Masters Family - Grover Willis Masters - Santa Cruz Diving Accident - page 11

   This is an article from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Volume 92, Number 179, 29 July 1947, page 1. I found this article from the California Digital Newspaper Collection. I retrieved it 15 March 2020. The website address is cdnc.ucr.edu.
   The article reads as follows:
Recovering From Freak Accident At Twin Lakes.
   The condition of Grover Masters, 31, was reported as "coming along nicely" at the county hospital Monday.

   Masters suffered a broken neck in a freak accident at Twin Lakes beach recently, attendants reported.
   While diving into the surf, Masters his his head on the sand, breaking his neck according to reports.
   He was rescued by Mr. and Mrs. Fred I. Bippert of Santa Cruz and Mrs. Lester Eisley.
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    This is an article from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Volume 92, Number 185, 5 August 1947. I found this article from the California Digital Newspaper Collection. I retrieved it 15 March 2020. The website address is cdnc.ucr.edu.
   The article reads as follows:
   Surf Bather Dies Of Neck Injuries Here
   Grover Willis Masters, 31 of Fresno died Sunday at 4:30 a.m. at  the county hospital from in juries received more than a week ago when he suffered a broken neck while surf bathing.
   Masters was said by witnesses to have been diving into the surf near Twin Lakes July 23 when he struck the sand instead and broke his neck.

   He was rescued at the time by Mr. and Mrs. Fred I. Bippert of Santa Cruz and Mrs. Lester Eisley and taken to the county hospital .
   He was a veteran of World War II, an electrician by trade, unmarried, and the son of Lawrence Masters and Mrs. Emily Werich [Winch], both of Fresno.
   The Fresno man was here on vacation and had been since July 20.
   The body was removed to White's mortuary prior to its removal to Fresno where funeral services will be conducted from the Yest and Webb funeral Home.
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   I asked my Dad about Grover. I gathered that he and my father were very close - they were 2 males living with 4 females. Dad said that he stayed with Grover in the hospital every day and all night. After about 2 weeks, the nurses talked Dad into getting a good night's sleep else where - I guess with friends there in Santa Cruz. 
   Looking back, Dad said he thinks that the nurses knew Grover was dying that night. The next morning Dad came back to the hospital and was told that Grover had passed.
   Dad also said that Grover was engaged to marry, I am assuming, during that year. Apparently his fiance was not treated well by the female members of the family.
   Grover was brought back to Fresno, and buried in Belmont Memorial Park. His mother Emily is buried next to him.
   
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Masters Family - Grover Willis Masters - Honorable Discharge Certificate from the US Navy - page 10

This is Grover's Honorable Discharge certificate from the United States Navy:

C498674                                                                                                Series C

HONORABLE DISCHARGE

                         52003
    RECORDED AT REQUEST OF
                Grover W. Masters
            AT 30 MIN PAST 1PM
NO.2283 OFFICIAL RECORDS.P9. 360
                  NOV 20 1945
FRESNO COUNTY,CALIFORNIA
E. FARLEY COUNTY RECORDS

DEPUTY RECORDER
JG [Cohmann]
[H NOFER]

from the

United States Navy

This is to certify that

GROVER WILLIS MASTERS a AVIATION MACHINIST'S MATE THIRD CLASS

IS HONORABLY DISCHARGED FROM THE U.S.N. SPECIAL HOSPITAL,
YOSEMITE,CALIFORNIA and from the Naval Service of the United States
this 7TH day of NOVEMBER, 1945.
This certificate is awarded as a Testimonial of Fidelity and Obedience.

                                                                      HR. Hayden
                                                            CAPTAIN (MC) USN
                                             MEDICAL OFFICER IN COMMAND

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Masters family - Grover Willis Masters - Service Record - page 9

Grover served in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska for part of his service. This is his record of service:

The top portion reads:

1. Serial or File No.:
663 75 57

2. Name (Last) (First) (Middle):
Masters, Grover Willis

3. Rate or Class/or Rank and Classification:
AM[N?]M3c. V-6

4. Permanent address for mailing perposes: 1438 N. First St. Fresno Calif.

5. Place of Separation: USNA Special Hospital, Yosemite California.

6. Character of Separation: [Blank]

7. Address from which employment will be sought: 1438 N. First St. Fresno Calif.

8. Race: White

9. Sex: Male

10. Marital Status: Single

11. U.S. Citizen (Yes or No): Yes

12 Date and Place of Birth: 3 June 1916 Mankato Minn.

SELECTIVE SERVICE DATA

13. Registered: Yes 

14. Selective Service Board of Registration: #125 Fresno Co. - California

15. Home Address at time of entry into Service:
Same as Item #7.

16.  Means of Entry (Indicate by check in appropriate box): Enlisted Date: 9-5-1942.

17 . Date of entry into active service: 5 Sept 1942.

18. Net service (For pay purposes) (Yrs, Mos. Days): 3Yrs. 2Mos. 3Days.

19. Place of entry into Active Service: San Francisco California

20. Qualifications, Certificates Field, ETC.: NONE

21. Ratings held - S1c. AMM3c.

22 Foreign and/or Sea Service World War II: Yes

23. Service Schools Completed: NONE 

24. Service (Vessels and Stations Served on):  NtS S.F. Califor; USN Res Avia. Base Oakland Califor; Hedron FAW4: USNH Seattle Wash; USNG Oakland Calif; USNSN Yosemite Calif.

Question 3: AM[N/M?]3c. V-6. I believe this is probably AMM3c. V-6. I went to the link below and found:

"AVIATION MACHINISTS'S MATE¹--Maintains and repairs aircraft engines, propellers, fuel systems, brakes, hydraulic system, gears, starters. Operates machine shop tools." 

https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/Ranks&Rates/index.html

Question 5: This article describes the Awahnee Hotel (and other facilities) in Yosemite Valley being used for physical and psychological rehabilitation during WWII. Copy and paste into your browser: https://www.nps.gov/articles/yosemitehospitalwwii.htm

[2019 February. National Personnel Records Center National Archives. 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO 63138-102, www.archives.gov]

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Masters family - Marrie [Doris] Masters - Birth Certificate - page 1

This is the birth certificate that I found for Marrie [Doris] Masters. She was born the 28th day of November 1920, at 0830 PM.

[2019, State of Minnesota, Division of Vital Statistics. Record of birth - Marrie Masters. Private collection.]

It lists her father as Lawrence Masters, who was born in Amboy, Blue Earth, Minnesota. His occupation was laborer.

Her mother is Emilie Jarl, who was born in Odebold Iowa, and is a housewife. [Emilie is spelled as if she was born in Sweden as is Marrie].

Marrie/Doris was delivered by Dr Hilda Luck.

The birth was filed on 11 December 1920.

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Masters family - Deborah Carline Masters - Birth Registration - page 3

The 2nd part of the registry that states she was the 28th child born in Blue Earth county, Minnesota. Her mother's name was Emily Jarl who was 21 years old and had been born in Iowa. It then states that Dr. Hilda Luck was her attending MD. The birth was filed on 1 March 1918.

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Masters family - Deborah Carline Masters - Birth Registration - page 2

1. This is the birth register of Deborah Carline Masters birth. She was the 28th child born that year in Blue Earth, Minnesota.  She was the 2nd child born to her parents. It is hard to read the time of her birth [refer to the certificate itself].  Her father was Lawrence Masters who was 25 years old. He was a manual laborer.

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Masters family - Deborah Carline Masters - Birth Record - page 1

This is Deborah Car[o]line Masters birth certificate. 

This document states that her father Lawrence Masters was born in Amboy [Blue Earth] Minnesota.

This document states that her mother Emily was born in Omalia Iowa.

I believe this document states that Deborah was born at 4 AM, January 31, 1918.

Their residence was 716 Maine, Mankato, Blue Earth, Minnesota. 

[2019, State of Minnesota, Division of Vital Statistics.  record of birth. Private collection. Deborah Carline Masters]

Emily's attending MD was Dr. Hilda Luck, who was a practicing physician in Mankato City, Blue Earth, Minnesota.  From the Mankato City Directory, her office was at 201 S Front, Street. [Hilda Luck Directory listing January 2019. Ancestry.com.]

William was her father and Malvina was her mother. The family was born in Germany. She immigrated to the US in 1889. Her naturalization papers had/have been submitted as of 1920.

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Masters family - Grover Willis Masters - Aviator's Flight Log Book - page 8

Grover joined the Navy. In 1942 he was learning to fly at the Naval Air Station in California.

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Masters family - Grover Willis Masters - WW2 Draft Registration Card - page 7

Either in the early or mid 1940's, Grover bought a "hot rod".

On October 16, 1940, Grover registered for the draft. He was working for Albert J. Thonen who owned a garage in Fresno at 3301 E. Tulare Street.

Grover was 5 feet 11inches tall and weighed147 pounds. [1940 Grover Willis Masters Draft Registration Card.Ancestry.com. January 2019]

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Masters family - Grover Willis Masters - page 6

This is Grover's graduation picture and certificate from Roosevelt High School in Fresno California, 1935. [Personal collection.]

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Masters family - Grover Willis Masters - Huntington Lake Bike Ride - page 5

On July 9th, 1933 Grover made the Fresno Bee Republican. He is on the far left of the boys. See the transcription below the article.

Boy Bike Riders Tame Mountains - Alpine stuff Lures Cyclists - Boys Ride to Huntington Lake

Five Fresno Boys have been taking their cycling seriously during the past few days as evidenced by a trip to Huntington Lake, a jaunt of about seventy miles up steep mountain roads.

Bicycle riding has become quite fashionable, but there has been no record of any of the faddists attempting the feat Grover Masters, 17, William Burkhart, 15, William Bradley, 14, Robert Ray, 13, and Ray Wood 15, accomplished. They rode out of Fresno at 3:30 o'clock one morning and arrived at the lake at 6 o'clock in the evening.

Of course, a lot of walkee-and-pushee was necessary as it would take a powerful and experienced cyclist to mount the Tollhouse and Huntington Lake grades.

To bike the distance in a day would be a good workout for one of the bunion derbyists, made famous by C. C. Pyle a few years ago, but mountains mean nothing, even to young Bobby who can barely reach the peddles of his wheel.

It took the Fresnans five hours to to Tollhouse, where they started the first climb. They took their time during the trip to the lake, but the return journey was made easily.

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Masters family - Grover Willis Masters - page 5

I believe this picture is of Grover in the late 1930's. It was taken at 1438 North First street in Fresno California.

[Private personal collection.]








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Masters family - Grover Willis Masters - page 4

This is a photo of the 3 children, Grover, Deborah (Caroline), and Doris (Marie), possibly in Minnesota. I think that this was taken in 1921.

After his parents divorce Grover and his sister Caroline Deborah Masters, Doris and Myron moved from Mankato Minnesota to Fresno California in September 1925. My mother told me that the family traveled by train.

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Masters family - Grover Willis Masters - Birth Certificate - page 3

This is a copy of Grover's birth certificate. This document states that their address was 979 E. Main Street, Mankato City, Blue Earth County Minnesota.


[2019, State of Minnesota, Division of Vital Statistics. Grover W. Masters record of birth. Private collection.]

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Masters family - Grover Willis Masters - Birth Registry - page 2

This is a copy of Grover's birth registry in Blue Earth County Minnesota. It reads:

Number of birth (recorded) 2
Name of child Grover W. Masters
Number of child of this mother - 1

Date of birth and time - June 3 1916 @ 0545 am.
father's Name - Lawrence Masters
Age of father 24
Place of father's birth - Minn
Occupation - Laborer
Mother's name Emily Jarl (Jace)
Mother's age 19
Color - white
Mother's birthplace - Iowa
Mother's occupation - home ?
Name of practitioner, midwife or other practitioner - J. W. Anderson

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Masters family - Grover Willis Masters - page 1

Grover Willis Masters was born on the 3rd of June, in Minnesota. He is the son of Lawrence Earnest Masters and Emily Victoria Jarl. 

He looks like a very happy child. It almost looks like he is wearing a karate outfit, but I doubt it. I believe that this photo was taken in Mankato Minnesota.






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Winch Family Myron Erwin Winch - page 7

#2 - My dad, Myron E. Winch [#1], put his age as 27.
#3a states he lived at 1438 No. First St., in Fresno [city], Fresno [county].
#4 states his race is White.
#5 states he had never been married before.
I cannot read the title of the #6 question. The answer was none.
#7 states he was born in Minn. 
#8a states my father's, father's name was Cecil Winch
#8b states Cecil was born in Minn./?.
#9a states my father's mother's maiden name was Emily Jarl.
#9b states that Emily was born in the U.S.A..

#10a, b, & c states my mother's name is Lorna Lee Triplett.
#11a, b, & c states my mother's address 3528 Olive, Fresno [city], Fresno [county].
#13 states my mother's race is White.
#14 states she is Divorced.
#15 states that she was married Once.
#16 states she was born in Calif
#17a gives my mother's father's name as Shirley Triplett.
#17b states that Shirley Triplett was born in Minn.
#18a gives my mother's, mother's maiden name as Lenoir Leonard.
#18b givers my mother's, mother's birthplace as Ill.
#19 states my mother's maiden name which was Lorna Lee Triplett.
#20 are my parents signatures, Lorna Lee Triplett and Myron E. Winch.
#21, the license was issued on 12/13/50, in Fresno County, by J.L. Brown the County Clerk, and signed by [?] Eden, Deputy [clerk]. The license number was 2064.
#22 declares that the Reverend listed below married my parents on December 16, 1950, in Fresno California.
#23a, b, c states that John W. Sinclair, who resides at 122 San Pablo, Fresno California witnessed the ceremony [He was my Dad's best friend.]
#24a, b, c Reverend John Oberg, D.D.  performed the ceremony as a Congregational minister. The church was at 1256 Divisadero, Fresno. 

#25 The Registrar received the completed license on Dec 19 1950. A.M. Huggins signed the license.

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Winch Family - Myron Erwin Winch - page 6

In the mid 1960's, while my dad was working at PG&E, everyone who was closer to retirement age, had to prove their age.

Why did PG&E require this? A gentleman who worked there - not my dad - was supposed to retire - according to PG&E's records.

When approached the man answered that he wasn't old enough. PG&E said "Yes you are - it's based on the age you gave us when you came to work here."

The man answered "Oh that was based on the age I told the Army when I joined! I wasn't 18 - I was 15!"

So everyone had to prove their age by getting a copy of their birth record.

Here is my dad's original birth record:

When he asked his mother Emily "What the Heck"! She did not say anything but, "My sisters made me!"

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Winch Family - Myron Erwin Winch - page 6

In the mid 1960s, while my dad was working at PG&E, everyone who was coming closer to retirement age, had to prove their age.

Why did PG&E require this? A gentleman who worked there - not my dad - was supposed to retire.

The man answered that he wasn't old enough. PG&E said "Yes you are - it's based on the age you gave us when you came to work here."

The man answered "Oh that was based on the age I told the Army when I joined. I wasn't 18 I was 15!"

So everyone had to prove their age by getting a copy of their birth record.

Here is my Dad's original birth record:

When he asked his mother Emilly "What the Heck"! She never really said much more than "My sisters made me!" 

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Winch Family - Myron Erwin Winch - page 5

This picture was taken of Myron while he was still in the service. He was being trained as a Flight Officer for B28s. Right before the atomic bombs were dropped he had received orders to transfer to the Pacific Theatre.






The picture to

the right was taken with a friends car. Myron had just returned home and was looking for work along with his brother Grover.
They both were hired by San Joaquin Power and Light, which would later become pacific gas and Electric. PG&E had more jobs than people were around to be hired.

It was there that he met my Mom, Lorna Lee Triplett.

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Winch Family - Myron Erwin Winch - page 4

This is the 1940 census for the Winch family household. The family still resides at 1438 North First Street in Fresno, California.

It also looks like none of the kids changed anyone's names now birthdates.

There is an X with a circle around it by Deborah's name. The circled X meant that she was the one who gave the information to the census taker.

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Winch Family - Myron Erwin Winch - page 3

Dad and his family stayed in the house on First street for many years. This picture was taken in September 1940, when he was a sophomore at Fresno High School He was on the swim team in high school.

Myron graduated from Fresno High in 1942, and enlisted in the Army Air Corp. During that summer he had his appendix taken out by an Army surgeon.

They apparently used a local, as my Dad remembered seeing his appendix and thought it looked like a hot dog it was so red and infected!

He was extremely lucky it hadn't burst.

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Winch Family - Myron Erwin Winch - page 2

This is a copy of the 1930 census for the 1438 North First Street Fresno California residence. The census taker came to the house on 8th of May 1930. I don't think that Emily was home as it looks like the children did their best to confuse the census taker. They gave their ages as:

Emily aged 33 [that's correct!]
Doris aged 13 years [Doris was born in Minnesota 1920.]
Myron aged 12 years [he was born in 1923].
Lola aged 9 years [she was born in 1927].
Grover aged 7 years [he was born in 1916].
Deborah aged 3 years 2 months [she was born in 1918].

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Winch Family - Myron Erwin Winch - page 1

This is a picture of my dad, Myron Erwin Winch. He was born 27 February 1923, in St. Paul Minnesota. I often wondered why Emily would have traveled from Mankato Minnesota to St. Paul for his birth.

Dad, his brother Grover, and his sisters Deborah [Caroline] and Doris  [Marie] lived in Mankato until the family moved to Fresno California in October 1925.

The family stayed intact until March 1936 when Emily and Cecil divorced.

When Myron was in one of the earlier grades of elementary school, his entire grade was exposed to Diphtheria. Everyone was quarantined for the entire year.

Pictured here:
Back row left to right; Grover, Emily, Deborah.
Front row left to right; Myron, Doris and Lola.

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Winch Family - 1940 Census - Cecil Erwin Winch - page 21

I was able to find Cecil in the 1940 census. I could only find this census in FamilySearch.org.

Cecil was the informant for the information on this census. This was designated by the circled X.

He is in Shasta County, California.

He was the 10th person enumerated during this census in the Judicial Township 4, on April 2 1940. He is living in "Project City" which was an unincorporated area in Shasta County, California.

He is living by himself. He is male, white, 44 years old, and divorced. He attended 6 years of school. 

In 1935, he lived in Curry County Oregon, which is immediately south of Coos County Oregon, where Cecil had had a homestead.

At that time he lived in Illahe, Curry County Oregon. It is currently unincorporated. It is in the Klamate Mountains in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. The area is designated Wild and Scenic and is "one of the best known whitewater runs in the US."*

The census continues with Cecil stating that he owns a farm. He was working but not for pay [farming], and he wasn't assigned to public EMERGENCY WORK (WPA, NYA, CCC) during the week of March 24-30. Cecil states he was looking for work.

He continues by saying that he had been unemployed for 20 weeks. Cecil says his occupation is one of a carpenter, and that he had worked on bridge and Dam construction. [The "PW" could stand for Public Work.]

He continues stating that he work 28 weeks, and earned $1391.00. He states that he did not earn any other money.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illahe,Oregon

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Winch Family - Cecil Erwin Winch - Homestead Certificate - page 20

Cecil homesteaded property in Coos Bay, Oregon:
This is the upper part of the certificate. It is dated in pencil 16 November 1938.

Roseburg 021648

The United States of America, To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:

Whereas, a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon, has been deposited in the General Land Office, whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress of May 20, 1862, "To Secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain," and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of
 Cecil E. Winch has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, for the Lots thirteen and fourteen of Section eight in township thirty-four south of Range eleven west of the 
Willalmette Meridian, Oregon, containing seventy-seven acres and fifty-one hundredths of an acre, according to the Official Plat of the survey of the said Land, on file in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE:

Now know ye that there is, therefore, granted by the UNITED STATES unto the said claimant the tract of Land above described; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said claimant and to the heirs and assigns of the said claimant forever; subject to any vested and accrued water rights for ming, agricultural, manufacturing; or other purposes, and rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such
water rights, as may be recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts; and there is reserved from the lands hereby granted a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt,

President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.

GIVEN under my hand at the City of Washington, the SIXTEENTH day of NOVEMBER in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and THIRTY-EIGHT and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and SIXTY-THIRD.

By the President: [Franklin D. Roosevelt]

by [Jeanne Kavanagh} , Secretary

[Carolyn S. Adams]
Recorder of the General Land Office

RECORDED: Patent Number 1100011  6-66020  U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

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Winch Family - Cecil Erwin Winch - Divorce Decree- page 19

Cecil and Emily Winch's Divorce Decree, page 4 of 4, Coos County, Oregon

Cecil E. Winch, Plaintiff

vs                                                  DECREE

Emily V. Winch, Defendant

     Now comes on to be heard by the Court the above entitled cause on this 19th day of March, 1936, upon the complaint herein taken as confessed by the Defendant, whose default for not appearing herein has been entered, and upon the proof taken and the testimony given on the part of the Plaintiff.

     And it appearing to the Court that all the allegations of the complaint are sustained, and that the District Attorney for Coos County, Oregon, has been served, and has appeared herein.

     NOW, THEREFORE, It is ordered, adjudged and decreed by the Court that the marriage heretofore and now existing between the Plaintiff and the Defendant be, and it is hereby dissolved, and Plaintiff is divorced from the Defendant; and that the parties are, and each of them is free and released from the bonds of matrimony heretofore existing between them.

     It is further adjudged and decreed by the Court that neither party hereto shall enter the marriage relation or contract marriage with a third person until the expiration of six months from the date of this decree.

     Dated this 19th day of March, 1936.

            Carl. E. Wimberly

            Circuit Judge

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Winch Family - Cecil Erwin Winch - Clerk's Certificate - page 18

Cecil and Emily Winch's divorce decree 21st day of March 1936, page 3 of 4,

Coos, County, Oregon

CLERK'S CERTIFICATE

State of Oregon

County of Coos

     

     I, L. W. Oddy, County Clerk of Coos County, Oregon, and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Circuit Court for said County and State, do hereby certify that the foregoing and attached copy of Decree Cecil E. Winch, Plaintiff vs  Emily V. Winch, Defendant, has been by me compared with the original Decree as entered March 19, 1936, in Circuit Court Journal No. 26, now on file and of record in my office and custody, and that it is a true, full and correct copy, and transcript and of the whole of such original Decree.

     In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Circuit Court this 21st day of March, A.D. 1936.

L. W. Oddy, County Clerk

By [?] Vaughan

Deputy

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Winch Family Cecil Erwin Winch - Clerk's Certificate - page 17

Cecil and Emily Winch's Divorce decree page 2 of 4, 26 March 1936, Coos County, Oregon. 

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Winch Family - Cecil Erwin Winch - Divorce - page 16

Cecil and Emily were divorced on the 19th of March 1936, page 1 of 4, Coos County, Oregon

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Winch Family - Cecil Erwin Winch - Marriage Certificate - page 15

On the 26th of October 1925, Cecil and Emily were married in Fresno California:

On this marriage license Cecil's father is listed as O.E. Winch. His mother's maiden name was Anna Elwess. they were both born in Minnesota.

Emily's father's name was list as Albin Jarl. Her mother's maiden name on this document is listed as Caroline Johnson. Both of Emily's parents were born in Sweden.

Cecil's address is listed as General Delivery, in Big Creek California.

Emily's is listed as residing in Fresno California.

This is Cecil's first marriage and Emily's second, the first ending in divorce.

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Winch Family - Cecil Erwin Winch - Pay voucher - page 13

I find this document very interesting.

It says that Emily received a lump payment (for back wages?) of $650.00 in 1928. Emily and Cecil had married in 1925 and Lola had been born in 1927.

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Winch Family - Cecil Erwin Winch - Second Enlistment - page 12

 Cecil was a truck driver at $30.00 a week during his 2nd enlistment.

He had been a Private in the 91st Observation Squadron.

His discharge was at Crissy Field, Presidio, San Francisco, California.

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Winch Family - Cecil Erwin Winch - Second Enlistment - page 11

Cecil's 2nd enlistment shows a physical description, next of kin, and his previous service.

Further paperwork shows he drove a truck.

It show that he completed 2 years, 4 months and 4 days of services.




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