When William Carsey Gatlin was born on March 4, 1902, in Puryear, Tennessee, his father, William, was 29 and his mother, Ethel, was 22. He married Thelma Catherine Skipper and they had one son together. He then married Margaret "Maggie" Rose Macaulay and they had three children together. He died on February 12, 1974, in Paris, Tennessee, at the age of 71.
Carsey was a SeeBee with the US Navy. A graduate of Kentucky Military Institute (1918-1920), he joined the Navy in Biloxi, MS during WW2. He was shipped to New Orleans, LA and then shipped to the Pacific Theater. He somehow was repositioned as a photographer on recon planes and covered the Aleutian Islands of Alaska battle against the Japanese. After his WW2 stint, he debarked at San Francisco where he met Margaret McCaulay Haggerty who was divorced and with three children. Maggie and Carsey fell in love, married, and he adopted her children as his own around 1946. Carsey worked as a photographer for MGM and other Hollywood Studios for a few years after the war. Sometime in 1948-49, he then moved his new family to his hometown of Buchanan, Tennessee in Henry County where he resided until his death. He was known by his grandchildren as having a very bolsterous voice, often saying "shut the damn gate (door)" as they would leave it open running in and out of the house. Carsey was also an avid baker and was known for baking breads and cakes. He died in his sleep of heart failure.
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Carsey was a SeeBee with the US Navy. A graduate of Kentucky Military Institute (1918-1920), he joined the Navy in Biloxi, MS during WW2. He was shipped to New Orleans, LA and then shipped to the Pacific Theater. He somehow was repositioned as a photographer on recon planes and covered the Aleutian Islands of Alaska battle against the Japanese. After his WW2 stint, he debarked at San Francisco where he met Margaret McCaulay Haggerty who was divorced and with three children. Maggie and Carsey fell in love, married, and he adopted her children as his own around 1946. Carsey worked as a photographer for MGM and other Hollywood Studios for a few years after the war. Sometime in 1948-49, he then moved his new family to his hometown of Buchanan, Tennessee in Henry County where he resided until his death. He was known by his grandchildren as having a very bolsterous voice, often saying "shut the damn gate (door)" as they would leave it open running in and out of the house. Carsey was also an avid baker and was known for baking breads and cakes. He died in his sleep of heart failure.
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When William Carsey Gatlin was born on March 4, 1902, in Puryear, Tennessee, his father, William, was 29 and his mother, Ethel, was 22. He married Thelma Catherine Skipper and they had one son together. He then married Margaret "Maggie" Rose Macaulay and they had three children together. He died on February 12, 1974, in Paris, Tennessee, at the age of 71.
Carsey was a SeeBee with the US Navy. A graduate of Kentucky Military Institute (1918-1920), he joined the Navy in Biloxi, MS during WW2. He was shipped to New Orleans, LA and then shipped to the Pacific Theater. He somehow was repositioned as a photographer on recon planes and covered the Aleutian Islands of Alaska battle against the Japanese. After his WW2 stint, he debarked at San Francisco where he met Margaret McCaulay Haggerty who was divorced and with three children. Maggie and Carsey fell in love, married, and he adopted her children as his own around 1946. Carsey worked as a photographer for MGM and other Hollywood Studios for a few years after the war. Sometime in 1948-49, he then moved his new family to his hometown of Buchanan, Tennessee in Henry County where he resided until his death. He was known by his grandchildren as having a very bolsterous voice, often saying "shut the damn gate (door)" as they would leave it open running in and out of the house. Carsey was also an avid baker and was known for baking breads and cakes. He died in his sleep of heart failure.
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/80192943/person/36419698880/story
Carsey was a SeeBee with the US Navy. A graduate of Kentucky Military Institute (1918-1920), he joined the Navy in Biloxi, MS during WW2. He was shipped to New Orleans, LA and then shipped to the Pacific Theater. He somehow was repositioned as a photographer on recon planes and covered the Aleutian Islands of Alaska battle against the Japanese. After his WW2 stint, he debarked at San Francisco where he met Margaret McCaulay Haggerty who was divorced and with three children. Maggie and Carsey fell in love, married, and he adopted her children as his own around 1946. Carsey worked as a photographer for MGM and other Hollywood Studios for a few years after the war. Sometime in 1948-49, he then moved his new family to his hometown of Buchanan, Tennessee in Henry County where he resided until his death. He was known by his grandchildren as having a very bolsterous voice, often saying "shut the damn gate (door)" as they would leave it open running in and out of the house. Carsey was also an avid baker and was known for baking breads and cakes. He died in his sleep of heart failure.
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/80192943/person/36419698880/story
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