+William Sherman Edingburg

Uncle Will as I called him was quite the character, he was known for being a bit eccentric but everyone loved him including me.  He lived on the property that his father owned all his life except for his short stint in the  military.

He had his own little cottage in back of the main house.

William Sherman Edingburg was born June 28, 1889 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee and died Jan 14, 1959 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee.

Before 1908 a lot of the cities or towns didn't record birth or deaths, but Chattanooga did record births from 1879 and deaths from 1872. As of yet I haven't found Williams record of birth but I continue to look.

So the first time I find William is in the census of 1900:

He's 10 years old living with his parents Daniel and Minnie, and siblings in Chattanooga, TN.  

Next census is 1910, William is 22 years old living at home.

1918 he signs up for the draft at age 27, and his entrainment date June 1, 1918 to Fort Wayne, Michigan Aviation Mobilization Camp.

 Uncle Will was a carpenter by trade and a very good one at that.  He worked with his father Daniel, and also did carpenter work on his own, and did some engraving and sculptures for tombstones for different companies.

Uncle Will loved children and since I was the only child around he took me under his wing and showed me all of what he did in a day.  We would feed the ducks, work in the garden and orchard, I was only 3 and 4 years old when all this took place but I remember him well.  Plus as I wrote in another post he got himself in trouble a lot with my mom for letting me eat so many grapes, and also for me getting muddy all the time.  It couldn't be helped, he loved to play with me, so all the mess just went with having fun.  

The 1920 census he's still a single person at age 30 living at the cottage at his parents home with some siblings still living at home and a new daughter in-law and nephew as well.

My mom would always get after him anyway but it did no good as the next day we were back out side getting into trouble all over again.  My mom just loved Uncle Will, she always had fond memories of him and always said he was such a nice man and just loved children.  Unfortunately no one has a photo of him, I have no idea why there isn't one since my mother took a million pictures of me you would have thought she would have taken a picture of him or that someone in the family would have had a photo of him.  There is a photo of a man that I have that looks like he could be related to that side of the family but with no name on it it's impossible as of yet to know who he really is, and even though I played with Uncle Will I don't remember what he looked like any more.

What I do remember is he was tall and thin and lots of fun.

In the 1930 census he's married to Lillie Hill and living on the property in the cottage.  It's ironic that we have a photo of his wife Lillie shown below but not one of him.

I haven't found out so far what her uniform is related to if anything at all. 

Uncle Will married Lillie Hill on May 25, 1922.  We don't know much about Lillie, they got a divorce but I haven't found out when. I know when I was born and living on the old home place Lillie wasn't there and he had a girlfriend then. 

Uncle Will also was one of the 12 founding members of the Highlands Cemetery in Chattanooga, he was on the board and remained with the company until his death. his portion of the company still remains in the family.

After we moved away from Chattanooga, I continued to visit Chattanooga during summer vacation for two weeks. I got to see all my great aunts and uncles. I stayed with Aunt Blanche who was Uncle Will's younger sister.

Uncle Will had this thing for stashing his money in the walls, in the floor boards, under the house, pretty much all over, he had jars buried in the house with coins, he didn't trust banks so this was his way of hiding the money, except everyone knew about it. One of his x girlfriends tried one time to steal the money, I heard that she only started seeing him so she could get her hands on the money but the family escorted her off the property and she never came back.  Mom said he was a very handsome man, all the woman were always after him.

I found two city directories with Uncle Will listed along with other family  members still living in the house.

Above is an order form for some work Uncle Will was going to make dated in the 1920's. he did sculpture and engraving also.  I don't know what it was for but could have been for cemetery headstones.  I know he did a lot of work like that for the company he was part owner with the Highland Cemetery.  This order has some interesting items that the company wants.

On January 14, 1959, Uncle Will passed away. Here is his Obituary:

Also I found this which Aunt Blanche handled. He apparently wasn't in the military but a few months but no reason why he left so soon has been found yet.

I found out recently that he had a daughter with the woman named Alberta Middlebrook and they named her Violet Ruth, I haven't been able to find the daughter, she was born very late in his life apparently, probably after we left Chattanooga, since we didn't hear about it or I didn't hear about it after we moved away. I don't know if my parents knew and just didn't say since they weren't married that was such a horrible thing to happen back in those days.  But from what I understand Uncle Will was really happy to have a daughter even though he didn't get to know her very long.

Some things I'd love to find out about Uncle Will:

1- Why he left the military so fast, only being there a few months. I've looked on      Fold3 but they have nothing listed on him, probably because he wasn't there long enough       

2- Where is he daughter and what happened to her. she could still be alive.

3- When did he and Lillie divorce?

4_ Is there a photo floating around in someone's  home with Uncle Will in it, I'd love for it to be shared with me.

Sources:

1990 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com
1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com
1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com
1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com
1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com
U. S City Directories Chattanooga, Ancestry.com
U.S Head Stone Applications for Military Veterans 1925-1963, Ancestry.com
U. S. World War 1 Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918, Ancestry.com
Marriage License, FamilySearch.org
U.S Lists of Men Ordered to Report to Local Board fo Military Duty 1917-1918, Ancestry.com

+Eva May Gragg-Edingburg, Mystery Unsolved

Eva May Gragg-Edingburg

was my Grand Uncle Roscoe Edingburg's first wife. I'm writing this short post in hopes of someone reading it and help solve a family mystery.

Eva May Gragg-Edingburg

Eva May Gragg-Edingburg was born  1901 in Georgia I don't know where in Georgia, died: January 10, 1935, Chattanooga, TN.

Eva was brutally murdered by a woman named Gladys Carter in Eva's home in Chattanooga. 

The Death record states pistol wound and homicide.

The death certificate shows not only shot wounds to the chest but also  multiple stab wounds. 

So far no one has been able to locate any information as to what happened to Gladys Carter.

We would like to know:

1- Did Gladys go to trial?

2- Was Gladys sent to prison?

3- What was the reason she murdered Eva?

All we know is what's listed here in the post. 

Sources:
Chattanooga Times, Tennessee
State of TN, Dept of Public Health Division of Vital Statistics, Ancestry.com

+Theodric Roscoe Edingburg, and Family

Theodric Roscoe Edingburg was my grand uncle, everyone called him Roscoe, I just called him Uncle Roscoe.  He was born to Daniel Trigg Edingburg and Minnie M. McKeldin-Edingburg on Sept 25, 1896 in Chattanooga Hamilton Co. Tennessee. The first census I found of Uncle Roscoe he's 4 years old.

   Since I was born in Chattanooga, and lived in the same home where Uncle Roscoe was born, and lived, I got to see him until we both moved away from Tennessee.  My memories of Uncle Roscoe are nice ones. I remember when we would go to town to shop, Uncle Roscoe would go with us sometimes, he would always speak to everyone, wave to everyone, and was constantly getting people's attention. One time we were walking down the street and he yelled to someone across the street just to say hi.  He always wore a hat and some sort of a suit jacket.  It seems a lot of people always dressed up just to go food shopping or to do anything in town.

Unfortunately no one so far has a photo of Uncle Roscoe, so this post I'll have to use just  the documents that I have found, and tell what I remember of him.  This is the photo of the house where he was born and grew up.

I borrowed this photo from Daniel Edingburg Sr's post because it's the only photo I have of the full view of the house. I think this is Minnie Edingburg standing in the photo which would have been Uncle Roscoe's mother.  I have two photos of Minnie close up but with this being so far away there's no way for me to know one hundred percent.
The next census is Uncle Roscoe in the 1920 census, he's already married, and has one child seven months old and is working as a house carpenter.  All of the men in the Edingburg family were carpenters, Uncle Roscoe was the last child born to Daniel and Minnie and he also took up the carpenter trade as did my father as a second trade to do. 

He also signed up for the WW1 Draft Registration of 1917-1918, he's listed as working as a carpenter for his father Dan Edingburg, and also he listed his mother as the nearest relative.

Uncle Roscoe, Eva his wife and Roscoe Jr are living in Uncle Roscoe's parents home with a few of his siblings.
I do have one photo of Eva his wife.
They were married May 30, 1918 Chattanooga, Hamilton Co. TN. Book 20, page 396, License 27906.  Eva was 17 years old. Uncle Roscoe was 21 years old.

Eva May Gragg-Edingburg

Uncle Roscoe and Eva had two children:
Theodric Roscoe Edingburg
born May 18 1919 Chattanooga, Hamilton Co. TN
and died July 13, 1975 Los
Angeles, California.

Wendell Gragg Edingburg
Aug 13, 1921 Chattanooga TN died: July 20, 2004 Chicago, Illinois.

I didn't get to meet Eva, she died of a tragic death which I will write about later.


Between 1918 and 1930 Eva and Uncle Roscoe got a divorce because in the 1930 Census he's already married to a different person. 

Uncle Roscoe is married to Vera Greene ( b: June 1, 1904 Macon, GA) (d: Jan 11, 1991 Chicago, Illinois). He and Vera had one daughter named Vera Edingburg ( b: June 23, 1934 Chicago, IL, and d: July 9, 1934), she was 16 days old. burial July 10, 1934 and buried Lincoln Cemetery, Worth, Cook, Illinois. I didn't get to meet Vera either.

Delayed certificate of birth for Uncle Roscoe, it lists his father's place of birth as West Virginia which is incorrect, Daniel was born in Abingdon, Washington Co. Virginia.

front side

back side

Tennessee didn't start recording birth certificates until 1908 officially, but a few cities did record them which was available by mail.
This is Uncle Roscoe's WW2 Draft registration record, he was 45 years old.

Uncle Roscoe passed away Dec 3, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois. 

The one thing that will always stick in my mind is that Uncle Roscoe looked so much like my grandmother they could have passed for twins.  This was in his later years, I don't know what he looked like as a younger person, and also he was not much taller than my grandmother, she was tall.

 Sources:
1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com
1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com
1930 United States Federal Census ,Ancestry.com
U. S Social Security Death Index 1935 - Current. Ancestry.com
Cook Co, Illinois Death Index, 1908-1988, Ancestry.com
WW 1 Draft Registration 1917-1918, Ancestry.com
WW 2 Draft Registration Cards 1942, Ancestry.com

+Naomi Cleopatra Banks

Naomi 1969

My mother was born Naomi Cleopatra Banks on August 13, 1926 in Chattanooga ,Hamilton Co. Tennessee to, William Thomas Banks, and Lena Margaret Key.

Naomi in Chattanooga TN

Mom had two siblings an older brother William Thomas Banks Jr and a younger sister Lnita Banks.  Naomi's father William was a carpenter, mom said that her father built all the lawn furniture and was always building something, she said that her father loved to work in the yard.  I didn't get to know my grandfather because he died around 1939.

   After her father died her mom had to go to work, and when mom was 10 years old she went to work after school doing odd jobs, she also did sewing for people at a young age. 

Naomi, Lnita and William (Billy)

This photo I call the Banks kids number one, it was pretty cool that they took pictures of the siblings at different stages of their growth. I like Uncle Billy's socks, they remind me of the Little Rascals on television.

Mom said that all her teenage years she wanted to be a violinist and play for an orchestra.  She never did fulfill that dream, but she did learn how to play the piano, not quite the same thing but at least it was an instrument.

Naomi, Billy, Lnita

Here are the Banks Kids number 2, a little more grown up.  They don't seem to like to smile for the camera.

I don't know what grade school mom attended, I do know she attended Howard High School in Chattanooga, she was always an A student.  She told me a few years ago that she loved doing the school plays, and she was in all the drama clubs and participated in everything they had to offer, I would never have thought that she would have liked that in a million years. 

Naomi, High School

This is my mom during her high school days, she said that she worked in her brothers photography shop after school developing film and colorizing the photos to earn money so she could buy material to make her clothes, she said that she made this dress ( on the left)  for a school project.

Naomi made this dress for her Sorority event at
Clark College, University Atlanta, GA 1946.

This next photo is another dress my mom made for her High School prom.

She really loved to sew.  When my brother and I were born, she even made our winter coats and dress coats for special occasions, they looked like they were bought in a department store. She put the linings in and everything. 

Naomi at College

After high school mom went to Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia which is now Clark Atlanta University.  She was in the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority in College.  I have her sorority pin packed away so will have to get it and then update this later.

In 1947 while at Clark College she contracted tuberculosis, and had to leave and be put in a sanitarium, she was in there a little over a year.  I think she said that she only got to stay in the college 2  years.  There was a new drug that they gave my mom called streptomycin which really saved her life, and shortened her stay in the facility.

A little history about my mother and father, their families knew each other while my mom and dad were children.  My mom's mother use to shop at the grocery store that my father's grandfather owned.  While my dad was overseas in World War 2, my mom was in the hospital and wrote him quite a bit.  My dad was released from the service on January 6, 1946 and in March 20, 1946 my mom married  Shantung Edingburg Zuber in Rossville, Walker Co, Georgia.

I have a photo of the sanitarium where my mom stayed while getting treatment for TB, but I never did find out the name of the facility.  Mom didn't like to talk about having TB so it was like pulling teeth to get anything out of her.  When I would try to talk about it she would always change the subject.  She acted like it was shameful, she wouldn't even tell her new doctors that she had TB when she moved in with us, I had to tell them why her one lung was collapsed and we don't know why they didn't inflate her lung back then.  

After she moved in with us in 2009, I started really asking her questions but the TB subject never did get anywhere.  I remember when I was in school, and they would give TB test in , I would get my test and she was a nervous wreck until it was clear that I didn't have it. She would look at those four marks on my arm every day until they said I was okay.  I think we did those test every year and she went through the same thing every time, or just worrying herself into a frenzy.  I started calling mom a worry wart after that, she worried about everything.  I'm very happy that I didn't get the worry bug from her, she use to tell me that she wished that she wouldn't worry like my dad and I, we saw now sense in worrying about something that couldn't  be prevented. I use to tell her she had worrying down to an art, she could give lessons in it.

Billy, Lnita, Naomi

Here are the Banks kids number 3,  This was taken in Vallejo, California, I'm not sure of the year, could be around 1960.

My mom and dad also had a son named Shantung Edingburg Zuber born 1959.  

Mom went back to college through out the years,  She attended New York City College while she worked.  She worked at a brokerage firm called Bache and Company on Wall Street NY.  She worked there for many years then moved to Merrill Lynch also in NY.  Then she totally went for a complete change of work and quit, moved to NJ and started her own doll business. She kept the doll business going for many years, my father actually quit his job and they both did the business until he died.. After that my mom went back to school again, and was then hired by Boy Scouts of America, and worked there until she retired  in 2005.

Naomi with JoJo

My mom worked full time went to school so I didn't get to spend a lot of time with her.   She loved working much better than staying home.  We were very well taken care of, she was a good mother, very generous person, and she was always happy when something good happened to someone else, she was never jealous or envious of anyone.  She had a nice smile and loved to laugh.  Also the other side of her was a demanding type person in a way and was a bit on the fussy side.  I always said she took her fussy way from her mother.

The Banks Kids Number 4, California
Lnita, William, Naomi

Here again are the three siblings together in California.

Naomi  High School TN.

This photos of mom was almost destroyed, another photo was stuck to it for many years.  

Naomi  TN.

This is mom in Chattanooga, TN.  In 2009 my mom's health was deteriorating so we went out to New Jersey and moved her into our home,  She was happy to come here, but she really never got over having to retire because of her health.  She had asthma but after moving here the asthma never became an issue.   She lived with us until April 31 2012 where she passed away in her sleep from natural causes at the age of 85.

Having my mom living with us was nice at times, a nightmare other times but that seems to go with the territory of having someone else living with you that has to depend on you for things.  She was always able to get around on her own with a walker, she never became bedridden or anything like that.   Putting my mom in a nursing home was never an option, I knew it was going to be hard on all of us but now looking back on it, I'm glad that I did it.  Now she's happy I'm sure, with my dad, probably traveling to see all the sights.


Update: 3/9/2014

 I just received this certificate through a Random Act of Kindness from Boyd J, Holdaway. He found my mom and dad's marriage certificate. Thank you Boyd.

Update:

https://radar.auctr.edu/panther-january-1-1946-0

Yearbook, Naomi is on page 3 sitting in the front row

on the right side. There is an article about the girl's dresses

and She is also mentioned if you scroll down a little way she is listed under

the heading. Sixteen Ivy Leafs Cross Burning Sands.

+Shantung Edingburg Zuber, "Military Tribute to my Dad"

There were over 2.5 million African American men who registered for the draft as well as many black woman who also volunteered.  During their service to their country they experienced prejudices and segregation but they met the difficult task and carried on.  They served their country with honor, made contributions to the war effort, and earned compliments and accolades for their endeavors and sacrifices.
This is a Tribute to my Dad .

Shantung Edingburg Zuber

 B: November 28, 1923 Chattanooga

Hamilton County, Tennessee
Branch: Army
Enlistment date: Dec. 2, 1942
Released date: Jan 6, 1946

                                                         

Shantung Edingburg Zuber

     

  

   His enlistment records shows Residence Tennessee, Hamilton Co. enlisted: Dec 2, 1942, enlistment city: Camp Forrest
branch: Air Corps, Grade Code: Private.

My dad didn't talk very much about the war part but he talked mostly about his travels during the war when he had leave.  He said that all of his spare time was spent touring the cities where he was stationed, seeing as much of the country and native people as he could possibly  squeeze in.  He never drank alcohol or smoked cigarettes so he used what money he didn't send home to his mother for his travels.  One time he said that he hitchhiked all over Italy when he was off on leave. The native people would  always pick up a soldier in uniform or even an American for that matter.  He had no problem getting anywhere he wanted to go.

This is a letter my dad wrote to his brother (Theodric) who was 3 years younger than my dad.  
It says:
Hello Brother,
Received your letter and answering in return as soon as possible.
So you remember what you said on your letter well you are right exactly but don't say anymore about it.  To send your picture in your chosen outfit  I know it's hard. 
I've gotten too large for everything of mine.  Don't know exactly how tall I am but anyway it's six something. I'll be back to fill  in as I left but this time in the real manner.  Don't send the watch.  Thanks a Take care of yourself and don't over do it.
Tell everyone hello.
                                                   Brother
                                              Shantung E. Zuber

Some of this letter didn't make any sense to me but I'm sure they knew what they were talking about.   I remember my dad saying that after he got in the Army he started growing like a weed, just getting taller and taller.
I'm thinking that the outfit in the photo he's talking about might be his own, because Theodric didn't have a uniform, he was till living at home.

When my dad passed away, he left behind his wallet, I have that wallet now and what amazed me was he had about 10 little papers folded up neatly that he had kept since his Army days.  I've scanned them and will now list them on this post.  I know for sure that I took that trait after him, I'm not a pack rat but I do save things that have meant something to me no matter how long ago it was.

This was one of the items front and back.

It shouldn't surprise me that he kept some of this stuff.  He even brought back two army blankets which I have now, that he used while in the Army, the blankets look like they have seen better days, I even use them as throws sometimes when it's cold.

Apparently  he was in the hospital I don't know for what reason. 

Here he's granted a Liberty Pass for the day.  I'm sure he took off on his tour where ever he was.  He loved traveling.

The City Tour is his tour of Naples and Volcano.  He wrote to his mother a  letter telling her all about Italy and it's art and buildings. As you can see he really enjoyed seeing his surroundings.

Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archaeology Rome 
Ticket d 'input for the 
Catacombs of St. Callisto 

the price  15

Another item in the wallet.  these items didn't take up any space at all the paper is really thin except for the business looking cards. 

 Translation:
MVSE Galleries 
Ponticie Library Apostolic 
Vatican 

lire six

War Department Finance Dept. The amount of $200.00 being sent to Georgia E. Zuber, Shantung's mother. 
I know from what my dad told me, he sent his mother as much money as he could and only kept what he needed to live on and do his sightseeing and travel. 
This next one is another letter my dad wrote to his brother:

It reads:
Dear Brother,
received your letter on the 28th.  "Say" you asked me if I've seen any one that you know, "Well" no haven't seen a person I know since the day I left home ? in 42.  Now you know that's strictly hell no stuff
   Boy I'm falling off, I weigh 175, three pounds lost, hot weather no good. These scales were
wrong I'm 6 ft tall.  I know you're taller
than that aren't you. 
I'd like to have a fruit cake send one if you can thanks
No activity just the same old thing head down and ass up.
Well boy, I'll knock on back before long, tell everyone hello fro me
So long
                                    Shantung E Zuber

My dad talked a lot about shooting rifles, and I know for a fact that he loved to target practice.  He taught my brother and I how to shoot very early, I was 7 I remember.  He was so good at it, I use to say he could shoot a strand of hair sitting on top of a coke bottle and of course the chip off the old block that I am, I still love to shoot targets.  He was just as good at shooting bow and arrows.  Which he also taught me as well.
It appears that he and his brother had a language all their own from the letters I've read. 
Next is a letter that he wrote to his mother while in the service in Italy and Algeria, Africa.

Post marked December 18, 1944,
it reads:
Dear Mother,
My birthday has passed promoting me to the great age of seventeen going backwards now advancing one year and subtracting two.  I'm somewhere in Italy, so therefore I ran into it here, and was rather cheerful  ? to location.  I had the opportunity to visit Oran while in Algeria also Naples here in Italy visited the volcano Vesuvius.  If you remember the Vesuvius erupted back in the year of two thousand (ad) and destroying the entire city of Pompey, but now has been dug completely from under solid  rock which 2000 year ago was hot lava.  Oil paintings by famous artists were still there as if they were painted yesterday their population was 2500 having killed 5000 after erupting three days, went through the rooms and parlors of the King and Queen, and their friends parlors and belongings.  Some of the tools of their bakery shop are used
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today their wash basin is large concrete trough receiving it's water from the mouth of  a statue and the part of the concrete that they rest on to drink is worn out, can be seen good after all of these years.. They really believe in their architectural 
building, high columns a face or statue about every where you look.  The gates of the city closes at twelve 9 PM) and person that comes later are left out side until morning, collected souvenirs from everywhere having some lava enclosed in glass.  The lava from the small volcano is constantly bubbling up to my estimation it's more dangerous than the larger one because the larger has erupted twice while the small one hasn't erupted at all, and not much higher than sea level, the larger was heard over on thousand and four hundred miles and seen over  200.  You should have seen the reins Cathedral  those large columns are  marble the platform is solid gold, beneath and below the pulpit of an angel rich with diamonds reflecting to all corners of the church, it's really beautiful, I wish you could see it, and to

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the left is Christ on the cross, and Mary standing below with her hands clasped, his flesh has been scraped to the second layer at the end of ?  scar is rolled back ?, and blood is streaming off the entire body is mangled up and looks the same all over, the spikes looks nasty pierced through his hands leaving the flesh open.  Thrones pierced i his head and  blood running down his face. This artist really knew his job, had his statues to the left of his work, his paintings were all over the church in every little corner that could be seen, also statues that presided and shepherds and their sheep.
  The churches in Naples run from the eleventh century up and made on the same order, The total amount that is looking from the port ????? hundred or over,  In touring the city I find it's very interesting, but so badly bombed.  Some buildings are so old they've lost their architectural  corm and looks more like a bank. The Italians as a whole are very congenial due to their country having been riddled and treated so brutal.  Come to think of it this is Caesar's home.  Naples is

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somewhat of a city the best yet since I've been in the Army bit of entertainment, gobs of clubs, movies, and dances, the blocks are arranged as in the states, go and come, and never get lost.
There's no monkeys, and apes in North Africa.  the people there  are as those in the states only they don't have their desired clothing, but live good considering, Africa there is said to be a century behind speaking only of there.  So Africa could be more yet but anyway they live up to that century using mostly horses and wagons, very few factories that could manufacture auto's and other convenient necessities most of their heavy trucks run by steam add by cold & wood and steam to the ofset of ours that you very seldom see in old USA.

This is the envelope this letter was in. not all the letter is here but enough to tell a pretty nice story of his army live over in Africa and Italy.


I remember my dad telling me all about the museums in Italy he enjoyed touring Naples so much. He was really into the artwork over there, being an artist himself I can see why.  As far as Africa goes he always said that Morocco had some beautiful women, he thought they were the most beautiful women he had ever seen.  I also know that my dad had to leave school early, so when the military service was over he went back and finished his schooling then went on to college to study art.  

Shantung Edingburg Zuber

This is his Honorable Discharge papers side one..the back of this has his information which is next.

He was discharged Jan 6, 1946, and married my mother, Naomi Cleopatra Banks on March 20, 1946 in Rossville, Walker Co. Georgia.

He departed his life:
July 28,1983 Parlin, NJ.

I doubt a day goes by that I don't think of my dad, we were like two peas in a pod,  He was the person I went to talk to about anything. He was a good listener and was always fair in his judgments concerning me. Thank you for being the best father ever, thank you for your service to our country I miss you greatly, and will love you always.















Sources:
Ancestry.com