The Boy from Reservation

I don't really know where to put this young man, so he gets a page to himself!

Edwin John Kaiser was born July 23, 1897, in Fredericksburg to William and Martha Kaiser.  He died at Camp Travis, Texas, on November 23, 1918. He lived and worked in Harper, but registered for the draft in Kerr County. I have learned from the newspapers that he lived in the Reservation community in Kerr County, a community near the Gillespie county line and not far from Mountain Home. The old Reservation school was consolidated with neighboring Gillespie County schools in 1941.

A service flag and United States flag were  blessed at the local Catholic church in Harper during a mass in December 1942.  The December 11, 1942, Harper Herald reported it this way: "This particular [U.S.] flag is noteworthy in that it is the flag which draped the casket of Edwin Kaiser, who died while in the service of our country made necessary by the first World War.  He was buried here on Nov., 25, 1918.  That flag is the gift of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Kaiser, Sr.  ... enthroned in the sanctuary of the Church, the place of honor, and will silently honor those to whom they are dedicated, the young men of the Paris who are fighting this war for us."

This is the last in the series about World War I dead of Kerr County.