Harold M. Warren

(1893-1918) 

Harold M. Warren

Location of Plaque 2015

Photo of Arthur J. Warren, father of Private Harold M. Warren  

Nellie E. Welch Warren, mother of Private Harold M. Warren

"Mastoid Club"- picture from the first World War illustrating how frequently mastoidectomies were performed. (Sander and colleagues, 2006)

Photo Credit 


Cleveland Railway Company,

Cleveland, OH

Photo Credit 

Harold Mark Warren

Birth: 2/22/1893; Coldwater, Michigan 

Address: 2286 E. 100th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 24 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; natural born citizen; occupation Conductor Cleveland Railway Co., at the Leader-News Building

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

Draft Registration Date/Enlisted date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 9/18/1917; Private

Service Number: 1945994

Deployment: N/A 


Action: Co K 331 Inf to death. Pvt.

Death: April 28, 1918 at age 25; cause of death Mastoiditis; died at Chillicothe, OH (presumably Camp Sherman)

Burial: 5/1/1918 at Evergreen Cemetery, 501 E. Main St., Painesville, OH, Lot 11 Block 5 Grave 1 

Next of Kin: Arthur J. Warren, father, R.F.D. 2, Perry, OH

Additional Information: as per his obituary, he was the first person in Lake county and the first in Perry Township to give his life for the cause of democracy; in 1900 and 1910 the family was living in Perry Township, Lake County, OH with father and teenage sons working as farmers; father Arthur J. Warren (1861-1949), born Ohio, his parents born New York; mother Nellie E. Welch Warren (1866-1923), born Ohio of Irish ancestry; older sister Ethelyn Cordelia "Ethel" Warren Bickel (1891-1968), younger brothers Spencer Warren (1896-1959) and Merle Warren (1905-1986); entire family buried in Lake County at various cemeteries


Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville, OH

Block 5, Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville, OH

Gravestone Harold Mark Warren, located in the Welch family plot, Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville, OH

Welch family plot of Harold Mark Warren's mother, Nellie E. Welch Warren, Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville, OH, where Harold and his parents are buried