Background
He was born in Tipton County, Indiana on May 28, 1894 to Samuel M. Vawter and Sara M. (McShane) Vawter. Homer"s father was born in Stokes County, North Carolina and his mother in Indiana.
He was born in Tipton County, Indiana on May 28, 1894 to Samuel M. Vawter and Sara M. (McShane) Vawter. Homer"s father was born in Stokes County, North Carolina and his mother in Indiana.
They settled in Tipton County, Indiana. Homer married Mary Lucille Vawter on 28 March 1918, in Clark County, Indiana. Then in the 1930 census they were recorded living in Jeffersonville, Indiana, where they lived with Mary"s mother.
There is no evidence from the census records that they had any children.
Homer settled in Jeffersonville, where he was the Republican Mayor from 1939 to 1942.