Claude Carlton Conway (1887 - 1917)

Born 26 Jan 1887 in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Wilma Belle (Bough) Galloway — married 9 Jun 1915 in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States

Died 12 Nov 1917 at age 30 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States

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Biography

Claude was born in 1887.^[1][2] He was the son of David Conway and Cora Carlton.

He married Wilma Bough in 1915.^[3]

He passed away in 1917.^[1][4]

Residence 1900 - Fort Scott, Bourbon Co, KS

US Census, 1900 in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas^[5]

David L Conway, 42, b IL

Cora A Conway, 36, b IA

Maude O Conway, 15, b KS

Claude C Conway, 13, b KS

Residence 1910 - Coffeyville, Montgomery Co, KS

US Census, 1910 in Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas^[6]

in household of David Britton

Claud Conway, roomer, 23, b KS

Death 1917

11/13/1917 C.C. CONWAY DIES OF TYPHOID FEVER (Tuesday)Assistant Principal of High School Great Loss to Faculty. C.C. Conway, assistant principal of the Oklahoma City high school, died yesterday afternoon at St. Anthony's hospital. Death was due to typhoid fever. Conway was 31 years old. He had been identified with the local school system for seven years. Until his selection as assistant principal in the high school a few months ago, Conway had been at the head of the foundry branch in the department of manual training. Conway was a native of Fort Scott, Kansas. Graduating from the Manual Training Normal school at Pittsburg, Kan., he spent a year as teacher in the schools at Coffeyville, Kan., and came from there to Oklahoma City. He had specialized in manual training work at Columbia University, N.Y., the University of Wisconsin and Stout Institute, another Wisconsin school. Mrs. Conway and one child survive him. Pending the arrival of a sister from Los Angeles, funeral arrangements have not been announced."^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #17814302. Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 04 April 2019), memorial page for Claude Carlton Conway (26 Jan 1887–12 Nov 1917), Find A Grave Memorial no. 17814302, citing Pleasant View Cemetery, Blue Mound, Linn County, Kansas, USA ; Maintained by mitzi roberts (contributor 46828841) .
2. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZDX-96V : 24 August 2019), Claud Carlton Conway, 1917-1918.
3. ↑ Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995, database on Ancestry.com.

   Name:	C C Conway
   Gender:	Male
   Age:	28
   Birth Date:	abt 1887
   Marriage Date:	9 Jun 1915
   Marriage Place:	Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA
   Spouse:	Wilma Bell Bough
   Film Number:	002168899

4. ↑ The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Coffeyville, Kansas, 29 Dec 1917, Page 5, clipping linked here.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMTS-ZGG : accessed 17 January 2019), Cora A Conway in household of David L Conway, Fort Scott city Ward 2, Bourbon, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 32, sheet 2A, family 37, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,471.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2CR-FQX : accessed 4 April 2019), Claud Conway in household of David E Britton, Coffeyville Ward 2, Montgomery, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 163, sheet 14B, family 301, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 448; FHL microfilm 1,374,461.
7. ↑ The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 15 November 1917, Public Records - Deaths, from clipping on Find A Grave: Memorial #17814302

See also:

• Wife's obituary - "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVS1-DS1X : accessed 4 April 2019), Claude Carlton Conway in entry for Wilma Belle Galloway, SouthWest Central, Oklahoma, United States, 22 Feb 1991; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Daily Oklahoman, The, born-digital text.