Edgar M. Welch attended State Street School and lived on 302 Union Street Hackensack. He also has a brother named Edwin Welch. He served with Company G. during the Mexican border conflict in 1916. Edgar M. Welch was the first servicemen to die from Hackensack during his service in World War I. He died state side from the first wave of the Spanish Influenza, (pneumonia) December 30, 1917, at the age of 27. The Flu struck in late 1917 and the early months of 1918, but then subsided during the spring and summer, only to come back with relentless deadly force in the fall of 1918.

Written by Bob Meli 2009