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Just as we reach back to our ancestors for fundamental values, ... we must reach ahead to our children and their children.   - Paul Tsongas

World War II

Draft Registration Card

Source 1

Gravestone at St. Enoch Lutheran Church Cemetery

Cabarrus County, NC

Source 2

Newspaper clipping from The Daily Independent

Kannapolis, NC

Source 3

Copy of Death Certificate

Source 4

Sources

 

1.  Ancestry.com.  U.S. World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947.  [database on-line].  Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

 

2.  "Crawford Wilson Sims."  Find a Grave.

7 November 2011. <http://www.findagrave.com>, memorial # 80002499, (25 Jul 2014).

 

3.  "Personals", The Daily Independent, Kannapolis, North Carolina, 17 Apr 1955, page 5-B, column 2.

 

4.  Ancestry.com.  North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1975. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.

 

5.  Copy of original photograph courtesy of

Billy Fisher Sims, Jr.

(26 Jul 2014).

From left to right:

Julia Erline Sims, Audrey Mae Sims, Hyette Glen Sims, and Crawford Wilson Sims.

Photo taken circa 1915.

Source 5

Crawford Wilson Sims (1908-1973)

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