Grave marker for Charles R. Walthall in Veterans Cemetery, Pekin
(Tazewell county), Illinois.
Charles registered for the draft in
Pekin, IL on 16 October, 1940 and was inducted into the Army eat
Richmond, VA on 8 May 1942.
In October1945, Sgt Walthall was listed
in the $rd Anniversary book as a recently arrived member of Hq 1st,
He was discharged on 7 November 1945.
Charles
was marked as "Married" when he enlisted but that marriage apparently
ended in a divorce. On 23 may 1947, he married Maude Lucille
Pennington in Petersburg, VA. It was the second marriage for both
of them.
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