52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 9 "Gone Too Soon"

  

Gone Too Soon

    My great-grand uncle (brother of my great grandfather) Arthur Jay Washburn 

Born in 1921, Arthur was only 30 years old when he passed away, but he packed so much into those years. He married, fathered seven children, and fought in World War II. After the war, he had gone to work in Lawrenceburg, Indiana and died in a terrible fire at his boarding house. 

His wife, Clarine Moore, never remarried and raised all of their children on her own.