HOLLAND Family Research

Here's a line of research that I owe to a friend. We start with Joseph Emmitt HOLLAND, born 22 or 25 MAY 1911 (30 MAY, according to the Social Security Death Index) probably in Hoboken, NJ, and died SEP 2000 in Long Beach, CA. He served in the US Army from about 1928 through about 1953, going from enlisted ranks to officer. That's the info we start with.

He got his SSN in Washington, DC before 1951.

In the 1930 census, Joseph E. HOLLAND is a private at Fort Eustis, Warwick County, Virginia. He's 19, born in NJ to parents from NJ. Oddly, that's all that can be found on this line. He ought to show up in the 1920 census index, but doesn't--at least not for a certain identification. The family says his mother's name was Mary, maybe, and that he had a brother named Harold. Any help in breaking this line open would be greatly appreciated.