GATES COUNTY, NC - Obituary - S. C. Eure, 1945.

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From the Elizabeth City NC Newspaper, The Daily Advance, April 12, 1945: 

S. C. Eure of Gates Killed in Action.
Gatesville, April 13- First reported missing since in action in Germany 
on February 24, Pfc Sawney Cecil Eure, Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Eure of 
Gates, was killed in action on that date, according to a War Department 
message received by his parents. Private Eure was the eighteenth Gates 
County man killed in action or training since Pearl Harbor Day, December 
7, 1941. Graduating from Gates High School in 1940 and from Chowan 
College in 1942. Pfc Eure was 20 years of age. He entered the armed 
forces in April 1943, and had left the United States for overseas duty 
less than a month before he was killed. Pfc Eure met and talked with his 
sister, Lieutenant Emma Eure Ware, Army Nurse's Corps, somewhere in 
Germany a short while after his arrival in that country. A brother, 
Edward Eure is a patient in a hospital at Fort Story. Also surviving are 
his parents: five other sisters, Mrs. William Councilman of Cradock, 
Mrs. Herman Ward of Hobbsville, and Helen, Malene and Musa Eure of 
Gates;!  and one brother, Quinton Eure of Gates.

(NOTE: This was in an Extra edition of the Daily Advance which announced
president Roosevelt's Death-WLA).