“Captain Theodore F. Mead, U.S.M.C., serving in France with the 104th Field Artillery, died October 30 of wounds received in action, according to word received by Mrs. Mead at the home of her mother, Mary L. Fahnestock, 207 Steward avenue….
  Besides his wife, who before her marriage was Miss Ruth Fahnestock, Captain Mead is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth, and his mother, Mrs. Frank C. McCoy of North Tonawawanda.”

“Wounds Fatal To Capt. Mead Dies Oct. 30,” Ithaca Journal, November 23, 1918, 5.