Goldman Styles (abt. 1917 - abt. 1966)

Born about 28 Oct 1917 in Shoal Creek Township, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Berma Dixie (Murphy) Styles — married 27 Nov 1938 in Polk, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died about 5 Dec 1966 at about age 49 in Waukegan, Lake, Illinois, United States

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Biography

• Goldman Styles

Goldy as he was nicknamed was born in Shoals Creek Township, Cherokee County, North Carolina on 28 October 1917. He grew up in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. After his parents moved to Ducktown, Tennessee when he was a young boy, he attended elementary school and high school in Ducktown, Tennessee. Although they moved across the state line into Tennessee, the family retained close ties to relatives, on both sides of the family that remained in North Carolina. Both sides of the family also had an extensive amount of relatives that lived in Tennessee. They ranged from Tellico Plains, Tennessee down through Copperhill, Tennessee and down into northern Georgia and down to Atlanta. Gole, as his family called him, served in the U.S. Army on two separate occasions, he first served in the U.S. Army Cavalry, and was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. He served two years and was discharged in 1938. After being discharged from the Army he met and courted Burma Dixie Murphy, and they were married on 27 November 1938. They remained in Tennessee, Until after their first child Donna Derlynn Styles was born on 12 February 1940. Sometime in 1940 they moved to Zion, Illinois, where Gole was helping his Uncle Winston Pack, who was building homes in Zion at that time. While they were living in Illinois their second child was born, Robert Randle Styles was born on 1 August 1941. They remained in Zion, Illinois where Gole had built a small home for his family until the spring of 1943. They then moved back to Tennessee because work was hard to find and the Second World War was raging. After moving back to Tennessee and after Larry Goldman Styles, JR was born on 5 June 1943, Gole left his family, and with a family friend Fred Hopkins went to Baltimore, Maryland to work as a welder in the shipyards to help out with the war effort and sent his money back to Tennessee, to help his family. In the early months of 1944Gole returned to Tennessee, and enlisted in the Army for the second time. He was assigned to the Army Corp of Engineers and sent to the Pacific Theater. Gole served in Guadalcanal and Okinawa. At the end of the war he was discharged in 1945 at Ft. Lewis, Washington. He remained in Washington, renting a house in the town of Camas, and sent for his family to come and join him, while he was working in the sawmills. It was a long train ride for Burma and her brother Bruce, along with little Larry, Randy, and Derlynn. In 1947 he and his family returned to Tennessee, Gole immediately left for Illinois again to find work. He found employment in Waukegan, Illinois and sent for st his family to join him again and the rented an old farmhouse on 31 Street in Zion, Illinois. The family remained there until 1949 when Gole built a home on Delaney Road, west of Zion, in Newport Township. They moved into a command tent from the Army surplus, where they lived for two months until the new home was finished. They then moved into the home before the interior was completely finished in the fall of that year. The new home was built using the life insurance that Burma received when her brother Max was killed in a auto accident on Highway 64 in Isabella, Tennessee The family stayed in this house until 1961, when they sold it to Harley Hoselton who lived in the next house to the south of them on Delaney Road. Gole and Burma then bought a home in Lake County gardens area of Waukegan, Illinois on Illini Ave. At this time Gole was working as school custodian at an elementary school in Waukegan, his Aunt Helen Pack, Winston’s wife, was the Secretary to the Principal of the school. Gole was killed in an auto accident on Greenbay Road in Waukegan, Illinois on 5 December 1966, and was buried at the North Shore Garden of Memories Cemetery in North Chicago, Illinois

• Goldman 'Goldie' was born in 1917. He was son of Lon Styles and Emma Pack. He passed away in 1966.
• North Carolina, Center for Health Statistics, Vital Records, County Birds 1913-1922. ^[1]

Name: Goldman Stiles

Event Type: Birth

Event Date: 28 Oct 1917

Event Place: Shoal Creek Township, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States

Event Place (Original):Shoal Creek, Cherokee, North Carolina

Sex:Male

Father's Name: Robert Alonzo Stiles

Father's Birthplace: N Car

Father's Age: 22

Father's Birth Year (Estimated): 1895

Mother's Name: Emma Pack

Mother's Birthplace: N Car

Mother's Age:17

Mother's Birth Year (Estimated): 1900

Certificate Number: 306

Social Security Number: N

• Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950; ^[2]

Name: Goldman Styles

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 27 Nov 1938

Event Place: Polk, Tennessee, United States

Sex: Male

Spouse's Name: Burma Murphy

Spouse's Sex: Female

• 1930 Census; District 3; Polk; Tennessee; ^[3] Dwelling 225; Family 242; Line 62;

R L Styles Head Male 35 North Carolina

Emmie Styles Wife Female 29 North Carolina

Golden Styles Son Male 12 North Carolina

Emma Lou Styles Daughter Female 11 North Carolina

Howard Styles Son Male 8 North Carolina

Herman Styles Son Male 4 North Carolina

Sources

1. ↑ "North Carolina, Center for Health Statistics, Vital Records Unit, County Birth Records, 1913-1922", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:8GCC-Y26Z : 7 August 2020), Goldman Stiles, 1917
2. ↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHQ-88XN : 10 March 2021), Goldman Styles and Burma Murphy, 27 Nov 1938; citing Polk, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,012,138.
3. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RC3-RWX?i=25&cc=1810731&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3ASPQ5-MYG