Ordolph Edgar Atkinson (1891 - 1949)

Born 26 Jun 1891 in Montgomery County, Alabama, USA

Ancestors

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Biography

Edgar was born in 1891. He is the son of Ordolph Atkinson and Perrillah Martin. In 1900, the family was living in Highland Park in Montgomery County, Alabama.^[1] By 1910, the family had moved to Montgomery in Montgomery County.^[2]

Edgar registered for the WWI draft in Arkansas. He was noted as being married at the time, and wording in the newspaper business for Gordon Circulation Co out of Frederick, Oklahoma. His description was listed as medium height, slender build, with blue eyes and light brown hair.^[3]

Edgar passed away in 1949. Burial was in the Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, where his parents and siblings are buried.He shares a headstone with his sister, Eula.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9D2-5LJ : accessed 1 April 2016), Edgar Atkinson in household of O P Atkinson, Precinct 17 Highland Park (coex. with) Highland Park town Ward 1-4, Montgomery, Alabama, United States; citing sheet 5A, family 78, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,034.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK7R-BB2 : accessed 1 April 2016), Edgar O Atkinson in household of Perrillah M Atkinson, Montgomery Ward 7, Montgomery, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 99, sheet 6A, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,042.
3. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K353-V2C : accessed 1 April 2016), Ordolph Edgar Atkinson, 1917-1918; citing Ouachita County, Arkansas, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,530,566.
4. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV23-BNRR : accessed 1 April 2016), Ordolph Edgar Atkinson, 1949; Burial, Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, United States of America, Oakwood Cemetery; citing record ID 65006209, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.