Trueman Reily Daw, son of Charles Reuben Mercer and Letitia Clayton Cole Daw, was born in Georgetown, Washington D.C., on 10 December 1889. He was named partly for Rev. Reily who had been pastor of the Dumbarton Methodist Church in Georgetown where his family worshiped.
TR Daw served in the Coast Guard before World War I and as a Naval Aviation Mechanic during that conflict. He enlisted on June 13, 1918 in the U. S. Naval Air as a Maintenance Mechanic First Class (MM1c). He served overseas at the Naval Air Station Eastleigh, England. Both day and night Squadrons sortied from the Air Station with the objective of destroying the enemy submarine bases in Belgium. He was honorably discharged on June 12, 1922, at Washington, D. C.
He married Edna Leigh Kochtitzky, daughter of John Shidler and Jennie Belle Smith Kochtitzky, in England, Arkansas, on 2 July 1925. Trueman and Edna initially lived in St. Louis, Missouri, where their daughter Maryle was born, but in 1928, they moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and bought a home at 69 N. Lewis Place where they lived the rest of their lives.
Trueman was employed by the Railroad Trucking Co as a Mechanic in Tulsa. Following his retirement, he had a home-based business re-caning chair seats and backs (that is, weaving a chair seat or back out of strips of cane). He died on 27 October 1964 in Tulsa at age 74 of a heart attack. His body was interred on 30 October 1964 in the Garden of the Apostles, lot 184D, space 3 of Floral Haven Cemetery in Broken Arrow, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
TR Daw served in the Coast Guard before World War I and as a Naval Aviation Mechanic during that conflict. He enlisted on June 13, 1918 in the U. S. Naval Air as a Maintenance Mechanic First Class (MM1c). He served overseas at the Naval Air Station Eastleigh, England. Both day and night Squadrons sortied from the Air Station with the objective of destroying the enemy submarine bases in Belgium. He was honorably discharged on June 12, 1922, at Washington, D. C.
He married Edna Leigh Kochtitzky, daughter of John Shidler and Jennie Belle Smith Kochtitzky, in England, Arkansas, on 2 July 1925. Trueman and Edna initially lived in St. Louis, Missouri, where their daughter Maryle was born, but in 1928, they moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and bought a home at 69 N. Lewis Place where they lived the rest of their lives.
Trueman was employed by the Railroad Trucking Co as a Mechanic in Tulsa. Following his retirement, he had a home-based business re-caning chair seats and backs (that is, weaving a chair seat or back out of strips of cane). He died on 27 October 1964 in Tulsa at age 74 of a heart attack. His body was interred on 30 October 1964 in the Garden of the Apostles, lot 184D, space 3 of Floral Haven Cemetery in Broken Arrow, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
Trueman Reily Daw, son of Charles Reuben Mercer and Letitia Clayton Cole Daw, was born in Georgetown, Washington D.C., on 10 December 1889. He was named partly for Rev. Reily who had been pastor of the Dumbarton Methodist Church in Georgetown where his family worshiped.
TR Daw served in the Coast Guard before World War I and as a Naval Aviation Mechanic during that conflict. He enlisted on June 13, 1918 in the U. S. Naval Air as a Maintenance Mechanic First Class (MM1c). He served overseas at the Naval Air Station Eastleigh, England. Both day and night Squadrons sortied from the Air Station with the objective of destroying the enemy submarine bases in Belgium. He was honorably discharged on June 12, 1922, at Washington, D. C.
He married Edna Leigh Kochtitzky, daughter of John Shidler and Jennie Belle Smith Kochtitzky, in England, Arkansas, on 2 July 1925. Trueman and Edna initially lived in St. Louis, Missouri, where their daughter Maryle was born, but in 1928, they moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and bought a home at 69 N. Lewis Place where they lived the rest of their lives.
Trueman was employed by the Railroad Trucking Co as a Mechanic in Tulsa. Following his retirement, he had a home-based business re-caning chair seats and backs (that is, weaving a chair seat or back out of strips of cane). He died on 27 October 1964 in Tulsa at age 74 of a heart attack. His body was interred on 30 October 1964 in the Garden of the Apostles, lot 184D, space 3 of Floral Haven Cemetery in Broken Arrow, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
TR Daw served in the Coast Guard before World War I and as a Naval Aviation Mechanic during that conflict. He enlisted on June 13, 1918 in the U. S. Naval Air as a Maintenance Mechanic First Class (MM1c). He served overseas at the Naval Air Station Eastleigh, England. Both day and night Squadrons sortied from the Air Station with the objective of destroying the enemy submarine bases in Belgium. He was honorably discharged on June 12, 1922, at Washington, D. C.
He married Edna Leigh Kochtitzky, daughter of John Shidler and Jennie Belle Smith Kochtitzky, in England, Arkansas, on 2 July 1925. Trueman and Edna initially lived in St. Louis, Missouri, where their daughter Maryle was born, but in 1928, they moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and bought a home at 69 N. Lewis Place where they lived the rest of their lives.
Trueman was employed by the Railroad Trucking Co as a Mechanic in Tulsa. Following his retirement, he had a home-based business re-caning chair seats and backs (that is, weaving a chair seat or back out of strips of cane). He died on 27 October 1964 in Tulsa at age 74 of a heart attack. His body was interred on 30 October 1964 in the Garden of the Apostles, lot 184D, space 3 of Floral Haven Cemetery in Broken Arrow, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
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