NOTE: He is the grandson of Innis Newton Palmer, Brigadier General, United States Army, who is also buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

WASHINGTON, March 5, 1938 – Colonel Rowan P. Lemly of the Tenth Infantry at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, died at that post last night at the age of 53.  He had been instructor of many National Guard officers since the World War.

Colonel Lemly was born at Fort Monroe, Virginia, on December 30, 1884, and attended the United States Naval Academy from 1903 to 1906.  The next year he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry of the Regular Army.  Much of his earlier service was in the Philippines and on the Mexican Border.  He was a member of the forces which occupied Vera Cruz in 1914.

During the World War he was ordnance officer of the Seventy-Eighth Division and participated in the St. Mihiel offensive.

He was a graduate of the School of the Line, the General Staff School and the Army War College.

Surviving are his widow and a daughter, wife of Lieutenant Stephen O. Fuqua of the Fifteenth Infantry.

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LEMLY, COTTIE H W/O ROWAN P
DATE OF BIRTH: 12/13/1884
DATE OF DEATH: 11/29/1959
DATE OF INTERMENT: 12/02/1959
BURIED AT: SECTION 1  SITE 99-B R H
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
 WIFE OF RP LEMLY COL U S A