Curtis Elmo Pass (1895 - 1914)

Born Apr 1895 in Watervalley, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States

Died 4 Nov 1914 at age 19 in France

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Biography

• Wikitree Roll of Honor
• Killed in Action
  

  Curtis Pass served in the United States Army in World War I
  Service started: 1912
  Unit(s): Btry A, 320 Field Artillery, 82nd Division
  Service ended: 1916 (KIA)
  

  Curtis Pass was Killed in Action during World War I.

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Battery A, 320th Field Artillery (A/320th FA). As part of the original 82nd Division, A/320th FA played a key role at Lorraine, St. Mihiel, and the Meuse Argonne region in France

Curtis Elmo Pass was born in April 1895 in Mississippi. According to the 1900 US Census, he was 5 years old, living with his parents: Matthew J. Pass and "Mattie" E. (Unknown) Pass, both 38 years old, with 2 brothers (Herschel: 14 & DeWitt: 3 yrs.) and 2 sisters (Lola: 12 yrs. & Jena: 9 yrs.), in the town of Paris, Lafayette County, Mississippi, USA. ^[1]

Ten years later, the April 1910 US Census reported Matthew J. Pass and his family, including 15-year-old son, Curtis E. Pass, living in Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States. Curtis' mother's proper first name was "Martha". Two younger sisters had been added to Curtis' family: "Overtericia:" 9 yrs. & "Jeror:" 6 yrs. old). They lived on their family farm in Water Valley. Curtis and his brothers were called "farm laborers". ^[2]

As a young man, Curtis met a woman named Virginia Edith Wilson and the two of them fell in love. They had promised each other to wait til after the war was over. He went away to France in WW1 and died there. Virginia Edith Wilson never married.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9XS-VHV : accessed 29 April 2018), Curtis Elmo Pass in household of Matt Pass, Beat 5 Paris town, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 53, sheet 5B, family 92, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,814.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MP6Q-KW6 : accessed 29 April 2018), Hersy E Pass in household of Mathew J Pass, Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 117, sheet 28A, family 329, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 764; FHL microfilm 1,374,777.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9XS-VHV : 20 January 2015), Curtis Elmo Pass in household of Matt Pass, Beat 5 Paris town, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States; citing sheet 5B, family 92, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,814.