He was living at the Fire Dept. house when he met the new piano player for the new silent movie theater in Sumter (Florence Dittmar of Zainsville, Ohio). He apparently did not serve in WWI (though he was 19 when the war stated in July 1914). The Military Service Act specified that single men between the ages of 18 and 41 were liable to be called-up for military service unless they were widowed with children or ministers of religion. Conscription started on 2nd March 1916. The act was extended to married men on 25th May 1916. But, he ascended to the rank of Adjutant of Sumter's American Legion Post #15 and was in charge of the 7th annual Sumter County Fair in Sept. 1930, in the beginning of the Great depression. Clifton died tragically at age 35 a few months later at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Richmond with a strange disease that starved him to death within several weeks. In 1998, his sister, Ruby, recalled that he had only one eye (I did not get details on how he lost it).
There are two Kolb Family group photos with identifications (click on each photo to see the caption info) of family members on sister Alice Irene's memorial, HERE.
There are two Kolb Family group photos with identifications (click on each photo to see the caption info) of family members on sister Alice Irene's memorial, HERE.
He was living at the Fire Dept. house when he met the new piano player for the new silent movie theater in Sumter (Florence Dittmar of Zainsville, Ohio). He apparently did not serve in WWI (though he was 19 when the war stated in July 1914). The Military Service Act specified that single men between the ages of 18 and 41 were liable to be called-up for military service unless they were widowed with children or ministers of religion. Conscription started on 2nd March 1916. The act was extended to married men on 25th May 1916. But, he ascended to the rank of Adjutant of Sumter's American Legion Post #15 and was in charge of the 7th annual Sumter County Fair in Sept. 1930, in the beginning of the Great depression. Clifton died tragically at age 35 a few months later at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Richmond with a strange disease that starved him to death within several weeks. In 1998, his sister, Ruby, recalled that he had only one eye (I did not get details on how he lost it).
There are two Kolb Family group photos with identifications (click on each photo to see the caption info) of family members on sister Alice Irene's memorial, HERE.
There are two Kolb Family group photos with identifications (click on each photo to see the caption info) of family members on sister Alice Irene's memorial, HERE.
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