Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameGeneral William Lendrum 'Billy' (John) Mitchell, GGG Grandson
Birth29 Dec 1879, Nice, France
MemoAnother source says 28 Dec, Nice.
Death19 Feb 1936
MemoAnother source says 18 Dec 1936.
Burial1936, Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Note 1General in US Army/Air Force. Founder of American air power. Awarded a special posthumous Congressional Medal in 1948.
Note 2Appears to have been married to and divorced from (1921) a first wife, Caroline and to have married again to someone call Janet.
Note 3The film ‘The Trial of Billy Mitchell’ is a fair attempt at an accurate account of his court-marshal which was later agreed to have been a travesty of justice given that the attack on Pearl Harbour vindicated everything he had predicted.
Note 4“A Question of Loyalty” by Douglas Waller (Harper Collins) 2004 is the definitive account of Billy Mitchell’s life and trial.
Flags***, Dickson, Mitchell
FatherColonel John Lendrum (Alexander) Mitchell (1842-1904)
MotherHarriet Danforth Becker (?-?)
Other spousesCaroline (Enoch) Stoddard
Marriage1923
SpouseElizabeth Trumbull ‘Betty’ (Sidney) Miller ?
Birth14 Oct 1890, Detroit, USA
Death?
Note 1She appears in a 1932 photograph with her husband Billy and Walter Lees on the occasion when Mitchell was presented with the wheel from the old Jenny in which General Mitchell learned to fly at Newport News in 1916.
FlagsQuery
FatherSidney T. Miller (?-?)
MotherLucy T. Robinson (?-?)
Other spousesThomas B. Byrd
Children
1 FLucy Trumbull (William) Mitchell, GGGG Granddaughter
Birth2 Aug 1925, Detroit, USA
SpouseKenneth Newcomer Gilpin Jr (1923-)
Marriage1948
Married MemoMarriage reported in the New York Times on 13 Mar 1948.
ChildrenKenneth Newcomer (Kenneth) (1949-)
2 MWilliam (William) Mitchell, GGGG Grandson
Birth12 Dec 1929, Washington DC, USA