Person:Ellsworth Sinclair (1)

He had an on German script letter translated for his mother.

OBITUARY: Wooster (Ohio) Daily Record, Tuesday, April 7, 1987, page C3.

Roy Sinclair

Smithville - Roy E. Sinclair, 81, 166 Blue Beard Drive, North Fort Myers, Fla., and Smithville during the summer months, died Sunday, April 5, at his home. Services will be Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Gillman Funeral Home, Rittman, with Rev. Paul Mustard officiating. Burial will be in Wooster Cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Wayne County Care Center Auxiliary Volunteers, 876 Geyer Chapel Road, Wooster 44691. He was born on a farm in Canaan Township in 1905 to Harry C. and Alic T. Derr Sinclair and lived in Sterling for 29 years before moving to Smithville in 1963. He graduated from Apple Creek High School in 1923, Mount Union College in 1928 and earned a master's degree from Ohio State University in 1937. He also attended summer school at the College of Wooster and Ashland College. He began 36 years of service to the Wayne County public schools in 1932, when he started teaching at No. 1 School in Wayne Township for two years. He then went to Sterling to teach and coach. He became administrator in 1937 but continued coaching for another seven years. In 1950 he became the first superintendent of North Central School District. In 1957, he went to Rittman schools as a teacher and counselor, retiring in 1967. Following retirement, he raised ponies on his farm near Smithville. He was a member of the Wayne County, Ohio and National Retired Teachers Associations, a charter member of Smithville Ruritan Club and served for 25 years with Wayne County TB and Health Society on the educational committee. He was also a member of Smithville United Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, Phyllis, whom he married Oct. 24, 1931, and two sisters, Dorothy Kauffman of Smithville and Grace Young of Loudonville.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Coup Genealogical Chart by Lucy Hall Pancoast, May 1959. Copy in the possession of William A. Coup, Boca Raton.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 United States Government, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. 1910 Census, Ohio, Wayne County, Canaan Township - Harry C. Sinclair. (Name: 1910 Census, Series T624, Roll 1239, Page 57; Ohio, Wayne County, Canaan Township, Sheet 7A, Supervisor's District 16, Enumeration District 159, 28 April 1910, Line 48, Dwelling 168, Family 168;).
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 United States Government, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. 1920 Census, Ohio, Wayne County, Franklin Township - C. Harry Sinclair. (Name: 1920 Census, Series T625, Roll 1448, Page 170; Ohio, Wayne County, Franklin Township, 30 January 1920, Supervisor's District 15, Enumeration District 201, Sheet 9A, Line 31, Fredericksburg-Wooster Road, Dwelling 203, Family 213;).
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 United States Government, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. 1930 Census, Ohio, Wayne County, Franklin Township - Harry Sinclair. (Name: 1930 Census, Series T626, Roll 1888, Page 53; Ohio, Wayne County, Franklin Township, 25 April 1930, Supervisor's District 14, Enumeration District 85-19, Sheet 11B, Line 91, Wooster RR4, Dwelling 266, Family 272;).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4} Obituary of Roy Sinclair in the Wooster (Ohio) Daily Record, Tuesday, April 7, 1987, page C3.
6. ↑ Letter and forms from Nancy Kauffman, Wooster, Ohio to William A. Coup, Boca Raton, Florida 16 February 1999.