Charles Emerson Simonds Jr. (1896 - 1918)

Born 16 Aug 1896 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Died 18 Apr 1918 at age 21 in Fort Revere, Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Charles Emerson Jr. was born in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1896, the son of Charles Emerson and Cora Frances (Skinner) Simonds. He grew up in Boston^[1] and Malden^[2] and attended local Malden schools.

He married Frances Jeanette Gault, daughter of William and Sarah (MacDonald) Gault, of Medford, Mass., on January 24, 1918.^[3]

He enlisted in the U.S. Army during the first World War on January 1, 1918, and was attached to the 16th Company, C.A.C. [Coast Artillery Corps]^[4] He died of scarlet fever at Fort Revere in Hull, Massachusetts, at the age of 21 years^[5] and is buried at the Lakeside Cemetery in Wakefield, Massachusetts. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9Y7-82R : accessed 6 March 2019), Charles E Simonds Jr. in household of Charles E Simonds, Precinct 4 Boston city Ward 1, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2VV-JZG : accessed 6 March 2019), Charles J Simonds in household of Charles Simonds, Malden Ward 5, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
3. ↑ "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLKG-75WV : 13 March 2018), Charles Emerson Simonds and Frances Jeanette Gault, 1918.
4. ↑ Report of the Commission on Massachusetts' Part in the World War", by Eben Putnam, 1928, Vol. 2, p. 355
5. ↑ "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:23TQ-ZMW : 13 March 2018), Charles E Simonds, 18 Apr 1918
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #197330895 Lakeside Cemetery, Wakefield, MA

• Death notice, The Boston Globe, April 21, 1918, p. 14, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/430763947/