Peter Urban

Peter Urban

Birth: 5/9/1896; Maltby, PA 

Address: 35 Milbery (probably misspelling of Milbre St.), Swoyersville, PA

Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; natural born citizen; occupation Machine Shop Hand at Cleveland Metal Products Co., Cleveland, OH; listed his parents and 4 siblings as dependents; registered for the draft in Pennsylvania, but Ohio was listed as his home state

Appearance: Height medium; Build medium; Eyes gray; Hair dark brown

Draft Registration Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/26/1918; Private

Service Number: 2660688

Deployment: 7/22/1918 from Brooklyn, New York aboard HMHS Nevasa

Action: 35 Co 3 Repl Regt Cp 

Gordon to July 14/18; Cp Gordon Ga Repl Draft to Aug 11/18; Co B 163 Inf to Aug 25/18; Co I 9 Inf to death. Pvt. St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF July 22/18 to death. KIA Nov 4/18. 

Death: November 4, 1918 at age 22, 7 days before the Armistice on November 11, 1918; Killed in Action

Buried: Remains were disinterred and reburied twice in France, with the final resting place the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France; Plot E Row 18 Grave 35 

Next of Kin: Mrs. Bertha Urban, wife, 9608 Sophia St., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: father Andrew Urban (1867-1931), born Austria/Hungary, immigrated 1890, occupation Coal Miner; mother Mary Falitschko Urban (1876-1933), born Austria/Hungary, immigrated 1890; Private Peter Urban was the eldest of 7 children; in 1900 the family was living in Shoemaker's Patch, Swoyersville, PA; in 1910 the family was still living in Swoyersville, PA (chief industry coal mining for most of the 19th and 20th centuries) where Peter, age 14, was employed as an office boy in a newspaper office; 1910 Census further showed several households of people with the surname Urban living as neighbors in Swoyersville, PA and most working as coal miners; parents and some siblings buried at Holy Trinity Church Cemetery, Swoyersville, PA; Peter Urban married Bertha Komornik, age 16, in Cuyahoga County, OH in November 1917; daughter Mary was born approximately July 1918 around the time of Peter's deployment; widow Bertha lived with her parents and daughter after her husband died, was employed as a clerk, then remarried in 1922 at age 22; her daughter Mary Urban married Bernard Csepegi in 1940 and had a daughter Deanne Csepegi in 1944; Mary Urban Csepegi died on 4/7/1961 with Deanne Csepegi, who would have been Private Peter Urban's granddaughter, listed as the sole survivor