Extracted from The Jackson Daily News (Jackson, MS)
Tuesday, September 20, 1921

War Hero Buried

FOREST, Sept. 20. -- The body of Percy L. Johnston, who was killed in action in France in September, 1918, was brought to Lake for burial and the funeral was held there. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Johnston, and was born in 1891, a few miles north of Lake. He spent most of his life in that community, but volunteered for the army and enlisted at Raleigh, in Smith county, in the summer of 1917. So far as can be learned he was the only native son of Scott county to lose his life in action during the late war.

The American Legion post at Lake was named for him and this organization assisted by visiting soldier boys had charge of the funeral. Rev. R. E. Rutledge, of Lake, conducted the devotional exercises. The funeral was largely attended, the church space being inadequate to hold the people.