William Henry Pilkington
His father was Archibald B Pilkington. It is not known what happened to his father--he was a native of Illinois. His mother Sabra, native of Virginia, had married Archibald in Dade County, Missouri, on 23 Jun 1870.
William was the third born child of Archibald and Sabra Creech, and had 2 older sisters in the 1880 census of Sac Township, in Dade County, Missouri--Louella (Lula), and Nancy, and one younger sister, Lillie A (Lillian). The family was living with William's grandmother Mahala. Archibald was not with them.
His mother Sabra married again to Samuel Allen on 25 Jul 1881, in Cedar County, Missouri. Sabra and Samuel would have 3 known children--Alfred born in 1882, Clyde born in 1890, and Ruth, born in 1894.
William moved with Sabra and Samuel to Cherokee County, Kansas, where Samuel's father had lived, by 1885. On May 8, 1895, in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois, he married Hattie Moses, a native of Greene County--it was his first marriage and her second (her first was William H Moses), her father's name being given as Mathis Pinegar, and her mother as Mariah Miller. They were both age 22. William was listed as a farmer, living in Carrollton at that time. Emily J Curtis was a witness, and they were married by a Justice of the Peace. (Hattie or Harriett married at least one more time to Harvey Howard Ashlock. She was actually much older than age given at the time she married William.)
William worked as a hotel cook in Galena, Kansas, and lived with his mother Sabra and her family there, in 1910. He then began a profession as a painter, staying on in Galena after the death of his mother, in 1914, even trying his hand at mining in 1915. Then back to painting--he got a contract for the repair and painting of the homes of the city sextons in 1917. He worked double duty at this job, having also been hired to watch 5 prisoners working off their sentences for either breaking the "bone dry" law in Galena, or having been incarcerated for being drunk.
In 1918, in the World War 1 draft registration, he gave his profession as a carpenter, working for the York River Ship Building Corporation at West Point Virginia, and so he was was. He wrote a letter that appeared in the Galena newspaper giving an account of the work of the 46 "Jayhawk" boys there, of which Kansans could be proud, as even though they knew nothing of ship-building, they broke all previous records, and the superintendent thought they were the "cleanest and best workers he had received in the yard". They earned $42.60 for 6 days work, and that was with overtime! He even went to the Banks Hotel in Galena in October of that year to recruit 60 carpenters for the Corporation, and he left with 40.
Also in that draft registration, he gave Delia/Della Miner Pilkington as his next of kin. This was his daughter, Delia, who married Percy Miner.
He returned back to Galena, where in 1920, he was listed with employment as an interior decorator, working on his own account. That would be a fit for his painting skills.
He is next found in Carthage, Missouri, in 1930, where he worked as a sidewalk concrete finisher. Then, sometime before 1935, he moved to Vancouver, Washington, where he is in the 1940 census, not working, with income unspecified, having completed the 8th grade. He is listed as married.
His death certificate was informed by Earl H Mansfield, who was his nephew, son of his sister Nancy Pilkington Mansfield. He noted that William was divorced from Linda Pilkington. This may be Malinda J White Rowland, at the time of her death. Both William's sister Nancy and her son Earl are buried in the same cemetery, so he does not rest from his labors alone.
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Death:
2 Die in Jail Blaze Started by Inmate
VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 20—(INS)—Fire started by a prisoner being held for a sanity examination claimed the lives of two jail inmates and brought serious injury to two others Saturday in the Clark county jail at Vancouver.
The dead are William H. Pilkington, 69, Vancouver, and Lem Davis O’Neal, 37-year-old shipyard worker who was being held on a drunkenness charge. In serious condition from breathing smoke are Early Leroy Heaps, 40, and Lawrence Finley, 22.
The Austin American
Austin, Texas
21 November 1943, Sunday, Page 5
His father was Archibald B Pilkington. It is not known what happened to his father--he was a native of Illinois. His mother Sabra, native of Virginia, had married Archibald in Dade County, Missouri, on 23 Jun 1870.
William was the third born child of Archibald and Sabra Creech, and had 2 older sisters in the 1880 census of Sac Township, in Dade County, Missouri--Louella (Lula), and Nancy, and one younger sister, Lillie A (Lillian). The family was living with William's grandmother Mahala. Archibald was not with them.
His mother Sabra married again to Samuel Allen on 25 Jul 1881, in Cedar County, Missouri. Sabra and Samuel would have 3 known children--Alfred born in 1882, Clyde born in 1890, and Ruth, born in 1894.
William moved with Sabra and Samuel to Cherokee County, Kansas, where Samuel's father had lived, by 1885. On May 8, 1895, in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois, he married Hattie Moses, a native of Greene County--it was his first marriage and her second (her first was William H Moses), her father's name being given as Mathis Pinegar, and her mother as Mariah Miller. They were both age 22. William was listed as a farmer, living in Carrollton at that time. Emily J Curtis was a witness, and they were married by a Justice of the Peace. (Hattie or Harriett married at least one more time to Harvey Howard Ashlock. She was actually much older than age given at the time she married William.)
William worked as a hotel cook in Galena, Kansas, and lived with his mother Sabra and her family there, in 1910. He then began a profession as a painter, staying on in Galena after the death of his mother, in 1914, even trying his hand at mining in 1915. Then back to painting--he got a contract for the repair and painting of the homes of the city sextons in 1917. He worked double duty at this job, having also been hired to watch 5 prisoners working off their sentences for either breaking the "bone dry" law in Galena, or having been incarcerated for being drunk.
In 1918, in the World War 1 draft registration, he gave his profession as a carpenter, working for the York River Ship Building Corporation at West Point Virginia, and so he was was. He wrote a letter that appeared in the Galena newspaper giving an account of the work of the 46 "Jayhawk" boys there, of which Kansans could be proud, as even though they knew nothing of ship-building, they broke all previous records, and the superintendent thought they were the "cleanest and best workers he had received in the yard". They earned $42.60 for 6 days work, and that was with overtime! He even went to the Banks Hotel in Galena in October of that year to recruit 60 carpenters for the Corporation, and he left with 40.
Also in that draft registration, he gave Delia/Della Miner Pilkington as his next of kin. This was his daughter, Delia, who married Percy Miner.
He returned back to Galena, where in 1920, he was listed with employment as an interior decorator, working on his own account. That would be a fit for his painting skills.
He is next found in Carthage, Missouri, in 1930, where he worked as a sidewalk concrete finisher. Then, sometime before 1935, he moved to Vancouver, Washington, where he is in the 1940 census, not working, with income unspecified, having completed the 8th grade. He is listed as married.
His death certificate was informed by Earl H Mansfield, who was his nephew, son of his sister Nancy Pilkington Mansfield. He noted that William was divorced from Linda Pilkington. This may be Malinda J White Rowland, at the time of her death. Both William's sister Nancy and her son Earl are buried in the same cemetery, so he does not rest from his labors alone.
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Death:
2 Die in Jail Blaze Started by Inmate
VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 20—(INS)—Fire started by a prisoner being held for a sanity examination claimed the lives of two jail inmates and brought serious injury to two others Saturday in the Clark county jail at Vancouver.
The dead are William H. Pilkington, 69, Vancouver, and Lem Davis O’Neal, 37-year-old shipyard worker who was being held on a drunkenness charge. In serious condition from breathing smoke are Early Leroy Heaps, 40, and Lawrence Finley, 22.
The Austin American
Austin, Texas
21 November 1943, Sunday, Page 5
William Henry Pilkington
His father was Archibald B Pilkington. It is not known what happened to his father--he was a native of Illinois. His mother Sabra, native of Virginia, had married Archibald in Dade County, Missouri, on 23 Jun 1870.
William was the third born child of Archibald and Sabra Creech, and had 2 older sisters in the 1880 census of Sac Township, in Dade County, Missouri--Louella (Lula), and Nancy, and one younger sister, Lillie A (Lillian). The family was living with William's grandmother Mahala. Archibald was not with them.
His mother Sabra married again to Samuel Allen on 25 Jul 1881, in Cedar County, Missouri. Sabra and Samuel would have 3 known children--Alfred born in 1882, Clyde born in 1890, and Ruth, born in 1894.
William moved with Sabra and Samuel to Cherokee County, Kansas, where Samuel's father had lived, by 1885. On May 8, 1895, in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois, he married Hattie Moses, a native of Greene County--it was his first marriage and her second (her first was William H Moses), her father's name being given as Mathis Pinegar, and her mother as Mariah Miller. They were both age 22. William was listed as a farmer, living in Carrollton at that time. Emily J Curtis was a witness, and they were married by a Justice of the Peace. (Hattie or Harriett married at least one more time to Harvey Howard Ashlock. She was actually much older than age given at the time she married William.)
William worked as a hotel cook in Galena, Kansas, and lived with his mother Sabra and her family there, in 1910. He then began a profession as a painter, staying on in Galena after the death of his mother, in 1914, even trying his hand at mining in 1915. Then back to painting--he got a contract for the repair and painting of the homes of the city sextons in 1917. He worked double duty at this job, having also been hired to watch 5 prisoners working off their sentences for either breaking the "bone dry" law in Galena, or having been incarcerated for being drunk.
In 1918, in the World War 1 draft registration, he gave his profession as a carpenter, working for the York River Ship Building Corporation at West Point Virginia, and so he was was. He wrote a letter that appeared in the Galena newspaper giving an account of the work of the 46 "Jayhawk" boys there, of which Kansans could be proud, as even though they knew nothing of ship-building, they broke all previous records, and the superintendent thought they were the "cleanest and best workers he had received in the yard". They earned $42.60 for 6 days work, and that was with overtime! He even went to the Banks Hotel in Galena in October of that year to recruit 60 carpenters for the Corporation, and he left with 40.
Also in that draft registration, he gave Delia/Della Miner Pilkington as his next of kin. This was his daughter, Delia, who married Percy Miner.
He returned back to Galena, where in 1920, he was listed with employment as an interior decorator, working on his own account. That would be a fit for his painting skills.
He is next found in Carthage, Missouri, in 1930, where he worked as a sidewalk concrete finisher. Then, sometime before 1935, he moved to Vancouver, Washington, where he is in the 1940 census, not working, with income unspecified, having completed the 8th grade. He is listed as married.
His death certificate was informed by Earl H Mansfield, who was his nephew, son of his sister Nancy Pilkington Mansfield. He noted that William was divorced from Linda Pilkington. This may be Malinda J White Rowland, at the time of her death. Both William's sister Nancy and her son Earl are buried in the same cemetery, so he does not rest from his labors alone.
~~mjp~~
Death:
2 Die in Jail Blaze Started by Inmate
VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 20—(INS)—Fire started by a prisoner being held for a sanity examination claimed the lives of two jail inmates and brought serious injury to two others Saturday in the Clark county jail at Vancouver.
The dead are William H. Pilkington, 69, Vancouver, and Lem Davis O’Neal, 37-year-old shipyard worker who was being held on a drunkenness charge. In serious condition from breathing smoke are Early Leroy Heaps, 40, and Lawrence Finley, 22.
The Austin American
Austin, Texas
21 November 1943, Sunday, Page 5
His father was Archibald B Pilkington. It is not known what happened to his father--he was a native of Illinois. His mother Sabra, native of Virginia, had married Archibald in Dade County, Missouri, on 23 Jun 1870.
William was the third born child of Archibald and Sabra Creech, and had 2 older sisters in the 1880 census of Sac Township, in Dade County, Missouri--Louella (Lula), and Nancy, and one younger sister, Lillie A (Lillian). The family was living with William's grandmother Mahala. Archibald was not with them.
His mother Sabra married again to Samuel Allen on 25 Jul 1881, in Cedar County, Missouri. Sabra and Samuel would have 3 known children--Alfred born in 1882, Clyde born in 1890, and Ruth, born in 1894.
William moved with Sabra and Samuel to Cherokee County, Kansas, where Samuel's father had lived, by 1885. On May 8, 1895, in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois, he married Hattie Moses, a native of Greene County--it was his first marriage and her second (her first was William H Moses), her father's name being given as Mathis Pinegar, and her mother as Mariah Miller. They were both age 22. William was listed as a farmer, living in Carrollton at that time. Emily J Curtis was a witness, and they were married by a Justice of the Peace. (Hattie or Harriett married at least one more time to Harvey Howard Ashlock. She was actually much older than age given at the time she married William.)
William worked as a hotel cook in Galena, Kansas, and lived with his mother Sabra and her family there, in 1910. He then began a profession as a painter, staying on in Galena after the death of his mother, in 1914, even trying his hand at mining in 1915. Then back to painting--he got a contract for the repair and painting of the homes of the city sextons in 1917. He worked double duty at this job, having also been hired to watch 5 prisoners working off their sentences for either breaking the "bone dry" law in Galena, or having been incarcerated for being drunk.
In 1918, in the World War 1 draft registration, he gave his profession as a carpenter, working for the York River Ship Building Corporation at West Point Virginia, and so he was was. He wrote a letter that appeared in the Galena newspaper giving an account of the work of the 46 "Jayhawk" boys there, of which Kansans could be proud, as even though they knew nothing of ship-building, they broke all previous records, and the superintendent thought they were the "cleanest and best workers he had received in the yard". They earned $42.60 for 6 days work, and that was with overtime! He even went to the Banks Hotel in Galena in October of that year to recruit 60 carpenters for the Corporation, and he left with 40.
Also in that draft registration, he gave Delia/Della Miner Pilkington as his next of kin. This was his daughter, Delia, who married Percy Miner.
He returned back to Galena, where in 1920, he was listed with employment as an interior decorator, working on his own account. That would be a fit for his painting skills.
He is next found in Carthage, Missouri, in 1930, where he worked as a sidewalk concrete finisher. Then, sometime before 1935, he moved to Vancouver, Washington, where he is in the 1940 census, not working, with income unspecified, having completed the 8th grade. He is listed as married.
His death certificate was informed by Earl H Mansfield, who was his nephew, son of his sister Nancy Pilkington Mansfield. He noted that William was divorced from Linda Pilkington. This may be Malinda J White Rowland, at the time of her death. Both William's sister Nancy and her son Earl are buried in the same cemetery, so he does not rest from his labors alone.
~~mjp~~
Death:
2 Die in Jail Blaze Started by Inmate
VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 20—(INS)—Fire started by a prisoner being held for a sanity examination claimed the lives of two jail inmates and brought serious injury to two others Saturday in the Clark county jail at Vancouver.
The dead are William H. Pilkington, 69, Vancouver, and Lem Davis O’Neal, 37-year-old shipyard worker who was being held on a drunkenness charge. In serious condition from breathing smoke are Early Leroy Heaps, 40, and Lawrence Finley, 22.
The Austin American
Austin, Texas
21 November 1943, Sunday, Page 5
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