1898 - 1968 (69 years)
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Name |
BRUCE Cropp Roy |
Born |
14 Apr 1898 |
Clanton, Chilton Co., AL |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
21 Feb 1968 |
Newburg, Orange County, NY |
Person ID |
I0059 |
Combo |
Last Modified |
22 Aug 2009 |
Father |
BRUCE Charley Rufus, b. 9 Apr 1856, Lawrence Co., AL , d. 15 Jan 1919, Clanton, Chilton Co., AL (Age 62 years) |
Mother |
LOWE Martha Lightfoot, b. 8 Sep 1858, Wetumpka, Elmore County, AL , d. 24 Sep 1926, Tarrant, Jefferson Co., AL (Age 68 years) |
Married |
10 Oct 1881 |
Clanton, Chilton Co., AL |
Family ID |
F0002 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 1 |
FURCHAK Irene Marie, b. 29 Jan 1921, d. 19 Nov 1979 (Age 58 years) |
Children |
| 1. FURCHAK Steven, b. Private |
| 2. BRUCE Mary Ann, b. 16 Oct 1939, Brooklyn, NY , d. 30 Jul 2001, Newburg, Orange County, NY (Age 61 years) |
| 3. BRUCE Anna May, b. Private |
| 4. BRUCE Leroy T., b. Private |
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Family ID |
F0032 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Notes |
- April 24, 1917 enlisted in Anniston, AL for the World War. He was 19 years old at the time. The application shows he was living in Clanton, AL at the time. He was discharged on June 17, 1919, with no injuries received in action.
1920 Census Crop Roy Bruce was living in Leeds, Jefferson County, AL He and a wife named Edith and sons Robert and Charles lived next door to Robert and Thelma Bruce. Robert was Cropp Boy's brother.
From an e-mail from Patti to Linda and Ina on 6/26/02: Does your Mom remember what Crop's wife's name was? the one he tried to do in?
From an e-mail from Linda to Howard on 7/25/02: I found Robert D and Thelma Bruce in Leeds Alabama, just where they were suposed to be BUT right next door was Roy Bruce with a wife, Edith, sons; Robert and Charles. Robert is 6 so he was born in about 1914 before WWI. So, Howard is it possible for you to go to the County Court House and look into Marriage Records to see if Cropp Roy married an Edith in about 1913 to 1914. There is a chance that Robert could be hers and not theirs but very doubtful. Could sure use this information. Also, if you could check on a divorce after 1937.
From an e-mail from Linda to Jamile on 7/25/02: He had just got out about 1937 to 1939 for cuting a woman's throat, think it was his wife and he did about 11 years. Which means that he would have been in the pen when the 1930 census was taken. His SS number was issued in 1932 in Pen and I remember reading that some of the first SS# were isssued to prisoners. So there is a very good chance that he was in prison in Pen. Mom remembers him and a woman, most likey his wife, and at least one child, a girl, showing up at their place in Leeds. Mom remembers Granny saying "after that she went back to him" or words to that effect. This was not Anna May and Leroy's mother. So by 1942 they were not together. He was in Brooklyn area and living with Anna May's mother. They were married years later, just before she or he died. Probably had to wait for a divorce to come through. Anna May remembers her dad saying he did 11 years, someting about doing time for his boss and tax money. Sure that this is the same time but for differnent reasons. Unless someone else did it and he took the blame. Could have happened that way but doubt it. Howard is going to look for information. Might ask your Dad or Harry if they know anything about Cropp Roy, he went by Roy, and what went down. Would have been in the late 20's. I am sure that by 1938 or 1939 both boy's would have been gone from home so that is why they might not have showed up at Granny and Grandad's and that is why Mom doesn't remember them. They weren't there.
From Ina Andre, September 2004: Copy of military enlistment card showing residence of Clanton, AL. Enlisted in Anniston, AL on April 24, 1917, at the age of 19 years, as a Private. Honorably discharged on June 17, 1919.
From Raymond Bruce in 2005: Moved to Flushing, NY about 1945.
About 1948 moved to Six Mile Run, PA; did not have running water, no electricity, and had an outhouse.
About 1951 worked as a baker in a private boys school in Lakeville, CT. Then he decided to open his own bakery. It did well and he moved just over the state line to Millerton, NY. There, he did well until a fire. He had no fire insurance. From there, he moved his family to Newburgh, NY around 1953. He got a job at a hotel in New Windsor, but that closed in a few years. He then went to work for a college in Dutchess County, on the other side of the Hudson River where he opened his own bakery, again.
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