Fred D. Stimpson

Rank: Private, U.S. Army

Unit: Battery F, 73rd Railroad Artillery Regiment

Entered service from: New Jersey

Died: October 12, 1918

Buried at: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Plot F, Row 23, Grave 29, Romagne, France

Private Fred D. Stimpson was the son of William F. and Pauline Stimpson of Audubon, NJ. His father was a bookkeeper at a local textile works; William Stimpson later took a similar position at a carpet mill. The Stimpson family was living at 325 Walnut Avenue, Audubon, NJ when Fred Stimpson enlisted in the United States Army on May 15, 1918, at the age of 21. He was sent to Fort Slocum, NY, and then to Fort Adams, RI. Assigned to Battery F, 73rd Railroad Artillery Regiment, he sailed with his unit for France in September of 1918, and arrived on September 30.

Private Fred D. Stimpson died of pneumonia on October 12, 1918. He was survived by his parents, and his grandparents William and Susie Stimpson of 2815 Westfield Avenue, Camden, NJ. When the census was taken in April of 1930 his parents had bought a house at 229 Walnut Street in Audubon, NJ, while his grandparents were still in the same house on Westfield Avenue in Camden.