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Note: No first name is listed on his birth certificate, his father's name is spelled "Sheets," and his mother's name is given as "Anna Morrison." The certificate is signed by William Stites, M. D.
At the time of his WWI draft registration, 5 June 1917, he was living at 196 Belvidere, Washington, NJ, and working as a laborer at Catelle and Schultze. he is described as tall and stout, with dark brown hair and dark brown eyes.
He enlisted September 20, 1917 in Phillipsburg, NJ, Grade: Private First Class. He received an Honorable Discharge from the United States Army, 2 May 1919 at Camp Gordon, GA.
Newspaper article: Private Arthur Sheats Scores
Private Arthur Sheats of this borough has the distinction of being next to the biggest man in the body of 300 military police at Camp Gorgon, GA. Sheats is a member of Co. A. Eight-second Division, and he would be the largest man in his company were it not for Private Joseph E. Packenham, who stands six feet six in his stocking feet. Sheats is surpassed in the police organization by one man only, James Clarin of Newark, who stands six feet two in his stocking feet and who weighs 230 pounds. Sheats is making a name for himself as an efficient soldier and it is stated he makes a policemen with whom it does not pay to split hairs over camp rules.
In the 1930 census, Arthur Sheats is found, age 39, in Williams Twp., Northampton Co., PA, described as a laborer (on or with "boats"), with "housekeeper" (not wife) Daisy Bealer, age 31, born in PA to two parents born in PA, and daughter Shirley ______ (presumably Bealer, as the underscore follows Daisy Bealer's name), age 1 8/12. He is said to be single (with no age given for the date of his first marriage) and Daisy Bealer is said to be married and to have first married at age 21.
At the time he registered for the WWII draft in 1941, he was living at 820 Mauch Chunk, Easton, PA, and was employed by the W.P.A. He gave the name of Lewis Warwick of Wind Gap, PA, as the person who would always know his address.
Obituary:
Arthur Sheats, 81, of 659 Walnut Street, Easton, died yesterday at his home. Mr. Sheats was a retired sanitation worker for the City of Easton. Born in Washington, NJ, he was a son of the late Lewis and Anna Morris Sheats. He was an Army veteran of World War I. His wife, the former Daisy Sigley [sic] died in 1936. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Shirley Terleski, Easton; two sons, William, Easton and Richard, Ronkama, NY; two brothers, Lewis, Chatham, NJ and Harold, Washington, NJ and nine grandchildren. The funeral will be held at 2pm Thursday at the DeVoe Funeral Home, Washington. Interment will be in Washington Cemetery. (Easton Express)
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