Descendants of George CATO in North Central Louisiana

Ninth Generation


713. Ola WEBB (Ninnie CRAIG , Susan E. PARROTT , Nancy Harriet LEE , Martin Batte LEE , Cato LEE , Mary CATO , John , George ) was born in Jan 1891.

She had the following children:

  771 M i Living

726. Living (John M. CRAIG , Susan E. PARROTT , Nancy Harriet LEE , Martin Batte LEE , Cato LEE , Mary CATO , John , George )

Living married Living.

They had the following children:

  772 M i Living
  773 M ii Living
  774 iii Living
  775 F iv Living
  776 v Living
  777 M vi Living
  778 M vii Living
  779 viii Living

728. Living (May Burch LEE , John Martin LEE , John Martin LEE , Martin Batte LEE , Cato LEE , Mary CATO , John , George )

Living married (1) Living.

They had the following children:

  780 M i Living
  781 F ii Living
        Living married Living.

Living married (2) Living.

They had the following children:

  782 M iii Living

751. Living (Bennett ARRANT , Florence A. HICKS , Elizabeth LEE , Martin Batte LEE , Cato LEE , Mary CATO , John , George )

Living married Benton FROST son of Wilbert Jackson FROST Sr. and Gennie LENARD. Benton was born 1 on 24 Sep 1922 in Calhoun, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. He died on 28 Jan 1993 in West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. He was buried on 30 Jan 1993. Benton was employed as Business Contractor in 1950/1970 in Louisiana.

Benton entered the Cilivian Conservation Corp Camp in 1938. In 1939 he was transferred into the Navy at Camp Polk, Tuley Lake, CA. He served in the Navy in San Diego, California, during the 1940's. Worked in the machine shop during World War II.

Benton donated cemetery and church land in Pleasant Valley (FrostTown), Louisiana. Many family members are buried there.

Police Protection Louisiana 318 Area Code Business Listing [posted after 1995]
Frost, Benton: Police Juror 318-387-2536 923 Montgomery Ave West Monroe LA 71292

They had the following children:

  783 F i Living
  784 F ii Living
        Living married Living.

756. Melvin CAPLES (Neiver ARRANT , Florence A. HICKS , Elizabeth LEE , Martin Batte LEE , Cato LEE , Mary CATO , John , George ) was born on 7 Oct 1918 in West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. He died on 23 Jul 1988 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He was buried 1 on 25 Jul 1988 in Mt. Vernon Church Cemetery, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Melvin served in the military WWII- a pastry chef in 1941.

Melvin married Living.

They had the following children:

  785 F i Camilla Jo CAPLES was born on 6 Jul 1947. She died on 18 Mar 1948. She was buried 1 in Mt. Vernon Cemetery, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.

Research needed: Believed to be the daughter of Melvin and Elizabeth Caples.
  786 F ii Living
  787 F iii Living

757. I D CAPLES "Joe" (Neiver ARRANT , Florence A. HICKS , Elizabeth LEE , Martin Batte LEE , Cato LEE , Mary CATO , John , George ) was born 1 on 17 Feb 1921 in West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. He died in 2002 in Florida. I D CAPLES served in the military U.S. Navy in 1941 in Pacific.

ID is his name. These are not initials for some other name.
ID, known as Joe during his military years, served with the U.S. Navy as a coxswain during WWII. During the war, his ship was hit by enemy fire, splitting it in half. He was on the surviving half. The damaged ship drifted for some time. Sailors who passed away were kept aboard so as not to attract sharks to the already deadly situation. The sailors ended up drinking saltwater in attempts to survive. ID developed an ulcerated stomach as a result. The medical problem followed him the rest of his life. He was finally rated as totally disabled later in life (during the 1970's).

I D CAPLES married Virginia A. KALLEVIG on 7 Nov 1944. Virginia was born 1 on 22 Jul 1925. She died on 17 Oct 1992 in Minnesota. She was buried in Minnesota.

They had the following children:

  788 M i Ron CAPLES was born about 1947. He died about 2000. The cause of death was a cancer.
  789 M ii Living
  790 M iii Living

759. Living (Neiver ARRANT , Florence A. HICKS , Elizabeth LEE , Martin Batte LEE , Cato LEE , Mary CATO , John , George )

Living married Living.

They had the following children:

+ 791 M i Living
+ 792 M ii Living
+ 793 F iii Living

760. Alton Buford CAPLES "Dutch" (Neiver ARRANT , Florence A. HICKS , Elizabeth LEE , Martin Batte LEE , Cato LEE , Mary CATO , John , George ) was born on 12 Apr 1927 in West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. He died on 9 Mar 1964 in a hospital in Sherveport, Louisiana. The cause of death was stomach cancer. He was buried 1 on 11 Mar 1964 in Hasley Cemetery, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Alton served in the military U.S. Army in 1942 in Philippines and Germany.

Alton was still a boy when World War II began in 1941. Being under aged (14 years old), Alton lied to the recruiter and enlisted in the Army. After training he was sent to the Philippines. While there, the Army discovered his true age and sent him home. After reaching an acceptable age, Alton enlisted a second time in the Army. This time he was sent to fight in Germany.

Alton married Living.

They had the following children:

  794 M i Living
  795 M ii Living

762. Mary Jo CAPLES [scrapbook] "Jody" (Neiver ARRANT , Florence A. HICKS , Elizabeth LEE , Martin Batte LEE , Cato LEE , Mary CATO , John , George ) was born 1 on 28 Sep 1932 in West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. She died on 15 Jul 1992 in Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana. The cause of death was breast cancer that led to a brain tumor. She was buried on 18 Jul 1992.

Mary Jo and Kenneth Hall married in North Dakota around 1974. After some years Mary attempted to acquire a copy of the divorce papers from James McDermitt. He told her, he had filed in California. He died during the 1980's from cancer. The State of California could not locate the papers. Mary concluded that Jim had not filed for divorce.
She and Ken decided to remarry at the:
Lord God of Saboath Lutheran Church
Christiansted, St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands
on Christmas morning (December 25, 12:05 am) 1988. Present at this very special midnight service were her daughters: Beverly Jo Frost (maid-of-honor), Barbara June Frost, and son-in-law, Alexandro Rivera (best man). Pastor Richard Stewart presiding. Pastor Stewart had married Barbara and Alex at this same church on August 8, 1985.

Mary married (1) Calvin Clenton FROST [scrapbook] 1 son of Wilbert Jackson FROST Sr. and Gennie LENARD on 23 Jun 1950 in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. The marriage ended in divorce.Calvin was born 2 on 11 Oct 1924 in Calhoun, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. He died on 7 May 1967 in Texas. He was buried 3 on 9 May 1967 in Pleasant Valley Cemetery, FrostTown, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.

Calvin joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1938 and served for a year and a half before being drafted into the Army.

Civilian Conservation Corps
I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work, not interfering with normal employment, and confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control, and similar projects.
Franklin D. Roosevelt March 21, 1933

In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt envisioned the (CCC) as a way to recruit thousands of unemployed young men, enroll them in a peacetime army, and send them into battle against destruction and erosion of our natural resources.
The Departments of War, Labor, Interior, and Agriculture made this massive mobilization of manpower a reality on April 17, 1933. About three million unemployed and unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 24 were enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Thousands of men were transported from eastern cities westward. Natural resource agencies, such as the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, moved their management activities 20-30 years ahead. Until the demise of the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1942, millions of men worked tirelessly on a myriad of natural resource projects.

During the nine years of the Civilian Conservation Corps:
* 89,000 miles of telephone line was installed * 126,000 miles of roads and trails were constructed * 6,459,000 man-days were expended fighting fires * 6,660,000 erosion control check dams were built * 2,356,000,000 trees were planted

As the country moved into World War II, the CCC was directly involved in assisting the Armed Forces with manpower and supplies. The CCC had in its ranks thousands of men, toughened by rigorous outside work, who were used to the strict discipline of the military. It is widely accepted that one important outcome of the Civilian Conservation Corps was the ability of the United States to win World War II.
USDA Forest Service, Southern Region George Washington & Jefferson National Forests

In the Fourth Corps Area, with a total of 198 camps, Alabama will have seventeen, Florida twenty-two, Georgia thirty-nine, Louisiana twenty-three, Mississippi sixteen, North Carolina thirty, South Carolina eighteen, and Tennessee thirty-three. The area will employ nearly 40,000 men.

More than 84,000 men will be put to work in the Ninth Corps Area. Camps approved total 460. California will have 148, Idaho ninety-six, Montana thirty-one, Nevada four, Oregon sixty-four, Utah twenty-six, Washington fifty-seven, and Wyoming fourteen.
Reprinted from AMERICAN FORESTS: The Magazine of The American Forestry Association, Washington, D. C. (July, 1933).

Louisiana:
Project Company Date Railroad Post Office
P-82 468 10/12/39 Bobeline Bobeline
SP-5 478 05/04/38 Mandeville Mandeville
F-79 1490 05/15/39 Reeves Reeves
P-80 1494 10/10/39 Pluker Grangeville
P-76 1495 12/19/37 Mandeville Mandeville
SCS-30 2441 04/25/40 Church Point Church Point
P-79 3496 07/07/40 Reeves Reeves
P-81 3498/C 09/26/39 Houghton Houghton
SCS-32 4403 08/09/41 Franklin Franklin
SCS-31 4404 06/20/40 Gonzales Gonzales
SCS-22 4412 04/10/39 Jamestown Ringgold
SCS-10 4413 09/29/38 Sikes Dodson
SCS-29 4414 06/04/40 DeRidder DeRidder
SCS-28 4421 09/09/39 Franklinton Franklinton
ASCS-1 6463 05/23/41 Camp Livingston Camp Livingston
LOUISIANA -1 Project: The number given by the state to the project and camp
Company: The number given by the federal government to each company. Some company numbers have a letter following the number. "C" stands for colored meaning the company was made up of African-Americans. "V" stands for veterans meaning the company was made up of veterans of World War One.
Date: The date that company occupied that particular camp.
Railroad: The closest town to the camp that had a railroad stop.
Post Office: The closest town to the camp that had a post office.

Calvin served in the U.S. Army between 1940-1944. He was with the 560th Compt Svc Co, WWII. He served in Calcutta, India and helped to build the Burma Road to China.

They had the following children:

  796 F i Living
        Living married Living.
  797 F ii Living
        Living married Living.
+ 798 F iii Living

Mary married (2) Living.

Mary married (3) Living.

Mary married (4) Living.

769. Living ( , , James , Jesse , Vincent , Henry , John , George )

Living married Living.

They had the following children:

  799 M i Living

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