Evans Elwood Libby (my brother)

Before I start this blog I should tell you that from Evans death he was never mentioned by or spoken of to his parents. They were devastated. He was born in 1919 and lived his first few years in Mt Vernon, Kennebec County, Maine, USA. He was born on the farm that his great grandparents owned since their marriage. (Nathan Copp and Emma Jane Stevens. In or around 1926 the family moved to Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA. In 1933 Herbert Hall (my grandfather) and Roy Hall (my uncle) helped Elwood build a house for the family on 87 Coburn Street, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine,USA. As Evans grew older he became fastinated with airplanes. He built models and contructed their engines. As I grew up there were many models in evidence around the house on Coburn Street. In high school he took drafting, mechanical arts, and shop courses. He was a favorite with Mrs Bowen (my geometry teacher). She used to tell me I should be more of a student like my brother was. He graduated from Edward Little High School in 1939. He then enlisted in the Army Air Corp. Did his basic training, and was stationed in Bellevue, Illinois. His unit was fated to be in the death march on Battan, where so many of our young men died. On a fateful day in December in 1939 ( the 9th) he was taking flying practice and another pilot in training hit his plane and damaged it so that it crashed. Rose Alma and Elwood and his sister Pauline got a telegram saying he had been seriously injured. They made arrangements for his mother and Pauline to take the train out to help care for him but then another telegram came stating he had surcumbed to his injuries and died. Needless to say they never recovered from his death though they lived until 1988 and 1989 respectively . Until next time, Your Hall Genealogy Insider.