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- [S266] Find A Grave, Find A Grave, photograph, gravestone for Katherine Hollier Jackson, no. 36840985, San Jose Burial Park, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
Katherine Hollier Jackson
Birth: Sep. 16, 1905
Louisiana, USA
Death: Dec. 7, 1963
San Antonio
Bexar County
Texas, USA
Katherine was the daughter of Mary Stella Stone & Sidney J. Hollier. She was first married to Elmer Landen Mequire and second married to Boyd Clifford Jackson.
Family links:
Parents:
Sidney Joseph Hollier (1872 - 1927)
Mary Stella Stone Hollier (1872 - 1962)
Spouse:
Boyd Clifford Jackson (1908 - 1997)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
San Jose Burial Park
San Antonio
Bexar County
Texas, USA
Created by: Rose Ford
Record added: May 07, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 36840985
- [S615] U.S., Civil War Pension Index General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, National Archives and Records Administration, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;).
Record for Elmer L Meguire
- [S266] Find A Grave, Find A Grave, photograph, gravestone for Elmer L. Meguire (1905-1932), no. 131918406, United States Military Academy Post Cemetery, West Point, Orange County, New York.
Lieut Elmer Landen "Mickey" Meguire
Birth: Jun. 4, 1905
Selma
Clark County
Ohio, USA
Death: Jan. 15, 1932
Manila
Metro Manila
National Capital Region, Philippines
USMA Class of 1930. Cullum No. 8807.
Sixty-Third Annual Report of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, June 9, 1932, The Moore Printing Company, Newburgh, New York.
Elmer Landen Meguire
No. 8807. Class of 1930.
Died January 15, 1932, at Manila, Philippine Islands, aged 26 years.
Elmer Landen Meguire was born in Selma, Ohio on June 4, 1905. He was the eldest son of Elmer R. and Clara Landen Meguire.
His education was begun in Canada and was continued in Portal, North Dakota. He graduated from the Portal, North Dakota High School in 1922, having completed the four year course in three years. His exceptional brilliance was again evidenced at the University of Cincinnati.
Having for many years ardently desired to attend the United States Military Academy he set about to obtain an appointment. None being available, he enlisted in the Regular Army on January 15, 1925, at Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He was soon transferred to the DEML at West Point. Realizing the exceptional ability and intelligence of this soldier, his organization commander immediately gave him a promotion with a specialist rating and assigned him to the Signal Corps. On October of 1925, an examination was given to those soldiers at West Point aspiring to become cadets. Mickey made the highest grades and so was sent to the Preparatory School at Fort Totten. While there he was always at the head of his class, many times acting as instructor in difficult mathematics. His unselfish sacrifice of time in coaching classmates will never be forgotten. Of the four candidates finally admitted to the Academy, his marks were the highest.
The discipline he learned in the Army won recognition from his superior officers during Beast Barracks and he materially assisted in filling the gap between plebes and first classmen. He became the company sage, the man at whose feet the myriad of plebe troubles were laid. Invariably the problems were shrewdly solved to the satisfaction of everyone concerned. These superior qualities of leadership endeared him to all.
When the Christmas writs arrived, Mickey devoted most of his time in the interests of his classmates. Never a problem, no matter how insignificant, but which received absorbing attention. His coaching continued throughout the four years.
His amiability and popularity is attested by the fact that each season practically every classmate in his company requested to room with him.
Mickey’s coaching activities precluded much attention to athletics, but Sunday afternoon usually found him on the basketball or tennis court and during first class intramurals he held the pole vault championship,
He joined the Air Corps with a passion characteristic of his determination and was rewarded with a detail to Brooks Field. Training had just started when his brother, Clarence, was killed flying the mail on October 30, 1930. After six days emergency leave, Mickey’s instructor soloed him with the least number of hours of anyone in the class. Concluding an enviable record in flying school, he was graduated from Kelley Field on October 10, 1931 and was stationed at Nichols Field in the Philippine Islands.
On January 15, 1932, three weeks after his arrival at Nichols Field, he, as co-pilot, with Lieutenant Raymond Zettel as pilot and three enlisted men took off in a bomber on an early morning mission. Twenty minutes later one of the motors cut out and the pilot set the ship down in the dark on a narrow strip of beach, rolled a short way, struck quicksand and mud and nosed over. The pilots were suffocated in the slime before they could be extricated. Mickey was buried at West Point seven weeks later, on March 4, 1932. Surviving him are his widow, his father, three sisters and two brothers.
I believe that Elmer Landen Meguire was one of the finest men ever to be graduated from the Military Academy. He was truly a fine gentleman, scholar and soldier, embodying the attributes of the traditional West Point man.
We have lost a man who would have been an outstanding asset to the Army and the Air Corps, but more especially we have lost a true friend and counselor. Our only consolation is the memory we hold of his accomplishments and the knowledge that the world is a better place for his having lived in it.
A Classmate.
Family links:
Spouse:
Katherine Hollier Jackson (1905 - 1963)
Burial:
United States Military Academy Post Cemetery
West Point
Orange County
New York, USA
Plot: Section R, Site 39.
GPS (lat/lon): 41.39968, -73.96801
Created by: SLGMSD
Record added: Jun 26, 2014
Find A Grave Memorial# 131918406
- [S271] 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Highlands, Orange, New York; Roll: 1632; Page: 31A; Enumeration District: 0023; Image: 591.0; FHL microfilm: 2341366.
Record for Elmer L Meguire
- [S544] U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
Record for Elmer L Meguire
- [S446] U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989, John F. Worley, compiler, San Antonio (Texas) City Directory, 1934-35 (Dallas, Texas: John F. Worley Directory Co., 1935),, p. 697, entry for "Kath I Meguire (wid Elmer L)".
NAME: Katb Megulre I
[Katherine Megulre]
GENDER: Female
RESIDENCE YEAR: 1934
STREET ADDRESS: 315 Wilklns av
RESIDENCE PLACE: San Antonio, Texas, USA
OCCUPATION: Teacher
SPOUSE: Widow Megulre
Elmer L
PUBLICATION TITLE: San Antonio, Texas, City Directory, 1934
- [S484] 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com;), Bexar County, Texas, population schedule, San Antonio, p. 84B (stamped), enumeration district 259-6, sheet 1B, dwelling 431, Mary S. Hollier; citing NARA microfilm T627, roll 4201.
Name: Katherine Meguire
Age: 34
Estimated birth year: abt 1906
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Louisiana
Marital Status: Widowed
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Home in 1940: San Antonio, Bexar, Texas
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: Club Drive
House Number: 431
Inferred Residence in 1935: San Antonio, Bexar, Texas
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Resident on farm in 1935: No
Sheet Number: 1B
Occupation: Teacher
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: College, 4th year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 30
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in Government work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 36
Income: 1651
Income Other Sources: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
Mary S Hollier 67
Katherine Meguire
- [S643] NewspaperArchive.com, "Miss Katherine Hollier to Wed Lieut. Meguire," San Antonio Express, San Antonio, Texas, 3 March 1931, p. 8, col. 2.
Mrs. S. J. Hollier, 226 Claudia Street, has announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Katherine Hollier, to Lieut. E. L. Meguire of Brooks Field. The wedding will take place [in] the latter part of June. Miss Hollier is a graduate of the University of California. Lieutenant Meguire was graduated [sic] from the United States Military Academy with the calss of 1930.
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