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SPC-4 CARREL G. EALUM

PVT CARREL G. EALUM
   FT. ORD, Calif. -- Army Private Carrel G. Ealum, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Ealum, 48 Nebraska Ave., Ft Walton Beach, completed eight weeks of advanced infantry training Nov. 2 at Ft. Ord, He received specialized instruction in small unit tactics and in firing such weapons as M-14 rifle, the M-60 machine gun and the 3.5-inch rocket launcher

[source: Playground Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, FL, 07 Nov 1967, Tue, Page 8]

3 Floridians Killed in War

   WASHINGTON (AP) Two Army men and one Marine from Florida were listed as killed in action in the Vietnam War. They are; Army Spec. 4 Carrel G, Ealum, son of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Ealum Sr., Fort Walton Beach, and. Pfc Alan V J. Meisheid, son of Mr. and Mrs. William P Meisheid, South Daytona. The Marine was Pfc Gerald J. Clarkson, son of Mrs. ,Sarah F. Clarkson, Jacksonville.

[Florida Today, Cocoa, FL, 15 Sep 1968, Sun, Page 16C]

EALUM, Carrel G. .30, died Sept. 10 in Vietnam.  Services will| be Saturday . at 11. a.m. from the brooks Pentecostal Holiness Church.   Burial will be in Brooks Cemetery, Johnson's Funeral Home of Georgiana; directing. The body will lie in state at the home of  Mrs. E. J. Bush, Sr. until time for services.. Survivors: include the parents, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Ealum, Si-., Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.; four, brothers'. James T. Ealum and W. J, Tyrone. Ealum both of Ft. .Walton Beach, Fla., Albert H. Ealum and Darrell B. Ealum, both of Troy; a sister, Betilue Ealum, Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.; maternal grandmother, Mrs. E. J, Bush Sr., Red Level; paternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. James S; Ealum, McKenzie.

[unknown newspaper]

Grave marker for Carrel G .Ealum in Brooks Baptist Church Cemetery, Covington county, Alabama.