A. D. O'Donnell

Adelbert Daniel O'Donnell

Birth: 9/17/1890; Cleveland, OH

Address: mother's address: 1944 E. 71st St., Cleveland, OH 

Demographics: marital status not known; Caucasian; occupation Bookkeeper Electrical Shop; natural born citizen

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: Draft date 6/5/1917; Enlistment date not known; Private First Class

Service Number: 158494

Deployment: 12/4/17 aboard SS George Washington

Action: Co C 6 Engineers to death; Prv 5/17; Prv 1cl July 20/18; Champagne-Marne; Aisne-Marne; St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector; AEF Dec 4/17 to death

Death: October 20, 1918 at age 28; Killed in Action in Argonne Forest

Burial: buried locally in France; 4/19/19 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France; 6/15/21 remains disinterred and sent to Antwerp, Belgium for shipment home to the U.S.; 7/21/21 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Cantigny with arrival 8/1/21; 8/11/21 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH with arrival 8/12/21 to the care of Mrs. Elizabeth O'Donnell, mother; final resting place: St. John Cemetery, 7000 Woodland Ave., Cleveland, OH; Section 7, Lot 1 PT 15, Row 8, Grave Number 0 

Next of Kin: Mrs. Elizabeth O'Donnell, mother, 1944 E. 71st St., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: no draft registration found, so information is incomplete; nickname "Dell;" father John O'Donnell, born Pennsylvania, deceased per 1910 Census; mother Elizabeth McCarthy O'Donnell (1867-1940), born Ireland, occupation Seamstress at home; 3 sisters Agnes, Fion or Grace, Viola (Mrs. V.E. Crawford); Services held on 8/15/1921 at St. Agnes Church at 10 am, "Friends Invited"