George Raymond Gosner
There is more personal information available for George’s family than there is for him, and that’s not very much. He was born on June 24, 1898 in Philadelphia to William…
Read MoreJames Fee
This soldier is memorialized on his family gravestone although he was actually buried in a military cemetery in France. James was the fifth of six children born to Irish immigrants,…
Read MoreJames Barnes Arnott
James was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1899 according to best sources, but shortly after the turn of the century his family moved to Philadelphia where his four sisters…
Read MoreThomas A Emilinssen
Thomas Emilinssen was a 23-year-old immigrant from Copenhagen, Denmark with a heart for the sea when he arrived in New York in 1901. He wasted no time finding his new…
Read MoreHarry Kidder
When Harry was born in Farber, Missouri, the farming community had 272 people, which is more than it does today. He was an only child whose early life was undocumented…
Read MoreWalter Fry Henrie, Sr.
This family has a legacy of service to their country back to the American Revolution through both of the parents of Walter Sr. He was the oldest of six children…
Read MoreJohn Love Leonard, Jr.
John was an early Christmas gift to the Leonard family in 1895, born on December 24. Like his father, his name is a tribute to his father’s uncle, Civil War…
Read MoreRaymond Pratt
Ray was officially a member of the Armed Forces and unofficially one of the early local fatalities of the 1918 pandemic known as the “Spanish Flu.” He was the last…
Read MoreWilliam Buckius
William grew up with two sisters at 2520 Manton Street in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia. Three brothers and a sister died in infancy. His father’s name at birth…
Read MoreKathryn Lufkin Alcorn
Kathryn Lufkin Alcorn was part of an historic change to the U.S. Armed Services during World War I. Beginning in 1917, women who were not nurses could enlist in the…
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