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- 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.
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Old Dead Relatives
1877 - 1929 (51 years)
