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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