African American, Company B and E, Alaska Highway. Born: 24 June 1913 (1915), Waxhaw, Union County, NC. Died: 5 June 1956, Lancaster County, SC. Death certificate records that he died from a cervical fracture and quadriplegia due to an auto accident.
Enlisted: 16 August 1940, Charlotte, NC, Corps of Engineers, Regular Army. Discharged 22 February 1945.
Education: grammar school. His father was Thomas H. Cureton, a farmer and his mother was Rosa Comings. His brother was James Cureton. He married Lueteisher “Lutisa” Cureton. The 1940 census reports that Cecil lived with his brother-in-law George W. McAfee, a farmer.
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