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- Elbert Lee Lynam lived his boyhood in Mexia and Corsicana, Texas. He served in the U. S. Army in World War I. He earned the rank of Corporal on November 11, 1917, at Camp Travis, Texas, and sergeant in the Machine Gun 359th Infantry on April 1, 1918. He fought in seversl major battles near Brest, France, and was wounded when struck in the left leg by shrapnel. He was rescued wounded from the battlefield when the Armistice was signed after being overcome by mustard gas. He returned to the United States aboard the U. S. S. Leviathan, a U. S. Navy armed transport. After the war, he and his father, Marshall Duffie Lynam drilled oil wells in Texas and Oklahoma prior to movint to Bishop, Texas. In Bishop, he met May Pierson, whose family had moved to Bishop from Grandview, Texas and purchased farm land in 1912 when May was 11 years old. He married May Pierson on Saturday, January 14, 1922, when May was 20 years old and he was 27. They had planned to be married on Friday, but since Friday was the 13th, they waited until the next day. They were married in Kingsville, Texas by a Baptist minister, Reverend Clark. Roy Lynam later gave them a 1922 siler dollar. They traveled in a new Buick to the Nueces Hotel in Corpus Christi, then to the Travelers Hotel In San Antonio, then to visit Lee's cousin in Dallas. Notes by Gwen Lynam Tilley
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1894 - 1969 (74 years)
