ATLANTA, Georgia, July 27, 1909 – Major Edward Chynoweth, commander of the Second Battalion, Seventeenth Infantry, stationed at Fort McPherson, died at a private sanitarium yesterday afternoon shortly after 3:30 o’clock after undergoing an operation on Sunday afternoon.  The body was removed to Barclay & Brandon’s Undertaking Parlors, where it is held pending funeral arrangements.

Several days ago Major Chynoweth was attacked with an internal disorder, and grew rapidly worse.  Sunday afternoon he was transferred to a private sanitarium in the city where he underwent an operation at 5 o’clock.  It was thought for a time that he was doing nicely, but it was seen the next morning that he was growing weaker, and he died at 3:30 o’clock.

Major Chynoweth, who was 55 years of age, had been at Fort McPherson since the Seventeenth went there in 1905, with the exception of the two years the regiment spent in Cuba.  He was one of the most popular officers, both with his men and his brother officers, that ever served with the Seventeenth.  He was a native of Oregon, Wisconsin.  He is survived by his wife and three daughters, one of whom is the wife of Captain H. P. Hart of the Seventeenth.

CHYNOWETH, EDWARD
MAJOR 17TH US INF
DATE OF DEATH: 07/26/1909
BURIED AT: SECTION OFFRS  SITE LOT 2028
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

CHYNOWETH, EMILIE G W/O EDWARD
DATE OF DEATH: 01/25/1929
BURIED AT: SECTION SE  SITE 2023
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

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