Eugene Meredith Young born 12 April 1925 in Jayton, Kent County, Texas to Velma Elizabeth Williams (b. 1906 Hylton, Nolan County, Texas - d. 1993 Brownwood, Brown County, Texas) Age 19 and Lynn Bertha Young (b. 1904 Stamford, Texas - d. 1972 Crosbyton, Crosby County, Texas) Age 21.
1930 Census age 4 living in Abernathy, JP5 Hale County, Texas with his parents and a brother. 1935 living Rural Hale County, Texas. 1940 Census age 14 living in JP3 Hale County, Texas with his parents, two brothers and three boarders. Registered for the draft in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas for the local board at Plainview, Hale County, Texas on 12 April 1943 while living at Cotton Center, Hale County, Texas and being a student at A.C.C. in Abilene, Texas and listed his father, L. B. Young Box 14 Cotton Center, as his next of kin contact. No enlistment record found. .
Private Eugene M. Young 38693048 US Army Company D 60th Infantry Regiment 9th Division was wounded in action on 13 October 1944 at the Hentgen Forest, Germany. Finally taken to a hospital in Belgium where he died on 31 October 1944 of the wounds he received while fighting the enemy German forces. He was buried in a temporary grave in Belgium until after the war when in 1949 his remains were repatriated to America and reinterred in the Abernathy Cemetery at Abernathy, Hale County, Texas on 3 July 1949.
I know why this veteran was initially on the Callahan HR, his NARA DOW plaque has Hometown: Callahan County and he is listed on the Callahan County Casualties 1946, but I can't find anywhere else that his name is associated with Callahan County, Texas. I believe he was misplaced by the hometown of Cottonwood in Callahan County instead of his true hometown at Cotton Center in Hale County.
