Friday, June 24, 2022

An Unmarked Grave for Theodore Timby-- Part 2

From Find-A-Grave.

THEODORE RUGGLES TIMBY

BIRTH:  5 April 1819, Dover Plains, New York

DEATH:  9 November 1909, Brooklyn, New York (aged 90)

BURIAL:  Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

PLOT:  536 East

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Famous inventor:  in 1841 he conceived the idea of the revolving gun turret.

On October  12, 1911, his casket was removed from a public vault in Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, and taken to Battery Park for a ceremony, during which it was opened for a viewing.

The body was taken to Washington, D.C., on October 13 on a special train on the Baltimore & Ohio.

Source:  The New York Times October 13, 1911.

Old B-Runner


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