PVT 364 INF 91 DIV WW1
s/o Samuel H Birdwell
The birth year on the military marker is incorrect. In Jim's own handwriting on his WWI draft registration card, he lists the year born as 1896.
Very little information is available on his mother whom we believe was Aleta Bridges of Burnet County, Texas. (Update: please see link below to mother, Elah Bridges.) He was one of 4 children born to Sam and Aleta: Nannie, Dayton, Lizzie Aleta. He had one older half-sister, Sabra Jane.
Jim was a cowboy, leaving home at age 14 to go to Montana with his saddle and the clothes on his back. He returned to Texas, went to war where he was gassed, returning with asthma problems the rest of his life. He was a dairyman, a truck farmer in the Baffin Bay area, and then operated gasoline stations in San Marcos, then in Austin.
He married Georgia Lee Evans of Burnet County Texas and they had one son, Jimmy Lee. Georgia died in childbirth with their second child. Later he married Esther Christine Birdwell, a daughter of a cousin, hence, a Birdwell marrying a Birdwell. They had 4 children, one son dying at birth, and then 2 sons, Joe Morris, Arthur Nolan and then daughter, Shirley.
s/o Samuel H Birdwell
The birth year on the military marker is incorrect. In Jim's own handwriting on his WWI draft registration card, he lists the year born as 1896.
Very little information is available on his mother whom we believe was Aleta Bridges of Burnet County, Texas. (Update: please see link below to mother, Elah Bridges.) He was one of 4 children born to Sam and Aleta: Nannie, Dayton, Lizzie Aleta. He had one older half-sister, Sabra Jane.
Jim was a cowboy, leaving home at age 14 to go to Montana with his saddle and the clothes on his back. He returned to Texas, went to war where he was gassed, returning with asthma problems the rest of his life. He was a dairyman, a truck farmer in the Baffin Bay area, and then operated gasoline stations in San Marcos, then in Austin.
He married Georgia Lee Evans of Burnet County Texas and they had one son, Jimmy Lee. Georgia died in childbirth with their second child. Later he married Esther Christine Birdwell, a daughter of a cousin, hence, a Birdwell marrying a Birdwell. They had 4 children, one son dying at birth, and then 2 sons, Joe Morris, Arthur Nolan and then daughter, Shirley.
PVT 364 INF 91 DIV WW1
s/o Samuel H Birdwell
The birth year on the military marker is incorrect. In Jim's own handwriting on his WWI draft registration card, he lists the year born as 1896.
Very little information is available on his mother whom we believe was Aleta Bridges of Burnet County, Texas. (Update: please see link below to mother, Elah Bridges.) He was one of 4 children born to Sam and Aleta: Nannie, Dayton, Lizzie Aleta. He had one older half-sister, Sabra Jane.
Jim was a cowboy, leaving home at age 14 to go to Montana with his saddle and the clothes on his back. He returned to Texas, went to war where he was gassed, returning with asthma problems the rest of his life. He was a dairyman, a truck farmer in the Baffin Bay area, and then operated gasoline stations in San Marcos, then in Austin.
He married Georgia Lee Evans of Burnet County Texas and they had one son, Jimmy Lee. Georgia died in childbirth with their second child. Later he married Esther Christine Birdwell, a daughter of a cousin, hence, a Birdwell marrying a Birdwell. They had 4 children, one son dying at birth, and then 2 sons, Joe Morris, Arthur Nolan and then daughter, Shirley.
s/o Samuel H Birdwell
The birth year on the military marker is incorrect. In Jim's own handwriting on his WWI draft registration card, he lists the year born as 1896.
Very little information is available on his mother whom we believe was Aleta Bridges of Burnet County, Texas. (Update: please see link below to mother, Elah Bridges.) He was one of 4 children born to Sam and Aleta: Nannie, Dayton, Lizzie Aleta. He had one older half-sister, Sabra Jane.
Jim was a cowboy, leaving home at age 14 to go to Montana with his saddle and the clothes on his back. He returned to Texas, went to war where he was gassed, returning with asthma problems the rest of his life. He was a dairyman, a truck farmer in the Baffin Bay area, and then operated gasoline stations in San Marcos, then in Austin.
He married Georgia Lee Evans of Burnet County Texas and they had one son, Jimmy Lee. Georgia died in childbirth with their second child. Later he married Esther Christine Birdwell, a daughter of a cousin, hence, a Birdwell marrying a Birdwell. They had 4 children, one son dying at birth, and then 2 sons, Joe Morris, Arthur Nolan and then daughter, Shirley.
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