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Egon PElzEdEr
(The Times mistakenly states the Montgomery Airport as the crash site, but local witnesses report it was the former Tilson’s Walden Airport .)
Egon PElzEdEr ?? ?? octobEr 11, 1931 We have no photo of Captain - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Egon PElzEdEr ?? ?? octobEr 11, 1931 We have no photo of Captain - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Egon PElzEdEr ?? ?? octobEr 11, 1931 We have no photo of Captain Egon Pelzeder. A tragic mishap on October 11, 1931 took his life and the lives of two 12 year old boys from RI, when his plane caught fire and crashed at the airport.
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WE can’t find caPtain PElzEdEr’s gra vE. can You ? sEction d, Plot # 712
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sEth MakEPEacE caPron
No drawings could be found of me but my father, Dr. Seth Capron, is pictured below. I entered West Point in October of
- 1817. Many of my Cadet classmates were just 14 and 15 years
- ld! I graduated In 1820 and settled in Walden, marrying 1st
Caroline A. Scofield in 1826, and much later, Helen Bard in
- 1850. I took over my father’s business after he died.
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sEth MakEPEacE caPron
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sEth MakEPEacE caPron
Family Monument—his father Dr. Seth C. Capron
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lEvi l. goWdY
diEd JunE 16, 1870 aE 68 YEars 29 daYs
No pictures of me are available, but I did help found Rider Engine Works and this building . The company later became Rider Ericsson (of The Monitor fame), and later Spence Engineering; the building still stands on Grant Street.
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lEvi l. goWdY
also callEd thE goWdY-daWson housE
Now Gone!
- ak strEEt
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lEvi l. goWdY
Levi & Margaret’s son, Henry, died as a result of wounds received during the Civil War in Chancellorsville
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col thoMas W. bradlEY
aPril 6, 1844—MaY 30, 1920
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col thoMas W. bradlEY
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col thoMas W. bradlEY
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JosEPhinE & louisE bradlEY
col bradlEY’s WifE & daughtEr
Paintings from the Josephine-Louise Public Library
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bradlEY hoME on ulstEr avEnuE
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