1910: United States Federal Census about Helen L Coghlan
Name: Helen L Coghlan
Age in 1910: 15
Birth Year: abt 1895
Birthplace: California
Home in 1910: Los Angeles Assembly District 70, Los Angeles, California
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Thomas D Coghlan
Father's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother's name: Mary E Coghlan
Mother's Birthplace: Canada
[Canada English]
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas D Coghlan 46
Mary E Coghlan 42
Lloyd S Coghlan 17
Helen L Coghlan 15
Madaline A Coghlan 14
Edward D Coghlan 11
Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Los Angeles Assembly District 70, Los Angeles, California; Roll: T624_80; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0225; FHL microfilm: 1374093.
1923: William B Jones
in the California Birth Index, 1905-1995
Name: William B Jones
Birth Date: 14 May 1923
Gender: Male
Mother's Maiden Name: Coghlan
Birth County: Los Angeles
Laurence Peter Jones and Helen Louise divorced about 1930.
1930: United States Federal Census about Helen L Jones
Name: Helen L Jones
Gender: Female
Birth Year: abt 1896
Birthplace: California
Race: White
Home in 1930: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
[Wife]
Father's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother's name: Mary E Coghlan
Mother's Birthplace: Canada
Occupation: Proprietor of Beauty Shop
Rent/home value: Owned/$9000
Age at first marriage: 18
Parents' birthplace: Illinois/English Canada
Household Members:
Name Age
Helen L Jones 34 Wife
Donald Jones 15 son (Donald Marvin, born California, not child of Laurence Peter Jones.)
Billy Jones 6 son
Mary E Coghlan 62 mother
Leonard Jones Head 49 born Indiana Occupation: Promotor oil wells (probably not living in home as he is listed last)
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California; Roll: 124; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0826; Image: 382.0; FHL microfilm: 2339859.
1943:
Find A Grave Memorial# 56112373
S2 William Beecher Jones
Birth: May 14, 1923
Death: Nov. 20, 1943, China
William served as a Seaman Second Class on the Submarine Tender U.S.S. Canopus (AS-9), U.S. Navy during World War II.
He resided in California prior to the war.
The Canopus was scuttled in Mariveles Bay, Bataan by her own crew, to deny her use to the enemy in the "Fall of Bataan" during the war.
William then became a POW of the Japanese Army in April, 1942.
He "Died While A POW" of influenza and pneumonia while at Hoten Pow Camp, Mukden, Manchuria 42-123 (China) during the war.
He was awarded the Prisoner Of War Medal and the Purple Heart.
He was originally interred in the POW Camp in China and was later repatriated here on March 23, 1949.
Service # 3823599
Bio by:
Russell S. "Russ" Pickett
Burial:
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific *
Honolulu
Honolulu County
Hawaii, USA
Plot: F 884, Sec A-N
*Cenotaph
Maintained by: Russ Pickett
Originally Created by: CWGC/ABMC
Record added: Aug 06, 2010
Wikipedia:
World War II, 1941–1942[edit]
"On 7 December 1941, Canopus, aging but able, lay at Cavite Navy Yard, as tender to Submarine Squadron 20. In the days that followed, her men worked day and night to repair ships damaged in the daily air raids as well as to keep her brood of submarines at sea. With the Army falling back on Manila, Canopus sailed to Mariveles Bay at the tip of Bataan on Christmas Day. On 29 December 1941 she received her first direct bomb hit. A 500-pound armor-piercing bomb penetrated all decks and exploded on the propeller shaft housing. Six sailors were killed mostly from scalding and fires started in the engine rooms and magazines. The six men were buried at sea at 1735 hours in Mariveles Bay at the tip of Bataan. On 1 January 1942 she received a second direct bomb hit. This time a fragmentation bomb which exploded near the top of the towering smokestack resulting in substantial damage to the ship and injuries to 16 men of the gun crews.
Disguised as a bombed out, listing, abandoned hulk, smoke pots were placed around the ship and giving the appearance of an abandoned hulk by day, while the ship hummed with activity by night. Her crew worked at a fevered pace repairing the smaller ships also left behind and keeping the submarines in action.
Just before the New Year, the last of the submarines left Canopus, but she never quit as she cared for small craft and equipment of the Army and Navy, sent her men into battle in the improvised naval battalion which fought on Bataan, and converted her own launches into miniature gunboats dubbed Mickey Mouse Battleships which attacked the Japanese moving south near the shore. But the overwhelming Japanese strength could not be held off forever, and upon the surrender of Bataan on the night of 8–9 April 1942, Canopus was ordered scuttled in Mariveles Bay, Bataan, to deny her use to the enemy. On 9 April, she was backed off into deep water under her own power and the veteran whom the Japanese could not sink ended a lifetime of service to the Navy when she was laid to rest by her own men.
221 of her crewmen were evacuated to Corregidor on 28 February 1942 and served with the Marines 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions on beach defenses. The final 327 crewmen were also evacuated to Corregidor and served in the 4th Marine Regiment's 4th Battalion Reserves (Provisional) which fought gallantly during the final battle for the island fortress. Nearly all Canopus crewmen were captured at the fall of Corregidor and spent the rest of the war in Japanese POW Camps in the Philippines and the Asian mainland. Some of the captured crew did not survive, but were killed on 14 December 1944 in the Palawan massacre.
212 were killed/missing in Action."
Name: Helen L Coghlan
Age in 1910: 15
Birth Year: abt 1895
Birthplace: California
Home in 1910: Los Angeles Assembly District 70, Los Angeles, California
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Thomas D Coghlan
Father's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother's name: Mary E Coghlan
Mother's Birthplace: Canada
[Canada English]
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas D Coghlan 46
Mary E Coghlan 42
Lloyd S Coghlan 17
Helen L Coghlan 15
Madaline A Coghlan 14
Edward D Coghlan 11
Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Los Angeles Assembly District 70, Los Angeles, California; Roll: T624_80; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0225; FHL microfilm: 1374093.
1923: William B Jones
in the California Birth Index, 1905-1995
Name: William B Jones
Birth Date: 14 May 1923
Gender: Male
Mother's Maiden Name: Coghlan
Birth County: Los Angeles
Laurence Peter Jones and Helen Louise divorced about 1930.
1930: United States Federal Census about Helen L Jones
Name: Helen L Jones
Gender: Female
Birth Year: abt 1896
Birthplace: California
Race: White
Home in 1930: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
[Wife]
Father's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother's name: Mary E Coghlan
Mother's Birthplace: Canada
Occupation: Proprietor of Beauty Shop
Rent/home value: Owned/$9000
Age at first marriage: 18
Parents' birthplace: Illinois/English Canada
Household Members:
Name Age
Helen L Jones 34 Wife
Donald Jones 15 son (Donald Marvin, born California, not child of Laurence Peter Jones.)
Billy Jones 6 son
Mary E Coghlan 62 mother
Leonard Jones Head 49 born Indiana Occupation: Promotor oil wells (probably not living in home as he is listed last)
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California; Roll: 124; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0826; Image: 382.0; FHL microfilm: 2339859.
1943:
Find A Grave Memorial# 56112373
S2 William Beecher Jones
Birth: May 14, 1923
Death: Nov. 20, 1943, China
William served as a Seaman Second Class on the Submarine Tender U.S.S. Canopus (AS-9), U.S. Navy during World War II.
He resided in California prior to the war.
The Canopus was scuttled in Mariveles Bay, Bataan by her own crew, to deny her use to the enemy in the "Fall of Bataan" during the war.
William then became a POW of the Japanese Army in April, 1942.
He "Died While A POW" of influenza and pneumonia while at Hoten Pow Camp, Mukden, Manchuria 42-123 (China) during the war.
He was awarded the Prisoner Of War Medal and the Purple Heart.
He was originally interred in the POW Camp in China and was later repatriated here on March 23, 1949.
Service # 3823599
Bio by:
Russell S. "Russ" Pickett
Burial:
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific *
Honolulu
Honolulu County
Hawaii, USA
Plot: F 884, Sec A-N
*Cenotaph
Maintained by: Russ Pickett
Originally Created by: CWGC/ABMC
Record added: Aug 06, 2010
Wikipedia:
World War II, 1941–1942[edit]
"On 7 December 1941, Canopus, aging but able, lay at Cavite Navy Yard, as tender to Submarine Squadron 20. In the days that followed, her men worked day and night to repair ships damaged in the daily air raids as well as to keep her brood of submarines at sea. With the Army falling back on Manila, Canopus sailed to Mariveles Bay at the tip of Bataan on Christmas Day. On 29 December 1941 she received her first direct bomb hit. A 500-pound armor-piercing bomb penetrated all decks and exploded on the propeller shaft housing. Six sailors were killed mostly from scalding and fires started in the engine rooms and magazines. The six men were buried at sea at 1735 hours in Mariveles Bay at the tip of Bataan. On 1 January 1942 she received a second direct bomb hit. This time a fragmentation bomb which exploded near the top of the towering smokestack resulting in substantial damage to the ship and injuries to 16 men of the gun crews.
Disguised as a bombed out, listing, abandoned hulk, smoke pots were placed around the ship and giving the appearance of an abandoned hulk by day, while the ship hummed with activity by night. Her crew worked at a fevered pace repairing the smaller ships also left behind and keeping the submarines in action.
Just before the New Year, the last of the submarines left Canopus, but she never quit as she cared for small craft and equipment of the Army and Navy, sent her men into battle in the improvised naval battalion which fought on Bataan, and converted her own launches into miniature gunboats dubbed Mickey Mouse Battleships which attacked the Japanese moving south near the shore. But the overwhelming Japanese strength could not be held off forever, and upon the surrender of Bataan on the night of 8–9 April 1942, Canopus was ordered scuttled in Mariveles Bay, Bataan, to deny her use to the enemy. On 9 April, she was backed off into deep water under her own power and the veteran whom the Japanese could not sink ended a lifetime of service to the Navy when she was laid to rest by her own men.
221 of her crewmen were evacuated to Corregidor on 28 February 1942 and served with the Marines 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions on beach defenses. The final 327 crewmen were also evacuated to Corregidor and served in the 4th Marine Regiment's 4th Battalion Reserves (Provisional) which fought gallantly during the final battle for the island fortress. Nearly all Canopus crewmen were captured at the fall of Corregidor and spent the rest of the war in Japanese POW Camps in the Philippines and the Asian mainland. Some of the captured crew did not survive, but were killed on 14 December 1944 in the Palawan massacre.
212 were killed/missing in Action."
