Person:Oscar Richard (1)

Watchers
m. 10 Feb 1878
  1. Christian Walter Richard1889 - 1964
  2. Katherine Myra Richard1891 - 1950
  3. Oscar William Richard1896 - 1918
Facts and Events
Name[1] Oscar William Richard
Gender Male
Birth[1] 21 Sep 1896 Green twp., Wayne co., Ohio, United States
Residence[4] 5 Jun 1918 Akron, Summit co., Ohio, United Statesat 228 Kelly Ave.
Oscar W. Richards, signed a card for the second registration of the WW I draft. Oscar (invalid, not employed) stated his nearest relative was his mother Mrs. Amelia Richards of Sterling, Ohio. His father was born in rural France “about 40 miles from Paris”. The registrar's report describes him as medium height, slender build, grey eyes, dark brown hair, and “appears to have chronic valvular heart trouble”.
Death[2] 25 Jun 1918 Akron, Summit co., Ohio, United Statesat 228 Kelly Ave.
Oscar W. Richard (single; occ. clerk for Goodyear Rubber Co.) died of valvular heart disease.
Burial[2][3] 26 Jun 1918 Mount Zion Cem., Milton twp., Wayne co., Ohio, United StatesThe undertaker was the Billow Sons Co. of Akron, Ohio.
This person does not have any known living descendants. He died unmarried and without issue.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Ohio. Probate Court (Wayne County). Birth records, 1867-1908; registrations and corrections, 1941-1966. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1965-1992)
    FHL 475467; Record of Births vol. 3 (1885-1902), f. 200, recorded 1 June 1897.

    Digital record and image viewed in “Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003”, database, FamilySearch, DGS 4016795, image 273 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X6X9-58R : accessed 2 June 2016).

    Green Township, 1st Precinct, no. 13:
    Oscar Wm. Richard b. 21 Sept. 1896, Green twp., to Christian Richard and Amelia Jacobie, residing Smithville.

  2. 2.0 2.1 Ohio. Department of Health. Office of Vital Statistics. Certificates of death, 1908–present. (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983–2005)
    FHL 1984379; 1918 file no. 40137, filed 26 June 1918.

    Digital record and image viewed in “Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953”, database, FamilySearch, DGS 4021898, image 2134 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8KT-DYW : accessed 2 June 2016).

    Oscar W. Richard, single, occ. clerk, Goodyear Rubber Co.; d. 25 June 1918, 6:30 p.m., at 228 Kelley Ave., Ward 6, Akron, Summit co., of valvular heart disease (6 mos.); bur. 26 June 1918, Sterling, Ohio, by Bechman & Sharp, Mansfield, Ohio; b. 21 Sept. 1896, Ohio, to C. J. Richard (b. France) and Amelia Jacoby (b. Germany). The informant was John P. Richard, 425 Bacon Ave.

  3. Hayes Presidential Center, and various public libraries of Ohio. Ohio Obituary Index [database]. (Fremont, Ohio: Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, ca. 1970-)
    cites Wayne County OH Burial Records, 445.

    (http://index.rbhayes.org/hayes/index/record_detail.asp?id=1839772 : accessed 2 June 2016)

    Oscar W. Richard d. 25 June 1918, b. 2 Sept. 1896, note “MT. ZION CEMETERY, CO.RD.48, EAST OF ST.RT.3, IN HERMANSVILLE”.

  4. United States. Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives Microfilm Publication M1509, 1987-1988)
    FHL 1819508, [Roll OH5]; Local Board Div. 2 for Akron, Ohio, serial no. 417, registration no. 384, registered 5 June 1918.

    Digital record and image viewed in “United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918”, database, FamilySearch, DGS 5253622, image 3425 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6XR-YR7 : accessed 2 June 2016).

    Oscar W. Richards, age 21, b. 21 Sept. 1897, Orrville, Ohio.