Ernest Newman STANTON
Constance Woodbury BLAUVELT

Husband:  Ernest Newman STANTON
Birth:  26 May 1892, Grosse Ile, Wayne Co., Michigan
Death:  8 Sep 1984, Woodhaven, Wayne Co., Michigan
Burial:  Sep 1984, Cremated; ashes scattered at Westcroft Gardens, Grosse Ile, Wayne Co., Michigan
Father:  Robert Lee STANTON
Mother:  Grace Mary NEWMAN

Marriage:    20 Nov 1917, Wayne Co., Michigan    

Wife:  Constance Woodbury BLAUVELT
Birth:  7 Jan 1897, Hancock, Houghton Co., Michigan 
Death:  29 Sep 1984, Grosse Ile, Wayne Co., Michigan
Burial:  Oct 1984, Cremated; ashes scattered at Westcroft Gardens, Grosse Ile, Wayne Co., Michigan
Father:  Warren S. BLAUVELT
Mother:  Josephine Adele WOODBURY

Children: 
1. Constance Lee STANTON (De Beausset), b: 10 Aug 1920, Grosse Ile, Wayne Co., Michigan
                                                            d: 20 Nov 2012, Grosse Ile, Wayne Co., Michigan
                                                         bur: St. James Church Memorial Gardens, Grosse Ile, Wayne Co., Michigan
2. Warren B. STANTON, b: 30 Aug 1925, Grosse Ile, Wayne Co., Michigan   
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Notes:    
Ernest studied at Dartmouth College and graduated from Cornell with a degree in chemical engineering. At the onset of World War I, he went to France as a volunteer ambulance driver in the American Field Service. He served with S.S.u> 4 for 8 months in 1915-16. After the United States entered the war, he attended Army OTS at Gettysburg Barracks and was commissioned a Lieutenant. He left Gettysburg Dec. 23, 1917 arriving in Liverpool Jan. 7, 1918. He returned to the front, in command of a machine gun company with the 2nd Division, to the very same Verdun trenches he served while in the AFS. He did not lose one man in his company.

He served in the battles of Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne and in the Defensive Sector, was awarded the Purple Heart for having been wounded by shrapnel and earned the rank of Captain. Post war, he remained in France for a year working on reparations before returning to the USA.

Because he had been gassed in combat, for which he also received The Purple Heart, he could no longer work in the chemical industry. After studying horticulture at the Boyce Thompson Institute, he founded Westcroft Gardens where, for over 60 years, he hybridized many prized rhododendrons and built a beautiful park that remains in Grosse Ile for the enjoyment of all.

1920 Federal Census Data (T625_0820, Page 3A), Grosse Ile Twp., Wayne Co., Michigan,
                                                                                  Enumeration District: 725, Enumeration Date: 12-Jan-1920, Family #51

1930 Federal Census Data (T626_1072, Page 288B), Grosse Ile Twp., Wayne Co., Michigan,
                                                                                      Enumeration District: 924, Enumeration Date: 23-Apr-1930, Family #321

1940 Federal Census Data (T626_1828, Page 1528B), Grosse Ile Twp., Wayne Co., Michigan,
                                                                                        Enumeration District: 82-62B, Enumeration Date: 27-Apr-1940, Family #339

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