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Claude Ivan Harper

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Claude Ivan Harper

Birth
Degognia, Jackson County, Illinois, USA
Death
23 Feb 1956 (aged 58)
St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Son of James H Harper & Matilda Seagraves.
He married Theresa Cowen(s) (Cowan)
11-29-1922 (1st)Waterloo, IL and 3-1-1923 (2nd time) St. Louis. Three children: Claudene Vivian (O'Malley), Wanda Elaine (Moore) & Jerold Lee Harper.

Claude first married to Rachel White for a short time in 1915 Jackson Co., IL - a fellow Vaudevillian & actress. Descendants who knew Claude say he had a beautiful tenor singing voice. He spent a couple of years in the Vaudeville circuit before going to war.
Claude Harper received two purple hearts for his service during World War 1. Wounded in the battle of the Argonne Forest in France during Oct. - Nov. 1918. Claude enlisted Infantry in St. Louis 1917 - re-enlisted in Wash. DC during 1920. At some later time he was the pastor of a Pentecostal church in Pinkneyville, IL.

His original birth record is Aug. 20, 1897 lists place as Degognia Twnshp., Jackson Co., IL, but marriage record lists Conant, Perry Co., IL .
U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962 changed his date of birth to 1897.

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Son of James H Harper & Matilda Seagraves.
He married Theresa Cowen(s) (Cowan)
11-29-1922 (1st)Waterloo, IL and 3-1-1923 (2nd time) St. Louis. Three children: Claudene Vivian (O'Malley), Wanda Elaine (Moore) & Jerold Lee Harper.

Claude first married to Rachel White for a short time in 1915 Jackson Co., IL - a fellow Vaudevillian & actress. Descendants who knew Claude say he had a beautiful tenor singing voice. He spent a couple of years in the Vaudeville circuit before going to war.
Claude Harper received two purple hearts for his service during World War 1. Wounded in the battle of the Argonne Forest in France during Oct. - Nov. 1918. Claude enlisted Infantry in St. Louis 1917 - re-enlisted in Wash. DC during 1920. At some later time he was the pastor of a Pentecostal church in Pinkneyville, IL.

His original birth record is Aug. 20, 1897 lists place as Degognia Twnshp., Jackson Co., IL, but marriage record lists Conant, Perry Co., IL .
U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962 changed his date of birth to 1897.

PHOTOS COPYRIGHT 2011 by DEBRA H
DO NOT COPY

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