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Eddy Lanier King GILMORE

Male 1907 - 1967  (60 years)


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  • Name Eddy Lanier King GILMORE 
    Birth 28 May 1907  Selma, Dallas, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1929  Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Census 1930  Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Occupation 1932  Washington, District of Columbia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Journalist for the Washington Daily News 
    Occupation 1936  Washington, District of Columbia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Associated Press 
    Residence 1936  Alexandria, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Occupation 1940  London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Associated Press 
    Military Service 16 Oct 1940  Silver Spring, Montgomery, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Occupation 1941  Moscow, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Associated Press 
    Occupation 1954  London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Associated Press 
    Death 6 Oct 1967  London, Greater London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Burial Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Dallas, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8] 
    Person ID I5441  bmds
    Last Modified 2 Nov 2020 

    Father Edwin Luther GILMORE,   b. 3 Jun 1873, Moore, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Dec 1945, Sanford, Lee, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Evelyn KING,   b. 22 Aug 1877, Pearl River, Neshoba, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Dec 1962, Hastings, East Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Family ID F2122  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Barbara Reid SKINNER,   b. 19 Nov 1907, Palo Alto, California Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Apr 1953, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years)  [1] 
    Marriage 23 Nov 1927  Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Age at Marriage Eddy : 20 years old | Barbara : 20 years old. 
    Divorce Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F34  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Margaret COOK,   b. 16 Oct 1910, Washington, District of Columbia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Jan 2011, Margate, Atlantic, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 100 years) 
    Marriage 1938 
    Age at Marriage Eddy : ~ 30 years old | Margaret : ~ 27 years old. 
    Divorce Yes, date unknown 
    Children
     1Male. Christopher Cook GILMORE,   b. 3 Aug 1940, Washington, District of Columbia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jun 2004, Margate, Atlantic, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
     
    Family ID F2120  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Tamara Adamovna Kolb CHERNASHOVA,   b. 15 Jul 1927, Russia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Apr 1980, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years) 
    Marriage 13 Jul 1943 
    Age at Marriage Eddy : 36 years old | Tamara : 16 years old. 
    Children 3 daughters 
    +1Female. Victoria Wendell GILMORE,   b. 14 Aug 1944, Moscow, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
     2Female. Susanna Hager GILMORE,   b. 16 Jan 1950, Moscow, Russia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Apr 2015, Estepona, Malaga, Andalusia, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    +3Female. Natasha Tamara GILMORE,   b. 3 Feb 1957, Moscow, Russia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 May 2011, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)
     
    Family ID F2121  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 28 May 1907 - Selma, Dallas, Alabama
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 23 Nov 1927 - Milford, New Haven, Connecticut
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1929 - Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1930 - Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Journalist for the Washington Daily News - 1932 - Washington, District of Columbia
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Associated Press - 1936 - Washington, District of Columbia
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1936 - Alexandria, Virginia
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Associated Press - 1940 - London, England
    Link to Google MapsMilitary Service - 16 Oct 1940 - Silver Spring, Montgomery, Maryland
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Associated Press - 1941 - Moscow, Russia
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Associated Press - 1954 - London, England
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 6 Oct 1967 - London, Greater London, England
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Dallas, Alabama
    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 
    • Gilmore, Eddy Lanier King, born on May 28, 1907, in Selma, Al., attended the local elementary school of his home town. In 1923, he enrolled at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Later on he continued his studies at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he became graduated in 1928. After graduation, he offered his services, gratis, to the Atlanta Journal in Georgia in order to gain experience as a newspaperman. In 1932 he moved to the Washington Daily News where he worked for three years before joining the Associated Press in December, 1935, reporting mainly for the Washington bureau of the news agency. In April, 1942, AP sent him to its Moscow bureau. He was thus able to cover the fighting on the Rostov, Stalingrad, and other fronts, and in 1945 Gilmore became head of the Moscow AP bureau. One of his ‘scoops’ in the following time was his interview-by-mail with Stalin in 1945 on the eve of the first meeting of the United Nations held in the U.S. FOr his work he was awarded the National Headliners Club Medal in March, 1947. Eddy L. K. Gilmore was made the 1947 PPW in the “Telegraphic Reporting (International)” category for his correpondence from Moscow. (Source : Complete Biographical encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917-2000 Volume 16. Edited by Heinz Dietrich Fischer)

      GILMORE, Eddy Lanier King, 1907-1967
      Journalist. Born: May 28, 1907, Selma. Parents: Eddy Lanier and Evelyn (King) Gilmore. Married: Tamara Chernashova, July 13, 1943. Children: Three. Education: Studied at Washington and Lee University, 1925-1926; graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1928. News reporter for Atlanta Journal, 1929-1932; Washington Daily News, 1932-1935; Associated Press after 1935. Worked for Associated Press in Washington Bureau, 1936-1940; London Bureau, 1940-1941 and 1954-1967; Moscow Bureau, 1941-1954. Lecture tours in America during 1953-1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, and 1966. National Headliners Club Award as best foreign correspondent, 1946; Pulitzer Prize for telegraphic reporting from Moscow, 1947.

      “The capital of the Third Reich is a heap of gaunt, burned-out, flame-seared buildings. It is a desert of a hundred thousand dunes made up of brick and powdered masonry. Over this hangs the pungent stench of death… it is impossible to exaggerate in describing the destruction… down town Berlin look as like nothing man could have contrived. Driving down the famous Frankfurt Alee, I did not see a single building where you could have set up as business of even selling apples.” Eddie Gilmore, Associated Press, Berlin, June, 9th, 1945.

      Associated Press Pulitzer Prize Winner 1947 - Eddy Gilmore, for news reports from Russia, especially an interview with Joseph Stalin.

      Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 5R; Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4; Me and My Russian Wife.
      Author: After the Cossacks Burned Down the “Y”. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1964.
      Me and My Russian Wife. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1954.
      Troika. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1962.

  • Sources 
    1. [S20] Junkins Family Association.

    2. [S15] Internet.
      Source: Atlanta, Georgia, City Directory, 1929
      GILMORE Edw L (Barbara) reporter r418 4th NE

    3. [S11] 1930 US Census, 12 Apr 1930, Atlanta (ward 13), family 410.
      Gilmore Edwin L | Head | home: rented ($455) | age: 24 | age married: 22 | birthplace: Alabama | father’s bp: Alabama | mother’s birthplace: Mississippi | Occup.: Reporter, newspaper

    4. [S15] Internet.
      Source: Alexandria, Virginia, City Directory, 1936
      Gilmore Eddy L K (Barbara) newspapermn h406 S Lee

    5. [S15] Internet.
      Source: U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
      Eddy Lanier King Gilmore | b: 28 May 1907 (Selma, Alabama) | Residence: Sivler Spring, Montgomery, Maryland | Nex of Kin: Margaret Cook Gilmore (wife)

    6. [S4] Obituary.
      Eddy Gilmore, Noted Reporter, Dies at Age 60
       LONDON (AP) — Eddy Gilmore, an Associated Press correspondent who covered war and the Stalin era in the Soviet Union, won a Pulitzer Prize and married a lovely Russian ballerina, died of a heart attack Friday night at his home. He was 60.
       “He wined and dined with kings.” said a friend in Gilmore’s home town, Selma, Ala., “but he kept us informed.”
       Gilmore’s witty good humor showed through even during the grim days in Moscow, where he served as bureau chief. Based in London after the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953, he was widely known for his reporting on the lighter side of live.
       The balding, mustached writer, whose Southern accent survived his travers to many nations, was stricken at his country home at East Grinstead at midnight after a day’s work at the London AP bureau.
      — The Telegraph, Oct. 7, 1967.

    7. [S5] Find A Grave, → Memorial ID 83584439.

    8. [S2] Newspaper.
      Gilmore Burial Being Planned
      LONDON – (AP) – The body of Eddy Gilmore, Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press correspondent who died Friday night of a heart ailment, will be returned to the United States for burial, his family announced Saturday.
      Details of the interment and a memorial service to be conducted in London are being worked out by the family of the Selma, Ala., native who died unexpectedly at 60 after a day at the office.
      – Gazette Mail, October 08, 1967 (page 11).

    9. [S2] Newspaper.
      EDWIN LANIER GILMORE,MARRIED TO MISS BARBARA SKINNER — Announcements were received today of the marriage of Mr. Edwin Lanier Gilmore, Jr., from York, to Miss Barbara Skinner of Milford, Connecticut, the ceremony having taken place in Milford on Thursday, November 25. Wide interest is felt in this announcement, as the groom is a Selma boy and the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Gilmore of Talledega, formerly of SeIma. He is winning recognition for his poetry in literary centers and is now connected with one of the important publishing firms of New York. The bride is the charming daughter of Mrs. Marion Weymouth Skinner of Milford, Connecticut,
      — The Selma Times Journal (Selma, Alabama), Monday, November 28, 1927.