Joseph Bernard HAMLIN

Birth:
23 Jan 1879
Star Prairie, St. Croix, Wisconsin
Death:
22 Jan 1933
Riverside, Riverside, California
Burial:
25 Jan 1933
Riverside, California
Marriage:
23 Dec 1920
Lynchburg, Campbell, Va
Notes:
                       Ran away from home while a teenager and joined the army. He served
    in the Boxer Rebellion, Spanish American War and World War l. He  was
    wounded in the leg during WWl, but didn't know it until that night.
    It was
    a clean shot right thru the leg. He served with Captain "Blood and
    Guts"
    Patton. His rank was Sargeant Major or Master Sergeant. He retired
    from the service in 1920 just before his marriage .He was commander of
    both the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars in
    Riverside.
    He drove a taxi for a while and worked for the Tip Top Laundry to
    supplement his retirement income.
    He loved to be active, enjoyed dancing and taught his children to
    swim.
    He died the day before his 54th birthday. His children were  5,9 and
    ll.
    Personal knowledge of wife, Corinne Parrish Hamlin.
    1880 census of Star Prairie, St. Croix County, Wisc., enumeration
    238,
    shows him to be one year old and son of Nelson a
Corinne Matilda PARRISH
Birth:
16 Jun 1894
Lynchburg, Virginia
Death:
19 Dec 1973
Riverside, California
Burial:
Dec 1973
Riverside, California
Notes:
                       Personal knowledge of Alan P. Hamlin.
    Corinne grew up in  favorable circumstances. Her father was a painting
    contractor who was able to provide quite well for his family. She went
    to a finishing school in Virginia. Her first job was with the
    telephone
    company. She enjoyed playing tennis.
    After twelve years of marriage she was widowed and left with three
    children. She took a course in secretarial work at a business college
    and,since it was in the middle of the depression, 1933-1934, she got
    on
    with the PWA, WPA, NRA, etc. set up by Pres. Roosevelt. Later she was
    hired by the Mission Inn doing secretarial work.She was a tireless
    worker and learned how to stand up for her rights. She was a loving
    mother and a good provider altho her income was small. We made do with
    what we had.
    She learned to drive, bought a car, drove her friends all over, also
    her
    children. She loved to play bridge and had a group of friends who got
    together frequently for forty or more years until they started passing
    away.
    She was a great mother and always tried to provide us with the things
    that  other kids had. We were able to go to summer camp and take piano
    lessons or dance lessons.  She was a great example to me of what a
    widowed mother could do if she put her mind to it. She was also an
    eternal optimist.
    I, Alan, have a picture of her when she was in her late teens or early
    20's. She was slim and trim on the tennis court and looked very
    pretty. I
    believe she normally was about 5'4" and somewhere around 100 pounds.
    She had light skin and probably dark brown hair. In her later years
    she
    had shrunk to about
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    NAME Joseph (Jack) Bernard Jr. /Hamlin/

    Personal knowledge of Alan P. Hamlin.
    Father died when Jack (Joseph, Jr.) was  eleven years old.  He did
    yard
    work, was a service station attendant and worked in a grocery store
    during his teen age years. Jack was studious and always got good
    grades
    in school.He was a graduate of Poly High School and Riverside Junior
    College (1941). He entered the  Air Corps as a cadet in Jan 1942 right
    after the war started. He received his commision as a bombardier and
    later became a navigator. He was an instructor at the  air base at
    Walla
    Walla, Wash. After his discharge as a Captain, he went to work as a
    land
    appraiser in Riverside.
    Jack was rather stait-laced as a young man, but developed a drinking
    problem while in the service. It caused problems with his marriage and
    with  his children. He and Laurie split up several times and finally
    ended
    in divorce. The kids went with one parent, then the other. At the
    time of
    his death (suicide), he and Laurie were living in the same home with
    their kids.
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Joseph Bernard Hamlin - Corinne Matilda Parrish

Joseph Bernard Hamlin was born at Star Prairie, St. Croix, Wisconsin 23 Jan 1879. His parents were Narcisse(Nelson) Theopil Hamelin and Julie Cloutier.

He married Corinne Matilda Parrish 23 Dec 1920 at Lynchburg, Campbell, Va . Corinne Matilda Parrish was born at Lynchburg, Virginia 16 Jun 1894 daughter of John Christopher Parrish and Virginia Elizabeth Parrish .

They were the parents of 3 children:
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Joseph Bernard Hamlin died 22 Jan 1933 at Riverside, Riverside, California .

Corinne Matilda Parrish died 19 Dec 1973 at Riverside, California .