Herbert Stolte

Herbert Seymour Stolte 

(alternate name listed as 

Herbert L. Stolte) 

Birth: 1/12/1895; Cleveland, OH

Address: 10813 Fairchild Ave., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: Draft registration card not found; native born citizen; age 21 when drafted; on 4/2/1918 married Estella May DeLong George (1898-1978) and deployed to the war two months later

Appearance: unknown, as draft registration card not found

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/4/1917; enlistment date not known; Private First Class

Service Number: 1516908

Deployment: 6/15/1918 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard SS Leviathan 

Action: Co F Inf to July 30/17; MG Co 145 Inf to death. Pvt; Ck Oct 1/17; Pvt Jan 28/18; Pvt 1cl June 10/18; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF June 15/18 to death. 

Death: September 26, 1918; Killed in Action "Argonne Forest Service"

Burial: buried locally in France 9/30/1918; remains disinterred and reburied 4/25/1919 at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France, Grave 193 Section 26 Plot 4; remains disinterred 7/18/1921 for shipment home to the U.S.; remains shipped from Antwerp, Belgium on 8/6/1921 to Hoboken, New Jersey aboard U.S.A.T. Wheaton arriving Hoboken on 8/20/1921; remains shipped  9/7/1921 to William Stolte, father, E. 105th St. Depot, New York Central Railroad, Cleveland, OH; remains received 9/9/1921; funeral services held 9/13/1921 at parents' home, 10813 Fairchild Ave., Cleveland, OH at 2:30 pm, "Friends invited;" burial Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 3 Lot 29-D 

Next of Kin: William Stolte, father, 10813 Fairchild Ave., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: family business was William Stolte & Sons Painters; father William F. Stolte (?-1934) was a business man and Cleveland City Councilman whose portrait was painted in 1932 by famed artist Clarence Holbrook Carter (the painting won First Prize in the Cleveland Musuem of Art's prestigious May Show in 1932); mother Ella May Cornwall Stolte (1871-1931); brother Lester W. Stolte (1892- ?); sister Helen V. Stolte Arend (1899-1980); family members, except for Lester W. Stolte, buried in Stolte family burial plot at Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH; soldier's widow was Estella May DeLong Stolte who remarried in 1919 to Curtis Rosco George, himself a World War I veteran; she subsequently had a daughter Helen Raphael George (might the name Helen have been in memory of Herbert?)