Other Events:

• Religion: Lutheran
• Cause of Death: Cancer of colon

Alice married Norman Arthur COBB on 14 Feb 1935. Norman was born on 22 Nov 1911 in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri; died on 26 Apr 1994 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Railroad traffic agent, salesman
• Heritage: Irish
• Religion: Protestant
• Military Event: Spanish-American War - US Navy
• Military Flag: Y
• Cause of Death: Uremia

Notes:

Also found date of birth listed as July 6, 1877 and date of death listedas February 23, 1929.

Enlisted in U.S. Navy at Washington, D.C. Navy Yard at age 16 for 5 years. Actually served 6 years (9/1893 - 5/1899).
Enlisted as an Apprentice 3rd Class. Discharged as a Quartermaster 3rdClass.
Served aboard Admiral Dewey's flagship, U.S.S. Olympia, in theSpanish-American War, Battle of Manila Bay.
Discharged from U.S. Navy at Charleston, S.C.

His father sailed from Ireland to U.S.A. at age 12.

Mother came from a family "long resident in Kentucky." Mother died before September 1893.

Father "failed in business" sometime before September 1893 in Louisville,KY.

During the years 1913-1917 the family was living in New Orleans, LA where he attempted to become invloved in a sugar warehousing business with a relative. This did not work out and the family moved back to St. Louis,MO.

On April 23, 1924 Rittie Ruth Gannett divorced Edward Paul Stanton and he was ordered by the Court to pay child support.

On February 20, 1929 he died at the V.A. Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, MO. At that time his residence was listed as 3097 Ashland Ave., St. Louis, MO.

The Admission Record states that his mother died of pneumonia and that his father died during a operation for gallstones. On this date he listed one brother as living and one sister as living and his other siblings as "died in infancy".

On July 29, 1929 an affidavit was made stating that Edward Paul Stanton did not remarry after the divorce. This affadavit was made to assist Rittie Ruth Gannett Stanton in obtaining a Federal government pension allowance for her daughter, Mildred Susan Stanton, who being under the age of 16 at that time was eligible for this as a deceased veteran of the Spanish-American War. The other children were over 16 years of age and therefore not eligible.

An obituary published on Februrary 24, 1929 in the St. Louis, Missouri,Post-Dispatch newspaper is as follows:
STANTON, EDWARD P. -- On Feb 23, 1929, dear father Wyllys G., Alice Ruth, Mildred Susan and brother of Thomas W. Stanton.
Funeral from Craig Mortuary, 4468 Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26 at1:30 p.m. Deceased was a member of George Washington Lodge No. 9, A.F.and A.M., and Walker Jennings Camp, No. 4, U.S.W.V.

Edward married Rittie Ruth GANNETT Rittie (daughter of George Alfred GANNETT and Julia Frances KIRK) was born on 24 Jun 1881 in Hickory Grove, Warren, Missouri; died on 5 Nov 1947 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Dressmaker, self-employed
• Residence: St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
• Cause of Death: Cerebral Thrombosis, Arteriscolerosis, Diabetis Mellitus

George married Julia Frances KIRK. Julia was born on 18 Apr 1851 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois; died on 12 Jun 1923 in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Sarah Storrow TILDEN on 23 May 1836 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Sarah was born in Sep 1813 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died on 14 Oct 1867 in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]