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From: "Bob Hegerich" <>
Subject: Re: [NS-L] Fw: Captain George SLAUENWHITE of the W.E. STOWE
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:08:40 -0500
References: <3bdd7c22.6c2d.0@telusplanet.net>


Hi Eric and All:

Hmmm. A good question. I don't have any children for George Albert
SLAUENWHITE and Eliza Jane YOUNG and there are none listed in his obit.

Does anyone out there in list-land have a clue as to what might have
happened to the medal?

-----Bob H-----
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Little" <>
To: "Bob Hegerich" <>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [NS-L] Fw: Captain George SLAUENWHITE of the W.E. STOWE


> Hi Bob,
> That was a neat bit of sleuthing. So who has the gold medal today?
> Eric
>
>
> Hi All:
> >
> >A while back, I asked the question in the note below. I now believe that
the
> man who received the gold medal was George Alfred SLAUENWHITE, b. 03 July
1857
> at Mahone Bay, s/o Josiah SLAUENWHITE and Louisa HAMM.
> >
> >-----Bob H-----
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Bob Hegerich
> >To: Roots Lunenburg-L ; Roots Nova Scotia-L
> >Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 2:43 PM
> >Subject: Captain George SLAUENWHITE of the W.E. STOWE
> >
> >
> >Hi All:
> >
> >OK all you history buffs. Here is a quote from the Lunenburg
Progress-Enterprise
> edition of 14 Nov 1923 (hope I have it right):
> >
> >"A gold medal was awarded to Captain George SLAUENWHITE of Lunenburg in
1898.
> It was inscribes as follows: Presented by the President of the United
States
> to Capt. George SLAUENWHITE of the British brigantine, W.E. STOWE for his
humane
> services in the rescue of the crew of the American schooner SOPHIA T.,
Winterton,
> January 1st 1888."
> >
> >NOTE: It might have been the schooner SOPHIA T. WINTERTON as my copy of
the
> article (which just arrived from Romania!) is slightly blurred at that
point.
>
> >
> >Now the question is--can anyone tell me which George SLAUENWHITE that
was?
>
> >
> >Thanks.
>


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