Year: 2020

The links below are provided as primary source materials to be used for Poythress family history studies of descendants of James Speed Poythress (1829 – 1923) and Martha (Mattie) Grice Poythress, née Raiford (1840 – 1917). Please attribute citations to the primary sources rather than this post. Legacy.com Obituary Biography An autobiography of George William Poythress is on the AMA History Project website. More information about the AMA History Project can be found at https://www.modelaircraft.org/museum/history-recognition/ama-history-project Academy of Model Aeronautics Autobiography of George William Poythress

Source: Veterans Affairs master index, prior war file | 76193916| RG 15, Powell, J. B. – Price, Lewis, dup roll 185A, pt. 2 of 4, 1917-1940 Record Accessed: FamilySearch.org

Record as appears in Ancestry Database: Name: Charles Asa Paythress White Gender: Hombre (Male) Age: 82 Birth Date: abt 1896 Death Registration Date: 13 sep. 1978 Death Registration Place: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México (Mexico) Father: Charles Asa Paytheress White Mother: Lucy Eleonor White Spouse: Maria Concepción Ibarra de Paythress Page Number: 67 Source Citation Archivo del Registro Civil (Civil Registry State Archives); Jalisco, Mexico Source Information Ancestry.com. Jalisco, Mexico, Civil Registration Deaths, 1856-1987 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Mexico. State of Jalisco Civil Registration. Registro Civil del Estado de Jalisco, México. Courtesy of the Academia Mexicana de Genealogia y Heraldica. About Jalisco, Mexico, Civil Registration Deaths, 1856-1987 Civil registration began on a national level in Mexico in 1859, though enforcement and compliance were not always strict at first. This collection contains civil records of deaths for the state of Jalisco. You’ll find the records in a number of different formats. Early…

Bill Poythress from Brooklyn Flight Squadron Insignia Submission: This artifact was found (January, 2020) in a newspaper from May 1937 where it was used as insulation in an old farmhouse floor in New York. 

November 14, 1937 – January 14, 2020