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1. Title:   Certification of Military Service and Service Record.
Page:   Information from GSA Records Center, St. Louis,MO.
Author:   National Personnel Records Center, Military Personnel Records,National Archives and Records Service,General Services Administration,St. Louis, Mossouri.
Publication:   See Above.
Text:   Certification of Military Service of Max Rottmayer, SN # 1 486 571,Private, Co. A,132 nd. Machine Gun Battalion, U. S. Army from October3, 1917 to April 11, 1919 received an Honorable Discharge, April 11,1919. Wounded in Action in the right hand and arm, October 8, 1918, on theChampaigne Front, France. Witness, Louis Emden, 2 nd, Lt., USInfantry, Camp Pike, Arkansas. Date 4-5-19 Certificate of Immediate Commanding Officer. Same information asabove. Singened By: John M. Costello, Capt. Inf. USA, April, 4,1919. Medical Corps. USA, description of wounds. Machine Gun wound of righthand, long adherent scar, loss of forefinger. Inability to flexfingers and partial unkylosis of thumb. Long contracted scar of rightarm, loss of portion of bicepts and a small wound of elbow in service. Signed by: W. R. Summers, USA Medical Corps. Camp Pike Ark. 4-07-19
2. Title:   Application for Marriage Certificate and Marriage Certificate of MaxRottmayer and Ethel Burkart, Beaver County Court, Beaver, OK. Dated,8 November, 1923
Author:   Anna Houghes, Court Clerk, Beaver Co. OK.
Text:   Married by Virgil M. Hayes, Minister of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, Beaver, OK on the 8 day of November, 1923. Witnessed by Mrs.Dora Bridgewater and Mrs. Elsie Hayes of Beaver,OK. Recorded at CourtClerks Office, 9 Nov. 1923, by Anna Houghs, Court Clerk.
3. Title:   Honorable Discharge from the United States Army
Author:   Frank S. Roberts, Major, Infantry USA
Text:   The United States Army, as a Testomonial of Honest and FaithfulService is Hereby Honorably Discharged from Militaty Service of theUnited States by reason of For conveivence of Govt, Per TEl. inr 18/18 Demobelization. Said Max Rottmayer was born in KingmanKansasa. When Enlisted he was 25 years of age and by occupation aFarmer. he had blue eyes, Black hair, Ruddy Complesikon, and was 6ft. 1 1/3 inches in height. Given under my hand at Camp Pike Arkansasthis 11 day of April 1919, Frank S. Roberts, Major, Infantry, USA.Commanding Officer. Forewarded 7-19-1920 to Adjutant General.Defensive Sector, Meuse-Argonne. Was paid &105.80 including &60.00 Bonus Pay. signed by M. Ash,Capt.,QMC USA. Countersigned by V. S. Whiteside, Col., QMC, USA. Filed at the Beaver Co. OK, County Clerks Office,19 May, 1919 at 2:00pm. in Book 1, of Honorable Discharges. A. S. Foster Co. Clerk andMaude Stallings,Deputy. (12382)
4. Title:   Record of Enlistment
Author:   John M. Costello, Capt., Infantry,U. S. A.
Text:   Max Rottmayer, Pvt.. Enlisted Oct. 3, 1917, at Beaver City, OK..Serving in First Enlistment. Prior Service, None. Non-commisionedofficer: Never. Marksmanship anqualified (? not legible). Unmounted. Champaign Sector, France.Vocation Farmer. Wounds: Gun shot right arm and right hand. 35%disabled. Vocation, FarmerNo record of Thyphoid or ParatyphoidProphylaxis. Single, Character, Excellent, Remarks: No A. W. O.L. or absences under lso 45-14 ot 31-12, 56 th.Depot Brig. Oct. 2, 17, Co. A. 132 nd. M. G. Bn., Oct. 24/17 to Oct.24/17 to date of discharge. Entitled to travel pay to Beaver City OK. Signed: John M. Costello, Capt. Infantry, USA, Det. # 1.
5. Title:   Family record as compiled by an unknown person, and as compiled byLydia R. Rottmayer (hand written.
Author:   Unknown, all information compiled fron other sources
Text:   A list of children of Max Rottmayer, Sr. and Christiana Augusta Hanf.,Married in Litchfield, Minnesota. Birth dates and place of birth ofpaarents and names of Children.
6. Title:   Death notice published in "The Hearld Democrat", Beaver, Ok.
Author:   Doyle Rottmayer
Publication:   The Hearld Democrat Beaver, OK.

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a. Note:   a rented farm near Kingman, KS. He went to school in Kingman to thethird grade until the family moved to a homesteads in Beaver Co., OK.He helped build a grade school on the abandon Camp Benton, IndianTerritory, now Beaver Co., OK. He did farm work on the familyhomestead until he was in his teen's. He worked on ranches and farmsin Kansas, Dakotas and Minnesota. The one place he talked about wasworking on the Hallec (Spelling uncertain) Ranch near Sun City,Kansas. he was apparently employed there for several years. He lefthome after disagreements with his father, Max Sr. and to support hismother, sisters, and brother. Drafted in 1917 to serve in WW1 1.Sworn in at Beaver City, Ok. He was quartered in a hotel whileawaiting transportation for training in Texas. He shared a room inthe hotel with a neighbor named Jay Doolin Meek. Jay wanted to keepthe window of the second floor of the hotel in case he had to make aquick escape. This was during a blue norther in Fe. and their windowfaced the north, Max told him to close the (expletives deleted) windowor he would be thrown out of it. The window was closed, the start ofthe ruckus was Jay had only recently learned his father was BillDoolin, a horseback outlaw and leader of the Doolin Gang. Afterfinishing training as a machine gunner in an Infantry battalion he wassent to the Champaign sector in France. He was wounded in action andsent to Camp Pike, Ark. for surgery and rehabilitation for severalmonths. He attended Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College atStillwater, OK. As a Federal Student he took training as a countyagricultural agent and worked in Payne Co. OK, until he had to returnto the family farm and to take care of his mother, Christina AugustaHanf-Rottmayer.
  Max Rottmayer, Sr. and Christiana were divorced in 1915 and Max Sr.returned to Germany. When the United States entered WW1 in 1917 hewas deported because of his American Citizenship. He told Max Jr.that he would stay on the farm and farm it and take care of it andstock while Max Jr. was in service. after Max Jr. was wounded and wasin the hospital he sold all of the cattle, horses, farm tools andabout any thing else that was salable and returned to Germany. MaxJr. never had any thing good to say about his father after that.
  He married Ethel Burkart, who resided at the time with her family onan adjacent quarter section. Three boys were born to this marriageand due to child birth complications Ethel died in 1930. The familywas broken up at that time and the baby, Dee, was taken to easternOklahoma and raised by his grandparents, George and Minnie Burkart.The two older boys, Kernie and Doyle, stayed with Max Jr. on the farmand went to school in the Benton Township, Minnelo District #27,Minnelo school during the depression and dust bowl era of the OklahomaPanhandle.
  He worked in Woodward, OK for Akurmor and Co. as a quality control andpurchasing agent for their produce department that was making powderedeggs and cheese for the War Effort. During WW2, married Jean Jonesduring the was and lived on the farm until his death.
Note:   Max Rottmayer, Born in Kingman, Kingman Co. Kansas. Parents lived on

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