Gerald Dee Storts (1925 - 1945)

Born 8 Mar 1925 in Prairie View, Logan Co., Arkansas

Ancestors

Biography

• Killed during WW II. He was a cook in the army. He died shortly before he was getting out. He was killed by a bomb. His older brother was very close to him. He was very upset when he joined because he woirred about him. Then was glade that he was a cook so figured he was pretty save. Unfortually that was not true. May have been married but no one remembers. His military draft records say that he was divorced with no dependints. This may have been a mistake. Gerald didn't get to go to school much had to work as a share cropper to help out his family and help his older brother watch his younger brothers. His mother left there family when they were young.

Sources

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 03 February 2019), memorial page for Gerald D Storts (8 Mar 1925–10 Mar 1945), Find A Grave Memorial no. 3064488, citing Fort Smith National Cemetery, Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA ; Maintained by US Veterans Affairs Office (contributor 5) .
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQKZ-4HF : 14 March 2018), Jeral D Storts in household of Austin Storts, Short Mountain Township, Logan, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 42-30, sheet 7B, line 79, family 142, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 151.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XML2-X89 : accessed 3 February 2019), Ola A Storts in household of Austin Storts, Paris, Logan, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 29, sheet 11A, line 38, family 229, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 82; FHL microfilm 2,339,817.