Charles Frehse photo album
2023.09.13
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Frehse, Russell Raymond 1892-1976Morris, Lillian (Sterzing) Frehse 1872-1964Morris, Harry A. 1866-1946Frehse, Charles John 1893-1918Snay, Joseph Febian 1893-1937Dynamite the Donkey(s)Wiley, Lucy 1897-1916Morris, Aldean (Jarvis) 1927-2007Sewers, Florence B. 1893-1984Sewers, Mary E. (Haberer) 1896-1953Reed, Natalie "Billie" or "Bill"Sewers, Winifred "Winnie'" Ruth 1897-1917Brackenridge, EvelynPfaff, CatherineBarr, Jeanette (Walker) 1902-1979Myers, Jay D.Sheridan, Joseph U. 1906-1983Phelps, Rutherford Ross 1893-1958Sailor, Lyman Balcom 1895-1957Van Leenwen, EarlRogers, VanKoning, HazenBird Bath HouseOval Beach 1936-presentMount Baldhead Dune/ParkGrins/Martha Shop/Dr. Walker's office/Miller Robinson/Turell BuildingCozy Cottage/Morris-Freshe at 660 Lake St.
Remembering Saugatuck's First Casualty in WWI On June 18, 1918, Mrs. Harry Morris of 660 Lake Street, Saugatuck, received an official telegram from the War Department, that her son Charles had been killed in action on the battlefields of France. He was the first Saugatuck casualty of the "war to end all wars". Private Charles J. Frehse was born in Chicago on Oct. 13, 1893. After his widowed mother married Saugatuck resident Harry Morris in 1907, he and his brother Russell came to Saugatuck to live. He attended Saugatuck schools for 5 years, was a member with his family of the Saugatuck Congregational Church, and played on the Local YMCA Baseball team. Charles enlisted on April 8, 1917, two days after Congress declared war on Germany. After 6 or 7 weeks of training at Port Royal, SC, he left for France as a member of the 45th Co, 5th Regt, US Marine Corps. The Frehse family has pictures which show Charles with his fellow marines at St. Nazaire, France (a major unloading point for troops) on Nov. 10 and 14th, 1917. On June 18, 1918, his name was announced by the War Department as one of 45 servicemen killed in action in the fighting northwest of Chateau-Thierry at Belleau Wood. Charles died Jun. 6, 1918, and is buried in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, France. The Commercial Record wrote at the time: "Thus is a gold star added to our service flag, and if the dead can know, it is certain that Charlie Frehse is proud that his star commemorates his supreme sacrifice."
Military, wars and veteransSports: baseball
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