This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roper, Groves Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/782.1 Message Board Post: Thank you Mr. Wheatley for sharing the gravestone image at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~t42cemeteries/Texas/Tarrant/MountOlive/ROPER_Clarence_E_Jr_1894-1962_.JPG !! This Clarence Eugene ROPER, Jr. (b 04 Dec 1894 - San Antonio, Bexar County, TX, d 29 Jan 1962 - TX) is shown to have been born in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. This indication appears on his WW I Draft registration card, which shows him at age 22 residing at 3610 Oak Lane, Dallas, Texas. He is shown to have then been an automobile mechanic at Ft. Worth Motor Truck Company, of Dallas. He is shown to have been "Tall" and "Slender", with "Light Blue" eyes and "Dark Brown" hair at the date of that registration card on 05 Jun 1917. The 1920 Census shows him residing with his parents, Clarence E. ROPER (b abt 1868 - GA, d 7 Feb 1923 - Bexar, TX) and Hale ROPER (b abt 1875 - TX). Brother Max ROPER (b abt 1908 - TX) and sister-in-law Bertha ROPER (b abt 1890 - TX) are also residing in the Clarence ROPER household. * Clarence Eugene ROPER, Jr., seems to have also been married to a Kathryn GROVES. Clarence Eugene ROPER, Jr., is found in the 1930 Census enumeration residing at 5802 Edison Court in Dallas with wife Kathryn. Clarence is shown as "C. E. ROPER", age 34. Kathryn is shown to be age 30. They seem to have been married the previous year. [Enumeration District 56-19 at Sheet 5A] * Bertha A. ROPER seems to be divorced from Clarence ROPER's brother and is living at 809 Luda Street, Ft. Worth, Tarrant County, TX, in 1930. The elder Clarence Eugene ROPER seems to have died in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas on 07 Feb 1923. I have NOT seen his death certificate. I have NOT been able to readily ascertain the identity of Clarence Eugene ROPER's father. A person with a singular interest in this family may want to obtain that death certificate (Roper, Clarence Eugene; Bexar; 7 Feb 1923; Cert. No. 7127). * Does anyone know anything else about this ROPER family??