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The men of Plymouth received a petition for incorporation from early settlers of Pamet, the Indian name, afterwards called Dangerfield, the petitioners describing themselves as "40 families and daily increas- ing." In 1709 the town was incorporated under the name of Truro, and Rev. John Avery was ordained in 1711 as the first minister. By the ancient church, on an elevation near the Pond Village, is his grave, and on the headstone is chiselled
In this dark cavern, or this lonesome grave Here lays the honest, pious, virtuous Friend Him, kind Heaven to us as Priest & Doctor gave As such he lived, as such we mourn his end.
Truro may be said to be composed very largely of sand hills, pre- senting a decidedly barren appearance, but it is historic ground and from it beautiful views are obtained. At Pond Village, North Truro, an acre of land has been made into a natural parkway, with a field boulder in the centre bearing a bronze tablet. This notifies the vis- itors that they are on the spot where the Pilgrims encamped for their second night on American soil. The Pilgrim Spring, from which fresh water was drank and a quantity taken on board the "Mayflower," is in
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the northern part of the town, suitably marked. So is Corn Hill, where a small tract of land was given by public-spirited citizens. A beautiful stretch of land adjoining Provincetown is called Pilgrims' Beach.
At one time considerable shipbuilding took place in the town. In the memorable gale of October 3, 1841, fifty-seven men of Truro, en- gaged in fishing, perished in the sea. Since 1880 the weir fishing has been an important industry for the small population, but in the days of shipbuilding and mackerel fishing, notably about 1850, the population was 2,051 and in 1925 it was 504. Non-residents own much of the property in town.
WELLFLEET
The town of Eastham set off in 1718 a section known as the town of Pool, which afterward was known as Billingsgate. May 25, 1763, the residents had their petition granted to be incorporated under the name of Wellfleet. From this date until 1850 the population gradually in- creased. In 1765 there were 917 and in 1850 the figure was 2,411. Fish- ing has always been the principal industry. Previous to the Revolu- tion the town had thirty vessels engaged in whaling. In 1851 Well- fleet stood second to Gloucester in mackerel fishing, with seventy-nine vessels and 852 men so employed. By 1870 there were more than one hundred vessels, manned by 1,500 men of Wellfleet. There were then three large packing wharves on which 300 or more men were employed. Many vessels were engaged in cod fishing, in the coastwise oyster trade and West Indian fruit trade.
From its importance as a seaport, Wellfleet has become one of the popular Cape Cod towns for summer residents, vacationists and tour- ists. It has a wealth of harbor and fresh water ponds. There are pocket bays within the Wellfleet Harbor. The summer visitors are delighted with such locations as Silver Spring Harbor, Indian Neck, Black Fish Creek, Duck Cove, Herring River, Lieutenant Island, Grif- fin Island and numerous thimble coves and miniature creeks which give a diversity and delight to the scenery, hard to match. The town has spent money generously to abate the mosquito nuisance, as might be said of most of the Cape Cod towns, and the results have been satisfac- tory. The temperature of the water in Wellfleet seldom goes below seventy-four degrees in the summer and there is no better bathing in the Atlantic Ocean.
There are three churches and three hotels. One of the old Colonial churches was removed from South Wellfleet and reconstructed in the centre of the town as a memorial hall. The town has a well-selected public library, schools of high standard, well-kept roads and an atmos- phere of cordiality which attracts long-time friends.
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YARMOUTH
When the peninsula, now the island, of Cape Cod is referred to as represented by a human arm bent into a position of defiance, the loca- tion of Yarmouth would be about midway between the shoulder and the elbow. The territory was first settled in 1639 when the place was known as Mattacheese, the name of a tribe of Indians living in that locality. In 1745 a local company of forty men, thirteen of them In- dians, under Colonel Joseph Thacher, took part in the Cape Breton ex- pedition. Of the Indians three only lived to return. One of Colonel Thacher's Indians was the first of the provincials who entered the grand battery at Louisburg. He crawled in at an embrasure and opened the gate.
Even after the close of the Revolutionary War there were Indians living in wigwams about a mile from the mouth of Bass River. They were the remnant of the Pawkunnawkut Tribe which was practically wiped out by smallpox about 1779.
Men of Yarmouth were largely engaged in cod and mackerel fishing and salt-making in the bright days of those industries. Shellfisheries and cranberry growing are the two most lucrative lines of endeavor at present. A large cold storage plant, the Bay State Freezer, was erec- ted at Yarmouthport a few years ago at a cost of a quarter of a million dollars.
There are nine churches, an efficient public school system, public li- brary with branches in the three villages, three banks, an insurance company, representative weekly papers, two hotels, numerous well-kept boarding houses and all the advantages of attractive shore line, good bathing, fishing in fresh water lakes as well as in tide-water, and the pure air and sense of freedom in a virginal land which is characteristic of Cape Cod.
From Fish to Tourists; Salt to Agriculture-Reference has been made to the fact that present-day population figures in most of the towns of Barnstable County are smaller than those of the years when the fisheries, whaling, salt-making, shipbuilding and, in the case of Sandwich, glassmaking were in their prime. The first official census was taken in 1765. Since that time, including 1925, the minimum population of Barnstable, Chatham, Falmouth, Harwich, Provincetown and Sandwich was 1,765; that of Mashpee, 1,776; of Dennis, 1,800; Bourne, 1,885; Brewster, 1,910; and Eastham, Orleans, and Yarmouth, 1,920; Truro and Wellfleet, 1,925.
The maximum population in the several towns has been: Eastham, 1,776; Orleans, 1,840; Brewster, Truro and Wellfleet, 1,850; Sandwich, 1,855; Barnstable and Chatham, 1,860; Dennis and Yarmouth, 1,860;
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Harwich, 1,865; Mashpee, 1,870; Provincetown, 1,890; Falmouth, 1,925, and Bourne, 1,925. The total population of the county in 1837 was 31,109. At that time $2,000,000 was invested in the manufacture of salt. The population in 1925 was 29,782. Barnstable County's max- imum population was 35,990 in 1860. The minimum was 12,127 in 1765. Just before the Civil War the town of Barnstable had 5,129 in- habitants, Chatham, 2,710; Dennis, 3,662; and Yarmouth, 2,752. Barn- stable was the largest town in the county in that year and is today, the population in 1925 being 5,774.
These figures show something of the changes in population between the days when Barnstable County was ship-minded and today when it is tourist-minded or vacationland-conscious. There were years when the fisheries brought surer and better returns than the cultivation of the earth. Now the entertainment of tourists and summer residents bring better returns than either, although in recent years cranberry culture, strawberry raising, poultry raising and agriculture in general have made remarkable strides. Lack of transportation to the markets of the world has been a great handicap to Barnstable County. A return of shipping facilities, both freight and passenger service, to this territory by means of the Cape Cod Canal and docks suitably located thereon, will, it is predicted by many, make agriculture the greatest industry of all, coupled with the recognized advantages of Cape Cod as a summer playground. It seems strange that it has taken three hundred years to demonstrate that the Cape Cod soil is capable of producing certain fruits, berries and vegetables with a handsome profit to growers and shippers. In some respects Cape Cod is just beginning to find itself.
Barnstable County has a glorious past and an unlimited future.
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Boys of Barnstable County Enlisted in World War and Carried Out Traditions of Their Fathers With Equal Bravery-Many Served in Navy Honor Roll List of Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice- Among Them Were Several Born Under a Foreign Flag-Some Awarded Medals for Distinguished Service.
The World War secured its soldiers and sailors by selective draft and many of the boys of Barnstable County who would have preferred to serve in the Navy, in which they would have been more at home, were assigned to infantry or artillery service or to enter the compara- tively new branch of warfare carried on in the air. Cape Cod furnished young men for all branches of the service and in all these branches the recruits distinguished themselves, and some of them laid down their lives. The list as here presented is included in the general copyright of this entire work and is not to be re-published without permission of the writer, who acknowledges his indebtedness for much of the material to the writers preparing such a list for the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts history of the World War.
BARNSTABLE (Cotuit)
*Carleton Thomas Harlow, Private, killed in action, Aug. 9, 1918, (in the crossing of the Vesle River, near Fismes). Enl. Feb. 25, 1918, 151 D. B .; trans. May 1, to M. G. Co., 59 Inf., 4 Div. Overseas, May 7, 1918.
Carleton Thomas Harlow was born February 14, 1889, at Barnstable (Cotuit), son of Wallis Francis and Josephine (Fuller) Harlow; broth- er of Mrs. Marion Louise Collins; all of Cotuit. Carpenter.
BOURNE (Pocasset)
*Giovanni Gasbarri, Private, killed in action, Oct. 11, 1918, (before St. Juvin). Enl. Feb. 18, 1918, 151 D. B .; trans. April 18, 1918, to Co. 3, 326 Inf., 82 Div. Overseas, April 29, 1918.
Giovanni Gasbarri was born in 1888, at Curtaretengo, Italy; brother of Salvatore Gasbarri, of Lacrociere, Vancluse, France.
BOURNE (Sagamore)
Gardner Barker Haskell, Sergeant, died Dec. 27, 1918, result of airplane accident. Enl. Dec. 1, 1917, R. A., 21 Rct. Co., Gen. Serv. Ing., Fort Slocum; trans. Dec. 18, to Avia, Schl, Kelly Field; Feb. 20, 1918, to 32 Rct. Sq., A. S. C., Waco, Texas; same date to 77 Aero Serv. Sq., April 19, to Sqdn. C. A. S., Barron Field,
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Texas; Sept. 17, to Sqdn. A., Flying Field Det., Barron Field, Texas. Sergeant, July 1, 1918.
Gardner Barker Haskell was born August, 1897, at Cedarville, son of Charles Curtis and Alice D. (Waite) Haskell, of Sagamore (1919) ; brother of Curtis Roy Haskell and Mrs. Elizabeth (wife of Lewis E.) Boyden, both of Sagamore, Charles Linwood Haskell of Worcester, and of Leonard F. Haskell of Oakland, California. Chauffeur.
George Everett Whipple, Corporal, died Oct. 2, 1918, of pneumonia, at Hobo- ken, N. J., Enl. Sept. 20, 1917, Co. H, 302 Inf., 76 Div .; trans. April 4, 1918, to Co. A, 1 Btn., U. S. Guards, Hoboken, N. J. Bugler, April 9, 1918; Corporal, May 24, 1918.
George Everett Whipple was born April 19, 1894, at Bourne, son of John Clarence and Mary Elizabeth (Manimon) Whipple; brother of William H. Whipple of New Bedford, Oscar L. and Harry C. Whipple, and Mrs. Ellen J. Eldridge, all of Bourne, and Mrs. Sarah A. Kings- land of Onset. Linotype operator.
BREWSTER (West)
*Herbert Allston Cahoon, Private, killed in action, July 31, 1918, near the Ouroq River. En1. Nov. 13, 1917, 151 D. B .; trans. Jan. 16, 1918, to Co. C, 116 F. Sig. Btn., 41 Div .; April 20, 1918, to C, 107 F. Sig. Btn., 32 Div .; May 5, 1918, to Co. M, 125 Inf., 32 Div. Overseas, Feb. 9, 1918.
Herbert Allston Cahoon was born June 22, 1892, at West Brewster, son of Azariah and Bessie (Silver) Cahoon. Chauffeur.
BREWSTER (East)
Roland Crosby Nickerson, Lieut. (JG), U. S. N., died Oct. 6, 1918, of pneu- monia, at Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. Appointed lieutenant (JG), June 5, 1917; assigned to Comdt. 3rd Naval Dist. for duty with "Winchester" S. P. 156; trans. Jan. 1, 1918, to duty on "Roanoke;" April 2, 1918, to office of Naval Intelli- gence, Washington, D. C.
Roland Crosby Nickerson was born December 6, 1889, at Chicago, Illinois, son of Mrs. Addie D. Nickerson; brother of Mrs. Helen Sears, both of East Brewster. Married Henrietta Jordan Nickerson of Min- neapolis, Minnesota. Children: Samuel M. and William J. Nickerson. Manufacturer. Williams College, class of 1914. Credited to Minnesota.
Carleton Ellery Sears, Pharmacist's Mate, 3rd class, U. S. N .; died Oct. 1, 1918, of pneumonia, at Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va. Enl. June 18, 1917, and assigned to Rec. Ship, New York City, Hosp. App., 1 class; trans. Sept. 22, to Naval Hosp., Norfolk, Va., Hosp. App., 1 class; Sept. 20, 1918, to Rec. Ship, Norfolk, Va., Pharmacist's Mate, 3 class; Sept. 27, to Naval Hosp., Norfolk, Va. Resided at Fairhaven, Conn., a short time before enlistment and credited to Connecticut. Bonus paid by Massachusetts.
CHATHAM
Edward Studley Bearse, Landsman Carpenter's Mate, U. S. N., died Jan. 31, 1918, of pneumonia, at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. En1. Dec. 10, 1917, U.
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S. N. R. F., Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., Dec. 12, 1917, to Jan. 1918. Coast Guard Service, 1914-15.
Edward Studley Bearse was born July 17, 1894, at Chatham, son of George (died 1905) and Margaret Florence (Goodick) Bearse; brother of Russell Allen Bearse and Mrs. Ina Georgie Edward. Carpenter.
NORTH CHATHAM
Emery Foster Griffin, Seaman, U. S. N., died Jan. 7, 1919, of pneumonia at Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. En1. Feb. 7, 1917, U. S. N .; April 6, 1917, on U. S. S. "Alabama;" trans. April 30, to U. S. S. "Nevada;" June 2, to U. S. S. "Solace;" June 5, to Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va .; July 7, to U. S. S. "Nevada;" Sept. 8, to Rec. Ship, Norfolk Va .; May 28, 1918, to Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va .; June 12, to Rec. Ship, Norfolk, Va .; July 16, to S. S. "Jonancy;" Oct. 17, to Armed Dft. Detail of New York City.
Emery Foster Griffin was born April 25, 1900, at Chatham, son of Emery Foster (deceased) and Saluda A. (Burgess) Griffin; brother of Eva P. and Marion Griffin, Mrs. Ida Nickerson, Mrs. Lulu Tucker, all of North Chatham; Arthur E. Griffin of Marion and Alexander Wayne Griffin (who served on U. S. S. "Henderson," U. S. N.)
SOUTH CHATHAM
Herbert Lanten Macomber, Private, died Sept. 26, 1918, of pneumonia, at Camp Devens. Enl. Sept. 2, 1918, 17 Co., 5 Tng. En., 151 D. B.
Herbert Lanten Macomber was born September 14, 1896, at Middle- boro, son of Frank C. and Ernestine A. (Lanten) Macomber of Brews- ter; brother of Mrs. Gladys Davis of Boston. Barrel maker.
*Edwin Freeman Nickerson, Private, killed in action, July 20, 1918, (near Borne). Enl. Dec. 12, 1917, 151 D. B .; trans. Feb. 17, 1918, to. Co. ? , Repl. Dft., Camp Devens; March 23, to 2 Co., 1 Inf., Tng. Regt., 1 Dep. Div .; April 4, to Co. L, 102 Inf., 26 Div. Overseas, Feb. 27, 1918.
Edwin Freeman Nickerson was born September 25, 1894, at. Chat- ham, son of Henry B. and Almena F. (Chase) Nickerson; brother of Cecil B. and Willis H. Nickerson, all of Chelsea. Clerk.
*Josiah Doane Nickerson, Private, killed in action, July 19, 1918, (near Cour- champs). Enl. Feb. 15, 1918, 151 D. B .; trans. May 1, to Co. L, 59 Inf., 4 Div. Overseas, May 5, 1918.
Joseph Doane Nickerson was born June 22, 1891, at Harwich, son of Ernest L. and Ruth Howes (Dane) Nickerson, of East Harwich; broth- er of Mrs. Roland Snow, Valentine Linwood, Ernest, E. Gorham and LeRoy E. Nickerson. Married Althea Reed of Cambridge. Automobile mechanic.
DENNIS
Judah Wilton Berry, Surfman, U. S. Coast Guard, died Dec. 16, 1918, of influenza, at Chatham. Enl. April 29, 1916, U. S. N., Coast Guard Station 43. Employed on light ships four or five years before becoming surfman.
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Judah Wilton Berry was born October 4, 1888, at Harwich; brother of Clarence L. Berry, (Gold Star, see above). Married Sarah Ellen Tub- man. Children : Lillian L., aged seven years; and Franklyn D., aged four years (1919), all of Dennisport. Fireman on Great Round Shoal Light Vessel.
*Alton Bradford Ellis, Private, U. S. M. C., killed in action, June 10, 1918, north of Chateau Thierry. Enl. April 18, 1917, U. S. M. C., assigned to Port Royal, S. C .; trans. June 29, 1917, to Quantico, Va .; Aug. 22, 1917, to 18 Co., 5 (Marine) Regt., 2 Div. Overseas, Aug. 22, 1917.
Alton Bradford Ellis was born August 20, 1895, at Brockton, son of Albert J. Ellis of North Harwich (1927) and of Mabel (Gay) (died 1913) ; brother of Mrs. Vera Gates of Los Angeles, California.
Served in U. S. N. from November 8, 1913, to November 30, 1914, on U. S. S. "Louisiana."
FALMOUTH
*Charles Edwin James DeWillis, Private, died Aug. 25, 1918, of wounds received in action, at the St. Die Sector in the Vosges. Enl. Apr. 25, 1918, 151 D. B .; trans. May 17, 1918, to Co. D, 367 Inf., 92 Div. Overseas, June 10, 1918.
Charles Edwin James DeWillis was born in May, 1895, at Newport, Rhode Island, son of Mrs. Marion DeWillis of East Falmouth. Hus- band of Mrs. Celia B. DeWillis of Waquoit (Falmouth). Child : Edwin James DeWillis, born in January, 1919. Laborer. Resident in Massa- chusetts twenty years.
William Martin, Lieut., U. S. N. (Ret.), died April 28, 1919, of disease, at Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va. Appt. Acting Boatswain, March 11, 1902, from Washington, D. C .; appt. Chief Boatswain, March 11, 1908; trans. Aug. 2, 1915, to the Retired List of Officers of the Navy, Section 1453, R. S .; March 2, 1917, to Norfolk, Va., for duty in 5th Naval District; Nov. 1 to duty in charge of Navy Recruiting Station, Norfolk, Va .; Sept. 6, 1918 temp. appt. a lieut .; Oct. 31, to duty as Mobilization Officer, Navy Mobilization Station, Norfolk District; March 13, 1919, resumed formed duties at Navy Recruiting Station, Norfolk, Va.
William Martin was born March 18, 1874, at Balymahon, Ireland, son of Francis and Ann (Geoghegard) Martin (both deceased) ; brother of Lieutenant-Commander Frank Martin, U. S. N. (Retired) of Quaker- town, Pennsylvania, Jack Martin and Mrs. James Ledurth of Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania. Married (1907) Frances Lincoln Studley. Child, Elinor Martin. Served twenty-seven years in U. S. N.
*William Savage, Private, killed in action, Oct. 23, 1918, (near St. Juvin). Enl. Sept. 20, 1917, Co. G, 302 Inf., 76 Div .; trans. Nov. 10, to Co. D, 325 Inf., 82 Div. Overseas, April 25, 1918.
William Savage was born in December, 1893, at Cork, Ireland ; neph- ew of Miss Nellie Ahearn of East Boston. Two brothers in American army ; one in English.
*William Wilson Wood, Sup. Sergeant, died July 30, 1918, at wounds received in action. Enl. June 6, 1917, R. A., 25 Rct. Co. Gen. Serv. Inc .; trans. June 13,
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to Co. K, 47 Inf., 4 Div. Corporal, Nov. 1, 1917. Sup. Sergeant, March 1, 1918. Overseas, May 10, 1918.
William Wilson Wood was born October 12, 1892, at North Fal- mouth, son of Wilson (born in Nova Scotia) and Sarah E. (Liddell) (born in England) Wood of Falmouth; brother of John Dow Wood of North Falmouth, and of Mrs. Etta Holten of Quissett (Falmouth). Clerk. Post 83, A. L., Falmouth, named in his honor.
ORLEANS
William Osman Gross, U. S. Coast Guard, died June 27, 1917, of disease, at Marine Hospital, Chelsea. Enl. May 13, 1906; reën1. Feb. 24, 1915; dis. Feb. 23, 1916; reën1. Feb. 24, 1916, dis. Feb. 23, 1917; reënl. Feb. 24, 1917, U. S. Coast Guard, Nauset Station, Eastham, Mass.
William Osman Gross was born February 12, 1878, at Wellfleet, son of Arthur (deceased) and Mary (Newcomb) (died 1893) Gross; broth- er of Sylvester W., Arthur H., and Aleck T. Gross. Married Ada Free- man Lincoln. Children: Vesta Lincoln, Carl Burnham, Carroll Os- man, and Everett Wellington Gross, all of Orleans.
Allen Thomas Gill, Surfman, U. S. Coast Guard, died May 11, 1919, of disease, at Orleans. Enl. Sept. 1, 1887, U. S. Life Saving Service, Eastham; Feb. 24, 1915, rated No. 1 Surfman, and signed contract with U. S. Coast Guard. Dis. Oct. 21, 1918. Reën1. Oct. 22, 1918, assigned to U. S. Coast Guard Station 39.
Allen Thomas Gill was born April 7, 1857, at Eastham, son of Thom- as Knowles (died 1912) and Rebecca Smith (Hopkins) (died 1905) Gill. Married Achsah Ellen Lewis. Children: Allen Winslow, Hilda Frances, Stephen Thomas, Phyllis Ellen, Carolyn Davis, Grace El- dridge and Lewis Franklin Gill; all of Orleans. Served in Coast Guard thirty-three years. Veteran of Spanish-American War.
PROVINCETOWN
Norman Small Cook, Lieut. (JG) (Prov.), died Aug. 4, 1918, of disease, at Base 19, L'Orient. Appointed Ensign Prov. April 7, 1917, Lieut. J. E. Prov. July 20, 1918; reported for duty Dist. Enrolling Office, Boston, for assignment, July 12, 1917; assigned same day to duty, Camp Burrage, Bumpkin Island; trans. Aug. 26, 1917, to duty on "Cahill;" detailed March 15, 1918, to command the "Douglass;" June 26, 1918, to Naval Base Hospital No. 5, Brest, for observation and treatment; July 9, 1918, to Dist. Commander L'Orient for assignment. Awarded Navy Cross for distinguished services as commanding officer of U. S. S. "Douglass" in the hazardous duty of mine-sweeping, off coast of France.
Normal Small Cook was born December 11, 1879, at Provincetown, son of Wallace J., (deceased) and Susie T. (Mayo) Cook of Swamp- scott, 1919; married Jennie W. Adams; son: Norman Cook, Jr.
Antonio Luiz Da Luz, Boatswain's Mate, U. S. N. R. F .; died April 28, 1919, at sea, on board U. S. S. "Gypsum Queen." Enl. Oct. 5, 1917, assigned to U. S. S. "Covington"; trans. July 14, to U. S. S. "Gypsum Queen." Post 71, A. L., named in part in his memory.
Antonio Luiz Da Luz was born in 1885, in Portugal, son of Cosme
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Antonio Da Luz; brother of R. Heliodora Saljades, Maria Augusta, and Maria Luciana Da Luz, all of Olhao, Algarve, Portugal, and Jose Este- vos Da Luz of Provincetown. Husband of Maria Balbina Da Luz of Portugal. Seaman. Resident in Massachusetts fifteen years.
Louis Ferreira, Seaman, U. S. Coast Guard, died of influenza and pneumonia, Oct. 17, 1918, at Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va. Enl. June 3, 1918, U. S. N., Coast Guard Cutter "Seminole."
Louis Ferreira was born November 17, 1896, at Provincetown, son of Manuel and Julia (Cabral) Ferreira (born in S. Miguel, Azores) ; broth- er of Mrs. Pauline (Ferreira) Silva and Mary Ferreira, all of Province- town. Fisherman.
John Thomas Ford, Ship's Cook, U. S. N., died Oct. 13, 1918, of influenza, on U. S. S. "Actus." Enl. April 20, 1918, Naval Tng. Corps, Hingham, Mass .; trans. June 24, 1918, to Sect. Hdqrs., Provincetown; June 28, 1918, to U. S. S. "Actus."
John Thomas Ford was born 1881, in Boston, son of John A. and Katherine (Collins) Ford, (both deceased) ; brother of Mrs. Anna Mc- Donald of New Bedford, Mrs. Sadie Miller of Lowell, and Mrs. Matian Otto of Fairhaven, New Jersey. Married Margaret M. Ruck of Prov- incetown. Children: John A., George E., Margaret C., Alfred J. and Ernest Ford, all of Provincetown. Captain of Fishing boat.
Frank Fratus, Carpenter's Mate, 3 class, U. S. N. R. F., died July 29, 1918, U. S. S. "Solace," Base 2. Enl. April 6, 1917; assigned June 8, to U. S. S. "Michi- gan" from Rec. Ship at Boston; trans. July 21, to U. S. S. "Solace."
Frank Fratus was born January, 1899, son of Jesse and Mary Rose Fratus; brother of Rose, Terry, Irene, Joseph, William and Gabriel Fratus; all of Provincetown. Newsboy.
Leroy Milton Gibbs, Surfman, U. S. Coast Guard, died Dec. 23, 1918, at Coast Guard Station 44. En1. Oct. 2, 1917, U. S. N., assigned to Coast Guard Station.
Leroy Milton Gibbs was born September 8, 1899, at Somerset, son of Embert M. and Minnie H. (Williams) Gibbs; brother of Adelaide E. and Marian C. Gibbs, all of Provincetown. Painter.
Antonio Louis Light, Boatswain's Mate, U. S. N .; see Da Luz, Antonio Luiz. *Manuel Narcemmanto Lopes, Private, killed in action, July 18, 1918, (near Missy-aux-Bois). Enl. Sept. 20, 1917, Co. H, 302 Inf., 76 Div .; trans. Feb. 13, 1918, to 2 Co., March Repl. Draft, Camp Devens; March 25, to Co. F, 163 Inf., 41 Div .; May 6, to Clerks' School, Depot Division; June 6, to Co. D, 161 Inf., 41 Div .; June 13, to Co. K, 161 Inf., 41 Div .; June 20, to Co. B, 18 Inf., 1 Div. Overseas, March 12, 1918.
Manuel Narcemmanto Lopes was born December 25, 1892, at Olhaw, Portugal, son of Manuel Peter (died 1919) and Mary Theresa (Souza) Lopes; brother of Mrs. Mary C. Macara, Mrs. Mary J. Salvador, and Mrs. Mary S. Santos; all of Provincetown. Fish dealer. Resident of Massachusetts twenty-five years.
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