George White Capron
(1894-1918)
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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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