Ernest Lee Johnson 

Birth: 6/6/1887, Lewisburg, Kentucky 

Address: 3003 E. 77th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 30 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; natural born citizen; occupation Carpenter at Bates & Rogers Construction Company, Cleveland, OH (established early 20th century and known for building bridges and tunnels as part of the American westward expansion; pioneered use of steel and concrete to replace brick and wood; built power plants, both coal and hydroelectric)

Appearance: Height tall; Build slender; Hair light brown; Eyes blue 

Enlistment/Rank: 12/18/1917; 6/5/1917; Private

Service Number: 726182 

Deployment: N/A

Action: 307 Co New Orleans CAC to Jan 16/18; Btry D 64 CAC to Feb 11/18; 12 Co New Orleans CAC to Sept 1/18; Co E Sept Auto Repl Draft Jackson Bks La to death. Pvt Dec 18/17; Mec Apr 1/18; Pvt Sept 1/18. AEF Sept 26/18 to death. 

Death: October 14, 1918 in France at age 30; Died of Disease: Broncho-Pneumonia (may have been a victim of the 1918-1920 flu pandemic?)

Burial: Sears Cemetery, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Epitaph reads: "He served his country and his God."

Next of Kin: Louis A. Johnson, brother, 3216 E. 119th St., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information:

Private Ernest was a farm laborer and living at home with his parents from ages 12-22 per the 1900 and 1910 Census; father James Henry Johnson (1861-1938), born Kentucky, occupation Farmer; mother Della Grace Wilson Johnson (1865-1914), born Kentucky, died 1914 age 49 of gallstones and breast cancer; siblings included: Pearlie, Louis, Monroe, Rosa; parents buried Sears Cemetery, Muhlenberg County, KY