On 13 Nov 1945 when Eleanor Catherine was 33, she married William Henry LASLEY, son of James Dennis LASLEY Sr. (1865-1942) & Sallie Ila HARDY (1878-1962), in St. Louis, MO. Born on 26 Jul 1916 in West Point, Clay Co., MS. William Henry died in West Point, Clay Co., MS, on 2 Jul 1991; he was 74. Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, West Point, Clay Co., MS. Occupation: U.S. Army 1937 until 1965, thereafter Veterans Administration in Atlanta. Education: High school in West Point, MS through at least 10th grade. Religion: Southern Baptist. Honors: Joined Masonic Lodge (Trinity Lodge 641), St. Louis Mo., January 1954, Passed Feb. 1954, Raised June 6, 1954. They were divorced in 1972 in Forest Park, Clayton Co., GA.
William grew up in West Point, MS, then entered the U.S. Army on 2 October 1937. He was stationed at many locations thereafter. Retired from the U.S. Army as an E-8 Master Sergeant in 1965 at Atlanta Army Depot, Forest Park, GA and then worked for the Veterans Administration in Atlanta until about 1972. Spent the rest of his life back in his boyhood home in West Point, MS. He married Margaret Owings in Aberdeen, MS on 5 May 1935. They divorced on some date afterward, and remarried in February, 1939. They had two girls together during the second marriage, Billie Jean and Sara Dean. William and Margaret were divorced in ca 1944. In between his two marriages to Margaret Owings he married a woman named Dorothy Middaugh in Colorado in 1937; he aparently left her and a child and joined the army. He married Eleanor Catherine Adams of Reading, PA on 13 November 1945 in St. Louis, MO. She was a 1st Lt. in the U.S. Army nurse corps and left the army on 6 February 1946. They had two children that lived, Gregory William and James Henry (also there was at least one still birth or miscarriage as well as as one girl who lived nine days, Terine Lucca Lasley b. 20 October 1946 in Little Rock, AR d. 29 October 1946). William and Eleanor divorced about 1972. He married Margaret Ellis (from Kentucky) in 1973 in Houston, Chickasaw Co., MS. The couple remained in West Point, Mississippi, the remainder of their lives.