Alvin C. York

Alvin Cullum York , known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated soldiers of the United States Army in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, takingmachine guns, killing at leastGerman soldiers, and capturing 132 others. This action occurred during the United Statesled portion of the broader MeuseArgonne Offensive in France to breach the Hindenburg line and make the opposing German forces surrender.

Alvin Cullum York was born in a tworoom log cabin near Pall Mall, Tennessee. He was the third of eleven children born to William Uriah York and Mary Elizabeth York . William Uriah York was born in Jamestown, Tennessee, to Uriah York and Eliza Jane Livingston, both travelers from Buncombe County, North Carolina. Mary Elizabeth York was born in Pall Mall to William Brooks and Nancy Pile, and was the greatgranddaughter of Conrad Coonrod Pile, an English settler who settled Pall Mall. William York and Mary Brooks married on December 25, 1881, and had eleven children. The York children were, in order Henry Singleton, Joseph Marion, Alvin Cullum, Samuel John, Albert, Hattie, George Alexander, James Preston, Lillian Mae, Robert Daniel, and Lucy Erma. The York family is of mainly English ancestry, with ScotsIrish ancestry as well. The York family resided in the Indian Creek area of Fentress County. The family was impoverished, with William York working as a blacksmith to supplement the famil

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