Odis Howard Golden


 World War II Veteran

Nickname:Tidy
Born:May 27, 1923, Madison County, Alabama
Died:April 20, 2008
Buried:Huntsville Memory Gardens

Notes:

•  Enlisted as a Private, Branch Immaterial, Warrant officers, Jan. 26, 1943. He had a grammar school education at the time and his civil occupation was listed as "Semiskilled construction occupations, n.e.c." He was single, without dependents. - Enlistement Records

•  Sgt. Us Army, World War II - LocateGrave

•  Odis Howard Golden & Alice Marie Morrison obtained a marriage license June 29, 1946 in Madison County, Alabama. - MCRC

•  In her book about Redstone Arsenal, Beverly S. Curry interviewed many of the former residences of the area. Otis was one of them. He told of his life, as a child, in the olden days. He tells about their home and daily life. "Otis said he worked in the fields alongside his mother, hoeing and picking cotton and corn. They got paid 75 cents a day for twelve hours work. They worked in their garden plot. 'My mother canned everything,' Odis said. 'That's how we made it. They call them the good old days, but I wouldn't want any more of them.'" - Curry


Related Links:

•  Curry - The People Who Lived on the Land That is Now Redstone Arsenal, by Beverly S. Curry, 2006, pages 382, 389, 392-396.

•  Enlistement Records - U.S. World War II Army, as viewed through an Ancestry.com paid subscription

•  Find A Grave - Page created by ryoungal.

•  LocateGrave - From public records (Originally found at http://www.locategrave.org/l/55777/Odis-H-Golden-AL.)

•  MCRC - Madison County Record Center


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•  Curry