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Walter Harrison Hemphill

Walter Harrison Hemphill

Male 1918 - 1983  (64 years)

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  • Name Walter Harrison Hemphill  [1, 2
    Born 19 Dec 1918  Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1940  Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Soldier, U.S. Army 
    Milit-Beg 22 May 1940  [5
    Military 3 Jun 1943  [6
    Listed as a Japanese prisoner of war. 
    Milit-End 14 Dec 1945  [5
    Died Jul 1983  Dewey, Washington County, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahomsa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I712  Gilmore-Donald
    Last Modified 13 Aug 2017 

    Father Walter S. Hemphill,   b. 1893, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1967  (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Rilla L. Jolley,   b. Feb 1894, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Between 1926-1930, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 35 years) 
    Married 12 Oct 1913  Rogers County, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8
    Family ID F264  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Alice Jeanette Shaw 
    Married Y  [2
    Children 
     1. Leslie Leon Hemphill
    Last Modified 13 Aug 2017 
    Family ID F267  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S816] 1930 U.S. census, Rogers County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Chelsea (town), Chelsea township, enumeration district (ED) 3, sheet 15B (penned), p. 88b (stamped), dwelling 366, family 881, W. S. Hemphill household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 August 2016); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1924. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6224/4661240_00711.

    2. [S819] "Descendants of Alvira G. Davis," family tree pages hosted by Rootsweb (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~speedo/douglas/d1.htm : accessed 13 August 2017), for individual no. 50, Penelope Jo Gabbard and husband Leslie Leon Hemphill. [No author or email contact stated.].

    3. [S820] Social Security Administration, "Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 August 2017), entry for Walter Hemphill, Julyl 1983, SS no. 446-44-8243. .

    4. [S823] FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com : 12 August 2017), database, by Erice Wilcox for Walter Hemphill (1918-1983), citing Woodlawn Cemetery (Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma, USA).

    5. [S821] "U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010." database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 August 2017), for Walter Hemphill (1918-1983).

    6. [S824] "Commerce Boy Held By Nips: Walter C. O'Brien Listed as Jap Prisoner?Fourteen Others On Roll," Miami Daily News-Record (Miami, Ok.), 3 June 1943, p. 1, col. 5, listing including Walter H. Hemphill. [States that he is the nephew of O. H. Hemphill of Shawnee.].

    7. [S810] emilyemmerson, "Jolley Descendants," public tree pages, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 August 2017), for Robert T. Jolly (1848-after 1926) and descendants. Emily Emerson has been in correspondence with me regarding the Jolley family. Some sources.

    8. [S811] "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVP6-GLWY : 11 August 2017), Walter Hemphill-Rilley Jolley (1913); Rogers County, Oklahoma, marriage book 3:7, Claremore; FHL film no. 1,305,208.