~ Sacred to the Memory of ~ ~~ Erected by his Classmates ~~
(NOTE: Joseph & Fred were brothers)...
**JOSEPH...Information has reached the War Department of the drowning last Friday of Cadet Joseph Edward Cusack, Jr in the Mississippi River while visiting Col David King, of the ordinance department, at Rock Island, Ill. Cusack was a Cadet Corporal of the second class of the USMA at West Point and a son of Maj Joseph Cusack, of the 9th cavalry, and the grandson of the late Col Fred Fuger. The Washington Post 11 Jul 1916.
**FRED...The body of a youth killed by a subway train yesterday was identified today as Frederick Stanley Cusack, a West Point cadet whose home was in Washington DC. A track walker came upon the body near the Wall Street subway station. The death is under investigation. Clearfield Progress, Pennsylvania 26 Dec 1923.