Hugh Dorsey Painter
Fort Jackson, 4950 Strom Thurmond Blvd., Columbia, South Carolina 29206, United States
Date of Birth: 6/30/1916
Date of Death: 1/14/1941
From: Oneonta, AL
Death Location: Fort Jackson, SC
Cause of Death:
Accident- fell off horse and was run over by caisson while attempting to lay telephone wire
Accident: Fort Jackson, SC
U.S. Army
“CORPORAL HUGH DORSEY PAINTER of Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama
He was born in 1916 and died as result of a fall from a horse and was ran over by the caisson at Fort Jackson, South Carolina on 14 January 1941. He is the son of Freeman & Martha Gill Painter. Corporal Painter is a member of Headquarters Battery, Communications of the Field Artillery. This honored Soldier of World War II is resting today in Mount Moriah Cemetery, New Friday’s Crossing, Blount County, Alabama” “A man is not dead until he is forgotten” – Find A Grave