Austin Oswald NAPPER

Source : Kathy WISEMAN

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CEMTERY TEMPORARY of 

St James N°3578

Story of Cemetery Temporary 

Map of St James American Cemetery

I would like to thank whomever goes to his grave. I know the family has a map of the graveyard and a mark where he is buried but a picture of the grave would be greatly appreciated.
Cpl. Austin Oswald Napper was my children's great uncle.

He was a man who came from the back hills of southern Ohio. Before he joined the service he worked for a coal mining company and on weekends he would travel to the closest larger city in the area and enter into boxing matches. Since he was small I would guess he probably fought as a featherweight. His weight was only about 120 lbs or 54 kg.

Austin's younger brother also joined the service. He was underage and got caught in the lie so was dismissed. He travel to another recruitment center and flipped his given name from Kenneth Henry to Henry Kenneth and joined another branch of the service.

We have records on his family going back about 300 years but the majority of census records for the last 100, in the United States, have listed the family as African American.

This was true but only a small percentage. The majority of the the family's ethnicity was French. You could see it in their features and the build of their bodies.

The original name was Napier.
Again Thank You,
By : Kathy Mulligan Wiseman 

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