Corporal Alvin J. Hoops, 24, of Wysox, Butler County, died on 19 April 1918 of pneumonia while on federal active duty with his unit at Camp Shelby, Mississippi.

Hoops, a native of Ohio County, enlisted in Company H of the 3rd Kentucky Infantry Regiment on 3 July 1916 and listed his civilian occupation as farmer. At the time of his death he was serving with Company G, 149th Infantry, as the Kentucky Guard was reorganized in the run-up to World War I.

He is buried in the Cool Springs Cemetery in Beaver Dam, Ohio County.