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     James Franklin Kilby was born on 6 November 1896, Culpeper County, VA.² He married Osceola Arnal circa 1918.^3,4 When he registered for the draft in 1942, James was woeking as an animal keeper at the National Zoo in Washington DC.⁵ James Franklin Kilby died on 17 November 1952, at age 56.^6,7
Newspaper obituary:
KILBY. On November 17, 1952, JAMES F., SR., 128 North Carolina avenue S.E., husband of Osceola Kilby, father of Mrs. Cecil Gray. Alice, Mary, James, Jr., Herbert, Melvin, Walter and George Kilby.
Services at Chambers Funeral Home, 517 Eleventh street. S.E., on Friday. November 21. at 10 A.M. Interment Arlington National Cemetery.
The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), 19 Nov 1952, Wed, Page 26.⁶
He was buried on 21 November 1952, at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.^6,2

     Her married name was Kilby.¹ Osceola Arnal was born on 5 December 1898.² She married James Franklin Kilby circa 1918.^1,3 Osceola Arnal died on 3 November 1960, at age 61.² She was buried on 7 November 1960, at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.^2,4