Walter Barton Bruce ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: LV4N-KX4.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1930 in Paris, Henry, TN. ³ The 1930 census recorded owning at home at 601 Iron Works Road: Mahlon Meily, machinist in Sham. R. R. shop, 39, living with wife Bessie, 33; son W. B. Meily, 14 [Bessie's son by her first marriage to Charley Bruce]; and daughter Geraldine, 2 years 2 months old. Also in the home is Robert L. Wright, 34. Mahlon was married at age 30, Bessie at age 26. He and his parents were born in Ohio. Bessie, her parents, and her children were born in Tennessee.

2. Census in 1940 in Raleigh, Wake, NC. ⁴ The 1940 census recorded Walter Bruce, inspector for adding machine co., 25, single, living as a lodger at the YMCA. In 1935 he lived in Detroit, Michigan. He was born in Tennesse.

3. Cause of Death: accident, airplane crash, cerebral hemorrhage, profound shock, 1 Jun 1947, Saint Matthews Township, Wake, NC. ¹

4. Occupation: Burroughs Adding Machine on 1 Jun 1947 in Raleigh, Wake, NC. ¹

5. Residence: on 1 Jun 1947 in Raleigh, Wake, NC. ¹

6. Newspaper: Daily Times: Two Fliers Killed In Crash During Raleigh Air Show, 2 Jun 1947, Burlington, Alamance, NC. ⁵ Raleigh, June 2 -- (AP) -- An air show staged to dedicate Raleight's new Civil Air Patrol airfield was marked yesterday by tragedy when two young men were killed in the crash of a stunting plane.
The two were Hubert L. Bottitt, 24, Army Air Forces veteran and flight instructor at the field, and Walter B. Bruce, 32. Both were Raleigh residents.
A crowd estimated at 5,000 watched as the plane, piloted by Bobbitt, manuevered with two other planes in a demonstration of "precision spins." Then the spectators gasped as the plane failed to come out of a spin and crashed behind a clump of trees on the edge of the airfield.
The announcer at the show had just told the crowd that the planes would demonstrate the safety of modern flying by showing how simple it is to pull out of a spin.