VIRGINIA

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WORK IN PROGRESS AS OF FEBRUARY 13, 2024

 

VIRGINIA 1950 CENSUS

 

In the 1940 census and especially now in the 1950 Census, the handwriting on the sheets is a bit better. But now that people are using Ancestry and Family Search and putting their family trees up on the sites, and the sites themselves have much better search engines and send you to a whole bunch of info docs and records. I now can find a family sheet on about everyone and many on the wife’s side. When I first started doing this in the very early 1970s, all that was available to see was up to the 1900. There was no such thing as on-line and the computers then were the size of a locker room. I had to drive out to Waltham, Massachusetts to the U. S. Library, beg for a film real of the dates and State I wanted and then look at it through a visual device in a back dark room and literally go page to page, county to county and write the info down on paper with a pencil. At that time, really the most people doing genealogy were older women, mostly retired school teachers in their 70s and 80s, who would send you hand written trees and info and stuff that they had back a couple of generations. Once in a while I would get an actual typewritten document. Wow! Got much better in the 1990s. Now it is soooo easy to get info you didn’t think was possible. Back in the 70s I tried calling folks, and got a hold of several who had info. Now just an e-mail can bring in a ton of info. In Virginia, Most of the Putnam and Putman families are on the Southern Putman line that started here in 1647. The Putnam name got changed to Putman in many cases as that’s how it sounded. Then after the Revolution, many of the Southern families changed to Putnam, not because they knew that’s how it started, but because they wanted to be  kinfolk to generals Israel and Rufus Putnam so some changed. In North Carolina the bulk did just that. Anyway, really enjoy these censuses, and if you can add or correct, please let me know so I can help others.

 

 

ALBERT FULLER PUTNAM  Clifton Forge, Alleghany County

He is now 53 VA and still a conductor on the railroad. He is widowed since Golah Ethel Dudley died here June 25, 1942. He still has at home Bonnie Jean 16 VA, Dennis Dudley 13 VA and Charles Bernard 11 VA. Also here is his older son William Lee 22 VA.He is a son of Eli Franklin Putnam and Nettie Mae Parker from Augusta County where he was born March 15, 1894 and he will die in Charlottesville November 23. 1971. Massachusetts line that settled in Bath County after the Revolution.

 

HERMAN E. (EDWARD) PUTNAM  Clifton Forge, Alleghany County

He is 57 VA VA VA and is a machinist on the steam railway. Ola Mae Nicley his second wife is 45 VA and they have Herman E. 20 VA, Robert P. 16 VA, Ernestine C. 13 VA, Jewel 10 VA and Loretta 8 VA. He was married to Nellie Morgan back in 1920 and then married Ola here in 1928. He is a son of John Henry Putnam and Elizabeth Oiler from Bath County. He was born there September 14, 1891 and will die June 30, 1964. New England family originally from Sutton, Massachusetts.

 

IRENE M. PUTNAM  Clifton Forge, Alleghany County

She is 48 VA alone but says married. Irene Knighton has been married to Wilbur Earl Putnam here since 1920. Wilbur Earl is a son of William Elias Putnam and his second wife Mary from Bath County. He was born there May 28, 1898. He was at home in 1910 and married Irene in 1918. I don’t know when/where Wilbur died, but Irene will die here in Clifton Forge in July 1982.

 

MARION J. (JONATHAN) PUTNAM  Clifton Forge, Alleghany County

He is 70 VA VA VA and is widowed He is an attorney. He still has Marion J. Jr. 37 VA. He is a son of Charles F. Putman and Mahala Virginia Griffith from Bath County and was born there April 14, 1879. He will die September 7, 1942. He married Erie O. Stinnett August 5, 1907 and they were here through 1930 and was widowed here in 1940. The son Marion Junior never married.

 

RAYMOND A. PUTMAN  Clifton Forge, Alleghany County

He is 48 VA and widowed. He has Mary E. 17 VA and Veta C. 13 VA and his widowed mother Mary F. Putman 79 VA. He is a locomotive engineer for the railroad company. He is a son of Elias William Putnam and Mary Frances Carter and was at home in Bath County in 1920 and Heaven knows where since then. Elias is a son of  John Putnam and Sarah Griffith from Bath County. New England folks that settled in Bath after the Revolutionary War.

 

RUSSELL L. (LANKFORD) PUTNAM  Clifton Forge, Alleghany County

He is 40 VA and his wife Love Joy Johnson is 35 VA and they have Bobby Strange 15 VA, Geneva 13 VA, Roy Brandon 11 VA and Harry 6 VA. He is a brakeman on the old C&O railroad. He is a son of Russell Lankford Putnam Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Brown. He was born in South River, Augusta County December 3 1909 and will die in Bath County September 14, 1980. He married Love Joy June 10 1930. Love Joy was born in Bath County October 7, 1910. They were in Botetourt County Virginia in 1940, but indexed as Patram living with her folks. He worked for the railroad then too. New England line.

 

CHARLES L. (LESTER) PUTNAM  Covington, Alleghany County

He is 39 VA and his wife Mamie Olive Hocker 39 VA and they have Ruth J. 13 VA and Charles L. Jr. 11 VA. He is a steam engineer at a paper mill. Charles Lester Putnam is a son of Orlando Jordan Putnam and his second wife Victoria Virginia Smith from Bath County. He was born in Bath County on January 13, 1910 and will die in Roanoke, Virginia April 15, 1976. He and Mamie  were married here February 14, 1934, on Valentine’s Day. She was born in Clifton Forge, Alleghany County August 24, 1910 and will die in Hot Springs, Bath County October 14, 1971. New England family from Sutton, Massachusetts.

 

MILDRED PUTMAN  Covington, Alleghany County

She is 21 VA and has a son Wilmer Putman 2 VA. They live with her folks Walter and Mary Harwick. Mildred is ‘separated’. No clues as to the daddy. Some of these Virginia people are ‘non-existent’ in the past and probably in the future.

 

ELLA N. PUTMAN  Alexandria, Alexandria County

Ella Rebecca Newell is 62 MO and widowed. She is living with her sister Julia Chapelle 66 MO also widowed. They were both living together in Washington DC in 1940. They work in a retail gift and book store. Ella was married to Ralph Putman in Joplin, Jasper County Missouri in 1920 and then in Berkley, California in 1930. Ralph was a son of John Elijah Putman and Emma Erhardt and was born in Fulton County Illinois. He married Ella in Joplin September 17, 1910. Southern Putman family.

 

FRANK L. (LOUIS) PUTNAM  Alexandria, Alexandria County

He is 53 ND and his wife Mabelle Lucille Cook is 48 MN and they have a daughter Eleanor N. 14 ND. They are living with their daughter Mary Lea 22 ND and her husband Hugh Munro Adamson 30 OH. Frank and Mabelle got married in Meeker, Minnesota July 9, 1926. They were in Bismarck, North Dakota up to the 1940. He is a son of Thomas Nichols Putnam and Clara Bell Cook from Seneca, New York before heading out to North Dakota. He was born in Carrington, Foster County North Dakota July 22, 1895 and will die here in Alexandria March 13, 1990. He  works for the Government and was in the National Guard in the Dakotas. Line goes back to Jedediah Putnam in New London, Connecticut to Eleazar Putnam in Salem, Massachusetts in the mid 1600s.

 

HOWARD E. (ELWOOD) PUTNAM  Alexandria, Alexandria County

He is 48 VA and his wife Mildred Markey is 49 PA. He operates a sight-seeing service bus. They were in Rockville, Maryland in 1940 and Washington DC before that. He is a son of Mason Howard Putnam and Marietta Blanche Bishop. He was born October 10, 1901 in Auburn, Virginia. He married Mildred February 27, 1930 in Washington DC. She was born in Pennsylvania April 16, 1901 and will die in San Diego, California March 28, 1997. Howard will die in Orange County California September 4, 1965. Southern Putmans from Fauquier County.

 

J. C. (JAMES CLARENCE) PUTNAM  Alexandria, Alexandria County

He is 29 OK and his wife Mary is 26 OK and he is in the Armed Forces. He is a son of Henry May Putman and Vivian Inez Murtishaw and was at home since he was born through 1940 in Graham, Carter County Oklahoma. James was born February 3, 1920 andwill die out in Los Angeles January 1, 1976. His dad Henry is a son of Richard Jacob Putman and Nancy Hamilton Hall. He has been here with his folks in 1920 and widowed mother Nancy in 1930. He was born in Paris, Lamar County Texas August 15, 1887 and will die out in Los Angeles County California October 15, 1954. He married Vivian in Cornish, Jefferson County Oklahoma on December 23, 1916. Vivian was born in Oklahoma February 22, 1901 and will die in Riverside County California April 15, 1972.

 

PUTNAM KIDS  Alexandria, Alexandria County

This is a black family. Christine Lee 31 VA and 4 of her unmarried brothers and sisters are here. They were here in 1930 and probably in 1940. The folks Samuel and Isabelle Putnam were here in 1920.

 

RUSSELL B. (BENJAMIN) PUTNAM  Alexandria, Alexandria County

He is 72 LA and his wife Mabel Henry Triplett is 71 VA.  He is a retired Brigadier General in the U. S. Marine Corps. He was in WWI and WWII. He is a son of James Henry Putnam and Pauline Johnson and was born in Vermillion Parish January 7, 1878 and will die in Bethesda, Maryland May 28, 1959. They were married in Washington DC April 5, 1909. They were all over and finally in 1940 back into Washington DC. He is buried in the Arlington National Cemetery.

 

ISABEL PUTNAM  Elon, Amherst County

She is 33 VA and never married. She is a patient at the Lynchburg State Colony for the Feeble Minded and Epileptics. She was a patient here in 1940. She is a daughter of William Augustus Putnam and Clara Green from Warren County, Virginia. She was born in Staunton County, Virginia. In 1930 she was living with her brother William Wesley Putnam and his widowed mother Clara in Staunton City and then was here in Elon in 1940.

 

AUGUSTUS C. (CUMMINS) PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

He is 84 VA NY VA and widowed as he was in 1930 and 1940 after his wife Nellie McCrery died March 29, 1929. He is living with his married daughter Pearl 56 DC and her husband Marvin Eubank 51 VA, same as in 1940. He is a son of John Wesley Putnam from New York State and Viola Cummins from Fairfax County near Washington DC. He was born in Fairfax County in January 1866, and will die in Prince Frederick, Maryland September 30, 1955. John Wesley was a son of Peter Putman and Margaret Saunders from Livingston County New York. Dutch family from Montgomery County New York.

 

BEDFORD G. (GRIMSLEY) PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

He is 27 VA and his wife Clara Marie Humphries is 28 VA, and they have Carl W. 4 VA and Mary M. born March 1950. He is a car painter in an auto body shop. He is a son of Noah Booten Putnam and Mary Browning Grimsley and was born October 21, 1922 in Fauquier County and grew up in Rappahannock County with his folks till he married Clara May 9, 1947 here in Arlington County. He served in the Army during WWII from January 1943 till the end in 1945. He will die March 11, 1973 in Culpeper County. Clara was previously married to William Eldred Twomey April 6, 1940 and they divorced here December 3, 1946 so they didn’t have to buy Christmas presents for each other.

 

BETH M. PUTMAN  Arlington, Arlington County

She is 22 SD and lives with her now married sister Yvonne 26 SD and her husband Harry J. Dahl 29 NY and all work in the armed forces office here. The gals are kids of William Floyd Putman and Gladys DuBois from Pierre, Hughes County South Dakota. William is a son of Franklin Ward Putman and Orpha Jane Cole from Hughes County and Brown County Illinois before that. Southern Putman family.

 

EDGAR W. (WILLIS) PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

He is 30 CA and his wife Joannis Donaldson is 29 CA and they have Jacqueline J. 6 CA and Kathleen J. 3 AK. He is currently in the Armed Forces. He is a son of Clyde Albert Putnam Sr. and Olive Gertrude Wyman and was born February 28, 1920 in San Bernardino and was at home there in 1930 and 1940. Then he married Joannis there August 22, 1941. He will die in Tucson, Arizona in November 1970. Family came from Massachusetts to New Hampshire to New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota and to California.

 

ELSIE C. PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

She is 52 NM and widowed. She is a statistician in the National Guard Bureau.


ELWOOD N. (NOAH) PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

He is 23 VA and still unmarried. He is working as a check-out clerk in a grocery store. Elwood is a son of Noah Bootin Putnam and Mary Grimsley from Rappahannock County.

 

ERNEST B. (BERRY) PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

He is 38 VA and his wife Annie Laurie Blackwell is 37 VA. Ernest Berry Putnam is a son of Thornberry Martin Putnam and Narcissa Elizabeth Payne and was born October 28, 1907 in Rappahannock County. Alice is a daughter of Henry and Lucy Blackwell from Jackson, Rappahannock County. They were here in 1940 too. Ernest will die here May 14 1980. Annie will die here April 30, 2000.

 

HARRIET R. (RUSSELL) & VALONIA PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

Harriet Russell is 26 KY and her sister Valonia Elizabeth is 25 KY. They are living with Carolyn Boaz 30 VA as ‘partners.’ They both work as researchers at a facility of the U. S. Department of Defense. They are daughters of Donald Hardie Putnam and Hannah Russell and were at home in Ashland, Boyd County Kentucky in 1930 and 1940. Harriet was born September 28, 1923 in Ashland. She will marry Merton Henry in Scarborough, Maine on December 1954. She will still be with the National Security Agency. Valonia was born November 26, 1924 in Ashland, and will be at the Yale University School of Medicine when she will marry Walter Fred Huebner in Washington DC on April 6, 1957. That was during my sophomore year at Yale. Wonder why she didn’t invite me, we used to hang around the same bars.   New England family

 

HARRY C. (CLARENCE) PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

He is 39 VA and his wife Evelyn Elizabeth McCune 42 VA. They were in Washington DC in 1935 and here in 1940. He runs a retail gas service station. He is a son of Clarence Silas Putnam and Bessie Mooney and was born here in Arlington July 12, 1910. He married Evelyn in Washington DC May 23, 1936. He will die in 1960. Southern Putman family.

 

LESLIE E. (ERNEST) PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

The dates are all screwed up and his wife has no name. So based on his birth and all he is 54 VA his wife Mildred Vincell is 50 VA. She will die May 7, 1951 and he will marry Sarah Rebecca Andrews White on December 26, 1951. He is a son of Ernest Clayton Putnam and Maude ‘Madie’ Adele Hall and was born in Alexandria July 8, 1895 and will die here in Arlington June 23, 1972. His grandfather was Silas William Putman. Southern Putman line from Fauquier County.

 

LEWIS M. (MILES) PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

He is 24 GA and his wife Margaret M. Pollock is 31 NY. They were married in Manhattan, New York City February 2, 1945. His Army record shows he was born February 22, 1926 and will die in Floyd County Georgia on December 25, 1980. He was in the  U. S. Army from July 22, 1944 till June 5, 1945. This is kinda screwed up. He is listed as being born in Maryland, but he really was born in Georgia a son of Joseph Lafayette Putnam and Martha Jane Gibson. Guess his NYC marriage to Margaret didn’t last as he will marry Nellie June McPherson July 3, 1954 so they can best enjoy the fireworks the next day.

 

ROBERT E. (EDWARD) PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

He is 35 MA and his wife Bertha Ellen Prescott is 34 VT. They were married in Conway, New Hampshire August 15, 1937. He is a son of Arthur Percival Putnam and Mary Katheryn Owens and was born June 9, 1914 in Dorchester, Massachusetts and will eventually die in Sterling, Loudoun County Virginia June 1, 1999.

 

S. (SOLON) DANIEL PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

He is 49 VT and his wife Lyn Mouso 42 IA and they have John Daniel 5 Hawaii. He is a dispenser of the U. S. Treasury Department. He married Lyn in King County Washington on September 13, 1940. Must have been in the service to have a wife a kid spread all over the world. He is a son of Arthur Gerald Putnam and Minnie Augusta Chamberlain and was born in Randolph, Orange County Vermont May 5, 1900. He’ll end up dying in King County Washington on October 10, 1980. His grandfather was Solon Daniel Putnam from Vermont. That’s where he got his name.

 

THURMAN F. (FORREST) PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

He is 42 VA, his wife Fannie May Wilson is 36 VA and they have Mary Elizabeth 18 VA, Evelyn V. 7 VA, Alice Irene 15 VA, Dorothy Ann 13 VA, Melvin R. 12 VA and Thurman T. 10 VA. He is a son of James Turner Putman and Mary Clemm from Warren County. Thurman was born in Front Royal, Warren County March 11, 1908, and will die in Strasburg, Shenandoah County August 21, 1970. He married Fannie May in Washington County Maryland on November 14, 1930. She was born October 16, 1909 and will die here January 8, 1978. They will get divorced in Alexandria, Virginia March 11, 1960.

 

WALTER B. (BENNETT) PUTNAM  Arlington, Arlington County

He is 33 AR and his wife Geneva Estelle Farris is 33 OK and they have Joe B. 9 CA and Nancy Jane 5 FL. He is in the Armed Forces. They were married in Oklahoma City June 28, 1938 and they were in Palo Alto, California in 1940. He was a lieutenant in the Air Force and a pilot then. Walter is a son of Walter Franklin Putnam and Ada Keers and was born in Fort Smith Arkansas August 27, 1916 and will die October 17, 2010 at Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Geneva was born June 21, 1916 in Oklahoma City and will die in Fort Walton Beach, Florida April 18, 1991. Southern Putmans; James Putman from South Carolina to Zachariah Putman Tennessee to Missouri and George Washington Putman to Missouri and back to Arkansas where Walter was born. This Walter was born in Fort Smith 4 years after my dad was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas up in the Northwest part of the state.

 

EUGENE H. PUTMAN  Staunton, Augusta County

He is 39 VA and never married. He and the following Josh and Ella are inmates or patients at the Western State Hospital Mental Institution.

He is a son of Martin Thornberry Putman Jr. and Narcissa White Payne from Rappahannock County.

 

JOSHUA & ELLA PUTMAN  Staunton, Augusta County

He is 51 VA and never married and his sister Ella is 42 VA and never married. They are inmates or patients at the Western State Hospital Mental Institution. Joshua Putman is a son of Joseph Pendleton Putman from Fauquier County. He and the above Eugene have a common grandfather, Martin Thornberry Putman Senior.

 

CLARENCE PUTMAN  Bristol, Bristol County

He is 37 ND and his wife Helen Maureen Sutton is 34 TN and they have William C. 7 NC and Robert l, 3 VA. He is a civil engineer He is a son of Lafayette Putman and Verdie Summers from Egeland, Towner County North Dakota. Clarence was born October 6, 1912 and married Helen Maureen Sutton on June 28, 1941. He will die in Centerville, Virginia August 21, 2000. He was single in 1940 in Waverly, Humphries County Tennessee working for the State Highway Department. The City of Bristol is half in Tennessee and half in Virginia This family is out of Gilmer County WV and from Fauquier County Virginia before that. Part of the Southern Putman Branch

 

NETTIE M. PUTNAM  Buena Vista, Buena Vista County

She is 70 VA widowed and lives with her married daughter Bernice Painter 37 VA and her husband Orville C. Painter 40 VA. Nettie May Parker was married to Eli Franklin Putnam in Alleghany and the Augusta Counties. Eli was part of the Jeptha Putnam family from Sutton, Massachusetts that came into Bath County Virginia and stayed there after fighting in the Revolution. Liked it better than New England. Eli was born in Bath County August 3, 1874 and died in Staunton, Augusta County August 25, 1944. He married Nettie in Alleghany County October 22, 1895. She will be around till she dies in Rockbridge County Virginia May 12, 1968. Bernice was born September 15, 1912 and will die here in Buena Vista February 9, 1907. She married Orville June 18, 1932 and they divorced February 9, 1971. She then will marry Lloyd Keller November 10, 1972.

 

ALBERT F. (FULLER) PUTNAM  Charlottesville, Charlottesville County

Alfred Junior is 28 VA and his wife Myrtle Elizabeth Powell is 23 VA and they have Linda M. 5 VA and Kenneth T. born July. Also here is Elijah Putnam 16 MD. Alfred Jr. is a son of Alfred Fuller Putnam and Goldah Elizabeth Dudley from Augusta County. He was born there January 6, 1922. He married Myrtle here January 15, 1944. He will die here in Albemarle County May 11, 2010. No clue as to who Elijah is though.

 

GERTRUDE D. (DEVERS) PUTNAM  Berryville, Clarke County

She is 68 VA and widowed. Gertrude Evelyn Devers married Charles William Putnam here in Clarke County on December 23, 1902. They were here in 1910, Baltimore, Maryland in 1920, and in Berkley County West Virginia in 1930 and 1940. Charles died here in Clarke County January 5, 1948. Gertrude was born May 30, 1881 and will die in Winchester, Frederick County Virginia June 11, 1954. Charles was a son of He is a son of William F. Putman and Eva Virginia Anderson of Shenandoah County in 1880. In 1900 the family was in Frederick County, Maryland. Southern Putman family from Fauquier County Virginia. This line is Southern Putman and the only one to consistently use the original Putnam spelling.

 

MERRILL A. (AUSTIN) PUTNAM  Chesapeake, Elizabeth City County

He is 29 NY in the Air Force here at Fort Monroe. His wife Mary Frances Shaughnessy is 29 KS and a registered nurse at the hospital here. He is a son of Austin Clarence Putnam and May Adelaide Baldwin. He was born in Bolton, New York June 8, 1920 and will die October 24, 2000 in or near Seattle, Washington. He married Mary there in King County Washington on February 27, 1949. He was at home there with his folks in 1940. In 1930 they were in Warren County New York. He enlisted in the Air Force October 26, 1945 at Fort Macarthur in San Pedro California. Lucky for hm the War was over.

 

CARL B. (BYNUM) PUTNAM  Elizabeth City, Elizabeth City County

He is 54 NC and divorced. He is living in a large V. A. F. hospital place for veterans. Couldn’t figure his folks. Found a marriage record that he will marry Emma Virginia Nelson in Hampton, Virginia January 27, 1954. That record gave his folks as Andrew Putnam and Sallie Higgins. So … folks are Isaac Andrew Jackson Putnam and Sally Ann Higgins from Rutherford County. So that works. Can’t find the family in 1900. His dad died May 26, 1906 and he was with his mom Sallie in High Shoal, Rutherford County in 1910 at age 14. His dad was a son of William Putman and Nancy Spurlin from Cleveland County. He was born there February 28, 1848. They are in Greenville South Carolina in 1920. Sallie was born in 1859 and will die here in Rutherford County July 9, 1928. Carl was born June 22, 1895 and will die in Hampton City February 11, 1970.

 

EMPARO PUTMAN  Riverview, Elizabeth City County

He is now 78 NC and widowed since his wife Annie Uren died in 1924. He is a son of Perry Green Putman and Susan M. Waters from Gaston County North Carolina. He’s been around here since 1910, and will die here in Portsmouth July 26, 1956.

 

HARRY E. (EMPARO) PUTNAM  Riverview, Elizabeth City County

He is 45 VA, his wife Margaret White McLean 41 VA and they now have Janet May 17 VA and Betty Carolyn 14 VA. He sells wholesale drugs here. He ran a drug store in 1930 and 1940 when they were in Norfolk City, Virginia. He is a son of Emparo Rufus Putman and Annie Urin from Gaston County North Carolina and then Portsmouth, Virginia where he was born January 24, 1905. He married Margaret in 1929. She was born in Virginia in 1908 and will die in Hallwood, Accomack County Virginia September 4, 1963. Harry will die there in June 1974. Line goes back through Elias Putman of Cleveland County North Carolina. His dad is listed right above.

 

EARL G.  PUTNAM  Fort Belvoir U. S. Army Military Reservation, Fairfax County

He is 17 and no state of birth listed. There are two Earl Grant Putnams 19 year olds born in Chittenden, Vermont and Eastland, Texas, but no idea who if any this one is.

 

WALTER L. (LOYD) PUTNAM  Fort Belvoir U. S. Army Military Reservation, Fairfax County

He is 32 and no state of birth listed. But he is Walter Loyd (yep only 1 L) Putnam Jr. son of Walter Loyd Putnam and Maggie Lenoir Bodenhamer and was born February 25, 1919 in Winston Salem, North Carolina and will marry Lucille Furcola and die in Jacksonville, Florida July 22, 1991.

 

EARL C. (CRESTON) PUTNAM  Herndon, Fairfax County

He is 57 VT and his wife Naomi A. 54 DC. Their married daughter Katherine DC 28  and her husband George E. Kieferle 40 OH are with them. They also have Earl’s widowed mother Alice Pettengill Putnam 78 ME, and his sister Myra A. Putnam 47 DC. He is a real estate broker. His dad Edwin Ellsworth Putnam died here June 10, 1948. Edwin was a son of John Farnham Putnam and Myra Bickford from Rumford Maine. Earl was born May 15, 1892 in Leeds, Androscoggin County Maine, and in Boston, Massachusetts according to a couple of other reference records. He probably was born in a Boston hospital while the family still lived in Maine. He will die in Broward, Florida December 16, 1975. He married Naomi in Washington DC December 29, 1917.

 

EDGAR R. (ROY) PUTNAM  Herndon, Fairfax County

He is 36 VA, his wife Dorothy Virginia Crone is 38 WV and they have David P. 17 VA, Joseph E. 15 OH, Mary Ann 13 WV, Richard L. 9 WV and Ronald R. 3 VA. He is a landscaping gardener. They were with her folks Harry H. and Lucy Crone in Magnolia, West Virginia in 1940. He is Edgar Roy Putnam, a son of Russell Lankford Putnam and Mary Elizabeth Brown and was born in Bath County Virginia November 27, 1914. He was at home in Alleghany County Virginia in 1930 and married Dorothy there October 10, 1931. They were in Jefferson County Ohio in 1935 and then West Virginia in 1940. Dorothy was born July 29, 1911 and will die in Vienna, Virginia October 21, 1977. Edgar and Dorothy will divorce  August 15, 1961 and Edgar will head down to Florida after that and marry Genevieve Joann Tiano in Pinellas Florida and after she died April 9, 1986, he married Rachel W. Whitson in Pinellas Florida October 20, 1988. Edgar will die in Pinellas, Florida March 15, 1991. New England family.

 

GEORGE PUTNAM  Herndon, Fairfax County

He is 34 VA and his wife Anna Mae Utterback is 33 VA and they have Edward 13 DC. He is a tabulating supervisor for the U. S. Veterans Administration. Anna is a typist for the U. S. Interstate Commerce Commission. George Emmett Putnam is a son of Emmett Saunders Putnam and Nora Berdella Moran George’s middle name appears as both Edward and Emmett in a bunch of listings. Think Emmitt is the right one after his dad. He was born in Fairfax County September 23, 1914 and will die here November 3 1981.

 

LAUREL E. (EDWIN) PUTMAN  Herndon, Fairfax County

He is 29 NY and his wife Ruth Carville Lewis is 27 NY. He is a chemical engineer for the U. S. Army. He is a son of Edwin Arthur Putman and Laura May Slate. He was born in Jefferson County New York  May 11, 1920 and will die in Maplewood New Jersey May 14, 1999. Something will happen as he will marry Frances Pfeifer in South Orange, New Jersey in May 1962. New York Dutch Putman family.

 

LOUIS H. PUTMAN  Lorton, Fairfax County

He is 48 VA and married. He is in a D. C. Workhouse with a million others. Probably a penal thing. Doesn’t connect with any Lewis or Louis or Huey Duey Lewey here at all. Probably not a Putman.

 

KERFORD S. (SMITH) PUTNAM  Providence, Fairfax County

He is 50 VA and married to Mary Ann Musgrove 45 MD and their son Ralph Aloysius is 22 DC. He and Mary were married in Washington DC October 18, 1926. He is a son of Martin Thornberry Putman and Narcissa Elizabeth Payne and was born in Amissville, Rappahannock County April 3, 1900. He will die in Fairfax, Fairfax County October 3, 1965. Mary Ann was born in Wheaton, Maryland October 14, 1904 and will die in Fairfax April 24, 1975. Southern Putman family from Fauquier County. This line is Southern Putman and the only one to consistently use the original Putnam spelling.

 

BLANCHE PUTNAM  Center District, Fauquier County

She is 75 VA and widowed. Blanche Bishop had been married to Mason H. Putnam here. Mason was a son of Levi Putnam and Mary Ann Sudduth from here. He was born January 23, 1865 and died here July 24, 1932. Blanche was born October 4, 1874 and will die here July 29, 1964. They are both buried in Warrenton Cemetery in Fauquier County.

 

CALLIE L. (LEE) PUTNAM  Marshall, Fauquier County

He is a farmer 54 VA VA VA and is a farmer. Earnie Payne his wife is 55 VA they have been married 36 years now and have Marvin Lee 28 VA and Callie Elmer 21 VA. He is a son of Benjamin Putman and Louisa Alice Smith. They have been in Marshall, Fauquier County up until the 1930 when they were in Rappahannock County and back here in 1935 and now. Callie was born October 10, 1895 here in Fauquier County and will die April 7, 1966 in Orleans, Fauquier County. Earnie was born here March 27, 1894 and will die here in Fauquier County May 31, 1963. Southern Putmans.

 

CLIFTON PUTNAM  Marshall, Fauquier County

He is 38 VA and his wife Mildred Marie Haun 24 VA and they have Mary Jane 8 VA, Irene F. 5 VA and Linda M. 1 VA. Also here is a nephew Franklin Williams 8 VA. He is a son of Joseph Pendleton Putnam and his second wife Eva Jane McCormick from here. He was born August 15, 1911 and will die in Olean, Fauquier County. He married Mildred Marie Haun on September 24, 1941. She was born December 4, 1925 in Warrenton Virginia, a daughter of George Franklin Haun and Mary Ellen Bott.

 

JOHN W. (WILLIAM) PUTNAM  Marshall, Fauquier County

He is 52 VA and his wife Claudia Catherine Kines is 43 VA. He is a son of Joseph Winter Putnam and Mary Edith Roth from Fauquier County. They were here in 1930. John William ‘Willie’ Putnam was born in Fauquier County June 9, 1896 and will die here September 19, 1974. Claudia is a daughter of James William Kines and Orra Virginia Pearson and was born October 6, 1906 and will die here in February 1981. Willie was with his folks here in Marshall in 1910 and 1920, then after marring Claudia they were in Wakefield, Rappahannock County in 1930 and 1940

 

MARSHALL B. (BRUCE) PUTNAM  Marshall, Fauquier County

Okay this is gonna be interesting. He is 44 VA, his wife Clara, also a Putnam, is 39 VA and they have George Townsend 19 VA and Mary Jane 8 VA. He is listed as a son in law of Mary Putnam 65 VA as he was in 1940. Mary Charles was married to Noah Robert Putnam and is now widowed. Marshall is a son of John Barton Putman Jr. and Estella Moore. He was born December 27, 1906. He was at home in 1920, and married here in1930 and 1940. He has a farm here in Marshall. He will die in Fauquier County April 25, 1994. Clara was born August 7, 1910 and die in Marshall November 23, 2007. She will be 97 years old. Interesting on both families.

 

MATTIE M. & KATHERINE R. PUTNAM  Marshall, Fauquier County

Mattie is 51 VA and Katherine 40 VA. They are both daughters of John Barton Putnam Jr. and Estelle Moore from here. Neither have ever been married. Mattie was born here December 24, 1898 and will die here in Warrenton May 17, 1987. Katherine was born March 22, 1909.

 

ROBERT E. (ELWOOD) PUTNAM  Marshall, Fauquier County

He is 27 VA and his wife Elizabeth Nannie Payne is 21 VA. They have a daughter Nancy M. 1 VA. They were married here June 18, 1947. Bobbie is a son of Callie Lee Putnam and Eriel Payne and was born in Hume, Fauquier County August 12, 1922. He will die in Culpepper County. Elizabeth was born in Rappahannock County in 1929.

 

WALDEN PUTNAM  Marshall, Fauquier County

He is Warren Walden Putman 58 VA VA VA and is a farm laborer. Maude Catherine Henry his wife is 551 VA. They have their married Dorothy M. 27 VA and her husband Everett Lewis 29 VA and their son Wilford Lewis 2 VA. He is a son of Joseph Winter and Mary Roth Putman.  He was born June 4, 1893. They were just married June 5, 1920, and were living with his folks in Marshall in 1920 and then in Scott, Fauquier County in 1930. Maude was born June 1, 1895 and will die here January 7, 1959. Walden will die here November 7, 1951. Southern Putmans like everyone in Fauquier County.

 

WALTER C. (CLEVELAND) PUTNAM  Marshall, Fauquier County

He is 55 VA VA VA and his wife Perline Virginia Jones is 348 VA. He is Walter Cleveland Putnam a son of Joseph Winter Putman and Mary Edith Roth from here in Marshall. Been here all his life. He was born here February 27, 1884. He married Pearl or Polly May 24, 1909. Pearl was born March 15,1885 and will die here October 9, 1947. Walt will die here January 4, 1949.

 

MEARL PUTMAN  Middletown, Frederick County

She is 28 VA and divorced. She has her sons James William 12 VA, Gary 9 VA, David 6 VA, Bobby 4 VA and Leon 3 VA with her. Mearl Ellen Palmer was married to Nelson Oliver Putman in Opequon, Frederick County in 1940 but were split up and living separately then. They were married January 6, 1937 and they divorced May 27, 1943. She went to court saying he abandoned her. She was born July 4, 1912 and will die November 7, 1985. Southern Putman family.

 

ALLEN L. (LANHAM) PUTNAM  Opequon, Frederick County

He is 42 VA and his wife Olive Marie Ashby is 42 VA and they have Juanita Olive 12 VA and June A. 9 VA. He is a son of Allen Dossie Putman and Bessie May Lanham and was born July 19, 1907 in Fauquier County and will ultimately die December 2, 1983 in Stephens City, Frederick County Virginia. They were here in 1940 and he was with his folks in Fauquier County in 1910 to 1930. Olive was born in Clarke County like the kids in May 2, 1907 and will die in Page County Virginia December 15, 1989. Southern Putman family. This line is Southern Putman and the only one to consistently use the original Putnam spelling.

 

ROBERT C. (CLAYTON) PUTNAM  Shawnee, Frederick County

He is 58 VA, his wife Willice Adelaide Riley 46 VA and they now have Helen M. 18 VA, Nellie L. 15 VA and Charles H. 6 VA. Robert is the son of Robert Lee Putman and Edmonia Henry. The family is from Warren County but Robert and Edmonia were in Frederick County in 1900 and back in Warren County in 1910 and here in Clarke County in 1920. Robert was in Frederick County with Willice in 1930 and Clarke County in 1940. Robert was born in Rockland County August 30, 1892 and will die in Winchester, Frederick County in a few weeks on May 25, 1950.

 

CAROL F. (FIELD) PUTNAM  Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg County

She is 18 CA and a student at Mary Washington College. She is a daughter of Paul Albert Putnam and Virginia Miley. Carol was born in San Diego County, California June 2, 1931 and was at home in Coronado, San Diego County in 1940. She graduated from Falls Church, Virginia High School in 1949. She will marry Walter John Shuddle June 17, 1955 in Falls Church Virginia, and later die in Phoenix, Arizona December 12, 2012. Her dad was interesting. He joined the Marines in 1926. He is a son of Alfred Emory Putnam and Alice Stannard McNeil from Washtenaw County Michigan. The family was in Iowa in 1910, and the family was in Washington County Iowa in 1920 and 1930. He was stationed here in 1930 as a lieutenant and then stationed in Pensacola, Florida in 1935 and then Puerto Rico in the late 1930s. In the Muster Role, he will be a major by December 1940 and in Marine Bombing Squadron Two. He was taken as a prisoner by the Japs on Wake Island. He was returned after the War. He was born in Milan, Michigan June 16, 1903 and will die in Fairfax, Virginia May 21, 1982. New England family Massachusetts to New York to Michigan.

 

ANNA L. PUTMAN  Hampton, Hampton County

She is 21 VA and has a daughter Linda J. Putman just born. Anna Lee Downey is living with her folks Wilbe and Annie Downey. She married Arthur Putman in Elizabeth County Virginia on June 10, 1947. She says she is married, but Art isn’t around now and she will marry Elisha Williams in Perquimans, North Carolina June 4, 1955. That won’t last and she’ll marry William Wayne Isaacs  in North Carolina in 1975 and will die as Anna Isaacs in North Carolina September 29, 2000.

 

(GEORGE) LAWRENCE PUTNAM  West Point, King William County

He is 36 VA and his wife Martha Ellen Dixon is 33 VA and they have a son Lawrence Elwood Putnam 12 VA and David 7 VA. Martha’s mother Mary Ellen Dixon is 71 VA and her sister Pearl Dixon 31 VA. He is a chemical operator at a pulp mill. He is a son of William Ignatious Putnam and Margaret Dora Cook who were in Richmond in 1900. He was born there December 8, 1913 and will die here in West Point November 27, 1984. Both parents died around 1918, and he was living with his mom’s family here in 1920 and with their grandmother Isabelle Cook and her daughter Minnie Townsend here in 1930. He married Martha here December 24, 1935 with ole St. Nick doing the honors. The whole gang, except young David, was also here in 1940. Martha was born here in King William County November 19, 1916 and will die in Newport News, Virginia May 11, 2005. His brother William is listed below. Dutch family from Montgomery County New York.

 

WILLIAM I. (IGNATIUS) PUTNAM  West Point, King William County

He is 42 MD and his wife Salome Ruth Guthrie is 44 VA and they have Kathryn 16 VA and William I. Jr. 12 VA. Her mother Susan C. Guthrie 9 VA is with them as she was in 1930 right after they were married and in 1940. Willie Jr. is a son of William Ignatius Putnam and Margaret Dora Cook who were in Richmond in 1900. He was born while they were in Baltimore Maryland on November 12, 1906. He will die in Richmond, Virginia November 1, 1963. Both parents died around 1918, and he was living with his mom’s family here in 1920. They were here married in 1940. He is now an engineer in a pulp mill (paper manufacturer). His brother Lawrence is listed right above. Dutch family from Montgomery County New York.

 

JAMES L. (LESLIE) PUTMAN  Hillsboro, Loudoun County

He is 48 VA, his wife Matebell Danner is 43 MD and they have James T. 7 VA. He is a barber now. He is a son of Thomas Henry Putnam and Susie Fauber in Leesburg, Loudoun County and they were there in 1940. Tom is a son of Thornberry Putnam and Agnes Ball from Fauquier and then Rappahannock Counties. James was born in 1901 and will die in 1976. He married Matebell February 17, 1927. My wife Suzanne was a Danner and probably related to Mattie.

 

ROBERT LEWIS PUTMAN  Mount Gilead, Loudoun County

He is 22 VA and his wife Helen Lee Kirby is 22 VA and they have Robert Lewis Jr. 2 VA and Helen Marie 1 VA. He is a cabinet worker. He is a son of James Leslie Putman and Metabell Danner listed just above. He was a Master Gunnery Sergeant in the U. S. Marine Corps at the end of WWII. Robert was born here October 8, 1927 and will die here in Hamilton, Loudoun County December 25, 1972 after too much celebration on that Christmas Day.

 

BRUCE L. (LEON) PUTNAM  Norfolk, Norfolk County

He is 32 (no birth place noted) and a crew member of the USS Winston at the Naval base here as he was in 1940. He is Bruce Leon Putnam a son of Walter W. Putnam and Laura Della Eastman and was born in Haven, Reno County Kansas May 31, 1917 and will ultimately die in Dodge City, Kansas July 28, 1978. He married Blanche Ursula Davis in New York City December 21, 1939. She was born in New York and is still back there with her folks. Dutch Putman family out of New York State, then Ohio and then Mercer County Missouri, Iowa and now Kansas

 

DONALD M. PUTNAM  Norfolk, Norfolk County

He is 20 (no birth place noted) and stationed at the Naval Air Station here. Best bet is that he is a son of Samuel Preston Putman from Iredell County North Carolina and married Pleasey Bumgarner March 19, 1927, and then had Donny in October 1929, and they were there in 1930 and Don was 6 months old. There is a record that his middle initial is ‘M’. So, it fits, I think.

 

GAIL T. PUTNAM  Norfolk, Norfolk County

She is 66 VA and widowed as she was in Richmond City, Virginia in 1940. She is Gail Trueheart Rider and was married to Kenneth E. Putnam in 1912. The marriage record says is parents are J. W. (John Wallace Putnam)  and H. A. (Henrietta Archer Orrill) Putnam and that he was born in 1883 in Kansas City, MO. Kenneth is shown with his folks in East St. Louis, St. Clair County Illinois in 1900.  Vermont family that went out to Minnesota.

 

HUBERT M. (MARTIN) PUTNAM  Norfolk, Norfolk County

He is 29 WV and his wife Lillian Maxine Sayre is 28 WV and they have Joseph M. 2 WV. He is in the Armed Forces. He enlisted June 7, 1942. They will be back in Clarksburg, West Virginia in 1952. He is a son of James Letcher Putnam and Eliza Jane Dunlap and was born in Richwood, West Virginia December 31, 1921. He will die here in Norfolk October 5, 1988. Original part of the Putnam/Putman family in Fauquier County, Virginia.

 

LOYD C. (CLINTON) PUTMAN  Norfolk, Norfolk County

He is 25 GA and his wife Nell Pritchard 23 GA. They have Ronald W. 3 GA and Gregory D. 2 GA. His mother Leslye ‘Leslie’ Putman is 45 GA. He is Loyd Junior, son of Loyd Clinton Putman and Leslie Henderson. And yes, they used just one ‘L’ in the name. He is currently in the U. S. Navy like most everyone in town. He was born in Brooks, Fayette County Georgia June 29, 1924 and will call it quits in Georgia February 6, 1999 not wanting to pay taxes into the 21st Century. Nell was born in Georgia May 18, 1927 and will die there November 5, 1992. There were married June 27, 1947 in Dade County Florida. Loyd was with his folks in Spaulding County Georgia in 1940.

 

TODD PUTMAN  Norfolk, Norfolk County

He is 38 AR and his second wife Myrtle Lee Vann is 38 NC. This was her third marriage. They were just married here July 7, 1949. Todd was previously married to Laura Allie Billingsley October 20, 1930. They got divorced June 22, 1946. He is a son of Franklin Montgomery Putman and Josie Evalena Underwood. He was born December 10, 1913 in Yell County Arkansas and will die March 27, 1974 in Eddy County New Mexico. They will get divorced in Danville, Yell County August 30 1962. Myrtle will let it quit at 3 marriages and will die here in Norfolk City September 22, 1966,

 

WILLIAM R. PUTNAM  Norfolk, Norfolk County

He is 22 DC and his wife Mary Madge is 23 VA and they have Teressa A. born Mar 1950. He is a boy’s wear salesman at a retail store. He is a son of Earle Bronson Putnam and Mildred Leona Berry and was born in Washington DC in 1927. He was at home in DC in 1930 and his dad died in 1931 and don’t find him in 1940. Can’t get any more info on him. His dad was a son of Robert Lewis Putman and Cora Curry from Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina.

 

WILLIAM R. PUTMAN  Norfolk, Norfolk County

He is 21 and no mention of where he was born nor is there for the couple hundred guys on a U. S. Navy boat and every single one is listed as ‘keeping house.’ The government is not very good at keeping track of ‘government’ info. He’s not the Billie R. listed above unless he has his wife hidden and has 2 jobs to make ends meet. Or whatever.

 

WOODROW L. (LANDER) PUTNAM  Norfolk, Norfolk County

He is 37 AL and his wife Mary Bertha Feagin is 24 GA and they have S. Claude 6 NC , James T. 5 FL and Linda P. 1 VA . They will have Woodrow Junior soon in 1952. He is in the U. S. Navy forces here and served all through WWII. Woodrow was previously married to Anette Flagin in Florida November 16, 1941 and they divorced there September 26, 1946. He the married Mary in Jefferson County Alabama November 20, 1946. Even though the names are a bit similar, they are not related in the least. He is still in the Navy in 1951. Anyway, he isa son of Richard Lander Putman and Charlotte Elizabeth Hare from Blount County Alabama. He was born there November 7, 1912 and will die in Alachua, Florida October 30, 1989.

 

BRUCE L. (LEON) PUTNAM  Tanners Creek, Norfolk County

He is 32 KS and his wife Blanche Ursula Davis is 39 NY and they have John D. 9 NY and Randy J. 7 VA. He is in the U. S. Navy and she is an accountant in Civil Services. He is a son of Walter W. Putnam and Laura Della Eastman and was born in Reno County Kansas May 31, 1917 and will die back there in Dodge City, Kansas July 28, 1978. He married Blanche in New York City December 21, 1939. She was born January 14, 1911 in New York City, and will die in Denver, Colorado  June 8, 1961.

 

WILLIAM P. (PERRY) PUTNAM  West Haven, Norfolk County

He is 42 VA and his wife Alease Virginia Lamb 39 VA and they have Joyce L. 16 VA Arlene M. 9 VA and Charlene A. 9. He is an electrician for the Steam Railway. He is William Perry a son of Emparo Rufus Putnam and Margaret Ann Uren from Portsmouth. Emparo is a son of Perry Green Putman and Susan M. Waters from Gaston County North Carolina. He was born May 27, 1907 and will die in Portsmouth August 23, 1991. Alease was born July 25, 1910 and will die May 12, 2006.

 

CAROLYN PUTMAN  Petersburg, Petersburg County

She is 53 VA and widowed. She has her daughter Jane 23 VA and never married. I can’t find either here or anywhere earlier. Don’t think they are Putmans, probably Pitman, Patman or something.

 

GRIER V. (VANCE) PUTNAM  Dan River, Pittsylvania County

He is 49 NC separated and an inmate in the City of Danville Prison Farm. Now it gets interesting. His kinda official webpage says the name is

Bill “AKA Grier Vance Putnam” Anderson. Think he was born a Putnam with folks Joseph Devaney Putnam and Roxania Jane Weathers from Shelby, Cleveland County North Carolina. He was born  December 20, 1900 and Joe died July 27, 1904. Joe had a couple of wives and 19 kids between them. He was at home with his mom in 1910. He later married Carrie Holcomb and they had a daughter Annie Anderson. So not sure how ‘Anderson’ came to be. They are in Cherryville, Gaston County North Carolina in the 1920 and that’s the only other time I find him before this. There is a marriage certificate that says he married Alpha Lewis in Anderson County December 11, 1943 South Carolina. That’s who he is ‘separated’ from, I guess. They are living in Greenville, South Carolina in 1945 He will die in Greenville, South Carolina in December 1961.

 

HALLIE PUTMAN  Glenwood, Pittsylvania County

She is 60 SC says never married but has a grandson Willie R. Murrell 14 VA. Not a clue.

 

BILLY C. PUTNAM  Portsmouth City, Portsmouth County

He is 19 born somewhere in the world and in the U. S. Navy stationed here.

 

FLOSSIE M. PUTNAM  Portsmouth City, Portsmouth County

She is 59 VA and widowed. Flossie May Borumn was married to Harry Freeman Putnam here in Portsmouth City but it was part of Norfolk County in 1940. He was a son of Orson Freeman Putnam and Amelia Throop from Holt County Nebraska. He was an ordinance keeper at the Navy Yard. According to his WWI registration he was born March 10, 1882 and he died here October 16, 1946. Flossie was born January 19, 1891 and will die here January 15, 1971.

 

GLENN P. (PHILLIPS) PUTNAM  Portsmouth City, Portsmouth County

He is 21 and a patient in the U. S. Naval Hospital. No birth state listed for any of the patients. Thanks yet again to Ancestry. I find him as Glenn Phillips Putnam son of Cleon Frank Putnam and Grace Marion Phillips from Gardner, Massachusetts and then New York where Glenn was born August 19, 1928 in Jamaica, Queens County New York and he’ll die in Sarasota, Florida. His tombstone shows he was in the Navy in WWII and Korea. He will soon marry Dorothy Rozanski in Windsor, Connecticut January 21, 1951. Then they will divorce in Connecticut June 3, 1973. It was granted to him for cruelty from his wife.

 

HARRY F. (FREEMAN) PUTNAM JR.  Portsmouth City, Portsmouth County

He is 40 VA, his wife Sadie Elizabeth Duke. 38 VA and they have Shirley Anne 15 VA and Harry F. (3rd) 12 VA. He is a sheet metal worker at the Naval Base here in town. He is a son of Harry Freeman Putnam and Flosie Borum and was born here March 7, 1910. He married Sadie August 28, 1931 here in Portsmouth. They will get divorced October 6, 1953. He will marry Vera Wiggins sometime after. He will die November 19, 1965. Harry Senior is a son of Orson Freeman Putnam and Amelia Throop from Holt County Nebraska. His folks are still here in Portsmouth. New England family.

 

KENNETH N. (NEIL) PUTMAN  Portsmouth City, Portsmouth County

He is 40 WI and divorced. Must have been out here with the Navy or something. He is a so of Giles Henry Putman and Emma Hart Shaw from New London, Waupaca County Wisconsin where he was born March 4, 1910. He married Nettie Frances Snooks in Morehead City, North Carolina September 13, 1937 and then went into WWII. They divorced here in Norfolk Virginia November 5, 1946. He’ll be in Hampton, North Carolina in 1951. He will marry Maroula ‘Mary’ Politaki in Newport News, Virginia October 3, 1970. He will die in Morehead City, North Carolina December 9, 1976. New York Putmans out of Montgomery County New York.

 

CLINT H. (HAMILTON) PUTMAN  Camp Lee, Prince George County

He is 35 OK and his wife Annie L. is 41 TN and they have Mary K. 8 TN and Janet C. 5 TN. He is in the Armed Forces like everyone around here. He is a Sergeant now. He is a son of Joseph F. Putman and Mary Mahaley Graham. Joseph was a son of Richard Jacob Putman and Nancy Hamilton from Pike County Arkansas. Line goes back to Ezekiel Putman from South Carolina to Hall County Georgia. Clint was born in Carter County Oklahoma December 24, 1914. Can’t find the family in 1920, but by 1930 his mom is widowed and they are in Blackwell, Kay County Oklahoma and then he joined the Army. He will soon go to Rockwood, Roane County Tennessee and marry Annie Laura Hickey there March 12, 1941. He will later become the Mayor of Rockwood and will serve till he dies there September 2, 1968. Annie will be in Rockwood until she dies October 14, 1998. Southern Putmans of course.

 

LOIS C. PUTMAN  Camp Lee, Prince George County

He is 27 and like everyone else on this page is in the U. S. Army and born in a spaceship off the moon or somewhere.

 

LEONARD R. (ROBBINS) PUTNAM  Manassas, Prince William County

He is 32 SD and his wife Rachel Marguerite Wood is 26 WV. He is an Assistant store manager at an electrical car accessories store. He is a son of Benjamin Gideon Putnam and Pearl Effie Robbins from Afton, Sanborn County South Dakota. He was born there October 10, 1916 and was there with his folks through 1930 and probably 1940, but I can’t find them. He married Marguerite here October 7, 1945 after he got out of the Marine Corps. He will die here in Manassas May 21, 2013. Marguerite was born November 24, 1923 in Ronceverte, West Virginia and will die November 1, 2007 in Manassas and be buried in the Quantico National Cemetery as she was a sergeant in the Korean War in the 1950s.

 

MARGARET ANN PUTNAM  Radford, Radford County

She is 19 VA and a student at the State Teachers College here in town. She is a daughter of Harry Emparo Putnam and Margaret White McLean from Elizabeth City. She was home there in 1940.

 

WILLIAM G. (GILBERT) PUTMAN  Jackson, Rappahannock County

He is 15 VA and lives with his remarried mother Ethel Kemper 38 VA who has married Harry Hall. His father Gilbert ‘Gilly’ Bastable Putman died November 16, 1943. William was born May 14, 1935 here and will die in Polk County Florida July 18, 1992. He will marry some gal here September 3, 1955 and get divorced August 22, 1974. He will then marry Phyllis J. Hopkins September 13, 1974

 

EARL L. (LEE) PUTNAM  Wakefield, Rappahannock County

He is 36 VA and his wife Estelle Gardner Pullen is 29 VA and they have Earl Lee Jr. 5 VA and Nelson F. 1 VA. He is a son of Edward Corbin Putman  and Lucy Frances Grimsley and was born here January 21, 1914 and will die in Front Royal, Warren County Virginia April 30, 1985. Southern Putmans down from the Fauquier County family. This line is Southern Putman and the only one to consistently use the original Putnam spelling.

 

EDWARD C. (COLLIN) PUTMAN  Wakefield, Rappahannock County

He is 64 VA VA VA and a farmer. Lucy Frances ‘Fannie’ Grimsley his wife is 62 VA. They have been married over 40 years. He is a son of Benjamin and Alice Putman from Fauquier County. He and Fannie were there in 1910 and here in 1920 and 1930. Edward was born December 17, 1886 and will die January 2, 1952. He married Fannie February 2, 1910. She was born in Fauquier County July 5, 1889 and will die September 4, 1953 and be buried back there in Fauquier County. Southern Putmans.

 

ERNEST PUTNAM  Richmond City, Richmond County

He is 45 VA and is a prisoner at the Richmond State Penitentiary. Says he is married. Ernest Jasper Putnam is a son of William Augustus Putman and Clara Green from Warren County and then in Staunton. He and Josephine Collins Bailey were married September 24, 1929 and were in Hagerstown, Maryland in 1930. And back in Staunton in 1940. No idea why he is locked up. Southern family.

 

JAMES H. (HELMER) PUTNAM  Richmond City, Richmond County

He is 54 NY and his wife Mildred Crorer is 53 NY and they have James H. Jr. 25 NY and his widowed mother Hattie 69 NY. He is the chief clerk at a U. S. Department of ‘Arg’ whatever that is. He was born in Canastota, New York September 12, 1895 and will die July 2, 1975. He is a son of Edgar H. and Harriet Putman and was born in the Buffalo, New York area and has been there through 1935 and was here in Richmond in 1940. Edgar shows up in the 1890s and I just don’t know who his folks were.

 

KATHERINE V. (VIRGINIA) PUTNAM  Richmond City, Richmond County

She is 39 VA single and lodging. She is a clerk for the telephone company as she was in 1940. She was with the folks in Culpeper County in 1920 and she was here in 1930 and is a daughter of Arthur Pembroke Putnam and Irma Tancill from Fauquier County and then Culpepper County. She was born there April 28, 1910. Southern Putmans. This line is Southern Putman and the only one to consistently use the original Putnam spelling.

 

CARL E. (EUGENE) PUTNAM  Roanoke, Roanoke County

He is 58 MA and his wife Winnie Iola Fowler is 43 LA and they have Robert W. 26 NH. Her widowed mother Winnie A. Fowler 72 is with them. He is president of a general insurance company. He is a son of Eugene Herman Putnam and Mary Mamie Helen Pike and was born in Pembroke, Plymouth County Massachusetts November 17, 1891 and will die soon here in Roanoke on March 7, 1951. He married Alice Mason Atwood in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1919 and they were in Montgomery County Pennsylvania in 1940 and then divorced. He then married Winnie in Lynchburg, Virginia January 27, 1945.

 

BUSH C. (CARNOT) PUTMAN  Elkton, Rockingham County

He is 55 VA, his wife Ruth Virginia Bailey is 46 VA and they have Bush Carnot Jr. 23 VA, Charles William 22 VA, and Lester Leroy 14 VA. He is a son of William Augustus Putman and Clara Belle Green from Warren County. Bush was born there October 9, 1894. He had been in Staunton since the early 1900s and married to Ruth here in 1930. They were there in 1940 and now here. He will die here December 2, 1960. Ruth was born February 18, 1904 and will die in Harrisonburg, Virginia April 25, 1977.

 

FLOYD E. (EDWARD) PUTNAM  Davis, Shenandoah County

He is 47 VA VA VA and works at a vinegar plant. Minnie Alice Minnick his wife  died July 10, 1949. He still has James Levi 22 VA, Charles M. 19 VA, June  C. 16 VA, Alice M. 15 VA, William Boyd W. 10 VA and Richard A. 6 VA. Floyd was born in 1900 and will die here August 25, 1951. He is a son of Sandy Edward Putman and his first wife Sally Andrews. Now, the sons: James Levi born November 18, 1928 and will die here in Strasburg July 14, 1871. Charles Melvin born September 12, 1930 and died in Strasburg June 5, 1957. Boyd William born May 2, 1938 and died January 26, 1972. Richard Allen born June 12, 1944 and died October 14, 1987.

 

JOE P. (JOSEPH PENDLETON) PUTMAN  Davis Shenandoah County

He is 56 VA VA VA and a general farmer. Mary Edith Winner his wife is 56 VA and they have Joseph Warren 32 VA and his wife Mary Lorraine Beatley 21 VA and their son John P. 2 VA and daughter Bonnie K. born in March. He is Joseph Junior a son of Joseph Pendleton Putnam and his first wife Annie Fewell and was born here March 24, 1894 and will die in September 1973. They were married in 1917. She was born November 15, 1893 and will die in Strasburg, Virginia in September 1974. They were in Fauquier County in 1920 and 1930 and Frederick County in 1940. He was born in Arlington March 24, 1894 and will die September 23, 1973 in Woodstock, Virginia.

 

NELSON O. (OLIVER) PUTMAN  Davis Shenandoah County

He is 46 VA and his wife Virginia Mae Helsley is 38 VA. He married Virginia Helsley November 9, 1945, and is a hired man on a farm. He is Nelson Oliver a son of Walter Onophous Putman and Ida Pearl Miller from Shenandoah County. He was born here February 12, 1914 and will die July 8, 1966. He earlier married Mearl Ellen Palmer January 6, 1937 and they got divorced May 27, 1943. She went to court saying he abandoned her.

 

RALPH C. (CHAPMAN) PUTMAN  Davis, Shenandoah County

He is 35 VA and lives with his married sister Geneva 31 VA and her husband Clarence Spitler 41 VA. Then there is Edward Putman 1 VA listed as a nephew. Must be a kid from Ralph’s marriage and he says they are separated now. Anyway, Ralph and Geneva are kids of Samuel Edward Putman and Vergie Mae Morris from here. OBITS has Ralph born February 26, 1915 and dying in Luray Virginia in May 1984.

 

VIRGINIA C. (CATHERINE) PUTNAM  Davis, Shenandoah County

Virginia Catherine Barr was married to Claude Wilbur Putnam here in 1940. He was a son of Sandy Edward Putman and his first wife Sally Andrews. Claude was born June 2, 1898 and died here in Strasburg June 11, 1948. Anyway, she is 34 VA and has Gay E. 12 VA, Nancy V. 12 VA, John 9 VA, Annabelle 5 VA, Dolly 2 VA and Joby 1 VA. Southern Putmans.

 

WALTER O. (ONOPHOUS) PUTNAM  Davis, Shenandoah County

He is 64 VA, his wife Ida Pearl Miller 62 VA. He works in an apple orchard and has for years. He is a son of William Robert Putman and Ruth Steed from here. Walter was born June 18, 1885 and will die here December 9, 1965. Ida was born November 27, 1890 and will die here February 9, 1971.

 

CHARLES W. (WILLIAM) PUTMAN  Strasburg, Shenandoah County

He is 39 VA and works for a private employer. His wife Mary Elizabeth Golliday is 29 VA and they have Peggy L. 10, Charles W. 5 VA, Randolph Eugene 4 VA and Penny P. 2 VA. He is a son of Samuel Edward “Sandy’ Putnam and Virginia Mae Morris and was born in Staunton March 28, 1928. His widowed dad is listed right below.

 

SANDY E. (SAMUEL EDWARD) PUTNAM  Strasburg, Shenandoah County

He is now 78 VA and widowed. He has Cecil E. 22 VA at home still. Also here are Bonnie C. 15 VA and her sister Rebecca A. 12 VA. They are daughters of his married daughter Mary Elizabeth Jenkins who was here in 1940 with four of her daughters and no husband. Mary had married Alfred Jenkins about 1930 and I don’t know where he is. Sandy was born March 5, 1870. He first married Sallie Andrews April 20, 1896. She died and he married Virginia Mae Morris March 1, 1910. She died April 26, 1925 and he has been widowed ever since.

 

STELLA D. PUTMAN  Strasburg, Shenandoah County

She is 37 VA and says separated. She was married here in 1940 to Ralph Chapman Putman, son of Sandy Edward Putman from here. I found a sheet that says ‘He was born February 26, 1915 and will die in Luray, Virginia in May 1984.’ So, I guess he is still just hiding after she caught him doing drugs and sex with a cute lil 12-year-old blondie.

 

HILDA PUTNAM  Staunton, Staunton County

She is 20 VA and a niece of Charles and Ella Bailey. She is Hilda Dolores Putnam a daughter of Ernest Jasper Putnam and Josephine Collins Bailey. She was born February 19, 1930 in Augusta County and will die there December 15, 1991. She will marry James Harper Thomas in Mount Sidney, Augusta County Virginia on July26, 1957. Southern Putmans out of Warren County Virginia.

 

JOSHUA PUTMAN  Staunton, Staunton County

He is 51 VA and an inmate at the Western State Hospital for the Insane as he was in 1940. He is a son of William Augustus Putman and Clara Green from Warren County and then here in Staunton. He was born April 1, 1899 and will die here in Staunton February 17, 1975.

 

DORIS D. PUTNAM  Bluefield, Tazwell County

He is really Doris DeMaris Pittman 25 SD, He’s not one of ours.

 

VIVIAN N. (NORRIS) PUTNAM  Bluefield, Tazwell County

She is 53 VT and widowed. She lives now with her sister Irene. Found info that Vivian May Norris married Richard L. Putnam who was born in New York about 1896. She was born in Richford, Vermont January 27, 1896. Her folks made this announcement that their daughter Vivian M. was going to marry Dr. Richard L. Putnam of New York. She is the director of Art at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. They met at art school in Massachusetts. He is an archeologist. There were married in Cleveland, Ohio in March 1931. They lived in Charleston, West Virginia in 1934. Vivian will be in West Virginia in 1952 and die there in Princeton, Mercer County September 4, 1953. She says she is widowed now, but no info if or when or where Dick died.

 

WILLARD PUTNAM  Maiden Spring, Tazewell County

He is 45 NC and his wife Ella/Ellen Herrill is 44 NC and they have Edna E. 18 NC, Donald Dell 14 NC, Delbert 6 VA and Dillard Dale 3 VA. He is a son of Charles Sidney Putnam and Frances Roxann Bowman from Harrell Mitchel County North Carolina and he was there married to Ella in 1930. Can’t find in 1940. He was born September 5, 1903 and will die here in Bluefield, Tazewell County August 18, 1990. He married Ellen Herrill in Carter County Tennessee April 22, 1924. Ellen was born April 9, 1905 and will die here in Tazwell County April 23, 1963.

 

GARNET PUTNAM  Fork, Warren County

He is 30 VA and his wife Julia Elizabeth Pollard is 33 VA and they have a son Ronnie F. 4 VA. He’s doing okay as they have a 59 year old maid living with them. He is Garnet Lee Putnam a son of Joseph Pendleton Putman Jr. and Edith Winner from Marshall County. He was born February 22, 1920 and will die in Woodstock, Virginia January 3, 2015. Julia was born October 31, 1918 and will die in Winchester, Hampshire County England December 28, 2003.

 

PEGGY J. PUTMAN  Fork, Warren County

She is 14 VA and never married. She lives with Micol and Ada Laing. She was here in 1940 with her sister Margaret with a McDonald family. They are also listed with the McDonalds here now.

 

MARGARET L. (LOUISE) & PEGGY J. PUTMAN  Bethel/Fork, Warren County

Margaret is 16 VA and her sister Peggy is 14 VA. They are with Louise McDonald 37 VA and her husband John C. McDonald 29 VA. They were here in 1940 but now they are listed as daughters of Margaret Louise McDonald. Probably same husband just different name used, age the same. Anyway, Louise Steppe was married to Charles Wesley Putman, son of Charles Henry Putman and Gertrude Foss from Davis, Shenandoah County. Wesley died October 7, 1935.

 

SILAS H. (HOUSTON) PUTMAN  Bethel/Fork, Warren County

He is 59 VA as is his wife Clara Belle Wakeman 59 VA. He is a son of Charles Henry Putman and Gertrude Susan Levin from here in Warren County. Silas was here in 1910 with his first wife Ida James. They were in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1920. Also with them was Clara Wakeman who is from Front Royal. She had been married to Joseph Murphy and had two Murphy Kids with her. Not sure how/why she was living with Silas and Ida. But Ida died in the 1920s and he married Clara in Jefferson County West Virginia in 1929, and they were in Harrisburg in 1930, and now back here by 1935 and in the 1940.

 

NOAH B. (BOOTEN) PUTNAM  South River, Warren County

He is 58 VA and his second wife Sally Wince Grimsley is 48 and they have Robert Grimsley from her prior marriage. Noah was previously married to Mary Browning Grimsley from February 12, 1913 till she died February 13, 1940. Sally Wince was married to Joseph S. Grimsley, Mary’s brother, when she was 15 on February 11, 1915. They split and she married Noah in the 1940s.

 

ELMER F. (FRANCIS) PUTNAM  Waynesboro, Waynesboro County

He is 34 VA and his wife Mary Elizabeth Johnson is 29 VA and they now have Ernest Lee 11 VA, Barbara A. 10 VA, Rita J. 8 VA and Betty J. 6 VA. Elmer Francis Putnam is a son of Russell Lankford Putnam and Mary Elizabeth Brown. He was born in Griffith, Virginia April 6, 1916 and married Mary Elizabeth in Botetourt, Virginia on October 30, 1937. Mary was born here July 6, 1920 and will die June 17, 1993 in Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida. Ernest will die in Tampa September 11, 1988. They were in Botetourt, Virginia in 1940 just after getting married there. Elmer was in Bath County Virginia in 1920 and in Alleghany County in 1930 with his folks. Family from Massachusetts to Bath County after the Revolution.

 

CHARLES PUTMAN  Washington, Westmoreland County

He is 73 VT and single. Beats me, can’t find anyone that fits, and there are no Putmans born in Vermont as far as I know. May not be a Putman/Putnam at all.