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Albert John “Shorty” Graul

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Albert John “Shorty” Graul

Birth
Verona, Lawrence County, Missouri, USA
Death
20 Jan 1964 (aged 58)
Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri, USA
Burial
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h/o Olive F Fuller.

Birth: 1st of four known children in Lawrence county, Missouri.

Census: 1910, age 5 Spring River township, Lawrence county, Missouri with parents, maternal grandmother, three sibling, plus one ten y/o (?) Annie Graul, father a farmer.

Census: 1920, age 14 Spring River township, Lawrence county, Missouri with parents & four younger siblings, father a farmer.

~ Newspaper Article —
Columbia Missourian — 2 January 1929

NEW MARBLE PLANT STARTED

Carthage Firm to Supply Pulverized Building Material


CARTHAGE Mo to Jan 2 4 UPI UP; Carthage marble will soon be extensively used in the manufacture of pulverized marble into cast and carved pieces for building purposes e The Nucarth Stone Company has been formed and has leased marble properties northwest of here. Machinery has been installed and operation will start immediately for for the manufacture of the material The first shipment will be made next week for a school building in Junction City, Kan. The cast material is made by pulverizing the Carthage marble and mixing it with a cement adherent The cast marble serving as a substitute for regularly cut marble can be cast into forms approximately the size and shape desired the same as quarried marble. ......

SOURCE: Publication Title: Columbia Missourian
Source: University of Missouri School of Journalism [Missouri Digital Heritage]
Country/State of Publication: Missouri, United States

~ Newspaper story:
Joplin Globe
Thursday, September 19, 1929
page 7

NUCARTH STONE COMPANY LEASES NEW QUARTERS

Carthage, Mo., Sept. 18.—The large two-story building erected several years ago for a tannery at the east end of Central avenue has been leased by the NuCarth Stone Company of Carthage, which will move to the location as soon as remodeling work, now in progress, is completed. The plant employs from fifteen to twenty-five men, but within a short time the number will be increased. The firm was forced to lease the new property to handle its expanding business. The firm crushes limestone, Carthage Marble, as a base for molding building material, which is an imitation of Carthage marble.

Census: 1930, age 24 Grawl, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri boarding at 429 south Garrison avenue, (aka U S #71, the Jefferson Highway) plaster, at pressed stone company, (Nurcarth stone company (?)).

~ City Directory: 1937, married at 117 south Fulton street, Carthage. manager, Nucarth Stone company.

Census: 1940, age 38(sic) Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife at 117 south Fulton street, manager, construction company (B & G (Boggess & Graul), construction company, affectionately called, "Bend & Get It").

~ City Directory: 1941, married at 117 south Fulton street.

~ City Directories: 1956, 57 & 60, married at 1712 south Main street, president B & G construction company.

Affectionately known as "Shorty", this 6' 5" stout man, was working at the Nucarth Stone company, started by Nebraskan, George Busboom, who was also the prime party gathering some six stone quarry's together to create The Carthage Marble Corporation 1 MAR 1927 and was serving as its 2nd president when killed in his airplane May 1930 at Tulsa, Oklahoma. George also partnered with brother Frank Busboom in the Busboom Bros construction company, who moved to Carthage from Fairbury, Nebraska and in 1929 built Carthage's 50 bed McCune-Brooks hospital.

Nucarth Stone company's location was, east of River street on extension of Central avenue, south of the old Juvenile shoe factory building purchased by Steadley Spring Bed company. Kent D Steadley had been the 1st president of Carthage Marble until he took over the spring bed company.

Widow Busboom married Luke J Boggess APR 1932, whom "Shorty" later joined with forming the B & G Construction company, & other company's, which operated successfully for many years constructing underground utilities, ie sanitary sewers, water mains, storm sewers , a housing project following WW II west of Baker Boulevard north of Oak street, U S #66, The Mother Road, with projects in and out of the state of Missouri, also built & owned, Carthage's historic, Colonial Apartment complex, at Garrison & Walnut in 1948. They likewise jointly owned a farm northwest from Carthage where the Carthage sewage works would dump their treated solid wastes, to enrich the soil.

"Shorty" & Luke salvaged lumber from the Judge Edmund O Brown home, site of his father-in-law's burnt down home, which may have been originally built by Senator, Col C C Allen, at location where the apartments were built in 1948, using it in their new homes, "Shorty" at 1712 south Main, Luke, 615 Euclid.

"Shorty" had large feet and he learned wherever he could walk on soft land it was safe to have the heavy construction equipment move on to such as large back-hoes, etc. He was also a great sportsman, hunting locally and in Canada, etc, and his wife Olive maintained her supervisory job in Webb City till retirement.

Death: in Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri.

Father: Henry, Graul b: about 1860 Missouri.
Mother: Anna Marie Muller b: about 1877 Missouri.

Marriage: Olive F Fuller b: 21 AUG 1913 Missouri.
Married: 31 DEC 1930, Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri.

No known issues

Transferred 25 OCT 2014 then prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
h/o Olive F Fuller.

Birth: 1st of four known children in Lawrence county, Missouri.

Census: 1910, age 5 Spring River township, Lawrence county, Missouri with parents, maternal grandmother, three sibling, plus one ten y/o (?) Annie Graul, father a farmer.

Census: 1920, age 14 Spring River township, Lawrence county, Missouri with parents & four younger siblings, father a farmer.

~ Newspaper Article —
Columbia Missourian — 2 January 1929

NEW MARBLE PLANT STARTED

Carthage Firm to Supply Pulverized Building Material


CARTHAGE Mo to Jan 2 4 UPI UP; Carthage marble will soon be extensively used in the manufacture of pulverized marble into cast and carved pieces for building purposes e The Nucarth Stone Company has been formed and has leased marble properties northwest of here. Machinery has been installed and operation will start immediately for for the manufacture of the material The first shipment will be made next week for a school building in Junction City, Kan. The cast material is made by pulverizing the Carthage marble and mixing it with a cement adherent The cast marble serving as a substitute for regularly cut marble can be cast into forms approximately the size and shape desired the same as quarried marble. ......

SOURCE: Publication Title: Columbia Missourian
Source: University of Missouri School of Journalism [Missouri Digital Heritage]
Country/State of Publication: Missouri, United States

~ Newspaper story:
Joplin Globe
Thursday, September 19, 1929
page 7

NUCARTH STONE COMPANY LEASES NEW QUARTERS

Carthage, Mo., Sept. 18.—The large two-story building erected several years ago for a tannery at the east end of Central avenue has been leased by the NuCarth Stone Company of Carthage, which will move to the location as soon as remodeling work, now in progress, is completed. The plant employs from fifteen to twenty-five men, but within a short time the number will be increased. The firm was forced to lease the new property to handle its expanding business. The firm crushes limestone, Carthage Marble, as a base for molding building material, which is an imitation of Carthage marble.

Census: 1930, age 24 Grawl, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri boarding at 429 south Garrison avenue, (aka U S #71, the Jefferson Highway) plaster, at pressed stone company, (Nurcarth stone company (?)).

~ City Directory: 1937, married at 117 south Fulton street, Carthage. manager, Nucarth Stone company.

Census: 1940, age 38(sic) Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife at 117 south Fulton street, manager, construction company (B & G (Boggess & Graul), construction company, affectionately called, "Bend & Get It").

~ City Directory: 1941, married at 117 south Fulton street.

~ City Directories: 1956, 57 & 60, married at 1712 south Main street, president B & G construction company.

Affectionately known as "Shorty", this 6' 5" stout man, was working at the Nucarth Stone company, started by Nebraskan, George Busboom, who was also the prime party gathering some six stone quarry's together to create The Carthage Marble Corporation 1 MAR 1927 and was serving as its 2nd president when killed in his airplane May 1930 at Tulsa, Oklahoma. George also partnered with brother Frank Busboom in the Busboom Bros construction company, who moved to Carthage from Fairbury, Nebraska and in 1929 built Carthage's 50 bed McCune-Brooks hospital.

Nucarth Stone company's location was, east of River street on extension of Central avenue, south of the old Juvenile shoe factory building purchased by Steadley Spring Bed company. Kent D Steadley had been the 1st president of Carthage Marble until he took over the spring bed company.

Widow Busboom married Luke J Boggess APR 1932, whom "Shorty" later joined with forming the B & G Construction company, & other company's, which operated successfully for many years constructing underground utilities, ie sanitary sewers, water mains, storm sewers , a housing project following WW II west of Baker Boulevard north of Oak street, U S #66, The Mother Road, with projects in and out of the state of Missouri, also built & owned, Carthage's historic, Colonial Apartment complex, at Garrison & Walnut in 1948. They likewise jointly owned a farm northwest from Carthage where the Carthage sewage works would dump their treated solid wastes, to enrich the soil.

"Shorty" & Luke salvaged lumber from the Judge Edmund O Brown home, site of his father-in-law's burnt down home, which may have been originally built by Senator, Col C C Allen, at location where the apartments were built in 1948, using it in their new homes, "Shorty" at 1712 south Main, Luke, 615 Euclid.

"Shorty" had large feet and he learned wherever he could walk on soft land it was safe to have the heavy construction equipment move on to such as large back-hoes, etc. He was also a great sportsman, hunting locally and in Canada, etc, and his wife Olive maintained her supervisory job in Webb City till retirement.

Death: in Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri.

Father: Henry, Graul b: about 1860 Missouri.
Mother: Anna Marie Muller b: about 1877 Missouri.

Marriage: Olive F Fuller b: 21 AUG 1913 Missouri.
Married: 31 DEC 1930, Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri.

No known issues

Transferred 25 OCT 2014 then prepared in part by Bill Boggess.


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  • Created by: D Snyder
  • Added: Jun 3, 2012
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91301543/albert_john-graul: accessed ), memorial page for Albert John “Shorty” Graul (31 Mar 1905–20 Jan 1964), Find a Grave Memorial ID 91301543, citing Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery, Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri, USA; Maintained by D Snyder (contributor 47280500).