His delayed birth certificate28, filed 12 April 1941, records George Allen Petitt, born 21 June 1908 in Holley, Kanawha Co., West Virginia, father Mathew Petitt, deceased, born in Center Station, Ohio, occupation ore furnace, age of father on date child was born 62, mother’s maiden name Arizona Davis, address Gauley Bridge, WVa., born in Ice Creek, Ohio, age of mother on date child was born 43, number of children born to this mother up to and including this child 10, number of these children who died before this child was born 1.

1940 census of Fayette Co., West Virginia, Falls district, Vanetta unincorporated place, ED 10-5, enumerated 15 April, lists on p. 1A as family #74:
Petitt, George, 31, worker at WPA rock quarry; Lena, wife, 21; Fallner Marie, dau, 2; George Edward, son, 1. All born in West Va, living in Winona, Fayette Co., WVa in 1935. Arizona, mother, 71, widowed, b. Ohio, living in rural Fayette Co., WVa in 1935.