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Submitted: 1/15/08 • Approved: 4/29/19 • Last Updated: 5/2/19 • R10331-G10331-S3
Melvin 21 Dec 1912 - 28 May 1997
Jennie 02 Sept 1919 - 02 Mar 1991
Marriage: 22 Apr 1939 Book W-443*
Melvin George Walker son of William 'Will' Walker and Allie (Buckner) Miller Duncan Walker. Jennifer 'Jeannie' Ruth (Collins) Walker daughter of Henry Lewis Collins and Donna Rebecca (Mullen) Collins.
* Arkansas Marriage Index
Name: Jennie Collins
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 22 Apr 1939
Event Place: Lawrence, Arkansas
Marriage License Date: 22 Apr 1939
Gender Female
Spouse's Name: Melvin Walker
Certificate Number: 15751
Volume Number: 78
Affiliate Film Number: 0002
Citing this Record
"Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VJTT-71H : 27 November 2014), Melvin Walker and Jennie Collins, 22 Apr 1939; from "Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing Lawrence, Arkansas, certificate 15751, volume 78, roll 0002, Arkansas Genealogical Society.
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Unsure if this person actually served or was merely drafted.
Melvin George Walker
Arkansas First Draft Registration Cards
Name Melvin George Walker
Event Type: Draft Registration
Event Date: from 1940 to 1945
Event Place: Smithville, Lawrence, Arkansas, United States
Gender Male
Nationality: United States
Birth Date: 21 Dec 1912
Birthplace: Strawberry Lawrence, Arkansas
Relative's Name Jennie Ruth Walker
Relationship to Veteran Wife
Citing this Record
"Arkansas First Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KL7S-94J : 6 November 2018), Melvin George Walker, from 1940 to 1945; citingDraft Registration; citing , NARA Record Group 147 (Southwest Region, Fort Worth, Texas: National Archives and Records Administration, 2013).
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Melvin G Walker
United States World War II Army Enlistment Records
Name: Melvin G Walker
Name: WALKER MELVIN G
Event Type: Military Service
Event Date: 22 Apr 1944
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Event Place: Cp Josepth T Robinson, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Race White
Citizenship Status: citizen
Birth Year: 1912
Birthplace: ARKANSAS
Education Level Grammar school
Civilian Occupation: Farm hands, general farms
Marital Status Married
Military Rank Private
Army Branch No branch assignment
Army Component Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source Reference Civil Life
Serial Number:
Affiliate ARC Identifier: 1263923
Box Film Number 13656.131
Citing this Record
"United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMKK-3XP : 5 December 2014), Melvin G Walker, enlisted 22 Apr 1944, Cp Josepth T Robinson, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
Contributed on 1/15/08 by denise.bratcher63
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