Alpheus
Walton
Drinkwater
Born in Oregon Inlet, Dare, North Carolina, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Horatio A Drinkwater, Herman Mason Drinkwater, Edward Drinkwater Jr, Augustus Etheridge Drinkwater, William Drinkwater, Clarence Lovejoy Drinkwater and Watson Gray Drinkwater
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 87
in Nags Head, Dare, North Carolina, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Nov 2018
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Biography
Alpheus was born in 1875. He was the son of Ned Drinkwater and Josephine Dough. He lived in Dare County his entire life.
He married Rosa Lee Gray in 1905. They had two children:
- Dorothy Lee
- Marguerite Lyle
Alpheus Walton Drinkwater
From his obituary by Aycock Brown, 1986
- Alpheus Walton Drinkwater, U.S. Coast Guard communications officer, was born near Oregon Inlet on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the son of Edward and Josephine Etheridge Drinkwater. He was one of fourteen children—thirteen boys and a girl. His father was for many years officer-in-charge of Virginia Beach's U.S. Lifesaving Station; his mother came from a prominent Roanoke Island family.
- When he retired as a communications officer with the U.S. Coast Guard in 1946, Drinkwater joined the Civil Air Patrol as a communications warrant officer. He helped organize the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Society (now the First Flight Society); he was also a charter member of the Manteo Rotary Club and a Scottish Rite Mason of the Coinjock Lodge. Governor Terry Sanford named Drinkwater "Wreck Commissioner" following his retirement from other duties.[1]
Alpheus was 87, widowed, when he died of stroke and prostate cancer in 1962.
Sources
- North Carolina, Marriage Index, 1741-2004 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. North Carolina, Marriage Index, 1741-2004 Alpheus Drinkwater-Rosa Lee Gray 19:38, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
- North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1976 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1976 for Edward Drinkwater 03:31, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Name: Edward Drinkwater
- Gender: Male
- Spouse: Josephine Etheridge
- Child: Alpheus Walton Drinkwater
- Alpheus Walton Drinkwater on Find A Grave: Memorial #6333322 17:24, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
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