Herman E Weatherford (1901 - 1972)

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Biography

Herman was born in 1901. He passed away in 1972. He and his wife Argin were the parents of 2 daughters. As a teen, Herman helped his father with his coal delivery business. Herman served in the US Army Air Corps and was a POW during WWII. Herman was in the Panama Canal Zone when he was transferred to Hawaii before WWII. A Newspaper report said that he was at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941. His daughter Louise told her grandson Stephen that he left the day before. Herman was captured in the Philippines by the Japanese. He missed the Batan Death March because he was in a Japanese POW prison hospital sick with malaria and berry-berry. Herman learned that his daughter Louise gave birth to her son David from a letter he received from the Red Cross.

Sources

• 1920 US Census AR Greene County Paragould District 95 sheet 14 https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6061/images/4294414-00781?pId=84057590

• Marriage Date: 24 Nov 1921 Event Type: Marriage Bond

FHL Film Number: 1302563 Source Information Ancestry.com. Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

"Arkansas County Marriages, 1838–1957." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2011. "Arkansas County Marriages, 1838–1957," database, FamilySearch; from Arkansas Courts of Common Pleas and County Clerks. Digital images of originals housed at various county courthouses in the State of Arkansas. Marriage records.

• 1930 1930 US Census AR Greene County Spring Grove District 27 Sheet 3B

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6224/images/4532434_00515?pId=86196527

• Report Date: 7 May 1942

Latest Report Date: 28 Sep 1945 Grade: Private Arm or Service Code: Air Corps Area Served: Southwest Pacific Theatre: Philippine Islands Detaining Country: Japan Camp: Fukuoka POW Camp #1 - Kashii (Pine Tree Camp) Kyushu Island 33-130 Status: Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated Report Source: Individual has been reported through sources considered official.

Source Citation The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Record Group Title: Records of the Office of the Provost Marshal General, 1920 - 1975; Record Group Number: 389

Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1946 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2005.

Original data: National Archives and Records Administration. World War II Prisoners of War Data File [Archival Database]; Records of World War II Prisoners of War, 1942-1947; Records of the Office of the Provost Marshal General, Record Group 389; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.