Living with his widowed grandmother in 1910.
13054March 15, 1918: Thomas Hazelwood enlisted in a Canadian regiment early in the present war and was in active service in France, but exhibited an honarable discharge, on his recent visit hare, on acct of injury.
3348May 10, 1918: Thomas Hazelwood on his way to Toronto, stopped in Indianapolis and attended the Roberts Park M.E. Church on Sunday. He gave his heart to God and united with the church. He was baptised and when arose, having knelt at altar, he handed the pastor the bullet that struck him down on the West Front, and, asked him to keep it until he returned.
3348May 17, 1918: "Is he or isn't he"? After, several reports of being killed, lost at sea, etc.„.now comes report of Oakdale correspondent 'to W.H. Reg., who says that Mrs. Mary Ballard, who lives with-her daughter Mrs. Willis Chapman, rep’d message thru Am. Red Cross saying her grandson, Thomas Hazelwood is alive and in Philadelphia, and not drowned as reported some time ago.
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