Martin Ellsworth Barger.......Corporal

    Son of Ira Ellsworth and Eva Ella Barger; born December 7, 1888, Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana. Farmer. Enlisted in Company K, 1st Infantry, Indiana National Guard, June 23, 1916, Martinsville, Indiana. Sent to Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Promoted to Corporal;. Sent to Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he died of tuberculosis, November 5, 1917. Buried in South Park Cemetery, Martinsville, Indiana.