Company G Cook Killed By Shell

Fred. Grapentine Was Slicing Bacon When Death Came to Him.

Mrs. Mary Grapentine, of Fulton, N.Y., received word yesterday that her son, Fred Grapentine, cook in Company C, 114th Infantry, formerly Company G, 5th Regiment, had been killed in action on October 10. He enlisted in Company G at the time of the Mexican trouble and saw service on the Border. Only recently his cousin, Henry W. Bunger, was invalidated home from overseas and has since been honorably discharged from the service.

In his letter to County Clerk George Van Buskirk,
Charles Fleischman, also with old Company G in France, told of the death of Fred Grapentine, whose home was in the First Ward. Fleischman and Grapentine were slicing bacon in the Company kitchen when a big German shell exploded near Grapentine, killing him instantly. Fleischman was within five or six feet of the shell, but luckily none of the fragments struck him.

In view of the fact that the relatives had not been officially notified of Grapentine's death by the War Department, The Evening Record was not privileged to make use of that important and sad intelligence at the time the Fleischman letter was published.