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PRIVATE NATHANIEL KEYES
was born in Georgia on April 4, 1922. The April 1930 Census shows that
he and his mother Annie were living in Hartford, Connecticut, where she
worked as a laundress. She was still married, according to the Census,
but her husband did not live with her and Nathaniel. According to the
1940 Census he and his mother were living in Washington DC in 1935. The
1940 Census shows that was then an inmate at the New Jersey Home for
Boys in Middlesex County, and that he had gone to school through the
sixth grade.
He lived with his mother, Mrs. Anna Keyes, at 309 Pine
Street in Camden NJ. After leaving theNew Jersey Home for Boys, he worked on a farm in Mantua
NJ. He was inducted into the Army in on July 24, 1942 and was assigned
to the 95th Engineer Service Battalion. The 95th Engineers Service
battalion was sent to Canada to take part in building the Alcan Highway
connecting Alaska to the lower 48 states, When that project was
completed, the 95th returned to the United States for overseas training.
The 95th Engineers Service Battalion was sent overseas in July of 1943.
Private Keyes
was a victim of a homicide while
serving with the United States Army in France on September 8, 1944. His
death did not come in the line of duty, so he was not awarded the Purple
Heart. It would appear that he was killed by another soldier or a
non-combatant civilian.
Private
Nathaniel Keyes
was survived by his mother, of the Pine Street address in Camden NJ. In 1948 he was brought back to New
Jersey and buried at Beverly National Cemetery.
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