JOSEPH PATE PERSON, JR.
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C17   JOSEPH PATE PERSON, JR. is the son of B14-  Joseph Simmons and IL3-   
Almedia Beavers Person was born, January 16, 1918 on West Markham Street in Little 
Rock, Arkansas, Pulaski County.
    
He, with his parents, moved to Carden Bottom while yet an infant. He attended grade 
school in Lakeview and high school at Carden Bottom High. In 1937 his family moved 
to Hayti, Missouri. He finished high school there walking the distance of three miles 
into town along the railroad tracks.
    
 Joe, Jr. "Bo" was drafted into the Armed Forces during World War II around 1940. He 
trained at Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis, Missouri. He reached the rank of Staff 
Sergeant. He was stationed on Guadalcanal and fought on several different islands. He 
was shell shocked and picked up while unconscious and sent to a hospital in Australia 
before he regained consciousness. Only two other men in his unit lived to come back 
to the States, one of them dying soon after with malaria and the other one died a few 
years later.
    
In 1943  Joe Jr. was sent to a camp in Wichita, Kansas before being released without a 
pension.
    
Joe married IL1G-   Elsie Louise Butler of near Hayti on January 10, 1944. She was born 
August 9, 1924. Joe and Elsie lived in several different places. He served on the Police 
Force in Popular Bluff, Missouri. He farmed for awhile, lived in Mississippi and over 
saw a cotton gin. He then moved to Arkansas to work at a gin and now in 1968 he is 
back in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
    
Three children were born to this couple. D31-   Jo Ann Person b -January 24, 1945 near 
Hayti in Pemiscot County m in 1967  Israel Davis. D32-  Joan Bonita Person b July 12, 
1947 near Hayti, Missouri m in 1968 a Wilmire. D33-  Garry Gene Person b December 
14, 1948 near Hayti, Missouri.