Finding a WWII draft registration card for a Florida man named John Jones born around 1900?
I have a question:
Do any WWII draft registration cards for a Florida man named John Jones born around 1900 exist on Ancestry.com?
FWIW, I think that these are his two 1940 Florida US Census entries: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTHY-181
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTHG-3L6
If my information (from the 110 Club supercentenarian forum) is correct, and there's no case of mistaken identity, he claimed to have died at the age of 111 on February 12, 2010. (I have reason to suspect that he might have been 110 rather than 111 at the time of his death, but I can't be sure because he's listed in the 1900 US Census under a different name. So, is it him or an older brother of his? But according to the 1920 US Census, he had a sister born just two years after him, so he could have only been one year younger at the very most, so 109 rather than 110. But all of this is beside the point here.)
I'm wondering if any WWII draft registration cards exist for him because I'd like to see what exactly he claimed for his birth date during this time. He claimed a February 6, 1899 birth date later on in his life, but I don't know if that's already what he claimed in the 1940s. And I could not find any likely WWI draft registration cards for him either (whose collections are available to search on FamilySearch.org).
His likely 1940 US Census entries above should give us indications as to where he was likely living at the time of the WWII draft.
Does anyone here have anything that could help in this case?
Answers
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I found two (2) records for a "John Jones" born 6 Feb 1899 in Florida. Both have a middle name other than "Henry":
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name John Paul Jones
Relative J P Jones
Birth 6 Feb 1899 Mobile, Alabama
Residence 1942 Mobile, Mobile, Alabama
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Draft, enlistment and service
Name John Thomas Jones
Relative Idella Jones
Birth 6 Feb 1899 Marion, Ohio
Residence Bowling Green Twp, Marion, Ohio
Expanding the search to include +/- 2 years for the birth date and adding "any event" in "Jefferson county, Florida" and then expanding that field to include "adjacent counties" yields 6 WWII draft records:
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Draft, enlistment and service
Name
Johnnie J Jones
Relative
David Jones
Birth
31 Dec 1900 Monticello, Florida
Residence
1942 Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida
2.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Draft, enlistment and service
Name
Johnny Jones
Relative
Ruby Jones
Birth
20 Dec 1901 Madison, Florida
Residence
1942 Madison, Madison, Florida
3.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Draft, enlistment and service
Name
John McCloud Jones
Relative
White Belt Dairy
Birth
18 Feb 1898 Dixie, Georgia
Residence
1942 Miami, Dade, Florida
4.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Draft, enlistment and service
Name
J Paul Jones
Relative
Lila Marie Jones
Birth
6 Oct 1898 Brooks, USA
5.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Draft, enlistment and service
Name
Jacob J C Jones
Relative
Mallory Mitchell Jones
Birth
10 Apr 1900 Thomasville, USA
6.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Draft, enlistment and service
Name
John Johnes
Relative
Mattie Jones
Birth
2 Oct 1898 Thomas, USA
Do you have a record for this man in FamilySearch yet? When I looked, neither of the sources you linked to were attached to anyone in Family Tree.
One of the sources you cited linked to this similar record in NUMIDENT:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTHY-181
Can you please provide links to the 1920 and 1900 census records that you alluded to?
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Here he is in 1920:
Here he is in 1900:
He's listed under a different name here, but his name might have been changed sometime between 1900 and 1920 (I could not find a 1910 US Census entry for him) and while it's possible that it is an older brother of his, it's unlikely because the 1920 US Census shows that he has an 18-year-old sister named Louisa/Louise.
Louisa/Louise Jones apparently died in December 2007 at the age of 106:
This is John Henry Jones in the 1935 Florida state census:
And here he is in the 1940 US Census:
Here he is listed again, separately, in the 1940 US Census:
It is very likely him because his age and name both roughly match and because even though he is enumerated at Port Tampa, his place of residence is listed as Monticello, Jefferson, Florida.
Apparently here he is in the 1945 Florida state census:
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There's a very real chance that the John Jones who was born in Monticello in 1900 and who registered in Tampa in 1942 is the John Jones that I want to know about. At the very least, it matches the information that was given on one of his 1940 US Census entries.
That said, though, I noticed that there is some problem in clicking the links that I have provided above, so I think that it would be prudent for me to make a family tree for this man. He apparently died in February 2010, so doing this should be OK, right?
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Yes, entering a profile for a deceased person is fine -- although given the various census projects and such, do check first for an existing profile (or three).
The links don't work because the Community software has eaten them. (It applies URL encoding to the colons, turning them into %3A, but then doesn't resolve them back into colons when you try to use the link.) To avoid this problem, do not give URLs their own line, and do not use the "insert link" button from the mystery-meat menu at the bottom of the comment box.
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Thanks, Julia!
So, I created a profile for him here: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/GWKK-T15
And also here is a possible 1950 US Census entry for him, but I did not attach it to his profile because I had too much doubt about it due to his children's names not matching with the 1935 and 1940 censuses: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X2Q-CCGB
For what it's worth, some research was previously done on this man on the 110 Club forum: https://the110club.com/john-jones-1899-2010-us-fl-t748-s75.html
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@James F. Carroll Also, can you please try doing a search for the name Henry Jones in WWII draft records? He might have gone by that name during this time instead. Apparently he was born in Monticello, Jefferson County, Florida but was living at least part-time in Port Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida in the early 1940s. This is why I believe that one of the card informations that you posted above might be a match. It does match one of his 1940 US Census entries, after all. The main issue/problem is that I don't know who David Jones is. I don't seem to recall him having a relative of that name. I will continue searching in the meantime in an attempt to solve this question. But Yeah, it's still worthwhile to search for Henry Jones for the WWII draft records since maybe he's listed somewhere over there instead.
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