DOB/DOD: December 21, 1912 (Anson, NC) – May 21, 2004 (Southern Pines, NC); 91 years old
MARITAL STATUS: Married to Lonnie Marsh (1902-1952)
CHILDREN: Unknown
LOCAL ADDRESS: 48 Gregory Street; unknown city; possibly Hartford
ENLISTMENT: March 11, 1943, in Hartford
SERVICE NUMBER: A-125632
DISCHARGE: Unknown
FAMILY: Born to Simeon (1888-1963) and Flora Moore McNair (1896-1974). Five sisters, Hattie (1914-2001), Clara McNair Nelson (1916-1973), Irene (1918-?), and Ade (1920-).
OTHER: On March 11, 1943, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, she enlisted in the U.S. Women’s Army Corps as an Aviation Cadet. At that time, she had completed three years of high school and was employed in laundry-related services.
FROM MARSHA HOLDER (6888 historian): First, she was not on the 1920 or 1930 census when she should have been 8 and 18 years old. Her parents didn’t marry until 1919, but on that 1920 census, they had three daughters listed, ages 5, 3 & 1. The Social Security Claim record I have shows she was Elizabeth Marsh in 1943 and is listed as Lonnie Marsh’s wife on his draft registration card dated February 1942. So, how did she enlist as a single in March 1943? She also signed his death certificate as the informant in 1952. He is buried in the same cemetery where she’s buried. Also, her enlistment has her first name, Lizabeth. If the service number hadn’t matched the one in Brenda Moore’s book, I would have dismissed her. And why did her Social Security Application and Claim Index and her Social Security Death Index have a different year of birth, but the same SS#? As for her going to Connecticut to enlist, we may never know that one. So many of the ladies born in the South had to go north to find work. Mostly, they went to Chicago or New York.
Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, 398 South Pine Street, Southern Pines, North Carolina; no veteran (VA) stone
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