Homer Helms (1911 - 1971)

Ancestors

Biography

Homer Maddox Helms was born 2 Aug 1911 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.^[1][2]

At the time he registered for the WWII Draft in 1940, he was 29 years old and working for the Drexel Furniture Company in Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. He listed his sister, Mrs. Eunice Helms Hagler of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, as the person who would always know his address.^[2] He served with Battery A, 377th Field Artillery Battalion.

Homer lived in California and died less than a week after the 1971 San Fernando Earthquake.^[3]

Research Notes

• "Estate of Homer M Helms aka Homer Maddox Helms, deceased, no 570045, Los Angeles County, California" newspaper probate notice, Independent (Long Beach, California, USA), 29 Apr 1971, Page 35, column 1, item 4; Newspapers.com, (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 6 August 2019). [First publication date was 15 April 1971.]

Sources

1. ↑ Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds, database, (http://http://meckrod.manatron.com/Birth : accessed 25 Mar 2016), "Birth Search Results," Helms, Homer Maddox, 02 Aug 1911.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Ancestry, "U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947," database with images (http://interactive.ancestry.com/2238/32892_620303988_0082-03221/1334051 : accessed 25 Mar 2016), Homer Maddox Helms, 16 Oct 1940, image 3221 and 3222 of 4659; Records of the Selective Service System, 1926–1975, RG 147 (NARA).
3. ↑ Helms-756 (niece of Homer), oral interview with Debi Hoag (niece of Helms-756), 6 August 2019, Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. [Family lore indicates that his death was connected to the earthquake in some manner. More research is needed.]

See Also:

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MZV6-5PL : accessed 24 March 2016), Ray Helms in household of C R Helms, Clear Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States; citing sheet 5A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: NARA, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,310.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3SS-36B : accessed 17 June 2018), Homer Helms in household of Roy Haigler, Township 10, Cabarrus, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 20, sheet 2B, line 62, family 31, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1678; FHL microfilm 2,341,412.
• "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP8X-828 : 26 November 2014), Homer M Helms, 13 Feb 1971; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 14 December 2017), memorial page for Homer Maddox Helms (2 Aug 1911–13 Feb 1971), Find A Grave: Memorial #173236253, citing Dulins Grove Advent Christian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Marg (contributor 47221921). [includes a picture of the gravestone which is inscribed with "North Carolina Pvt Field Artillery - World War II."]
• Helms, Gerald C. Tilman, George and Jonathan Helms, Brothers, 1720-1881 : History and Genealogy of the Helms Family, Gerald C Helms and Jo Ann Stevenson, (Matthews, NC), 1984; FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/202929 : downloaded 7 Mar 2016), "Tilman, George and Jonathan Helms, brothers, 1720-1881; FHL film 6087990." Page 191, Parents, siblings, birth and death dates. Tilman, George and Jonathan Helms, Brothers, 1720-1881 : History and Genealogy of the Helms Family