Melvin Everett Craddock ^{1 2}

  Death Notes:

Name: Melvin Everett Craddock
Sex: Male
Race: White
Death Date: June 23, 1940
Death Place: Ohio River, McMechen, Union, Marshall, West Virginia
Age at Death: 17y 5m 14d
Time of Death: 3:30 PM
Cause of Death: Drowning, capsized rowboat, accident on the Ohio River at McMechen
Burial Place: Moundsville, West Virginia
Burial Date: June 26, 1940
Cemetery: Mt. Rose Cemetery
Funeral Home: B. W. Riggs, Moundsville, West Virginia
Birth Date: January 9, 1923
Birth Place: Calhoun County, West Virginia
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: School
Residence: 5th & Baltimore, McMechen, Marshall, West Virginia
Mother: Eva Craddock
Mother's Birth Place: West Virginia
Father: Melvin Starcher
Father's Birth Place: Charleston, West Virginia
Informant: Mrs. O. M. Oliver, McMechen, West Virginia
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1930 US Census in Sherman Magisterial District, Calhoun, West Virginia, United States on 14 April 1930. ²

1930 US Census
Sheet 6A, District 6, Dwelling 95, Family 95, Roll 2530
Sherman District, Calhoun County, West Virginia
Melvin E. Craddock..Grandson..6..WV
(Living with mother at the home of his widowed maternal grandmother.)

NOTE - If his birth date was 9 Jan 1923, then his age should have been 7 instead of 6.
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• He was buried on 26 June 1940 in the Mount Rose in Moundsville, WV.