erwin

Ross Emil Erwin Bats Left, Throws Right Height 6' 0", Weight 185 lb. Debut August 26, 1907 Final Game July 23, 1914 Born December 22, 1885 in Forney, TX www.baseball-reference.com/e/erwinte01.shtml Aug 3,1911 - Against the Cubs, visiting Brooklyn gets three homers in the 5th inning as Eddie Zimmerman, Tex Erwin, and Zack Wheat connect, not consecutively, in the 5 - 3 win. Zim's and Erwin's come against Lurid Lew Richie, while Fred Toney serves up Wheat. The trio will total six homers on the year, bu got three of them in this one inning.

This is a photo of American fighter ace William P. Erwin in the cockpit of a Fokker D.VII, apparently captured/turned-over to the United States after the Armistice of 1918. Bill Erwin would perish while participating in the search for aviators lost during the 1927 Dole Air Race. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Portwood_Erwin Here is another photo of Erwin in the SDASM's Paul A. Smith Collection: www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/8560887758/

The five Fokker D.VIIs used by the Victory Loan Flying Circus, Mid-West Flight were taken from a cohort of factory-new machines that the German government turned over to American forces at Koblenz, Germany on January 1, 1919, in accordance with the armistice of November 1918. This photo of Capt. Erwin was taken at the Jackson, Mississippi air show on April 11, 1919. During his flight that afternoon, he made a forced landing on account of motor trouble. He landed in the only cleared field available, but due to a ditch in the center of the field, he broke his propeller. This was the only damage to the plane and Erwin was uninjured. Afterwards, they requested new Fokker propellers from the Curtiss Airplane Co. in Buffalo, NY. (Reference source: their War Diary and Library of Congress)

In my Veley Genealogy research, I have been unable to verify that an Erwin Veley existed. Can anyone shed any light? WHo were his parents? When and where was he born? Feel free to respond to rockveley@aol.com. Hollis F. Veley III (21 July 2016)

We have since found the uncle's last name was likely Jackson instead of Veley. This information was provided by the David Meeks, brother of Rodney Meeks (now deceased).