JOHN RAYMOND PERSON      
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C9   JOHN RAYMOND PERSON third son of  John Andrew and   Bertha Armour 
Person born December 27, 1917 on White Oak mountain in Van Buren County, 
Arkansas. His brothers and sisters named him for a neighbor boy,  Raymond 
Campbell.
    
He attended school at New Hope and Austin schools. His family moved to Carden 
Bottom  January, l925. He then attended school at New Hall and Carden Bottom High 
School for two years.
     
In 1936, when the great drive was on to move westward and the aftermath of the great 
Depression was pending, he drove the  John Broadstock family car to California. 
While there, he lived with John and  Parthenia Broadstock and their children at 
Winton. He returned to Arkansas and married   Nina Bullard on September 25, 1937 
and they returned to California to live. On October 24, 1938  Carol Jean Person was 
born in a Merced hospital. Soon after her birth they moved back to Arkansas and lived 
near  James and  Floy Person at Pontoon.  Raymond was turned down by the Armed 
Forces during World War II because of health disability.
     
In 1942 he and his family moved to Chicago to work. There  Carol Jean attended grade 
school. January 1, 1969 Raymond and  Nina separated. He lived with his parents in 
Arkansas until he married   Lois Freeman Morrison ( Tommy). They moved to 
Chicago and  Peggy Sue Person was born April 19, 1950 in Cook County, Chicago, 
Illinois.
     
 Raymond and  Tommy joined the Presbyterian Church. He joined the Masonic 
(Compass) Lodge #922 and they both joined the Order of the Eastern Star.
     
 Raymond and  Lois "Tommy" separated about 1963 and he married   Helen Curtis 
Black in 1965.
     
 Carol Jean Person lived with her Uncle  James and Aunt  Floy Person. She attended 
high school in Carden Bottom and graduated from Arkansas Polytechnic College in 
Russellville.
     
 Peggy Sue Person lives in Chicago in 1968.