Rev Edmund Allen Tilly
1864–1916
BIRTH 24 SEPT 1864 • Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 1916 • Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA
Married: 6 Nov 1890 • São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ella Virginia Porter
1859–1908
BIRTH 16 NOV 1859 • Knox County, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 20 SEP 1908 • Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA
Daughter of Confederado James Denford Porter and Susan Meigs Francis
Children:
1.
Margaret C. Tilley
1891–1921
BIRTH ABT 1891 • Brazil
DEATH AFTER 1921 • USA
2.
Ella Porter Tilly
1894–1983
BIRTH 13 JUNE 1894 • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATH 04 DEC 1983 • Dekalb County, Georgia, USA
3.
Laura Isabel Tilley
1897–1992
BIRTH 2 APR 1897 • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATH 23 NOV 1992 • Clyde, Haywood, North Carolina, USA
Married: 21 Mar 1923 • Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Henry Franklin Bain
1893–1967
BIRTH 25 DEC 1893 • Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 16 JAN 1967 • Waynesville, Haywood, North Carolina, USA
Son of Samuel "Sam" Moore Bain and Huldah Evelyn Copeland
Children
1.
Henry Franklin Bain Jr
1924–1945
BIRTH 29 MAR 1924 • Seaside, Clatsop, Oregon, USA
DEATH 18 JUN 1945 • Occidental Mindoro Province, Philippines
Henry F. Bain Jr.
Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces
531st Bomber Squadron, 380th Bomber Group, Heavy
Entered the Service From: District of Columbia
Service #: 33750851
Awards: Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Henry F. Bain, Jr (1924 Oregon) enlisted as a Private in the
U.S. Army (S/N 33750851) on 23 November 1943 in Ft Myer,
Virginia. He was single and had completed 4 years of high school.
Henry was a draftsman.
Staff Sergeant, Henry F. Bain Jr. was a gunner on a B-24J Liberator, (S/N 42-110115) called “Connaugh-ton's Crew (95)”, with nose art, “Drunkard’s Dream”. They were assigned to the 531st Bomber Squadron of the 380th Bomb Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Forces, based out of Murtha Field, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro Province, in the Philippines. On June 18, 1945, their plane failed to get airborne and exploded at the end of the runway. No one survived. They were heading out on a mission (No. 169-E2) to hit the Balikpapan fortifications on Borneo, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).
FLIER KILLED IN MINDORO ACTION
Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Bain, 560 Hill Street, received a telegram from the war department yesterday stating that their son, S/Sgt. Henry F. Bain, Jr., was killed in action on June 18 on Mindoro island in the Philippines. Sergeant Bain was a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber, serving with the 380th bomber group in the Fifth air force. Source: Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin), 11 July 1945, page 1.
2.
Nancy Mae Bain
1927–1934
BIRTH ABT. 1927 • Wisconsin Rapids, Wood, Wisconsin, USA
DEATH 1934 • Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Died Young
3.
Richard "Dick" Austin Bain
1928–2010
BIRTH 26 OCT 1928 • Wisconsin Rapids, Wood, Wisconsin, USA
DEATH 26 FEB 2010 • Maggie Valley, Haywood, North Carolina, USA
Dick Bain age 81, of Maggie Valley, passed away Friday, February 26, 2010, at his residence. He was born October 26, 1928 in Wisconsin Rapids, WI to the late, Henry Franklin and Laura Tilly Bain.
As a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he had become a Chemical Engineer. Dick entered into the US military as an Air Force navigator on an air refueling tanker. He later went to work for Allen Bradley, a company in Milwaukee, WI, and then Chrysler Corporation in Elizabethtown, KY, and Van Wert, OH as a plant manager. He had a strong hobby in his later years with genealogy and was a member of the National Genealogical Society. He had a strong love for the mountains and retired there to make his home.
In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by a brother, Henry Franklin Bain, Jr., a sister, Nancy Mae Bain, and an infant brother, John Edmund Bain.
He is survived by a brother, two nephews, a niece, a great nephew and great niece, and many cousins.
4.
Emma K Tilly
1900–
BIRTH 13 NOV 1900 • Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA
DEATH Unknown