Hoyt Alexander Canady answered his country’s call more than nine decades ago and took a bullet in the leg fighting the Germans in France during World War I.
Now, after about 10 years of research and letter-swapping by his son-in-law, Jack Clements, Canady is being honored for his sacrifice with a recently-issued posthumous Purple Heart.
Clements, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, is a student of genealogy and military history and started working to recover records that would allow him to get a Purple Heart for Canady, who died in 1970 at the age of 75.
Read the full article about Hoyt Canady and the genealogical search that allowed the purple heart to finally be delivered in the March 23, 2009 edition of the Dothan Eagle.
