Crawford Lorenza Wall
PVT in Army Experimental Station at Pine Camp : HQ and HQ Detachment
ASN#34971802
Born 1913 in GA, Died 2004
County of residence at enlistment: Hall County, GA
Other residence(s): Statham, GA; Jefferson, GA; Piños Altos, NM; Aztec, NM; Pagosa Springs, CO; Dell City, TX
United States Army, did not accompany the unit to Europe
Occupation before the war: skilled mechanics and repairmen, motor vehicles
Crawford Wall (also known as C.L.) was born on October 5, 1913 in Statham, GA, the third of four children. His father was a cotton buyer.
He grew up in Jefferson, GA and completed three years of high school there. On May 8, 1932 he married his high school sweetheart, Omie Lucille Smallwood. Their only child, William, was born in 1936. By 1940, he was working as a farmer in Jefferson.
Crawford registered for the draft on October 16, 1940 and by the time he enlisted, on March 8, 1944, was employed in the category of "skilled mechanics and repairmen, motor vehicles." He became part of the staff at the Army Experimental Station at Pine Camp, NY where the 3132 and 3133 Signal Service Companies trained.
After the war he and his family eventually moved to Piños Altos, in southern New Mexico, and later to Pagosa Springs, CO. Crawford worked in the timber industry and eventually owned a construction business.
He died on April 12, 2004 in Dell City, TX, and is buried at Bayfield Cemetery in Bayfield, CO.
Sources:
1920 census
1940 census
1941 draft card
1944 enlistment record
1950 census
1950-1993 US public records index (Aztec NM)
1989 US public records index (Dell City TX)
2004 Find a Grave record
2004 Social Security death index
2007 wife's obituary
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21995799/omie-lucille-wall