1940s Inductions into the United States Military from Union Parish Louisiana Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Sharon Ray, 5/2005 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== ================================================================================== 1940s Inductions into the United States Military from Union Parish Louisiana ================================================================================== ================================================================================== ================================================================================== ================================================================================== From the Farmerville "Gazette", issue of 15 August 1940 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Ten White Men to be Inducted Here Next Week The Union Parish Selective Services Board has announced the induction of the following ten white men for next week: Palmer Aubrey Turnage, Farmerville; James Littleton Burna, Bernice; Matthew Wood Taylor, Marion; Melvin Vera taylor, Lillie; Eugene Gulley Hollis, Marion; Oliver Ben Thomas, Haile; James Ernest Sumners, Lillie; J.C. Bearden, Farmerville, Henry Delbert Harrell and Thomas Octavous Grissom of Lillie. ================================================================================== ================================================================================== From the Farmerville "Gazette", issue of 4 June 1942 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== The Selective Service Board of Union Parish has announced that the following forty white men of Union Parish will be inducted into the military service and will leave Farmerville Wednesday morning, June 10, 1942 for Camp Livingston near Alexandria, Louisiana. James Stanley Darnell, Pascagoula, Miss.; Sam Willis O’Bannon, Bernice; Harvey Hebert Langley, Point; Woodrow Wilson Ford, Linville; Bertram Sidney Swenson, address unknown; John Pershing Reeves, Marion; Clarence Diffy, Marion; Ben Doster, Lillie; Loyd Feasell, Montgomery, La.; Ben Ward, Farmerville; Mose Pearson Compton, Jr., Farmerville; George Rodell Slater, El Dorado, Ar.; Rudolph Young Tucker, Farmerville; Merie Elliott, Bernice; Clyde Lee Albritton, Farmerville; H.E. Arnstrong, Farmerville; James Calvin Shackleford, Bernice; Jessie Lee Smith, Bernice; Haskell Hanson, Bernice; Floyd Ernest Roberts, Downsville; Glaudis Reeves, Marion; Harvey Jerome Johnson, Downsville; James Clyde McDonald, Downsville; J.L. Foster, West Monroe; Grady Willie Aycock, Junction City; Robert Lee Miller, Lillie; Louis Carlyle Turner, Bernice; King Tidwell Wilhite, Shreveport; Gordon Theron Albritton, Bernice; Jimmie Lee Kavanaugh, Farmerville; Judson Jehu Deville, Farmerville; Lajoy McBroom, Beaumont, Texas; Cecil Oliver Thorn, West Monroe; James Gulley Breathwith, Farmerville; Claudius Mouton Futch, New Orleans; Jewel Smith, Litroe; Robert Carl Frasier, Farmerville; Brodie Thurmon, Lillie; Robert Chester Simpson, Bernice, Philip Egan Boyett, Bernice. ###############################################################################