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Robert Butler Overstreet


Hereditary Member, admitted 1971

Robert Butler Overstreet

(4) Great grandson of propositus Thomas Reading. Born in Washington, DC on 11 Jun 1921. Enlisted in Naval Aviation Cadet Training in Dec 1941. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, US Marine Corps Reserve Sep 1942. Served in Marine Corps Aviation Fighter Squadron, Bombers, Transport Air Group VMR 253 in Guam 1944-1945. Released from active duty Feb 1946. Retired as Major in the US Marine Corps Reserve Dec 1959. Phillips Exeter Academy. Harvard graduate. Insurance broker. President of the Paul Carrington Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Houston, TX 1954. Married Charlotte Robinson Wellesley on 10 Oct 1942. [Sources: PFAH; (C). Pic: PFAH.]

Mr. Overstreet was the great-great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Reading.

Succession

Propositus

Thomas Reading
Propositus
( — )

Predecessors

Robert Harris Overstreet
Great-great-grandson
(1889 — 1969)
Admitted 1952
Robert Butler Overstreet
Great-great-great-great-grandson
(1921 — 2011)
Admitted 1971