#DeathOfColoredSoldiers | Roswell Daily Record June 12, 1919
Mayfield Riley, a colored soldier of Tulsa, Okla., died of tuberculosis last evening at nine o’clock at rooms on South Main near Alameda. Engliston Brun, also a discharged soldier, who is a half-brother, came to Roswell with the deceased and with the aid of the Red Cross Home Service has cared for the afflicted man. The body is at Smith’s undertaking establishment and will be shipped to Tulsa for burial.
Roswell Daily Record June 12, 1919