Interment Card, 1937
Dublin Core
Title
Interment Card, 1937
Alternative Title
Internment in the St. Augustine Cemetery
Subject
National Cemetery System (U.S.)
World War, 1914-1918
Veterans--Florida
World War, 1914-1918--African Americans
Description
The interment card for Eddie Landrum (1899-1937). Interment cards are control forms for burial lots in national cemeteries. They provide the details of name, birth, rank, serial number, units and wars served in, enlistment, discharge, death, interment date, gravesite and next of kin. According to this card, Eddie Landrum served in the 42nd Company, 157th Depot Brigade as a Private. He was inducted on August 22, 1918, given an honorable discharge on February 21, 1919, and died March 24, 1937.
Elijah "Eddie" L. Landrum was born on July 3, 1899, in Sandersville, Georgia. Like his father, Landrum was a farmer before the war. As he was under the age of twenty-one, Landrum listed his birth year as 1895 in order to register for the draft when the United States entered World War I. On August 22, 1918, Landrum was drafted for service and sent to train at Camp Gordon, Georgia. He served as part of the 157th Depot Brigade, which remained in the United States to receive, train and uniform new recruits who would be sent to fight on the front lines in France. After the war, Landrum was discharged and returned to his work as a farmer. He married and eventually settled in St. Augustine, Florida. On March 24, 1937, Eddie Landrum passed away and was buried in the St. Augustine National Cemetery in Section A Grave 208.
In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s Veterans Legacy Program Project. The program engaged a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in the Florida National Cemetery available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for k-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 gravesites at the Florida National Cemetery, where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.
Elijah "Eddie" L. Landrum was born on July 3, 1899, in Sandersville, Georgia. Like his father, Landrum was a farmer before the war. As he was under the age of twenty-one, Landrum listed his birth year as 1895 in order to register for the draft when the United States entered World War I. On August 22, 1918, Landrum was drafted for service and sent to train at Camp Gordon, Georgia. He served as part of the 157th Depot Brigade, which remained in the United States to receive, train and uniform new recruits who would be sent to fight on the front lines in France. After the war, Landrum was discharged and returned to his work as a farmer. He married and eventually settled in St. Augustine, Florida. On March 24, 1937, Eddie Landrum passed away and was buried in the St. Augustine National Cemetery in Section A Grave 208.
In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s Veterans Legacy Program Project. The program engaged a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in the Florida National Cemetery available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for k-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 gravesites at the Florida National Cemetery, where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.
Creator
Office of the Quartermaster General, Memorial Division
Source
Digital reproduction of original typewritten interment card: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-1985, Record Group 92.
Publisher
Office of the Quartermaster General, Memorial Division
Date Created
ca. 1937-03-29 to 1937-05-04
Contributor
Landrum, Eddie
Is Part Of
Format
image/jpg
Extent
1.13 MB
Medium
1 interment card
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
St. Augustine National Cemetery, St. Augustine, Florida
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created and published by the Office of the Quartermaster General, Memorial Division.
Rights Holder
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Curator
O'Neil, Rhiannon
Source Repository
External Reference
"U.S., Lists of Men Ordered to Report to Local Board for Military Duty, 1917-1918." Online database with images, Ancestry.com. Accessed July 11, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4906.
External Reference Title
157th Depot Brigade." Online database, TogetherWeServed. Accessed July 10, 2018. https://army.togetherweserved.com/army/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=PublicUnitProfile&type=Unit&ID=69394.
Abney, Barb. "VA Selects UCF Historians to Archive Stories of Deceased Veterans." UCF Today, March 13, 2017. Accessed August 9, 2017. https://today.ucf.edu/va-selects-ucf-historians-archive-stories-deceased-veterans/.
Florida Department of Military Affairs. "Section A." St. Augustine National Cemetery Index and Biographical Guide. St. Augustine, FL: State Arsenal, St. Francis Barracks, n.d. http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00047708/00001/74x.
Florida State Bureau of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. "Certificate of Death - Eddie Landrum." Florida Deaths, 1917-1939. Online database with images, FamilySearch. St. Augustine, St. Johns, Florida. FHL microfilm 2,135,947. Accessed August 10, 2018. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP7N-GBS.
Georgia Adjutant General's Office. "Eddie Landrum." Georgia World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919. Online database with images, Ancestry.com. WWI Statement of Service Summary Cards, CLM-410, Georgia State Archives. Accessed August 10, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=GeorgiaWWIServiceCards&h=105600.
Keene, Jennifer. World War I: The American Soldier Experience. Lincoln [u.a.]: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Office of the Quartermaster General. "Eddie Landrum." U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962. Online database with images, Ancestry.com. St. Augustine, Florida. Record Group 92, A1 2110-B. Accessed August 10, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=IntermentControlForms&h=2024467.
Selective Service System. "Eddie Landrum." U.S. Lists of Men Ordered to Report for Military Duty, 1917-1918. Online database with images, Ancestry.com. Washington, Georgia. Record Group Number 163, NAI 1159403. Accessed August 10, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=ReportLocalBoard&h=382987.
"U.S., Lists of Men Ordered to Report to Local Board for Military Duty, 1917-1918." Online database with images, Ancestry.com. Accessed July 11, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4906.
Collection
Citation
Office of the Quartermaster General, Memorial Division, “Interment Card, 1937,” RICHES, accessed April 25, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/10374.