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Austins of America Austin Families Genealogical Society Austin Families Register Volume 2 PAGES 321 TO 640 EDITED BY Michael Edward Austin, Sc.D. THE AUSTIN PRINT CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS 2010 First Edition - October 1999 International Standard Book Number 0-9648804-0-7 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 95-80763 Copyright © 1999 by THE AUSTIN PRINT All rights reserved. Published by THE AUSTIN PRINT of Concord, Massachusetts. No part of this work covered by the copyrights hereon may be reproduced or copied in any form without the written permission of the publisher. PREFACE This book is an indexed co mpilation of the newsletters published by the Austins of America Genealogical Society during its first ten y ears, during which tim e its membership expanded to m ake it the largest group of Austin family researchers in the United States. This is the first in a series of such volumes preserving Austin lines and heritage for posterity. It is gratefully dedicated to the authors appearing herein, and to all those members who by contributing their own research to the Austins of America library have made the articles herein more complete and accurate. We are indebted to Pauline Lucille Austin of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Sally Austin Day of Livonia, Michigan, and to the other Associate Editors listed herein for sharing their decades of basic Austin research with others. Special thanks to my beloved wife Patricia Biebuy ck Austin, who has been instrumental in organizing raw research notes and correspondence into coherent articles, for without her y ears of devotion and companionship this volume would not have been possible. — Michael Edward Austin AUGUST 1989 Austins of America PAGE 311 ROBERT AUSTIN 9 DEC 1946 Ð 16 NOV 1967 MEMORIAL DIRECTORY OF MODESTO, CALIFORNIA AUSTIN VIETNAM VETERANS SERGEANT, USA 29E-103 ___________________________________________________________ by Cheryl Austin Akusis ROLLIN RANDOLPH AUSTIN 16 FEB 1948 Ð 27 MAY 1968 Author's Note: The following names and data were found in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial ESTANCIA, NEW MEXICO Directory of Names, published by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc., Washington, CORPORAL, USA 65W-3 D.C., in January 1988 (seventh printing). The Directory helps visitors locate over 58,000 ___________________________________________________________ names inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall, which was dedicated in Washing- SCOTTY GENE AUSTIN ton, D.C. on Veterans' Day in 1982. An asterisk beside the death year indicates the veteran 7 MAY 1950 Ð 18 SEP 1969 was missing in action. The two numbers following his rank and branch of service indicate GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN the section and line numbers where the veteran's name is inscribed on the Wall. SPECIALIST-4, USA 18W-108 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ALBERT DELGADO AUSTIN, JR. JOSEPH CLAIR AUSTIN STEPHEN EDWARD AUSTIN 11 MAY 1943 Ð 27 APR 1969 30 JUN 1929 Ð 19 MAR 1967* 1 JUN 1947 Ð 8 JUN 1968 MESA, ARIZONA MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA DENAIR, CALIFORNIA SPECIALIST-5, USA 26W-59 COLONEL, USAF 16E-109 CORPORAL, USMC 58W-1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CARL BENJAMIN AUSTIN KENNETH JOE AUSTON TOM LEW AUSTIN 13 SEP 1923 Ð 2 DEC 1965 27 MAY 1951 Ð 12 MAR 1970 12 NOV 1943 Ð 11 MAY 1966 WOODBURN, OREGON SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA WEST CARROLLTON, OHIO COMMANDER USN 3E-119 CORPORAL, USA 13W-115 LCPL, USMC 7E-47 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CHARLES DAVID AUSTIN LARRY D. AUSTIN TYRONE WAGNER AUSTIN 27 FEB 1942 Ð 26 APR 1967* 26 MAY 1948 Ð 30 JUN 1968 6 SEP 1945 Ð 2 MAY 1968 NEW CANAAN, CONNECTICUT SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI MAJOR, USAF 18E-89 PRIVATE 1ST CLASS, USA 54W-22 CORPORAL, USMC 54E-1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDDIE PAUL AUSTIN LARRY DEAN AUSTIN VICTOR LEROY AUSTIN 2 DEC 1946 Ð 21 APR 1967 11 DEC 1950 Ð 28 MAR 1971 22 DEC 1945 Ð 29 DEC 1968 COACHELLA, CALIFORNIA DES MOINES, IOWA KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN CORPORAL, USMC 18E-55 SPECIALIST-4, USA 4W-85 STAFF SERGEANT, USA 35W-1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDWARD PAUL AUSTIN MICHAEL FRANCIS AUSTIN VIRIL LEE AUSTIN 30 JUN 1946 Ð 1 NOV 1966 31 MAY 1948 Ð 18 FEB 1968 16 DEC 1943 Ð 19 MAR 1967 ALPENA, MICHIGAN CROWLEY, LOUISIANA ST. PAUL, VIRGINIA PRIVATE 1ST CLASS, USA 12E-5 CORPORAL, USA 39E-79 SPECIALIST-4, USA 16E-109 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ELLIS ERNEST AUSTIN MICHAEL PAUL AUSTIN WILLIAM EUGENE AUSTIN 6 JAN 1922 Ð 21 APR 1966* 19 APR 1948 Ð 2 FEB 1971 13 AUG 1949 Ð 31 JUL 1970 VERMONTVILLE, MICHIGAN BELCHERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS LENOIR, NORTH CAROLINA COMMANDER, USN 6E-125 1ST LIEUTENANT, USA 5W-73 SERGEANT, USA 8W-72 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GLENN FREDERIC AUSTIN OSCAR PALMER AUSTIN WILLIAM KENNETH AUSTIN 14 JUL 1947 Ð 7 MAR 1970 15 JAN 1948 Ð 23 FEB 1969 25 OCT 1950 Ð 2 SEP 1971 MADISON HEIGHTS, MICHIGAN PHOENIX, ARIZONA KLICKITAT, WASHINGTON CORPORAL, USMC 13W-91 PRIVATE 1ST CLASS, USMC 32W-88 SPECIALIST-4, USA 2W-8 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ JAMES EARL AUSTIN PAUL JASPER AUSTIN, JR. WILLIAM OLEN AUSTIN 13 FEB 1932 Ð 18 FEB 1971 20 OCT 1948 Ð 30 AUG 1970 10 DEC 1948 Ð 13 OCT 1968 SOUTH BEND, INDIANA WASHINGTON, D.C. EL PASO, TEXAS MASTER SERGEANT, USA 5W-114 SPECIALIST-5, USA 7W-23 PRIVATE 1ST CLASS, USA 41W-56 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ JAMES FRANKLIN AUSTIN RILEY CLAYTON AUSTIN WILLIE AUSTIN, JR. 26 AUG 1949 Ð 13 APR 1970 13 MAR 1948 Ð 17 JUN 1968 29 JUN 1949 Ð 29 APR 1970 CASTLEWOOD, VIRGINIA HOUSTON, TEXAS MT. VERNON, ALABAMA SARGEANT, USA 12W-129 LCPL, USMC 56W-11 SPECIALIST-4, USA 11W-66 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PAGE 312 Austins of America AUGUST 1989 in Oneonta, Otsego County, New York. Hattie, the QUERIES daughter of William and Jennie (Whitney) Kellogg, was 312-1.Joseph Austin was born circa 1824 in Ohio or born on 15 September 1901 in South Hill, New York. Indiana. He married circa 1850-52 to Mary Ð, born circa George died in Oneonta. Gertrude died in 1945 age 83 in 1824 in Ohio. From the 1870 Census for Meigs Township, Worchester, New York, while Charles died on 28 June Adams County, Ohio their children were: Silas P., 1952. Need the ancestry of George N. Austin. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Margaret, Mary E., Sarah E., James Henry (my grand- 312-7.Aaron Austin was born 23 March 1844 in New father), Sylvester, and Inda. Seeking all available York, the son of Perservid and Ana (Nims) Austin. He information on Joseph and Mary's lines. _____________________________________________________________________________________ married on 11 June 1865 to Mary E. Lilly in Niles, 312-2.Jane Austin married widower William Brantley Michigan. Mary was born on 22 November 1846 in Deese after 1917. Jane's family was from Union County, Michigan, she died 14 February 1911 in Galesburg, Iowa. North Carolina. Seeking her ancestry and descendants. The ®rst of their six children was born in Niles, the rest in _____________________________________________________________________________________ Galesburg: Clarence Edgar b. 1865, William b. 1867, 312-3.Silas Austin was born in 1770, perhaps in Cora b. 1870, Irvin b. 1871, Lulu b. 1875, and Robert Connecticut. He died in 1846, and is buried in Quincy, Wesley b. 1881. Seeking Aaron's ancestry and the New Branch County, Michigan. Silas is found in Steuben York County where he was born. County in 1820 through 1840, he had at least six sons and _____________________________________________________________________________________ six daughters. Possible children: Silas Jr. b. circa 1804; 312-8.Henrietta Austin was born in 1842 in Ohio. She David R. b.1808 d.1848; Phebe b. circa 1815; Reuben b. married Ezra Thomas, born in 1842 in Kentucky. They circa 1814 d.1864; Aaron b. circa 1817 d.1894; Orson resided in Missouri in the 1860's then California. Need the ancestry of both Henrietta and Ezra. David b.1818 d.1908. Reuben and Aaron are buried in _____________________________________________________________________________________ Hillsdale County, Michigan. Orson resided in Lenawee 312-9.Solomon Austin was born circa 1780 in Rhode County, Michigan, and Dunn County, Wisconsin. Seek- Island. His wife, Delight Ð, was born
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