Individual Details
James Roy Roush I
(1 Mar 1914 - 7 Oct 1968)
Medical: First Heart attack at age 49. Died at age 54.
Little or nothing is known of "Roy Roush" as a child. His father died when he was 2 years old, and his mother remarried to a man named James Crouse, or "Grandpa Crouse, as we remembered him. Roy is found in James and Famie's home at 6 years old, in the 1920 census, and in 1930 at age 16. James had several children to his first wife, and they too, resided with James and Famie. A daughter, Vera, was born to them. Famie already had 3 children to Winfield Ballentine, and James Roy to James Arthur Roush. Roy attended school through the 8th grade, when he quit to find work to help the family.
Roy spent several months in the Civilian Conservation Corps , from April 27, 1935 to October 4, 1935, and was Honorably Discharged. He was 21 years old and was listed as a truck driver and laborer. His specific duties were Road Building (pick and shovel). He was stationed at Camp Birch Creek F-60, Dillon, Montana. The CCC was called "Roosevelt's Tree Army. Its enrollees throughout the country were credited with renewing three billion trees from 1933 to 1942. The 1932 Presidential election was more a cry for help from a desperate people near panic as it was an election in a "landslide" vote, the nation turned to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic party searching for an end to the rampant unemployment and economic chaos that gripped the country. President Roosevelt planned a fight against soil erosion and declining timber resources, utilizing the unemployed of large urban areas. He revitalized the faith of the nation with several measures, on of which was the Emergency Conservation Work (ECW) Act, more commonly known as the Civilian Conservation Corps. With this action, he brought together two wasted resources, the young men, and the land, in an effort to save both. There were mandatory monthly $25.00 allotments checks to families, making life a little easier for the people at home. The enrollees worked hard, ate hearty, and gained weight while they improved millions of acres of federal and state lands and parks. New roads were built, telephone lines string, and the first of millions of trees that would be planted had gone into the soil.
Roy spent several years in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and served aboard the U.S.S. Gunnason, a Destroyer Escort. He enlisted in the Navy on Sept 21, 1943 and was honorably discharged on Jan. 3, 1946. His ratings were AS, Seaman 1st and 2nd class. Remarks on his discharge show "European Theater, Victory Medal WWII, Amer. Theater Asiatic Pac. He received the WWII Victory Medal, and a Philippine Medal.
His 8th grade education left him unskilled to return to the work force, but Roy did work several different jobs, in order to support his family, including Pennsylvania R.R., as a crossing watchman, Scio Pottery, Dennison division, Superior Clay where he fired kilns, and then became a fireman for Dennison Fire Department for many years until his ill health forced him to leave that job. He died after his fourth heart attack, in 1968, at age 54.
Roy lacked social skills, which caused many people to dislike his strong, controlling personality. He loved gardening, and growing flowers, including African Violets which he raised in the front room of his house.
See 1920 Belmont Co., Census, Pultney Twp., for James Roy at 6 years old in the home of James Crouse, step-father, and his mother, Famie Ann.
See 1930 Tuscarawas Co. Census, Warwick Twp. for James Roy at 16 years old in the home of James Crouse, step-father, and his mother, Famie Ann.
Little or nothing is known of "Roy Roush" as a child. His father died when he was 2 years old, and his mother remarried to a man named James Crouse, or "Grandpa Crouse, as we remembered him. Roy is found in James and Famie's home at 6 years old, in the 1920 census, and in 1930 at age 16. James had several children to his first wife, and they too, resided with James and Famie. A daughter, Vera, was born to them. Famie already had 3 children to Winfield Ballentine, and James Roy to James Arthur Roush. Roy attended school through the 8th grade, when he quit to find work to help the family.
Roy spent several months in the Civilian Conservation Corps , from April 27, 1935 to October 4, 1935, and was Honorably Discharged. He was 21 years old and was listed as a truck driver and laborer. His specific duties were Road Building (pick and shovel). He was stationed at Camp Birch Creek F-60, Dillon, Montana. The CCC was called "Roosevelt's Tree Army. Its enrollees throughout the country were credited with renewing three billion trees from 1933 to 1942. The 1932 Presidential election was more a cry for help from a desperate people near panic as it was an election in a "landslide" vote, the nation turned to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic party searching for an end to the rampant unemployment and economic chaos that gripped the country. President Roosevelt planned a fight against soil erosion and declining timber resources, utilizing the unemployed of large urban areas. He revitalized the faith of the nation with several measures, on of which was the Emergency Conservation Work (ECW) Act, more commonly known as the Civilian Conservation Corps. With this action, he brought together two wasted resources, the young men, and the land, in an effort to save both. There were mandatory monthly $25.00 allotments checks to families, making life a little easier for the people at home. The enrollees worked hard, ate hearty, and gained weight while they improved millions of acres of federal and state lands and parks. New roads were built, telephone lines string, and the first of millions of trees that would be planted had gone into the soil.
Roy spent several years in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and served aboard the U.S.S. Gunnason, a Destroyer Escort. He enlisted in the Navy on Sept 21, 1943 and was honorably discharged on Jan. 3, 1946. His ratings were AS, Seaman 1st and 2nd class. Remarks on his discharge show "European Theater, Victory Medal WWII, Amer. Theater Asiatic Pac. He received the WWII Victory Medal, and a Philippine Medal.
His 8th grade education left him unskilled to return to the work force, but Roy did work several different jobs, in order to support his family, including Pennsylvania R.R., as a crossing watchman, Scio Pottery, Dennison division, Superior Clay where he fired kilns, and then became a fireman for Dennison Fire Department for many years until his ill health forced him to leave that job. He died after his fourth heart attack, in 1968, at age 54.
Roy lacked social skills, which caused many people to dislike his strong, controlling personality. He loved gardening, and growing flowers, including African Violets which he raised in the front room of his house.
See 1920 Belmont Co., Census, Pultney Twp., for James Roy at 6 years old in the home of James Crouse, step-father, and his mother, Famie Ann.
See 1930 Tuscarawas Co. Census, Warwick Twp. for James Roy at 16 years old in the home of James Crouse, step-father, and his mother, Famie Ann.
Events
| Birth | 1 Mar 1914 | Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH | |||
| Marriage | 12 Apr 1941 | Methodist Manse, Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas Co., OH - Frances Isabel Gatchell | |||
| Death | 7 Oct 1968 | Congestive Heart Failure - Dennison, Tuscarawas Co., OH | |||
| Burial | Union Cemetery, Uhrichsville, Ohio Tuscarawas County | ||||
| Education | 8th. grade | ||||
| Occupation | Clay Pipe Worker, Fireman, Dennison, Tuscarawas Co., OH | ||||
| Religion | Protesant |
Families
| Spouse | Frances Isabel Gatchell (1918 - 1987) |
| Child | Joyce Ann Roush |
| Child | James Roy Roush II |