SEALY, Rudolph, HQ Co., 56^th US Infantry, also Co. H, 56^th Infantry. Inducted 5 July 1917, date of discharge not given. He served overseas, crossing the Atlantic on the Carpathia. He spent 14 days crossing. At his enlistment he was a farmer.

For sometime SEALY had been helping Mr. Harrison SKELTON on Green River farm, occasionally visiting his parents back in Lewis County, near Hohenwald. He soon became an integral part socially in the nearby communities of Mr. Hope, Topsy, and Moccasin. His parents were close friends to Isaac and Ona Lova “Babe” EDWARDS. When the US declared war on Germany, Rudolph was in the first group of volunteers from Wayne County. When the Armistice was signed, he re-enlisted with the US Special Group of Army to stay in France to help protect that country. He married and French girl and lived in France.