Mr. Kincaid Learns Son Bruce Killed in Action in France After Wife Dies of Flu, 1918

“Bruce Kincaid Killed in Action in France,” from the Hickory Daily Record, Oct. 23, 1918

Morganton, Oct. 23—Monday night a message was received by C.B. Kincaid announcing that his son, Bruce Kincaid, was killed in action September 12.

Heretofore several Morganton boys have died in camp, several have been wounded and one negro boy was killed, but Private Kincaid is Morganton’s first white boy to give his life in France. Just a week ago, the soldier’s mother, Mrs. C.B. Kincaid, was buried, this family being thus doubly bereaved within a week.

Bruce Kincaid went to camp last May and sailed for France in August. When killed he had not yet been over seas a month.

Morganton has had several hundred cases of influenza but the number of deaths has been remarkably small. The epidemic seems to be abating, but the quarantine is still in force and every means being used to prevent the spread of the disease.

The remains of W.W. Branch of Granite Falls, an influenza pneumonia victim were interred in the cemetery here Sunday afternoon, this being Mr. Branch’s old home. He was a nephew of Mrs. L.A. Ward of Morganton.