Keeping with the Memorial Day theme for one more day, I would like to introduce you to Private First Class Ephram L. Dickey. He too, rests at Chastain Memorial Cemetery in Blue Ridge, Fannin County, Georgia. Ephram L. Dickey Georgia PFC 21 Inf 24 Inf Div Korea July 7, 1931 – July 12, 1950 Ephram, born the summer of 1931 in Georgia, was a son of Minia C. (Leatherwood) and Paul J. Dickey. Minia and Paul married about 1919, and Ephram was the last of five sons. By 1940 - you can search the 1940 US Census Free here - Paul J. Dickey was widowed, and his five sons and two daughters were without a mother. Minia had died in the spring of 1937. Cause of death was uremic poisoning due to childbirth. And this is where I find Ephram and I have something in common. When I uncovered the Dickey family address, a breathe caught in my throat. I live today on the same road Ephram, his father, and his siblings, were living in 1940. What are the odds? Ephram ...
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