No birth certificates were issued at the time Ray and his siblings were born. The doctor or midwife made a record and then sent it to the court house. However the Clearfield Court House burned down and destroyed many of the records when Ray’s sister Cornelia was quite young.75
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A Raymond E. Lyons [sic], born in Winterburn, PA is listed as having enlisted in the U.S. Army on 19 June 1911 at Cal Bks possibly in Ohio, for a period of three years. Aged 20 years 11 months his occupation is listed as a Cook his height is 5 foot, 10 3/4 inches tall. Regiment appears to be 3rd Calvary (3 Cav). It indicated he was discharged 18 June 1914 at Brownsville, Texas as a private.485
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Raymond on 5 June 1917 registered for the draft in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA. The image is blurred and difficult to read, and some of the following detail is approximate. He lived at 1214 Ruaca Place Pittsburgh. He is listed as a laborer at Naghourcister-Laird Chemical Co. on Forbes Street. It indicates he has a mother, wife and child that are solely dependent on his support and is claiming exemption. His previous military service was as a private in the Calvary for three years in the state of Texas. He is described as medium height, slender build with blue eyes and brown hair.486
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Born with a club foot. At age 18 Ray joined the Calvary. In 1920 he lived with his mother and sister in Pittsburgh, PA. He worked at Allegheny General Hospital where he met his second wife Mary Tremmel.

In about the summer of 1929 in the depths of the depression Ray was arrested and imprisoned for armed robbery. Sentenced to 18 to 26 years in the penitentiary he was paroled in about 1945. By that time his wife Mary had divorced him and had remarried and his children were grown. His mother had died in 1943 while he was in prison.* Two years later he was returned to prison for a parole violation and wasn’t released again until the early 1950’s.

Raymond would marry once again a few years after his release. His new wife Mary Lane had a profound effect on his life.487
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Resident of Pittsburgh, PA in June 1937.474

Resident of Pittsburgh, PA September 1930.475

Resident of Pittsburgh, PA in November 1943.76

Raymond also lived in Salisbury, MD with his sister Cornelia and her husband Ham sometime after Pittsburgh and within a few years after his release from prison when he realized he couldn’t find work in Pittsburgh. He stayed with them a while before getting his own place.488
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I recall my great Uncle Ray visiting his brother Harry, my grandfather, who was living with my mother and I when I was a young teenager. In the last stages of his fight with Emphysema Ray would sit directly in front of our window air conditioner as he gasped for air, while at the same time smoking a cigarette.7
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See the biography of Raymond Lines, “Memories of My Grandfather” by Gloria Susek Peters, January 2008 in Multimedia.

*Presumably too Ray was in prison when his father passed away in September 1930.3

When Raymond Edward Lines was 18 he joined the cavalry and looked dashing in his military uniform. Women were like putty in his hands. He met a married woman named Marie (Herrada) Schwartz and had an affair resulting in the birth of their son Raymond Edward Lines, Jr.

Young Raymond Sr. was not prepared to marry and support the mother of his son so she went back to her husband, John Schwartz. John was willing to take her back, but was unwilling to support Raymond’s child. Raymond took the baby Ray Jr. home to his mother, Mary Jane, who raised him.235
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Raymond Edward Lines Jr. (1916-1995) would go on to enlist as a young man in the U.S. Army. Enjoying a successful thirty year career he retired as a Colonel in 1965, then did consulting work for the Pentagon. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.3