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County - e.g., Haywood County (Tenn.) If no county is listed at top of card, use county of the place they entered service. If that is out of state, use the birth county.: Hamblen County (Tenn.)

Name in full (Last name, First name Middle name, e.g., York, Alvin C.): Black, Jesse Buford

Date of birth - Year Month Day - e.g., 1895 November 2: 1895 April 30

Where born, Town (if any), and County and State - e.g., Memphis (Tenn.): Witts Foundry, Hamblen County (Tenn.)

Name of parents - separate with semicolons ; (Last name, First name Middle name): Black, Robert; Black, Jane

Place of their birth - e.g., Memphis (Tenn.): Robert Black: Greene County (Tenn); Jane Black: South Carolina

Name of nearest kin (Last name, First name Middle name): Black, Robert

Date of entering service - Year Month Day - e.g., 1917 May 11: 1917 June 28

Place of entering service e.g., Memphis (Tenn.):

Branch of service (Army, Navy, Marines) E.g., Infantry or Artillery is Army.: Army

Company: H

Regiment: 52nd

Division: 6th

Rank when first in service: Private

Date of sailing: 1918 July 6

Date of arrival in Europe: 1918 July 24

Battles: Alsace Lorain [sic] Argonne Forrest

Casulaties: