Veteran Information
Date of Birth: 2/21/1921
Date of Death: 7/16/2010 Last Residence: 11952 Mattituck Suffolk New York
Address: Greenhaven Road
Branch of Service: U.S. Army-WWII
Service Number: 42030794
Description
James McEachern BarrJames McEachern Barr was born on February 21, 1921, in Greenville, South Carolina, to Nell Arnold McEachern, age 25, and Walter Stuart Barr, age 29. In Rye his family lived on Greenhaven Road.
James attended the University of North Carolina for two years before the outbreak of war.
He enlisted and served for three-and-one- half years in the United States Air Force during World War II, with the Air Transport Command. At present he is with a costume jewelry concern.
After the war James was working with a costume jewelry concern. He married Ruth Findley in June 1948. They had one child during their marriage.
James McEachern Barr died on July 16, 2010 in Lakewood, NJ, at the age of 89.
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My grandfather James McEachern Barr was not accepted in the draft. You have the correct marriage and parentage, birth and death listed here for my grandfather James McEachearn Barr but the article is for a different man James Marc Barr. The differences are that my grandfather did his undergraduate at Maryville College TN and then went to New York seminary which is where he was schooling when the US joined the war. He tried to enlist but was rejected due bad vision and flat feet. You may wish to look up the correct birth and death dates for this veteran instead, and it may help you to consider that the sides name in this article is Rose Harvey, not Ruth, who is my grandmother and the only wife my grandfather ever had. Water Stuart Barr coincidentally is also one of my grandfather’s brothers, the other brother of his being Byrd if that helps to separate the two men to their unique identities. We may be distantly related, though I would not know how.