Elbert Leslie Overman
1889 - 1918 (29 years)
Generation: 1
1. Elbert Leslie Overman was born on 25 Feb 1889 in Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee; died on 27 Oct 1918 in Pullman, Whitman County, Washington; was buried in Highland Cemetery, Fort Mitchell, Kenton County, Kentucky. Notes:
Prof. E.L. Overman Dies at Pullman
Succumbs to Pneumonia Following Influenza – Widow Also Ill With Disease
George Codd Victim
Colfax Soldier-Student Makes 17th on W.S.C. Death Roll – Bury Anderson Today.
Pullman, Wash., Oct. 27. – Professor Elbert Leslie Overman, of the English department of the state college, succumbed at the Northwest sanitarium this morning from pneumonia following Spanish influenza. He was the holder of a B.A. degree from the University of Kansas, where he did a year’s post graduate work following graduation. Prior to coming here in 1915 he was connected with the English department of North Central high school in Spokane.
Professor Overman was one of the most popular members of the college faculty and was held in high esteem by the students. For three years he had coached the debating teams. He conducted a course of lectures on “War Aims" during the second contingent of vocational S.A.T.C. men. Mrs. Overman, formerly Miss Marion Gray of Spokane, is herself stricken with the disease. She graduated from the state college with the class of 1915, receiving her degree in home economics, and soon afterward married Professor Overman.
Infant and Student Dies.
Cuna, the six-months-one daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O.D. Kellogg residing five miles southwest of Pullman, died at the home of her parent yesterday afternoon from pneumonia, superinduced by influenza. Burial occurred in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here this afternoon.
George Codd, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Codd of Colfax, died from influenza this afternoon. He was a member of the third vocational group of the S.A.T.C. and had been seriously ill for several days. The total deaths since last Sunday have reached 21, 17 of them being S.A.T.C. men.
College May Reopen Soon.
The report from the college this afternoon shows only two new cases, while over 30 patients were transferred to the convalescent infirmary as out of danger. With the continuation of improvement for two or three days it is expected that the college will reopen.
The body of Joseph Anderson of Ritzville, a member of the S.A.T.C., who succumbed to the malady Friday, will be buried here tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Anderson, the parents, operated a small farm two miles south of Pullman for many years, going to Ritzville only a few years ago.
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington. Monday, 28 October 1918.
Prof. E.L. Overman Succumbs to “Flu”
Was one of Most Popular Members of College Faculty – Wife Also Stricken With Disease
Professor Elbert Leslie Overman of the English department of the State College, succumbed at the Northwest sanitarium at 10:00 o’clock Sunday morning from pneumonia following influenza. Prof. Overman had been very low for two days and his death was not unexpected. He was the holder of a B.A. degree from the University of Kansas, where he did a year’s post graduate work following graduation. Prior to coming To the State College in 1915 he was connected with the English department of North Central high school in Spokane.
Professor Overman was one of the most popular members of the college faculty and held a high position in the esteem of the entire student body. During the past three years he has coached the varsity debating teams and has taken his place as a debating coach without a superior in the Northwestern school.
Prof. Overman was one of the best read men on the faculty in regard to the war situation and conducted a course of lectures on “War Aims" during the second contingent of vocational S.A.T.C. men. In the October 22 issue of “Pull Men,” the detachment paper, appeared an article by Prof. Overman, in which he urged that, under the existing conditions, “No American soldier or citizen can afford to assume anything else that that the war may go on indefinitely.”
Peculiar distress is attached to the death of Prof. Overman through the fact that Mrs. Overman, who was formerly Miss Marion Gray of Spokane, is herself stricken with the disease that claimed the life of her husband. Mrs. Overman graduated from the State College with the class of 1915, receiving her degree in home economics. Soon afterward she became the wife of Prof. Overman. No children survive.
Pullman Herald, Pullman, Washington. Friday, 1 November 1918.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156557234/elbert-l-overman
Section 4, Lot 116, Grave 6
interred here in June 1922Elbert married Marion Gray on 6 Jul 1916 in Kootenal County, Idaho. Marion (daughter of James Arthur Samuel Gray and Isabel Stewart Martin) was born in Jan 1885 in Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky; died on 27 Jan 1933 in Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Highland Cemetery, Fort Mitchell, Kenton County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]