Gypsum Creek twp., McPherson co., Kansas, United States(in Gypsum postal area)Joseph Bernard DeBolt signed a card (as “J.B. DeBolt”) for the first registration of the WW I draft. Joseph (occ. farmer, for Andrew Jacobson) said he had a dependent wife and children. The registrar's report describes him as medium height, medium build, blue eyes, brown hair, and without physical disability.
Joseph Bernard DeBolt, age 27, was born 10 Feb. 1890, at Roxbury, Kansas.
↑ ED 54, Gypsum Creek twp., McPherson, Kansas, in United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T624) roll 446 (FHL #1374459), folio 20, sheet 10B, dwelling 123, family 131, Andrew Jacobson household, [digital image, Ancestry.com], enumerated 4 May 1910.