Military marker birth year 1896 appears to be in error.
Civil marker birth year says 1895 which is supported by all of the records.
1900 census:
William E., born Sept 1895, is age 4 for the 1900 census taken 18 June 1900 where his father is a coal miner renting a house in the north half of rural VanBuren Township, Clay County, IN. By 1910 Joshua has purchased a farm in Van Buren Township.
VA Index Card:
Private, Company I, 339th Infantry, WWI.
Born 30 Sept 1995
Died 29 April 1968
Enlisted 27 April 1918
Discharged 5 July 1919
Described as tall and slender at registration.
WWI Draft Card June 1917 by Z.McIntyre:
Born 30 Sept 1895 at Carbon; miner at the Carbon Mining Company; described as slender, medium height, blue eyes, brown hair.
Parke County, IN, marriage record:
Earl McQueen (born 30 Sept 1895 at Carbon, IN, to Joshua McQueen, Carpenter residing at Carbon, IN, and Belle White, natives of Indiana); and Myrtle Craig (born 11 Feb 1898 in Clay Co. IN, to Charles Craig, a Farmer at Carbon, IN, and Ida Lawson, natives of Indiana); first marriage for both residing at Carbon, IN; were married 25 August 1819 by George E. Law, J.P.
~ (note: references to Carbon is relative; folks often cite the nearest town, and given the perponderance of records it doesn't appear all the events actually occurred within the town limits of Carbon in Clay County; the marriage was registered in Parke County which borders Carbon, ks).
WWII Draft Card:
Earl William McQueen, age 47, born 30 Sept 1894 [sic] in VanBuren Township, Clay County, IN, lives at Carbon and works for the Kalamazoo Clay Company of Carbon.
EARL W. McQUEEN
Carbon, Ind. (Special) -
Earl W. McQueen, 72, died at 11:15 a.m. Monday in St. Anthony Hospital, Terre Haute. A retired employee of the Kalamazoo Clay Co. at Carbon, he was a veteran of World War I. Surviving are a daughter Mrs. Mary Margaret Pine, Terre Haute; a son Robert E. RR 1, Brazil; two sisters, Mrs. Hila Ottieri, Youngstown, Ohio, and Mrs. Grace Soyke, Carbon, and two grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Lawson Funeral Home, Brazil, with the Rev. Joseph Britton officiating. Burial will be in Calcutta Cemetery. Friends may call after 4 p.m. Wednesday.
--from the Terre Haute Tribune, Tue. 30 April 1868, pg 2; ks.
Military marker birth year 1896 appears to be in error.
Civil marker birth year says 1895 which is supported by all of the records.
1900 census:
William E., born Sept 1895, is age 4 for the 1900 census taken 18 June 1900 where his father is a coal miner renting a house in the north half of rural VanBuren Township, Clay County, IN. By 1910 Joshua has purchased a farm in Van Buren Township.
VA Index Card:
Private, Company I, 339th Infantry, WWI.
Born 30 Sept 1995
Died 29 April 1968
Enlisted 27 April 1918
Discharged 5 July 1919
Described as tall and slender at registration.
WWI Draft Card June 1917 by Z.McIntyre:
Born 30 Sept 1895 at Carbon; miner at the Carbon Mining Company; described as slender, medium height, blue eyes, brown hair.
Parke County, IN, marriage record:
Earl McQueen (born 30 Sept 1895 at Carbon, IN, to Joshua McQueen, Carpenter residing at Carbon, IN, and Belle White, natives of Indiana); and Myrtle Craig (born 11 Feb 1898 in Clay Co. IN, to Charles Craig, a Farmer at Carbon, IN, and Ida Lawson, natives of Indiana); first marriage for both residing at Carbon, IN; were married 25 August 1819 by George E. Law, J.P.
~ (note: references to Carbon is relative; folks often cite the nearest town, and given the perponderance of records it doesn't appear all the events actually occurred within the town limits of Carbon in Clay County; the marriage was registered in Parke County which borders Carbon, ks).
WWII Draft Card:
Earl William McQueen, age 47, born 30 Sept 1894 [sic] in VanBuren Township, Clay County, IN, lives at Carbon and works for the Kalamazoo Clay Company of Carbon.
EARL W. McQUEEN
Carbon, Ind. (Special) -
Earl W. McQueen, 72, died at 11:15 a.m. Monday in St. Anthony Hospital, Terre Haute. A retired employee of the Kalamazoo Clay Co. at Carbon, he was a veteran of World War I. Surviving are a daughter Mrs. Mary Margaret Pine, Terre Haute; a son Robert E. RR 1, Brazil; two sisters, Mrs. Hila Ottieri, Youngstown, Ohio, and Mrs. Grace Soyke, Carbon, and two grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Lawson Funeral Home, Brazil, with the Rev. Joseph Britton officiating. Burial will be in Calcutta Cemetery. Friends may call after 4 p.m. Wednesday.
--from the Terre Haute Tribune, Tue. 30 April 1868, pg 2; ks.
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