Biography
Toole, Samuel Coleman. (Samuel C. Loak); b. October 18, 1913, Muncie, Indiana; POW; Received Passport# 471212 on August 18, 1937 which listed his address as RFD, No. 6, Lexington, Kentucky; Sailed September 8, 1937 aboard the Manhattan; Served with the XV BDE, Ordinance Group; Rank Captain: Captured March 10, 1938, Belchite, during the Retreats; Released August 25, 1939; Returned to the US on September 1, 1939 as a workaway aboard the President Roosevelt; d. July 17, 1988, buried in Owenton IOOF Cemetery, Owenton, Owens County, Kentucky.
Sources: Sail; Scope of Soviet Activity; USSDA 2:0989, 61:0067; L-W Tree Ancestry; Find-a-Grave# 73493014. Code A
Photographs: Leon Tenor, Samuel Toole, Albert Ziegler and William Stone returning aboard the President Roosevelt, Daily Worker, September 6, 1939.
Sources: Sail; Scope of Soviet Activity; USSDA 2:0989, 61:0067; L-W Tree Ancestry; Find-a-Grave# 73493014. Code A
Photographs: Leon Tenor, Samuel Toole, Albert Ziegler and William Stone returning aboard the President Roosevelt, Daily Worker, September 6, 1939.