VETERANS DAY 2023

 

On the 11^th hour of the 11^th day of the 11^th month in 1918 an armistice between Germany and the Allied nations during the Great War known as World War I was established. This day was known as Armistice Day. This day has transformed into an official holiday to honor all members of the United States Armed Forces now called Veterans Day.  Today I would like to honor my living relatives and ancestors on my genealogy trees who were in the armed forces. My research has not allowed me to identify all the veterans past or present. I have included veterans from all the trees I have researched, including extended families. I will continue to search. They however are not forgotten.  Grateful for their service. God bless them all. Let’s support our living veterans. Thank you for family  who provided pictures. Hover cursor  over pictures to see each individual name.

Military Service

 

Name	State of Residence	Enlistment Date		Branch of Service	Rank
Lester Kent			1997-present	US Army
Gerald R. Hollins			16 Sep 1969-1 Sep 1993	US Air Force	Master Sergeant (E-7)
Linda Hollins				US Air Force	Sergeant
Roy Jefferson-Lampton			1990-2000	US Army	Sergeant
Eddie Brumfield Jr.			19 Mar 1969	US Air Force	Airman
Bertha Bearden	Mississippi		17 Feb 1943	US Women’s Army Corp (WAC)	Sergeant WWII
Charles David McEwen			09 Dec 1941	US Army	Private WWII
Chris Seay	Mississippi		03 Dec 1943	US Army Air Force	Sergeant WWII
Timothy Turner				US Air Force	Lieutenant Colonel
Wiley Caston	Mississippi		23 Jan 1943	US Army
James Conerly				US Army	Private
Steven RaVey Brumfield	Indiana		2004-2005   2003-2010	US Army	National Guard 12B Combat Engineer Operation Iraqi Freedom National Guard E-4 Specialist/ Corporal
Harry Caston Jr.			1/1955-12/1957 2/1958-8/1975	US Army US Air Force	Technical Sergeant Viet Nam
Russell Caston				US Army
Keith Caston			1980-1983	US Air Force	A1C(E-3) Lebanon Multi-national peace keeping force
Eric B. Caston			5/1984-3/1988	US Army	Sergeant Lebanon Multi-national peace keeping force
Wallace Caston	Mississippi			US Army
Cicero Caston	Mississippi		10 Dec 1942	US Army	Private WWII
Claude Sibley			25 Sep 1942	US Army	Private WWII
Earche Raymond Banks	Louisiana		19 Feb 1946	US Army	Private
Eddie Dunlap			28 Jan 1953	US Army
Eddie Lee Osby	Mississippi		14 Apr 1943	US Army	Private WWII
Edward Lee Elam	Illinois		14 Sep 1966	US Army	Private Viet Nam
Elijah Brumfield	Mississippi		28 July 1918	US Army	WWI
Woodrow Brumfield	Mississippi			US Navy	WWII
Jethro Gatlin	Mississippi		28 July 1918	US Army	WWI
Elmer Gatlin				US Army	WWII
Ernest Benjamin Strickland Sr	Tennessee		23 Mar 1941	US Army	Sergeant WWII
Frank M. Strickland				US Army	WWI
Thomas Claude Strickland			29 June 1949	US Army	Corporal Korea
Florziel Jefferson	Mississippi		20 Aug 1942	US Army	Private WWII
Freddie Donnell	Texas		31 Mar 1916	US Army	Private WWI
Howard Lee Graves	Louisiana			US Navy	WWII
Willie Graves	Louisiana		22 Feb 1943	US Navy	WWII
Jasper Graves	Mississippi		5 Mar 1918	US Army	WWI
Sylvester Hill	Ohio		2 Jun 1942	US Army	WWII
Iddo Brent Jr	Mississippi		17 Aug 1942	US Army	Private WWII
Isom Brumfield Jr	Mississippi		20 July 1943	US Army	Private WWII
James Edwards Sr	Mississippi		03 Aug 1942	US Army	Private WWII
Jessie Caston Jr.	Mississippi		13 Dec 1945	US Army	Private first class
Martin William Watkins	Texas		14 Sep 1951	US Army	Corporal Korea
Mattie Donnell Hicks			10 Mar 1946	US Army	Major WWII KOREA VIET NAM
Rudolph Knight			3 Oct 1943	US Army	WWII
Rudolph Knight Jr.	Louisiana		10 June 1960
Leamon Jefferson	Louisiana		27 July 1944	US Navy
Thomas Cornelius Brumfield	Louisiana		19 Feb 1943	US Army
Thad Brumfield	Mississippi		20 July 1943	US Army	WWII
Thad Brumfield Jr.				US Air Force	Lieutenant Cornonal
Owen Brumfield	Mississippi		16 Oct 1942	US Army	WWII
Virgil Downs	Mississippi		1 Mar 1951	US Army
Mack Quinn			23 Feb 1943	US Army
Clifton Louis Brumfield			30 Jun 1959	US Army

 

Samuel Conerly		Dec 17, 1942		WWII
Purvis Conerly
Ado Brumfield Jr	Louisiana		US Marine
Roosevelt Conerly	Mississippi	Oct 24, 1941	US Army	WWII
Abraham Brumfield Jr		Enlist date October 3, 1967 Sept 25,1969 release date	US Army
Walter Brumfield		July 24, 1945	US Army	WWII
Iddo Smith		March 31, 1918	US Army	WWI
Murdock Smith			US Army
Artie Bullock				WWI
Louis Johnson		March 27, 1944	US Army	WWII
Lattimore Zackery			US Army	WWII
Johnnie Rayborn		Oct 14, 1945	US Army	WWII
Lavergne Rayborn	Pennsylvania		US Army	Staff Sergeant WWII
Robert Brumfield
Larry D.Brumfield
Mark A.Brumfield
James Weldon Brumfield	Mississippi	2 Dec 1942	US Army	WWII
Stevie Brumfield
Sammie Brumfield
Nathaniel Wilson Martin Sr.			US army	WWII
David T. Brumfield	Mississippi	10 Sep 1942	US Army	WWII
Elijah Brumfield	Mississippi	10 Oct 1942	US Army	WWII
Otis Brumfield	Mississippi	16 Oct 1942	US Army	WWII
James Bearden	Mississippi	3 Oct 1942	US Army	WWII
James Jackson Jr.	Mississippi	31 Apr 1948	US Air Force
Alexander E. Martin	Mississippi		US Army
Bernard Caston Sr			US Army
Will Robinson			US Army	WWII
Paul McEwen	Mississippi	23 Oct 1941	US Army	WWII
Silas McEwen	Mississippi		US Navy	WWII and Viet Nam
Johnnie B. Govan Sr.	Mississippi	11 Mar 1941	US Army	WWII
Melvin Walker			US Army	Private
Percy Ray Carson			US Army	Private
Russell Caston			US Army
James Jackson		31 May 1948	US Air Force
Walter Moore Downs	Mississippi	1 June 1942	US Air Force	WWII Lieutenant Colonel Tuskegee Airman
David Thomas	Louisiana	20 June 1918		WWI

 

 

 

Tribute Tuesday Mamie Brumfield Bullock

In the post-Civil War era, providing living necessities to the enslaved was no longer the responsibility of the taskmaster. The former enslaved received no remuneration for past work. The development of legalized black African American segregation and Jim Crow laws became prevalent throughout the United States. These laws were to deny the former enslaved and their descendants access to all opportunities and promote a type of indentured servitude.  The ability to receive any health care was no exception. 

The McComb City Hospital in Pike County was a 2-story building constructed in 1911. It was the area's only hospital until Southwest Regional Medical Center was established in 1969.  There were major medical disparities between black and white patients on all levels of healthcare.  The Hospital Survey and Construction Act (Hill-Burton Act) of 1946 a federal program provided construction grants and loans to build hospitals. This law codified the concept of "separate but equal" for black and white patients in hospitals. McComb City Hospital was known to have a "colored" annex.  The annex was an area that relegated black African American patients from accessing the entire hospital. 

McComb City Hospital

Black African American women throughout the healthcare system responded by becoming midwives. At that time, a midwife provided medical care to pregnant women and their infants. These midwives, also known as "Direct Entry", "Granny midwives", or "lay" midwives, had practical skills obtained as apprentices. The midwife's services were important because of segregated hospitals, women didn't live near a hospital, and they were less expensive than physicians.

 Mamie Brumfield Bullock was a midwife in Pike County. 

Mamie Brumfield Bullock

Mamie Brumfield Bullock was born August 23, 1886 in Pike County, Mississippi.  Her father was Irvin Brumfield Sr. and her mother was Louisa McEwen. Irvin Brumfield Sr. was a son of Liddie Brumfield Caston. Irvin Brumfield homesteaded land in Pike County discussed in prior blog posts. Mamie Brumfield married John Bullock on December 5, 1904 in Pike County (license file #0049444 book "L" page 99).

As a midwife, Mamie would make home visits to attend expectant mothers in labor wearing a uniform of white dress, stockings and shoes carrying her leather medical bag. She performed home births.

"In Mississippi, black midwives were the most prominent and honored members of their communities—the female equivalent of preachers. They were at the core of the time-honored healing networks in rural African American communities and served as counselors and spiritual leaders. Although already held in high esteem by their own communities, midwives rose in status among whites as a consequence of state certification." 

I have been unable to identify how long she was a midwife. Mamie Bullock's contribution to the community can not minimized. She died on April 15, 1972 according to the Social Security Death Index. Her remains are interred at St. James Missionary Baptist Church cemetery in Pike County, Mississippi.

Her life was a blessing and memory a treasure.

---The Tree Gardener

 

·  Article Title Midwives

·         Author Lane Noel

·         Website Name Mississippi Encyclopedia

·         URL http://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/midwives/

·         Access Date September 15, 2023

·         Publisher Center for Study of Southern Culture

·         Original Published Date July 11, 2017

·         Date of Last Update October 10, 2020

Lula McEwen Brumfield Bullock and Ellen Conerly Brumfield

 Lula was the third wife of Andrew Bullock.  Lula was born on August, 1879  and her mother Ellen Conerly Brumfield was born on December, 1854 in Mississippi from the information of the 1900 enumeration of the Pike County, Mississippi Federal census. Ellen Conerly is enumerated in the 1880 federal census with daughter Lula McEwen 10 years old, Isaac Brumfield 8 son years old, Mary Powel 5 years old daughter and mother Ma--- (can't decipher) Magee 60 years old. Ellen's mother was born in Mississippi and grandfather in Africa and her grandmother in S. C. designated for South Carolina.

"United States Census, 1880", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4PM-MQQ : Wed Aug 02 23:56:22 UTC 2023), Entry for Ellen Conerly and Lulu McEwen, 1880.

Lula McEwen 16 years old is listed in the 1885 Pike County school census with her mother Ellen Conerly. There is a discrepancy in Lula's birthdate in the 1900 census and the school census. Lula's birthdate would be 1869 according to the school census.

"Mississippi Enumeration of Educable Children, 1850-1892; 1908-1957,"database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK6W-5975 : 2 March 2021), Lula Mcewen, 1885; citing School enrollment, Pike, Mississippi, United States, Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Jackson.

Ellen married Robert Brumfield Sr on February 11, 1886 in Pike County. She is recorded as Ellen McEwen. Moses Conerly helped post the marriage bond. Moses and Ellen were probably related but the connection has not been identified at this time. Robert's first wife Ann was identified in the 1870 and 1880 Federal census and probably died. Robert Brumfield Sr. homesteaded land in Pike County. Prior information about Robert Sr. and his homestead information was given in prior blogs.

February 11, 1886 Pike County, Mississippi File # 0042194 Book "B" page 37

In the 1890 Pike County school census Robert (Bob) Brumfield Sr. and his children Harriet, Sena, James, John and Jesse K. are listed. Ellen Brumfield with her children Isaac and Mary are also listed. I do not have a formal citation.

Lula McEwen married Robert Brumfield Jr. on July 11, 1893.  Robert was born in 1868 his parents were Robert Brumfield Sr. and Ann born about 1834 and 1839 respectively from the 1880 Pike County, Mississippi Federal census.

July 11, 1893, Pike County, Mississippi File # 0043859 Book "D" page 200 

During the marriage of Lula and Robert, they had three children Joseph born January 15, 1895, Ed  August 10, 1896 and Roberta  June, 1898.

 Ed Brumfield served in the military during World War I. Joseph Brumfield registered for WWI.

Index to a card roster of Mississippians who served in the United States Army, Navy, Coast Guard, or Marines during World War I from 1917 to 1919.

Joseph Brumfield married Maggie Andrews on February 21, 1915  in Pike County.

February 21, 1915, Pike County Mississippi File 0039217 Book "S" page 296

Joseph Brumfield World War I Registration Card

Ed registered for the World War II military. Ed and Joe were living together in Bogalusa, Louisiana.

Joseph Brumfield died on June 16, 1945 in Bogalusa, Washington Parish, Louisiana. 

Research continues to find more information concerning Ed and Roberta Brumfield. 

In the 1896 Pike County school census Robert (Bob) Brumfield Sr. and his Jess 12 years old (Jesse K.) are listed. I do not have a formal citation.

In the 1900 federal census, Ellen Brumfield was enumerated with her children Lula, Isaac, Carry Bell and Coer (Cora). Lula Brumfield was enumerated with her children Joe, Edw00d and Roberta.  Ellen and Lula Brumfield were identified as widows. The causes of death of Robert Brumfield Sr. and Jr. are unknown at this time.

"United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9XT-1HW : Thu Aug 03 02:34:14 UTC 2023), Entry for Ellen Brumfield and Luler Brumfield, 1900.

Lula McEwen Brumfield  32 years old married Andrew Bullock Sr. 43, on January 12, 1901. Prior information about Andrew Bullock Sr. was given in previous blog posts. Andrew Bullock died on February 15, 1944. They were married for 43 years.  

Ellen Brumfield was enumerated twice in the 1950 census. She is enumerated with her daughters Lula on April 12th recorded age 96 and Cora Brumfield Magee on April 24th recorded age 98. Cora married Oliver Magee on January 16, 1908 in Pike County and was identified as a widow.

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Bullock Lula Head F Neg 75 Wd
Brumfield Ellen mother F Neg 96 Wd

"Pike, Mississippi, United States Records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHN-PQHW-JK6C : August 28, 2023), image 12 of 16; United States. Bureau of the Census.ED: 57-1: Beat 1: Beat 1 - That part Bounded by Beat line; County line; McComb - Tylertown Rd. 

Brumfield Ellen mother F Neg 98 Wd

Magee, Cora daughter F Neg 60 Wd

Cora Brumfield Magee died January 20, 1989 in Battle Creek, Michigan. 

McComb Enterprise-Journal (McComb, 
Mississippi) January 26, 1989

Research continues to find more information concerning Ellen Brumfield's children Mary Powel, Isaac and Carry Bell Brumfield. The death certificates of Lula Bullock and Ellen Brumfield have not been obtained at this time.

--- The Tree Gardener