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Courtesy of Mike O'Brien, 5-17-07 It's unclear when Stockton moved to New Jersey, but his home address is listed as 300 Haddon Avenue in Haddonford, New Jersey on the Air Force list of pilots commissioned prior to 11 November 1918. His early training beyond his service in the NYNG is unrecorded, but we know he was commissioned Lieutenant on 17 September 1917. It is a certainty he continued his flight training in France, though the exact dates and locations are unknown. His Reserve Military Aviator Rating is dated 18 February 1918 and he was certainly in France by that date having sailed for Europe on 5 December 1917. His only known service assignment in France is to the 12th Aero Squadron, an observation and reconnaissance unit that flew the excellent Salmson 2A2 two-seater. He arrived on 18 June 1918 and remained with the unit throughout the war, participating in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives. The unit would see no fewer than four New Jersey natives before the armistice including Frederick Luh from Roselle Park, Philip E. West from Newark and Hamburg, New Jersey's Robert W. Watt. Beyond this, few specifics of his service during the war have been discovered Stockton sailed for home in the spring of 1919, arriving in the U.S. on 26 April 1919. Nothing regarding his post war life has been found, save that he passed away on 21 February 1962 in Los Angeles, California. He was later interred in the Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetary in San Diego, Section X, site 627. |
Contributed by P. J., 5-14-07 Nationwide Gravesite Locator STOCKTON, PAUL R 1ST LT US ARMY WORLD WAR I Date of Birth: 05/03/1880 Date of Death: 02/21/1962 Buried at: Section X Site 627 FT. Rosecrans National Cemetery P.O. Box 6237 San Diego, CA 92166 (619) 553-2084 Find A Grave Paul R Stockton Birth: May 3, 1880 Death: Feb. 21, 1962 Burial: Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, San Diego County, California, Plot: X, 627 Record added: Mar 4 2000 Social Security Death Index *CA Death Records; STOCKTON PAUL R 05/03/1880 M LOS ANGELES(70) 02/21/1962 81 yrs ----------- and his wife; Nationwide Gravesite Locator STOCKTON, MARIE H Date of Birth: 08/19/1891 Date of Death: 08/31/1977 Buried at: Section X Site 627 FT. Rosecrans National Cemetery P.O. Box 6237 San Diego, CA 92166 (619) 553-2084 Wife of Stockton, Paul R 1st Lt US ARMY Find A Grave Marie H Stockton Birth: Aug. 19, 1891 Death: Aug. 31, 1977 Burial: Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, San Diego County, California Plot: X, 627 Record added: Mar 4 2000 *CA death Records: STOCKTON MARIE H 08/19/1891 F (born) WASHINGTON (died, County) SAN DIEGO(37) 08/31/1977 547-30-4662 86 yrs -------- I do not know who Paul's parents were. I certainly would appreciate hearing from you If you know his parents might be. I hope this helps you. Thank you |
| Editor's Note: We thank P. J. for this information about Paul. If you can help him with his search for more details of his life and career, please contact me and I will forward the material to him. Thank you. |
Contributed by P. J., 5-14-07 This is not a guarantee, but so many thing match, it's hard to ignore. If the following is correct, Paul may have had enough of his famous family, and just stayed in Los Angeles after the war. His grandfather was the Rev. William Smith Stockton (1785-1869) of Burlington, NJ; his father, Paul, served in the Civil War, and died in Philadelphia in 1910. A greataunt, Louisa Stockton was a writer; a greatuncle was Frank Richard Stockton a famous fiction writer and playwright .... Sometimes people hide from family fame. *"Ancestry of Samuel Stockton White", William Francis Cregar, 1888, pg 112 *The Stockton Family of New Jersey and Other Stocktons, 1911, Dr. Thomas Coates Stockton, pg 192; father, Paul Stockton; Paul Stockton; educated at the Saunders Inst. in W. Phila. at the beginning of the Civil War, although only 16, he became asst to Mjr. Willetts, engineer in charge of the works around Nashville, and remained with that department until the close of the War. He was appointed a clerk in the PA post office and had charge of the registry system until Cleveland became President. He then retired from the Post office and engaged in the insurance business. He d. at Philadelphia Dec. 28, 1910. http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/ Philadelphia City Death Certificate #31544 Paul Stockton, male, white, married, retired post office Birth: Dec. 23, 1844, Philadelphia Death: Dec. 28, 1910 Cause: chronic institutional nephritis, uremia Father: William S. Stockton Mother: Emily H. Drean Informant: William S. Stockton, 1109 South Title Bldg. Burial: Woodlands Cemetery ---------------------------------- all census records from familysearch.org *1880 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Stockton, Emily H., 74, wid, VA Ire VA, gentlewoman; Louisa, dau, 41, single, writer, PA NJ PA; Marion, grdau, 1, PA NJ PA; William S., son, 39, married, com. merchant, PA NJ PA; Paul, s-i-l, 35, married, Post Office clerk, AL PA PA; Frances, grdau, 33, single, gentlewoman, PA PA AL; Emily, grdau, 10, PA PA AL, at school; Louisa, grdau, 8, PA PA AL, at school; Paul, grdson, 7, PA PA AL, at school; Helen C., grdau, PA PA AL; MURRAY, Mary B., other, single, gentlewoman, NJ Scotland NJ *1900 Ward 27, Philadelphia, PA; Stockton, Paul, Dec 1844, 56, PA; Frances A., wife, Jul 1846, 54, AL PA PA; Paul K, son, May 1873, 27, single, PA; Ruth E., Sep 1881, 19, PA; McALLISTER, William A., s-i-l, 28, PA; Emily D., dau, 31, PA; Francis, grdson, 3, PA *1920 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Stockton, Paul R., 39, PA; Marie, 29, WA Eng WA *1930 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Stockton, Paul R., 49, married, PA PA AL; Mary H., wife, 38, WA; Richard H., son, 7, CA; Frank R., son, 5, CA *1940 Dist 13, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Stockton, Paul, 59, married, PA (1935 same house); Marie, wife, 48, WA; Richard, son, 17, CA; Frank, son, 15, CA *https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V4DH-674 WWII Draft Registration, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA Paul Richard Stockton, b. 3 May 1880, Phildelphia, PA; res. 808 N. Hayworth, Hollywood, CA, age 62; own business at above address; Mrs. Marie Stockton (same address) http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1 STOCKTON, PAUL R 1ST LT US ARMY WORLD WAR I Date of Birth: 05/03/1880 Date of Death: 02/21/1962 Buried at: Section X Site 627 FT. Rosecrans National Cemetery P.O. Box 6237 San Diego, CA 92166 (619) 553-2084 I hope this helps someone. Thank for posting Early Flyers! I never would have found Paul. |
| Editor's Note: We thank P. J. for this information about Paul. If you can help him with his search for more details of his life and career, please contact me and I will forward the material to him. Thank you. |
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" This collection provides extensive documentation on the flying career of Paul R. Stockton from his entry into the New York Air National Guard through his service in France and Germany and eventual discharge in 1919. Included in this collection is documentation of the activies, personnel and equipment of Stockton's squadron, as well as are excellent aerial photographs of airplanes and before and after photographs of target areas. Many of the photographs show Marie, the Belgian police dog Stockton raised during the war. (Marie later appeared in motion pictures with Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino and others). One image is purportedly from one of the aircraft of Baron von Richtofen's "Flying Circus." Also included in this scrapbook are certificates of Stockton's appointments to corporal and to 1st lieutenant, hotel menus, copies of leaflets dropped by US aviators behind the German lines, examples of European currency, train and bus tickets, fabric swatches from aircraft, Stockton's pilot license and other such ephemera." |
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From The Early Birds of Aviation Roster of Members January 1, 1993 If you have any more information on this Early Bird, please contact me. I will forward the information to P. J. as well. E-mail to Ralph Cooper Back 
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