Moses Hardy was last black WWI veteran

Published 9:00 pm Saturday, December 9, 2006

JACKSON, Miss. – Moses Hardy, believed to be the second-oldest man in the world and the last black veteran of World War I, died Thursday. He was 113.

Hardy died at a nursing home in Aberdeen, said Evelyn Davis, 68, one of his eight children. He would have been 114 on Jan. 6.

Young said Hardy was sent to France during the war and apparently saw some combat. Census records showed Hardy’s father was born in the 1830s and that both of his parents were slaves.

Associated Press