A man of color, Alaska Highway, Company A. Veteran of WWI and WWII. Born: 5 February 1896, Fleming, Ohio Died: 11 December 1986, Columbus, Georgia. Buried at Ft. Benning Post Cemetery in Georgia.
On 5 August 1918 he enlisted at Marietta, Ohio in the National Army. He was a member of Company L of the 813 Pioneer Infantry which was activated at Camp Sherman, Ohio. He went to France with the American Expeditionary Forces. His service dates are 15 Sep 1918 to 13 July 1919. He was honorably discharged on 21 July 1919.
In the 1920 census he was a boarder at a home on Stone House Road in Knottsville, Taylor, West Virginia. His occupation was a coal miner. The 1930 census records his residence in Lawrence, Marion, Indiana. He was a soldier at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. In the 1940 census, he is a corporal in the 24th Infantry at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
In 1941, he was stationed with the 93rd Engineer Battalion at Camp Livingston, LA. On April 6 of 1942, the battalion became a general service regiment and 1st Sgt Honesty headed to Alaska and Canada to build the Highway. Once it was completed, his next assignment was the Aleutians.
Highest grade completed was the 8th grade. His father, John Sanford Honesty, born 1859 in Ohio and died 1944 in Zanesville, Ohio, was a farmer and a school teacher. His mother, Mary Catherine Collins Honesty, born 1866 in Grafton, West Virginia and died 1950 at her home in Zanesville, Ohio was a housewife. She and John raised seven children.
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