George White Capron
(1894-1918)
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Sergeant George White Capron, signature on WWI draft registration
Gravestone, Sergeant George White Capron, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
13401 Lakeshore Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio, address given at WWI draft registration
George White Capron
*No plaque found
*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque.
*No soldier photograph found in the following book: Doyle, A. C., Haulsee, W. M., Howe, F. G. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, DC: Soldiers Record Publishing Company, 1920.
Birth: 6/24/1894, Brooklyn, New York
Birth: 6/24/1894, Brooklyn, New York
Address: 13401 Lakeshore Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: age 22 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Truck Driver at G.C. Capron at 13401 Lakeshore Blvd. Cleveland, OH [his father's company]
Appearance: Height tall, Build slender, Eyes blue, Hair brown
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 11/1/1917; rank Private [rank recorded as Sergeant on gravestone]
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 11/1/1917; rank Private [rank recorded as Sergeant on gravestone]
Service Number: 1956455
Deployment: died prior to deployment
Action:
Death: April 22, 1918 at age 23 at Chillicothe, OH [presumably Camp Sherman]; cause of death "accidental overturning of motor truck"
Death: April 22, 1918 at age 23 at Chillicothe, OH [presumably Camp Sherman]; cause of death "accidental overturning of motor truck"
Burial: Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 21 Lot 240-0 alongside his father and step-mother buried later
Burial: Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 21 Lot 240-0 alongside his father and step-mother buried later
Next of Kin: G.C. Capron, father, 1639 E. 82nd St., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Private George White Capron's parents divorced in 1895 when he was about one year of age. His mother appears to have lived apart from her ex-husband and children in Massachusetts, while they lived in Cleveland, OH. His father remarried in 1896.
Father: George Collins Smyth Capron (1857-1938), born Wisconsin, attended University of Wisconsin, married first wife Lillette M. Whitten Capron in 1882 and divorced in 1895, married second wife Elizabeth White Capron (1867-1932) in 1896, occupations included Clergyman in Massachusetts, Insurance Agent in Mt. Vernon, NY, and General Manager of G. C. Capron Trucking Co. in Cleveland, OH, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Lillette M. Whitten Capron (~1859-1910), born Cambridge, Massachusetts, married 1882 and divorced 1895 after which her occupation was Manager of a Lodging House in Massachusetts, died in Boston, MA at age 51 of myocarditis; Siblings: Egbert Smyth Capron (1883-1883); Arthur Banfield Capron (1885-1980); Howard Sanford Capron (1887-1963); Katherine Capron Roach (~1892-?), who had a son named George C. Roach (~1919-?), presumably the namesake of Private George White Capron; Willard E. Capron (1897-1985). Sibling list may be incomplete.
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