Individual Details

1940 Census. St Francis Twp, Lee Co, ARk, Hh 230
Lived in rural Pope Co, AR in 1935
Lee P. Yarber, 43, mail carrier
Eva May, wife, 28
Dovey Lee, dau, 14
George Albert, son, 11
dorothy Lee, dau, 8
Alene Lois, dau, 1
Pauline, dau, 5 months
Bell, mother, 61, widow
Lester G., Brother, 38, single (he was divorced), farm labor

Lester was the son of Payton Jahu and Bell Rutha McCuin Yarber.
Lester married Sidney B. Manuel in Pope, Arkansas on February 27, 1927.
Lester was serving as a fireman/wiper on board the Rawleigh Warner, an American tanker that put to sea June 21, 1921 from Smith's Bulff, Texas (Beaumont) in route to Port St. Joe, Florida, with a cargo of 39,000 gallons of gasloine. Two days at sea June 23, 1942, forty miles South of Louisiana, traveling without escort, at 6:11 A.M. the Rawleigh Warner was struck by two torpedoes fired from a German U-boat, the U-67. The ship was quickly engulfed in flames and within ten minutes of the strike was gone taking with her all 33 crew members. The U-67 was commanded by Guenther Mueller Stockheim, on his fourth patrol having left Germany May 21, 1942. The U-67 was sunk by American aircraft dropping depth charges in the Sargasso Sea July 16, 1943.

Birth	15 Apr 1902	Nogo, Pope County, Arkansas
Marriage	25 Feb 1927	Nogo, Pope County, Arkansas - Sidney Belle Simmons
Divorce	Bef 1934	Sidney Belle Simmons
Death	23 Jun 1942

Spouse	Sidney Belle Simmons (1901 - )
Child	Bobbie Jean Yarber (1925 - 2013)

Father	Payton Jahu Yarber (1875 - 1949)
Mother	Ruthie Bell McCuin (1878 - 1947)