Biography of Clay Caskey
CCC Man, Unknown Company, Mortimer, North Carolina
Clay Caskey was in a CCC Camp in the North Carolina Mountains. He lived in Iron Station N.C.30 miles West of Charlotte N.C.. I'm not sure what year he joined the C.C.C. camp, but he did work in Mortimer, N.C. in 1936. While working on cutting roads one day, a piece of rock chipped off from another person working next to him and hit his left leg later on he found out that it caused him to have cancer, he was taken to Oteen Veterans Hospital in North Carolina and the later on sent to Walter reed hospital were his leg was removed and my daddy was told that his leg is in the Smithstonian, but i called them and they said it might be at Walter Reed.
There, Mrs. Roosevelt met him when she visited the hospital, and fed him cake and ice cream. I have a picture of my uncle that was taken at Walter Reed Hospital in 1936. It has been blown up to a 8x10 picture, it shows Mrs.Roosevelt serving him refreshments to Clay Caskey, a South Carolinan. The FDR library has a photo taken at the same time at a different angle that says it was May 4, 1936. Daddy said there might be a picture in the Ladies Home Journal in June 1936. I found a Ladies Home Journal August 1936 that has the picture in it and a lot more pictures in it, but it doesn't have the write up about the picture.
Clay died June 6, 1936 at the age of 19 years. He had died before the picture came out in Ladies Home Journal.
----- Robin G Caskey
Eleanor Roosevelt serving Clay Caskey and other disabled veterans, Walter Reed Hospital, 1936
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