James Stevenson

James S. (alternate middle names Stanfer, Stauffer or Staufer) Stevenson

Birth: 8/11/1895; West Salem, OH

Address: 1891 E.81st St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native born citizen; occupation Filing Clerk at The New York Central Railroad Company, Marion Building, 1276 W. 3rd St., Cleveland, OH. (The New York Central Building, a 5-story structure originally built in 1883 for the Lake Shore Line, was one of the largest buildings in downtown Cleveland before the city began to expand east of Public Square. In 1916 the New York Central Railroad Co. sold the Nickel Plate Railroad to the Van Sweringen brothers, Cleveland real estate tycoons and railroad barons, as they sought to develop the Terminal Tower complex.)

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

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/28/1918; Corporal 

Service Number: 3484779

Deployment: 7/21/1918 from New York aboard SS Canopic

Action: Co 2 Prov Inf Repl Regt Cp Gordon Ga to July 1/18; 15 Co 2 Inf Repl Regt Cp Gordon GA to July 12/18; Co L 26 Inf to death. Pvt; Corp July 12/18. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF July 21/18 to death. KIA Oct 12/18. Cited in GO 1 I Div dated Jan 1/20.

Death: October 5, 1918 at age 23; Killed in Action.  

Burial: Buried in temporary battlefield grave then disinterred and reburied on 6/21/19 at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France; body was returned home to U.S. aboard U.S.A.T. Wheaton sailing on 9/20/1921 from Antwerp, Belgium to Hoboken, NJ. Funeral services October 15 1921 at late residence 1891 E. 81st St., Cleveland, OH at 2:30 pm. Final burial October 15 1921 at Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 18 Lot 125-0, upright marker

Next of Kin: F.R. Stevenson, father, 1891 E. 81st St., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: biological mother's name not known; in 1900 Census James, age 4, was living with his father (listed as married) and grandmother; father married his second wife Maud Warren Stevenson in 1902; father Fred Reed Stevenson (1868-3/12/1921), born Canada, occupation Electrician; father died about 7 months before his son's body was returned to America; step-mother Maud Warren Stevenson remarried on 10/18/1926 to Arthur L. Jones; step-mother Maud Jones died in 1953 and was buried in same plot as first husband Fred Reed Stevenson and step-son James Stevenson at Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH; James appeared to have been an only child