Edgar Thomas Hitch

In the Federal Census of 1900, Edgar T. Hitch is listed in Company F, 2nd Infantry, a Private at Ft. Thomas, Campbell County, Kentucky as follows: - Edgar T. Hitch, born 9/1874 in KY.

Name: Edgar T. Hitch Serial Number: Major Race: W Residence: Bantam, O. Enlistment Division: Regular Army Enlistment Location: Manila, P. I. Enlistment Date: 23 Jul 1913 Birth Place: Bantam, O. Birth Date / Age: 13 Sept 1873 Assigns Comment: Hospital Corporal & Medical Department to Discharge Hospital Steward; Sergeant, first class; Master Hospital Sergeant 4 Apr 1917. Honorable discharge 21 Nov 1917 to accept Commission Retired 12 Nov 1917. Called to active duty on 13 Nov 1917. 1 Lieutenant Sanitary Corps 22 Nov 1917 from Regular Army; Captain 15 Feb 1918; Major 15 Oct 1918. Surgeon General Office to; Office of Coal Heaver Surgeon Av Section Signal Corps to; Off Division Air Service to Discharge Washington DC. Honorable discharge 31 Dec 1920. Volume #: 8

In the Federal Census of 1920, Edgar T. Hitch is listed in Washington, DC in a household as follows: - Edgar T. Hitch, age 45, born in OH - Mona (Mina) A. Hitch, age 31, born in the Philippines - Robert A. Hitch, age 13, born in the Philippines.

Edgar married Minna Argasula in 1905 in Manila, Phillipines.¹ (Minna Argasula was born on 17 Oct 1889 in Phillipines,^{6 7} died on 17 Feb 1962 and was buried about 20 Feb 1962 in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.)