowing a bichloride of mercury tablet. His family realized what he had done and called a doctor who pulled him through the suicide attempt.

Lewis refused to go back to Camp Meade. We learn a great deal more thanks to unfortunate events occurring on December 1st, 1918. The following article in the Frederick News tells of his sad demise after staying A.W.O.L. all fall as the headline clearly states. (NOTE: I've transcribed this article below).
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Frederick Post (Dec 2, 1918)
Transcription:
"Rather than go back to Camp Meade to face punishment for being absent without leave, Private James Lewis Lambright, West Sixth Street, on Friday afternoon swallowed a quantity of arsenic which caused death on Sunday afternoon. Although information is lacking, it is believed that Lambright swallowed the poison in his room on the second floor while officers were on the first floor urging his wife to produce him for arrest.


​On September 2, Lambright was absent from Camp Meade. At that time he attempted suicide swallowing a quantity of bichloride mercury. The soldier responded to treatment and was sent home to recover. Lambright was absent from Camp Meade since November 2. Members of the police force have known of his presence here but failed to arrest him. On Friday afternoon (Nov. 29), Officer John Adams and Painter called at the Lambright home on West Sixth Street. They were received by Mrs. Lambright who at first refused to permit the officers to talk with her husband. 'You can't take him without a warrant,' she exclaimed. Finally, Lambright appeared and he was persuaded by the officers to accompany them to the city exemption board from where they got in touch with Camp Meade. The officers were instructed to hold the soldier until the arrival of the guard from the camp.

Then shortly after 8 o'clock, Frederick Chief of Police Bruchey received the following telegram: 'Hold Private Lewis Lambright absent without leave. Will send Guard.' "Provost Guard Headquarters"
Half an hour later a telegram was received by the chief of police. 'Lambright is a deserter. Plan for calls of his arrest immediately.' "Lieut. Hammond"
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Later a telephone message was received by Desk Sergeant John Engelbrecht from Camp Meade requesting the county officials to hold Lambright for a guard which would be sent to Frederick. 

Becomes ill at Jail
On the trip to the county jail, Lambright became violently ill. The two officers suspected that he had taken poison but Lambright denied it. 'Didn't I tell you before September 2nd that I took poison he counterquestioned'. The officers agreed that he had said that his promptness had saved his life.

At the jail Lambright became seriously ill. His wife consulted a physician and he was released by Sheriff Klipp to be taken home for treatment. On Saturday (Nov 30), his condition was critical and on Sunday (Dec 1) afternoon between 12 and 1 o'clock he died. 

He is survived by his wife, his mother Mrs. Harry Esterly, a brother Harry Lambright and one sister Mrs. Ada Cuddy, Harrisburg, PA., half sister Mrs Pearl Adams and a half brother, Charles Zimmerman.
The funeral will take place this Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Services will be conducted by Dr. G. P. Kidner. Burial will be made in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Thomas P. Rice is the funeral director."


Such was the life of Lewis Lambright, buried without a grave marker in Mount Olivet's Area M. I would also learn that his father and mother are buried in different sections here at Mount Olivet: James Lewis Lambright, Sr. in Area C/Lot 57 , and Georgianna (Lambright) Esterly in Area T/Lot 144. Both are in unmarked graves as well.​
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On Memorial Day, we traditionally focus on those veterans who actually died honorably in the duty of serving under the flag. I guess its also okay to remember the cases of veterans like Corp. Brightwell and Pvt. Lambright, attempting to cope with past experiences and the concept of warfare.

Again thanks to all who serve, and those who have served, and let us never forget those who made the greatest sacrifice so that we may enjoy our freedom and liberties.
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