Official registration list, Division No. 1, Greater Birmingham: Dee Sisson
17 July 1917 · The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.)
Named here: Dee Jackson Sisson
Transcription
Read from the image (line breaks not kept). The clipped region is the foot of the first column of a page-wide list; only the entries around his are given.
- Hugh Hartwell Myers, 221 68th st.
- Jarvis Fletcher McCary, Jr., Kings highway.
- Earnest Staples, 6302 4th ave., North Birmingham.
- Dee Sisson, 311 Edmonds st.
- James Joseph O'Hare, 66th st. and 10th ave.
- George Washington Schreck, Jr., 6500 Sloss ave.
- William Henry Yessick, 7224 Sloss avenue.
- Alvin Roland Winn, 212 Grace st.
The head of the page (not in the clipped region; read from the whole page) says that the paper would publish "the complete registration lists of Greater Birmingham, with their red numbers", the numbers in red ink given to each man's card by division; that division No. 1 included East Lake, Vanderbilt, Gate City, Woodlawn, Avondale and East Birmingham; and that the key numbers for division 1 began "10-A, Wahouma drug store. Nos. 1 to 161, inclusive."
Citation: "Official Registration List, Division No. 1, Greater Birmingham," The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.), Tuesday 17 July 1917, p. 8; image, Chronicling America, Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85038485/1917-07-17/ed-1/?sp=8).
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| Person | Fact | Document says | Tree says | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dee Jackson Sisson | Draft registration | Registered in Greater Birmingham, Division No. 1, red number 81 | Draft registration 1917–1918, Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama | agrees |
| Dee Jackson Sisson | Residence | "311 Edmonds st.", July 1917 | Not recorded for 1917 (Birmingham in 1920) | new |