Son of Francis M. and Eveline (née McIntyre) Gonia.
Edward first married Ethel Corinne Freeman on 19 Oct 1895 in Thomaston, Knox County, Maine. They had a daughter, Evelyn Lenette Gonia, who became the wife of Dr. Edward Warren Peaslee. After Ethel's death in March of 1938, he married Mrs. Lida (née Stinson) Taylor on 17 Sep 1939 in Knox County, Maine.
Edward served for one year in the Panama Canal Zone on the U.S. Army mine planter the General William M. Graham. Background on this vessel, provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, is shown below:
In 1917, nine years after the Mills, Frank and Schofield were built, the General William M. Graham was constructed at New York Shipbuilding under contract #194 to what appears to be very similar specifications. The Graham's keel was laid on April 2nd 1917 and she was constructed in shipway J. The ship was launched on August 29th 1917 and after complete outfitting and sea trials was turned over to the War Department on January 3rd 1918. The ship was named to honor the U.S. Army Brigadier General William Montrose Graham who fought during the Civil War at Antietam and Gettysburg. The Graham served as an Army mine planter primarily on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal Zone as part of the harbor defense of Cristobal and, in fact, was renamed the USS Panama City in 1947. The General William M. Graham fits into our Pequot tale, since this ship was apparently the first combined mine planter and cable ship. She served at sea for 30 years until sold for scrap in Mobile, Alabama in 1948.
Edward first married Ethel Corinne Freeman on 19 Oct 1895 in Thomaston, Knox County, Maine. They had a daughter, Evelyn Lenette Gonia, who became the wife of Dr. Edward Warren Peaslee. After Ethel's death in March of 1938, he married Mrs. Lida (née Stinson) Taylor on 17 Sep 1939 in Knox County, Maine.
Edward served for one year in the Panama Canal Zone on the U.S. Army mine planter the General William M. Graham. Background on this vessel, provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, is shown below:
In 1917, nine years after the Mills, Frank and Schofield were built, the General William M. Graham was constructed at New York Shipbuilding under contract #194 to what appears to be very similar specifications. The Graham's keel was laid on April 2nd 1917 and she was constructed in shipway J. The ship was launched on August 29th 1917 and after complete outfitting and sea trials was turned over to the War Department on January 3rd 1918. The ship was named to honor the U.S. Army Brigadier General William Montrose Graham who fought during the Civil War at Antietam and Gettysburg. The Graham served as an Army mine planter primarily on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal Zone as part of the harbor defense of Cristobal and, in fact, was renamed the USS Panama City in 1947. The General William M. Graham fits into our Pequot tale, since this ship was apparently the first combined mine planter and cable ship. She served at sea for 30 years until sold for scrap in Mobile, Alabama in 1948.
Son of Francis M. and Eveline (née McIntyre) Gonia.
Edward first married Ethel Corinne Freeman on 19 Oct 1895 in Thomaston, Knox County, Maine. They had a daughter, Evelyn Lenette Gonia, who became the wife of Dr. Edward Warren Peaslee. After Ethel's death in March of 1938, he married Mrs. Lida (née Stinson) Taylor on 17 Sep 1939 in Knox County, Maine.
Edward served for one year in the Panama Canal Zone on the U.S. Army mine planter the General William M. Graham. Background on this vessel, provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, is shown below:
In 1917, nine years after the Mills, Frank and Schofield were built, the General William M. Graham was constructed at New York Shipbuilding under contract #194 to what appears to be very similar specifications. The Graham's keel was laid on April 2nd 1917 and she was constructed in shipway J. The ship was launched on August 29th 1917 and after complete outfitting and sea trials was turned over to the War Department on January 3rd 1918. The ship was named to honor the U.S. Army Brigadier General William Montrose Graham who fought during the Civil War at Antietam and Gettysburg. The Graham served as an Army mine planter primarily on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal Zone as part of the harbor defense of Cristobal and, in fact, was renamed the USS Panama City in 1947. The General William M. Graham fits into our Pequot tale, since this ship was apparently the first combined mine planter and cable ship. She served at sea for 30 years until sold for scrap in Mobile, Alabama in 1948.
Edward first married Ethel Corinne Freeman on 19 Oct 1895 in Thomaston, Knox County, Maine. They had a daughter, Evelyn Lenette Gonia, who became the wife of Dr. Edward Warren Peaslee. After Ethel's death in March of 1938, he married Mrs. Lida (née Stinson) Taylor on 17 Sep 1939 in Knox County, Maine.
Edward served for one year in the Panama Canal Zone on the U.S. Army mine planter the General William M. Graham. Background on this vessel, provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, is shown below:
In 1917, nine years after the Mills, Frank and Schofield were built, the General William M. Graham was constructed at New York Shipbuilding under contract #194 to what appears to be very similar specifications. The Graham's keel was laid on April 2nd 1917 and she was constructed in shipway J. The ship was launched on August 29th 1917 and after complete outfitting and sea trials was turned over to the War Department on January 3rd 1918. The ship was named to honor the U.S. Army Brigadier General William Montrose Graham who fought during the Civil War at Antietam and Gettysburg. The Graham served as an Army mine planter primarily on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal Zone as part of the harbor defense of Cristobal and, in fact, was renamed the USS Panama City in 1947. The General William M. Graham fits into our Pequot tale, since this ship was apparently the first combined mine planter and cable ship. She served at sea for 30 years until sold for scrap in Mobile, Alabama in 1948.
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