Claude Bernhard Dansby husband of 1st cousin 1x removed of 3rd cousin 1x removed 13 Ψ 1922, Morehouse class of 1922 Chair of Mathematics, Morehouse College Born : September 19, 1897 Died : June 20, 19 73 When Claude Bernhardt Dansby was born on September 19, 1897, in LaGrange, Georgia, his father, Burrell Wilkinson, was 29 and his mother, Virginia, " Jennie" Ray was 28. His father died when he was young and his mother remarried to Joe Dansby. He married LILLIAN HEARD on September 6, 1924, in New York City, New York. They had two children during their marriage. He died on June 20, 1973, in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 75, and was buried there. The following tribute given by Hugh Gloster (‘31)President of Morehouse College from 1967–1987, was read at Claude Dansby’s funeral on June 22, 1973, at Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta. In the fall of 1914, a thin seventeen-year-old lad, Claude B. Dansby, walked across two Georgia counties in order to board
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