Richard Augustine Carroll b. 27 Oct 1898 Massachusetts, USA d. 11 Mar 1959 New York, USA: Smith Family Tree

Richard Augustine Carroll

1898 - 1959 (60 years)

Name	Richard Augustine Carroll [1, 2, 3, 4]
Birth	27 Oct 1898	Massachusetts, USA [2, 3, 4]
Gender	Male
Military Service	1 May 1916	Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada [5]
	Newfoundland Regiment - World War I; Injured in the Gallipoli Campaign
		Military-CARROLL Richard (Service) Newfoundland Regiment files for R.A Carroll
Military Service	10 Jul 1941 [3, 5]
	US Army - World War II; Major; Signal Corps
Census	1950	Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA [2]
	Relation to Head: Head; Marital Status: Married to Eva
Obituary	Mar 1959	Melville, Suffolk, New York, USA [5]
	Obituary of Richard Carroll • Newsday (Suffolk Edition) • Melville, New York • Fri, Mar 13, 1959 • Page 127
		Obituary-CARROLL Richard A Obituary of RICHARD AUGUSTINE CARROLL • Newsday (Suffolk Edition) • Melville, New York • Fri, Mar 13, 1959 • Page 127
Death	11 Mar 1959	New York, USA [3, 4]
Burial	Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA [3]
Person ID	I31190	A Tree Called Smith
Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

Father	Valentine Carroll, b. 14 Feb 1866, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada d. 30 Dec 1898, St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (Age 32 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Bridget Reily, b. Abt 30 Sep 1860, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada d. 13 Apr 1905, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 44 years)
Relationship	natural
Marriage	3 Dec 1893	Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada [6]
Family ID	F13067	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Nancy Hale Millard, b. 2 Aug 1929, Virginia, USA d. 26 Feb 2020, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 90 years)

Children

1. Living

Family ID F14957 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 21 Jul 2025

Family 2	Eva Howell
Marriage	27 Jul 1924	Manhattan, Kings, New York, USA [1]
Family ID	F14958	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

Event Map

	Birth - 27 Oct 1898 - Massachusetts, USA
	Military Service - Newfoundland Regiment - World War I; Injured in the Gallipoli Campaign - 1 May 1916 - Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
	Marriage - 27 Jul 1924 - Manhattan, Kings, New York, USA
	Census - Relation to Head: Head; Marital Status: Married to Eva - 1950 - Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
	Obituary - Obituary of Richard Carroll • Newsday (Suffolk Edition) • Melville, New York • Fri, Mar 13, 1959 • Page 127 - Mar 1959 - Melville, Suffolk, New York, USA
	Death - 11 Mar 1959 - New York, USA
	Burial - - Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

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Military Records

Military-CARROLL Richard (Service)
Newfoundland Regiment files for R.A Carroll

Obituaries

Obituary-CARROLL Richard A
Obituary of RICHARD AUGUSTINE CARROLL • Newsday (Suffolk Edition) • Melville, New York • Fri, Mar 13, 1959 • Page 127

Sources

[S1099] Ancestry.com, New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2014;).

[S11596] Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;), National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; Roll: 2226; Page: 17; Enumeration District: 1-121.

1950 United States Federal Census
National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; Roll: 2226; Page: 17; Enumeration District: 1-121

[S87] Ancestry.com, U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT ; Date: 2012;), National Archives at Washington DC; Washington DC ; Applications for Headstones For U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941; NAID: 596118; Record Group Number: 92; Record Group Title: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General.

U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970
National Archives at Washington DC; Washington DC, USA; Applications for Headstones For U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941; NAID: 596118; Record Group Number: 92; Record Group Title: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General

[S3160] Connecticut Department of Health, Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2003;).
[S4034] Newspapers.com: Obituary of Richard Carroll • Newsday (Suffolk Edition) - Mar 1959 - Page 127, (Name: Newsday (Suffolk Edition); Location: Melville NY; Date: 13 Mar 1959;), RICHARD A CARROLL, 60; AUTHOR, NEWSMAN.
Richard A Carroll, 60, author, editor and newspaperman, died Wednesday in New York Hospital after a long illness. Carroll had been editor in chief of Gold Medal Books for Fawcett Publications, New York, since 1954.
A former aviation editor and fiction editor of Libert' magazine, Carroll had contributed many short stories to Liberty and to other publications. "Medals, one of his short stories in Liberty, won an O Henry award. He was co-author with Rex Beach of a novel, "Green Gold." Carroll lived in Hollywood for some yeas and wrote film scenarios. Among his films were "Lovetime, produced in 1934; "I Conquer the Sea", 1956, and "Five Came Back", 1939. He was coauthor of "You Cant Fool Your Wife" and "The Ape," both produced in 1940, and "Two Yanks in Trinidad" and "Flight lieutenant", both 1942.
A native of Cambridge, Carroll was reared in Newfoundland, where he attended St Bonaventure College. He served with the Canadian forces in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I and with the United States Army as a major in World War II. Wounded at Gallipoli, Carroll returned to this country and became a reporter for the Boston Globe after the war. He joined The New York Daily News and held several editorships.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition/132652059/?xid=637

Obituary-CARROLL Richard A
Obituary of RICHARD AUGUSTINE CARROLL • Newsday (Suffolk Edition) • Melville, New York • Fri, Mar 13, 1959 • Page 127
[S9514] Ancestry.com, Newfoundland, Canada, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1850-1949, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2017;), PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES (NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR); Newfoundland, Canada.

Newfoundland, Canada, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1850-1949
PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES (NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR); Newfoundland, Canada

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