Edward Warren SPALDING

• General Notes
  • "Warren" in 1900 census, "Warren C." in mother Della's Aug 1933 obit, "E. Warren" in burial record
    
    b. IN
    m. Martin Cty, IN 18 Oct 1910 to Caroline MC KINNEY
    aboard USS Florida in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 1920 (census)
    residing in Indianapolis, Center Twp, Marion Cty, IN in 1930
    residing in Indianapolis, IN Aug 1933 (mother Della's obit)
    not mentioned in sister Pearl's 1956 obit
    d. Bluffton, Wells, IN (burial record)
    buried St. John Cemetery, Loogootee, IN
    
    burial record:
    Spalding E. Warren, b. 1887, d. 1954
    SECLOT:  D-E0009, Owner:  McKinney/Smith, Stone 3; CN:  Obit:  Died Apr. 4, 1954; S/O George & Della Champlain [sic] Spalding.  Died in Bluffton, IN
    
    source:  private publication St. John Catholic Cemetery,  Book Number 037, Loogootee, Indiana, December 31, 2004, accessed 7/06 at Loogootee Public Library
    
    mother Della's 1933 obit:
    Martin County Tribune 73-52, Shoals, IN Thurs 31 Aug 1933
    Mrs. Spaulding [sic] Funeral Today
       Mrs. Della M. Spaulding, age 77 years, widow of George L. Spaulding, for many years residents of Loogootee, was found dead in her bed at the home of a daughter, Mrs. George Walker, near St. Michaels early Monday morning.  Mrs. Spaulding had been in poor health for some time, suffering from a complication of ailments, and had severe attacks of asthma during the past few weeks and her death was not wholly unexpected.
       The deceased was born in Orange county Nov. 14, 1855.  She was married to Mr. Spaulding June 20, 1877.  Surviving children are Mrs. Joseph Doyle and Warren C. Spaulding of Indianapolis and Mrs. Walker.
       The funeral service was held at 9:00 o'clock this (Thursday) morning from St. Michael's church with burial following in St. Mary's cemetery.
    
    notes from source: Cemetery Records of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana Including Additional Genealogical Information and Obituaries, Researched by Natalie Montgomery Baker, Washington, Indiana, 47501, 1996, pp. 240-241.  Accessed 7/06 at Carnegie Public Library, Washington, IN.
    
    NB, there is a Daviess County death record for a Delpha SPAULDING, female, white, age 9/12, d. Nov. 21, 1905, Barr Twp., H-19, pg. 33.  Della's gdtr?
    
    source:  Index to Death Records, Daviess County 1882-1920 inclusive, Indiana WPA, 1940, pg. 198.  Accessed 7/06 at Carnegie Public Library, Washington, IN.  H = County Health Office, Washington, IN.
    
    A history of the USS Florida (BB-30) from 1910 to 1932:
    
    The fifth Florida (BB-30) was launched 12 May 1910 at the New York Navy Yard, sponsored by Miss E. D. Fleming, daughter of a former Florida Governor; and commissioned 15 September 1911, Captain H. S. Knapp in command.
    
    When commissioned, the battleship (BB-30) displaced 21,825 tons; was 521'6" in length; had a beam of 88'3"; drew 28'4" of water; could make 21 knots of speed; was maned by 1,001 officers and men; and was armed with 10 12" guns, 16 5" guns, and 2 21" torpedo tubes. She was the lead ship of the Florida Class.
    
    After extensive training in the Caribbean and Maine coastal waters, Florida arrived in Hampton Roads, VA, 29 March 1912 to join the Atlantic Fleet as Flagship of Division 1. Regularly scheduled exercises, maneuvers, fleet training and target practice, and midshipmen training cruises took the new battleship to many east coast ports and into Caribbean waters. Early in 1914 tension heightened between the United States and factions in Mexico and Florida arrived off Vera Cruz on 16 February 1914 remaining there during the ensuing occupation. She steamed to New York in July to resume regular Fleet operations and in October was transferred to Division 2.
    
    Following United States entry into World War I, Florida completed exercises in the Chesapeake Bay and proceeded with Battleship Division 9 to join the British Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, on 07 December 1917. She participated in the Grand Fleet maneuvers and evolutions, and performed convoy duty with the 6th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet through the remainder of the war. She rendezvoused with the Grand Fleet on 20 November 1918 when it met to escort the German High Seas Fleet into the Firth of Forth.
    
    Florida joined the escort for George Washington, President Woodrow Wilson embarked, as she proceeded into Brest, France on 12 and 13 December 1918. She participated in the grand Victory Naval Review in the North River, New York City, in late December and then returned to Norfolk 04 January 1919 to resume peace time operations. During May she cruised to the Azores and took weather observations for the first aerial crossing of the Atlantic achieved that month by Navy seaplanes.
    
    Florida's operations during the remaining years of her career were highlighted by participation in the tercentennary celebration in August 1920 of the Pilgrims' landing at Provincetown, MA, a diplomatic voyage to South American and Caribbean ports with Secretary of State R. Lansing embarked, service as flagship for Commander, Control Force, U.S. Fleet, amphibious operations with Marines in the Caribbean, and midshipman training cruises.
    
    The USS Florida was laid up June 1924. She was modernized at the Boston Navy Yard from 01 April 1925 to 01 November 1926. The reconstruction included: Heavier deck armor and anti-torpedo blisters along her sides and a rearranged secondary gun battery. The four boilers were converted from coal fired to White-Forster oil fired. Her two smokestacks were trunked into one. The aft caged mast was replaced with a lower stick mast and relocated aft between Turrets 3 & 4. Four of the sixteen 5" 45 caliber secondary battery mounted in sponsons in the hull were removed. The two 21" underwater mounted torpedo tubes were also removed. The ship served but a few years in this new guise, as she had to be removed from the National Armament under the 1930 London Naval Limitations Treaty.
    
    Therefore, she was decommissioned 16 February 1931 at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, strickened from the list 06 April 1932 and scrapped at the Philadelphia Naval Yard under the terms of the London Naval Treaty of 1930. Scrapping was completed on 30 September 1932.
    
    source:
    http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/3044/history.html
    
    Contemporary memoirs of service aboard the USS Florida
    
    1) "Peno" Endrizzi:
    
    "Pay was $36.00 a month.  I'd send $25.00 to Pa.
    
    "After the war the Leviathan was used as a receiving ship and I was
    transferred to it for a short period.  From there I was transferred to
    New Orleans where I spent about 2 1/2 months.  Then it was back to
    Boston aboard the USS Florida and I still had about a year of service
    left to go.  From there we made a trip to the West Indies, Barbados and
    Trinidad and Guantanamo.  I got out in August of 1920."
    
    source:
    
    http://mattsonworks.com/index.html?row1col2=peno.html
    
    2) Sidney S. Lanham
    
    Born July 16, 1901. Enl. April 1. 1918. Sea- man, U. S. Navy. Trained at G. L; N. T. S.; to U. S. Naval Operating Base. Hampton Roads. Sailed on U. S. S. Finland January 9. 1919; trans. to U. S. S. Florida and left for Guantanamo Bay, February 4 for battle practice; to St. Kitts Island. British West Indies; later cruised along coast of South America and Panama; to Cuba; to Haiti and Porto Rico; got under way for the United States April 10, 1919; anchored in North River April 16; ship gave a "ball at Terrace Gardens, New York. April 20. Mustered out May 1, 1919.
    
    source:
    
    http://www.rootsweb.com/~iabuenav/military_wwi_l.htm
    
    Additional period photos of USS Florida available at:
    
    http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/30b.htm
    
    See also:
    
    http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/3044/
    

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