Sidney Migues came to us from the Southland. He was born in the State of Louisiana at New Iberia, December 9th, 1888. The greater part of his life was spent in his home in the South, and he had passed the age of majority before the lure of new fields brought him out to the West. He went first into California where he followed his calling as a steam laundry man for about four years. Then, in 1915, he came to Nevada to take a position with the Troy Steam Laundry and Cleaning Works in Las Vegas. From then on until his enlistment in the army he lived in Clark County, gaining a wide acquaintances and the high regard of the community at large.

Wishing to enter the Service, he went to Washington, D. C., in May, 1918, and on the 27th of the month, enlisted in the Quartermaster Corps. Camp Meigs was the first post to which he was assigned. There he rose rapidly in rank until he was placed in the 14th Company, Quartermaster Corps as First Sergeant. In September his company sailed for France, but while at sea, he was stricken with pneumonia and when the company landed on October 1st, the Sergeant was taken at once to Base Hospital No. 65 at Kerhuon. The next day (October 2d, 1918) the soldier’s soul passed on to the great beyond and another of our heroic boys had given his all for love of Country. He was buried at Lambezellec American Cemetery, France. The news of his loss cast a gloom over the people of Clark and in far away Louisiana an American mother mourned the going of her gallant son, yet the people of Nevada and his loved ones in the South unite in a common pride in their soldier who so nobly met duty when it called nor flinched at the last great sacrifice. Sergeant Migues was the son of Mrs. Sedonia Migues, who lives in Rayne, Louisiana.