WWI Draft Registration Card of James Andrew BURNS (1918); Cecil Co., MD

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                             REGISTRATION CARD 
Serial Number 1261                                        Order Number A1814

1    First name, Middle name, Family name: James Andrew Burns

2    Permanent Home address: 4 R. F. A. Elkton  Cecil  Md

3    Age by Years:  35              4    Date of Birth: June  5th  1883

                                  RACE

     White       Negro       Oriental      Indian Citizen     Indian Non-Citizen
5.     X       6.          7.            8.                 9.

                    U. S. CITIZEN

   Native Born    Naturalized     Citizen by Father’s                ALIEN
                                 Naturalization Before       Declarant    Non-declarant
                                 Registrant’s Majority
10.     X       11.            12.                         13.          14.

15   If not a citizen of the U. S., of what nation are you a citizen or Subject?  Citizen

     PRESENT OCCUPATTION                             EMPLOYER’S NAME
16   Farmer and Fireman                        17  For himself & Jessup Moore Paper Co.,

18   Place of Employment or Business?  Elkton   Cecil  Md.

     Nearest       19 Name     Bessie Elizabeth Burns (wife)
     Relative      20 Address  4 R. F. A.  Elkton  Cecil  Md.

I affirm that I have verified above answers and that they are true.

P.M.G.O.                                  James Andrew Burns
Form No. 1                            (Registrant’s Signature or Mark)


                                REGISTRAR'S REPORT

                             DESCRIPTION OF REGISTRANT
         HEIGHT                         BUILD               COLOR       COLOR
  Tall   Medium   Short       Slender   Medium   Stout     OF EYES     OF HAIR
21     22   X   23          24        25       26  X     27  blue    28  lt Brown

29   Has person lost arm, leg, hand, eye, or is he obviously physically disqualified?
     (specify)?  None


30   I certify that my answers are true, that the person registered has read or has 
     had read to him his own answers, that I have witnessed his signature or mark and 
     that all of his answers of which I have knowledge are true, except as follows




                                              Gifford D Potts
                                         (Signature of registrar)   

Date of Registration  Sept 12, 1918

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          | Local Board of the County of Cecil, |
          |          State of Maryland          |
          |             Elkton, Md.             |
          |        (STAMP OF LOCAL BOARD)       |
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(The stamp of the local board having jurisdiction of the area
in which the registrant has his permanent home shall be
placed in this box)