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Henry Wesley “Bud” Pettit

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Henry Wesley “Bud” Pettit

Birth
Cheyenne County, Kansas, USA
Death
30 Jun 1976 (aged 62)
Lander, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
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In 1935 Henry Wesley "Bud" lost his parents and 5 brothers and 1 sister in the 1935 Republican River Flood in Nebraska.

WW2 draft card
Henry Wesley Pettit, male, white, 26, b. Cheyenne (Co) KS, 2/20/1914, living Haigler, Dundy Co, NE at time of registration on 10/16/1940, occupation - John Havlik, 158 pounds, lit. complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, 5'9".
1940 US Fed Census
Henry W. Pettit, 26, male, white, born Kansas, married, living rural Haigler, Dundy Co, NE, also there in 1935, farm laborer, renting, school elem, 8th grade, worked 52 weeks in 1939.
Henry W. Pettit, 26
Nellie M. Pettit, 25, born KS, school H. S. 4 years
Margaret L. Pettit, 4, born 1936
Albert L 1, born about 1939

Their two children were Margaret Louise Pettit and a son, Albert Lawrence Pettit.

Henry "Bud" drove 18 wheeler gas haulers for R. B. Wilson and also drove big rigs in the uranium mines. His sister, Mary McClain, had written in her notes that the family had lived in Akron, Colorado also where Henry "Bud" worked for Goodman Seed and Feed Company driving trucks all over the United States. Later after the family moved to Wyoming, they had a service station at Jeffrey City, Wyoming.
In 1935 Henry Wesley "Bud" lost his parents and 5 brothers and 1 sister in the 1935 Republican River Flood in Nebraska.

WW2 draft card
Henry Wesley Pettit, male, white, 26, b. Cheyenne (Co) KS, 2/20/1914, living Haigler, Dundy Co, NE at time of registration on 10/16/1940, occupation - John Havlik, 158 pounds, lit. complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, 5'9".
1940 US Fed Census
Henry W. Pettit, 26, male, white, born Kansas, married, living rural Haigler, Dundy Co, NE, also there in 1935, farm laborer, renting, school elem, 8th grade, worked 52 weeks in 1939.
Henry W. Pettit, 26
Nellie M. Pettit, 25, born KS, school H. S. 4 years
Margaret L. Pettit, 4, born 1936
Albert L 1, born about 1939

Their two children were Margaret Louise Pettit and a son, Albert Lawrence Pettit.

Henry "Bud" drove 18 wheeler gas haulers for R. B. Wilson and also drove big rigs in the uranium mines. His sister, Mary McClain, had written in her notes that the family had lived in Akron, Colorado also where Henry "Bud" worked for Goodman Seed and Feed Company driving trucks all over the United States. Later after the family moved to Wyoming, they had a service station at Jeffrey City, Wyoming.

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