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Melvin stewart 
washington

This is a census from Wisconsin 1900, showing who was in Melvin’s house when he was 17 years old. It shows he was a farm labourer born to a mother from Pennsylvania and a farmer father from Wisconsin.
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"Customer Login." Ancestry Login. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 June 2017.

​www.ancestryclassroom.com/interactive/7602/4120648_00116?pid=74101268&backurl=http://search.ancestryclassroom.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26db%3D1900usfedcen%26h%3D74101268%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DPNb1%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26rhSource%3D6482&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PNb1&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=tru
This census from King county, Washington in 1917 shows Melvin as being the head of his house, with wife Martha and son Sterling. 
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"Customer Login." Ancestry Login. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 June 201

search.ancestryclassroom.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=TrW1&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=melvin%20s&gsfn_x=0&gsln=stewart&gsln_x=0&msypn__ftp=Washington,%20USA&msypn=50&msypn_PInfo=5-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C0%7C50%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C&msbdy=1883&catbucket=rstp&MSAV=0&MSV=0&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=13428505&dbid=6061&indiv=1&ml_rpos=2
Melvin registered for World War 1 out of King County, Washington in 1917
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"Fold3 Search." Fold3. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 June 201

​www.fold3.com/search/#s_given_name=melvin&s_surname=stewart&offset=7&preview=1&cat=250

In 1918, Melvin was on board a destroyer ship that collided with another ship in the coast of England, killing 15 service members, including Melvin S. Stew.
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"Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, November 15, 1918, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6." News about Chronicling America RSS. Hofer Bros., n.d. Web. 08 June 201

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99063957/1918-11-15/ed-1/seq-6/#date1=1789&index=1&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Aquitania+Shaw&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=Aquitania+Shaw&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=
This was the USS Shaw, after her collision with the Aquitania
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Destroyer Photo Index DD-68 USS SHAW. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 June 2017.
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​www.navsource.org/archives/05/068.htm
This is another source showing the U.S.S. Shaw after collision with HMS Aquitania that occurred October 9 1918.
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Citation: Willshaw, Fred. "USS SHAW (DD-68)." Destroyer Photo Index DD-68 USS SHAW. NavSource Naval History, 18 Apr. 2009. Web. 30 May 2017.

www.navsource.org/archives/05/068.htm
This is a newspaper article describing the collision between the Shaw and the Aquitania. This Melvin S. Stewart to died during this incident
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The Ocala evening star. (Ocala, Fla.), 16 Nov. 1918. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. ​
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    • Colin Hyde
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