Robert York Edwards (1924 - 1990)

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Biography

Robert was born in 1924, a son of E. E. Edwards and Hilda Edwards. He passed away in 1990 and is buried in Bermuda Memorial Park, Enon, Virginia,^[1]

He enlisted in the US Army on 08 Mar 1943 in Richmond, Virginia.^[2]

He married Mildred Evelyn Gallimore on 12 Dec 1947 in Davidson County, North Carolina.^[3][4][5] They lived in Norfolk, Hopewell, and Chesterfield, Virginia.^[6] It is possible but unverified that they had two children together.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 July 2019), memorial page for Robert Y Edwards (1 Nov 1924–24 Nov 1990), Find A Grave Memorial no. 70726109, citing Bermuda Memorial Park, Enon, Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8).
2. ↑ "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8TZ-KJM : 5 December 2014), Robert Y Edwards, enlisted 08 Mar 1943, Richmond, Virginia, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
3. ↑ "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF9Z-8J7 : 3 November 2017), Robert York Edwards and Mildred Evelyn Gallimore, 12 Dec 1947; citing Davidson, North Carolina, United States, p. , North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History; FHL microfilm 4,140,291.
4. ↑ "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF9Z-8N1 : 3 November 2017), Robert York Edwards and Mildred Evelyn Gallimore, 12 Dec 1947; citing Davidson, North Carolina, United States, p. , North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History; FHL microfilm 4,140,291.
5. ↑ North Carolina, Davidson County Vital Records, 1867-2006, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP9F-4QJR : 20 July 2018), Robert York Edwards and Mildred Evelyn Gallimore, 12 Dec 0047; citing Marriage, Davidson, North Carolina, United States, 12 Dec 0047, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.
6. ↑ "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2SM6-B1D : 23 May 2014), Robert Y Edwards, Residence, Chesterfield, Virginia, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.