Edward "Eddie" Harvey Dunn Jr.

*Plaque not located*

*The list of Liberty Row names shows that this soldier's plaque was located at "Wade Park to East 105th St. (Right)."

Birth: 11/28/1891, Cleveland, OH

Address: 7515 Kinsman Rd., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 25 at draft registration; singl*e; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation Lather at Lawyer & Co., E. 55th St., Cleveland, OH; claimed exemption from the draft due to "support of mother"

Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair black

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 9/21/1917; Private

Service Number: 736443

Deployment: 4/24/1918 from Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Leviathan

Action: Co 1 331 Inf Sept 21/17 to Feb 22/18; Co L 11 Inf to Nov 11/18. Pvt. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF Apr 24/18 to Nov 11/18. 

Death: November 11, 1918 (Armistice Day) at age 26; cause of death Died of Wounds

Burial: 7/26/1921 Highland Park Cemetery, 21400 Chagrin Blvd., Cleveland, OH

Next of Kin: Mrs. Fannie Dunn, mother, 7515 Kinsman Rd., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: Father: Edward H. Dunn, Sr. (1870-1954), born Pennsylvania with ancestors from New York and Germany, occupation Lather and Grocery Merchant; Mother: Frances "Fannie" M. Hammond Dunn Simmer (1874-1959), born Ireland; Siblings: Jessie M. Dunn Dietz (1894-1941) who named a son Clyde Edward Dietz (1919-1974), presumably after her deceased brother Private Edward H. Dunn, Jr. Parents divorced in December, 1918, and mother remarried on 2/3/1919 to William C. Simmer, a patrolman who was a widower. On 7/8/1927, a government-issued unmarked gravestone was shipped to Mrs. Fannie Dunn Simmer at 10814 Morrison Ave., Cleveland, OH