James Monroe Buchanan (1909 - 2001)

Born 26 Jul 1909 in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States

Husband of Mildred Louise Pierson — married 10 Jan 1930 in Yuma, Arizona, United States

Died 25 Dec 2001 at age 92 in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, United States

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Biography

James was born on July 26, 1909 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Claude Reginald and Ada Mae Buchanan.[3,4,5,6] His father was a lumber merchant.[4] By 1920 the family, with James now having two sisters, had moved to Long Beach, California.[5]

In January, 1930, James married Mildred Pierson in Yuma, Arizona.[8] The engagement was announced by Mildred's parents in the January 3 issue of the Riverside Daily Press with a note that a summer wedding was planned, but the marriage took place a week later! Three months later James was living with other soldiers near Ferris, California at the March Air Force Base.[9] The census shows him as having married that year. However local papers in Riverside in 1930 and 1931 continue to refer to Mildred as "Miss Mildred Pierson."

On July 18, 1936 James married Gladys Marion Crowell.[10] When James registered for the draft in 1940, he reported that he was married, living in Oakland, California, and working for Sears Roebuck.[6] By 1962 he had relocated to Los Angeles.[11]

James passed away in 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada.[3]

Sources

1. The Link Family Antecedents and Descendants of John Jacob Link 1417- 1951 By Paxson Link pg 659.

2. United States Social Security Death Index

3. Nevada, Death Index, 1980-2012, Ancestry.com, 2013.

4. United States Census, 1910, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLHB-7HY : accessed 27 October 2019), James M Buchanan in household of Claud Buchanan, Idaho Falls Ward 1, Bingham, Idaho, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 55, sheet 1A, family , NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 222; FHL microfilm 1,374,235.

5. United States Census, 1920, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHQZ-88C : accessed 27 October 2019), James Buchanan in household of Claude R Buchanan, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing ED 86, sheet 1B, line 73, family 19, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 104; FHL microfilm 1,820,104.

6. U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, Ancestry.com, 2011

7. Nevada Death Index, 1980-2012, Ancestry.com, 2013; also U.S. Social Security Death Index

8. Arizona, County Marriage Records, 1865-1972, Ancestry.com, 2016.

9.United States Census, 1930, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCDY-66R : accessed 27 October 2019), James M Buchanan, Perris, Riverside, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 30, sheet 3B, line 69, family , NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 183; FHL microfilm 2,339,918.

10. Based on 1940 census of Oakland California [Enumeration District 61-128, p. 27A] that shows them married in 1940 but living in different places in 1935; plus information in the original (pre-merge) Wikitree profile for James Buchanan.

11. California, Voter Registrations, 1900-1968, records for 1962, Ancestry.com, 2017.

12. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G3D5-DMG