Lee Roy Clark Sr. (1896 - 1957)

Born 21 Jul 1896 in Montgomery, Alabama

Ancestors

Husband of Jessie Cleo Clark — married 8 Mar 1918 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Descendants

Died 9 Mar 1957 at age 60 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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Biography

Lee Roy Clark was born in 1896 in Montgomery, Alabama. He enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 16 and was promoted quickly in the years just before America entered World War I. At the beginning of the war, Roy was posted in Tuscaloosa, Alabama as a recruiting sergeant in the Tuscaloosa Post Office where he met his future wife, Jessie Cleo Clark. Cleo and Roy married in Tuscaloosa in 1918 just as he was being reassigned as a new master sergeant and drill instructor on Jekyll Island, Georgia. Their first child, Lee Roy Clark, Jr., was born at the new post in Georgia.

After the war, Roy and Cleo returned to Tuscaloosa where Roy worked at the only ice plant in town, and at a local paper mill. In several years, Roy had made enough money to purchase a franchise for an end-of-the-line trolley cafe in Holt, at the edge of Tuscaloosa's city limits. When World War II began, Roy enlisted as a master sergeant drill instructor in the U.S. Marine Corps and was immediately assigned to a Marine training camp in New Orleans, Louisiana.

At the end of the second war, Roy and Cleo returned to Tuscaloosa. In retirement, he found employment as a shipping clerk and dispatcher for a local supermarket where he worked until he suffered a massive paralyzing stroke in 1954. Roy died from respiratory and cardiac complications in 1957.

Sources

• 1900 Federal Census, Alabama, Montgomery Co., Vol 46, ED 95, Sheet 13, Line 70.
• 1910 Federal Census, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, ED 85, Roll T624_28, p 14A, hh 298.
• 1920 Federal Census, Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, Cottondale, ED 118, Page 29A, Roll T625_45, Image 567.
• 1930 Federal Census, Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, Alberta City, Precinct 15, District 22, Roll 51, p 11A, hh 245/250, ls 43-48.
• Ellen Clark Mumford, Personal records.
• Military records and documents
• Social Security Death Index
• Tuscaloosa County Marriage License & Certificate