Information from survey
by Maggie Rail, 2001-2012
mrail.net/data/cemete/wash/
spokane/greenwood/index.htm
Adelbert was the son of James Canwell and Zipporah (Fuller) Canwell (b. ca. 1842 in Maine). In 1880 he and sister Bertie A. Canwell (b. ca. 1869) lived in Hartford, Oxford County, Maine with their maternal grandparents, Ezekiel Fuller (1809-1896) and Maria Farrar Fuller (1814-1890).
He enlisted as a private in the U. S. Army Hospital Corps on either 09 Mar. 1892 of 21 Nov. 1895 (source gives both dates), and was discharged 20 Nov. 1898.
He married Ida Christina Espland ca. 1897. Their children were (or included):
(1) An infant who died before 1900,
(2) Claude Canwell (1900-1954),
(3) James L. Canwell (1901-1978),
(4) Pearl A. Canwell (1904-1998),
(5) Albert Franklyn Canwell (1907-2002),
(6) Carl D. Canwell (1909-1993),
(7) John Mellon Canwell (1912-2002), and,
(8) Walter Joseph Canwell (1914-2002).
Information not found on survey (see "Inscription") comes from U. S. Census enumerations for 1860 (his mother), 1880, 1900, 1920, 1930, and 1940; Washington Deaths, 1883-1960; U. S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans; and Washington Births, 1883-1935 re: children (2)-(5), above).
by Maggie Rail, 2001-2012
mrail.net/data/cemete/wash/
spokane/greenwood/index.htm
Adelbert was the son of James Canwell and Zipporah (Fuller) Canwell (b. ca. 1842 in Maine). In 1880 he and sister Bertie A. Canwell (b. ca. 1869) lived in Hartford, Oxford County, Maine with their maternal grandparents, Ezekiel Fuller (1809-1896) and Maria Farrar Fuller (1814-1890).
He enlisted as a private in the U. S. Army Hospital Corps on either 09 Mar. 1892 of 21 Nov. 1895 (source gives both dates), and was discharged 20 Nov. 1898.
He married Ida Christina Espland ca. 1897. Their children were (or included):
(1) An infant who died before 1900,
(2) Claude Canwell (1900-1954),
(3) James L. Canwell (1901-1978),
(4) Pearl A. Canwell (1904-1998),
(5) Albert Franklyn Canwell (1907-2002),
(6) Carl D. Canwell (1909-1993),
(7) John Mellon Canwell (1912-2002), and,
(8) Walter Joseph Canwell (1914-2002).
Information not found on survey (see "Inscription") comes from U. S. Census enumerations for 1860 (his mother), 1880, 1900, 1920, 1930, and 1940; Washington Deaths, 1883-1960; U. S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans; and Washington Births, 1883-1935 re: children (2)-(5), above).
Information from survey
by Maggie Rail, 2001-2012
mrail.net/data/cemete/wash/
spokane/greenwood/index.htm
Adelbert was the son of James Canwell and Zipporah (Fuller) Canwell (b. ca. 1842 in Maine). In 1880 he and sister Bertie A. Canwell (b. ca. 1869) lived in Hartford, Oxford County, Maine with their maternal grandparents, Ezekiel Fuller (1809-1896) and Maria Farrar Fuller (1814-1890).
He enlisted as a private in the U. S. Army Hospital Corps on either 09 Mar. 1892 of 21 Nov. 1895 (source gives both dates), and was discharged 20 Nov. 1898.
He married Ida Christina Espland ca. 1897. Their children were (or included):
(1) An infant who died before 1900,
(2) Claude Canwell (1900-1954),
(3) James L. Canwell (1901-1978),
(4) Pearl A. Canwell (1904-1998),
(5) Albert Franklyn Canwell (1907-2002),
(6) Carl D. Canwell (1909-1993),
(7) John Mellon Canwell (1912-2002), and,
(8) Walter Joseph Canwell (1914-2002).
Information not found on survey (see "Inscription") comes from U. S. Census enumerations for 1860 (his mother), 1880, 1900, 1920, 1930, and 1940; Washington Deaths, 1883-1960; U. S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans; and Washington Births, 1883-1935 re: children (2)-(5), above).
by Maggie Rail, 2001-2012
mrail.net/data/cemete/wash/
spokane/greenwood/index.htm
Adelbert was the son of James Canwell and Zipporah (Fuller) Canwell (b. ca. 1842 in Maine). In 1880 he and sister Bertie A. Canwell (b. ca. 1869) lived in Hartford, Oxford County, Maine with their maternal grandparents, Ezekiel Fuller (1809-1896) and Maria Farrar Fuller (1814-1890).
He enlisted as a private in the U. S. Army Hospital Corps on either 09 Mar. 1892 of 21 Nov. 1895 (source gives both dates), and was discharged 20 Nov. 1898.
He married Ida Christina Espland ca. 1897. Their children were (or included):
(1) An infant who died before 1900,
(2) Claude Canwell (1900-1954),
(3) James L. Canwell (1901-1978),
(4) Pearl A. Canwell (1904-1998),
(5) Albert Franklyn Canwell (1907-2002),
(6) Carl D. Canwell (1909-1993),
(7) John Mellon Canwell (1912-2002), and,
(8) Walter Joseph Canwell (1914-2002).
Information not found on survey (see "Inscription") comes from U. S. Census enumerations for 1860 (his mother), 1880, 1900, 1920, 1930, and 1940; Washington Deaths, 1883-1960; U. S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans; and Washington Births, 1883-1935 re: children (2)-(5), above).
Inscription
Adelbert L. Canwell
Mar. 10, 1869
Mar. 20, 1949
Maine Pvt Hosp Corps
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