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Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Took part in the capture of Nurnberg and Munich and was killed near Schweinfurt. Memorial service held at Central Avenue Baptist Church on 6-10-45. Buried in a military cemetery in Western Germany.
Age at Death: 23
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was wounded in Vossack, Germany on 12-1-1944. He was killed in action at a Ruhr River crossing. A memorial service was held at the Disabled Veterans Convention in Chicago on Oct. 19, 1945.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was the youngest of 13 children and the first death to occur among his siblings. He was killed in action on Ie Shima Island. Writer Ernie Pyle died here last month.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in an accident while his ship was being loaded. Memorial service on Aug 15, 1945 at First Presbyterian Church. Funeral services on Aug 10, 1945 at Harry and Bryant Chapel with burial at Elmwood Cemetery.
Age at Death: 34
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He had flown cover during the D-Day invasion. He was previously listed as missing and was later declared dead. His son was born while he was overseas, and his wife never remarried.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Wounded in action in Germany on January 15th, and died in France the next day. Burial and memorial marker at the Army Cemetery in Luxembourg.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He as listed as a former Y. M. C. A. dormitory boy. The committee working on obtaining information noted that they sent his parents 2 letters and questionnaries, since his brother, Leo, died. Nothing else was found in his file.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was killed in action. The plane, which he was co-piloting, was hit by a shell, when it was leaving its target. He was buried on Carlos Island of the Kewajalein atoll. Memorial marker at Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery in Honolulu, HI.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was sent to the European area on February 15, 1945. He had been previously reported as missing in action and was later determined to have been killed in action. He died from shell fragment wounds received in battle near Wissen, Germany.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: This pilot from South Somerset, MA, was killed at 3 pm., while on a routine training flight. His A-20 went down near the Piedmont & Northern Railroad Co. tracks about 10 miles west of Morris Field.
Maarch 12, 1948 - While planning this year's Meck Dec Day celebration, Charlotte loses its most enthusiastic promoter. Clarence Kuester dies of a heart attack.
Over a 100 years ago, Charlotte held it’s own Renaissance Festival at the Charlotte Fairgrounds.
Anna Mason Stroud Douglas, wife of the Reverend William R. Douglas, pastor of the A.M.E. Zion Methodist Church. He oversaw the construction of the 1911 church on 7th Street. The couple resided at 410 North Myrers Street in 1912.
The joy of coming home can be seen on the faces of these veterans from North Carolina. Front row, left to right: Cpl. Guy R. Thornton of 2324 Chesterfield Ave., Charlotte; Cpl. Howell T. Ballard of Kannapolis; and Cpl. Robert D. Byram of 3008 Dogwood Ave., Charlotte. Standing left to right: Pvt.
The Charlotte Observer 5/15/1928, p. 11
MAY 20 FETE PLANNED
COLORFUL DAY IS PREDICTED
Col. David L. Stone, of War Department, to Be Chief Speaker Monday.
The following are articles from the Charlotte News describing the preparations leading up to the 115th anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence:
The Charlotte News: “Vance is here” 5/19/1890 pg.1 and “Gay Charlotte” 5/17/1890 pg. 1
MECKLENBURG'S steady, if slow, development through the early and middle decades of the last century was halted, however with the outbreak of the War Between the States. It would be many years before the South would show an appreciable recovery.
Almost 100 years ago, in January of 1891, a group of prominent Charlotte citizens gathered at the Law Library on North Church Street.
