RICHARD "DICK" - On Dick's draft registration card (1917) for WWI  his birth date is listed as 3 July 1894. He is single & his occupation is elevator man for the Bemis Bag Co. This is the same company that his father, Samuel Horrocks, worked for.   Richard had blue eyes & brown hair.  I remember my father telling me one time when I was a teenager that Richard was a gangster & was killed in a gang fight during prohibition.  I wish I would have asked him more about it as I have not as yet been able to find any information on the incident.  I asked my father's sister, aunt Lilian Ziock Palmer, about Richard but all she would say was that he was a gangster & just "disappeared".  He is listed in the St. Louis City Directory in 1919.  He is in the 1920 census living in a boarding house in St. Louis. No occupation is given.  After this I can find no more information on him.  I have found no record of him buried in any St. Louis cemeteries where other family members are buried so it is possible that his death occurred somewhere other than St. Louis. I've searched all the on-line death records for Missouri between 1910 & 1957 for every possible spelling of Horrocks & can't find a death certificate for him so believe he may have died in another state.

UPDATE:  I always believed Richard to have died between 1920 & 1925.  However someone found a record of Richard alive & well living in Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts in 1942! So apparently he did not die in a blaze of gunfire like originally thought.

Believe picture was taken at Horrocks residence on Gravois Rd.  My father told me once that when he was a child he used to roller skate down Gravois Rd. when it was just one lane.