Elmer Milton Jalas

Birth: 8/10/1896, Cleveland, OH 

Address: 3921 Henritze Ave., Old Brooklyn neighborhood, Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; occupation listed on draft registration card as "Cuyahoga County Courthouse;" per 1916 Cleveland city directory occupation listed as Welder

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date 6/5/1918; 7/7/1918; rank Apprentice Seaman

Service Number: 185-21-62

Deployment: died prior to deployment

Action: Naval Tng St Great Lakes Ill July 7/18 to Sept 23/18. AS [Apprentice Seaman U.S. Naval Reserve Force] 79 days.  

Death: September 23, 1918 at age 22 while in service at the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois. He died at St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, of Lobar Pneumonia, while visiting relatives in that city. According to a family tree on Ancestry.com, he was the "2nd person to die in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic."  

Burial: Lutheran Cemetery, 4566 Pearl Rd., Cleveland, OH 44109, Lot 73 Section N Grave 3 Block No. Part 2

Next of Kin: Minnie Jalas, mother, 3921 Henritze Ave., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Father: Louis M. Jalas (1874-1945), born Wisconsin, occupation Brakeman per 1900 Census and listed as not working in the 1910 Census; Mother: Wilhelmina "Minnie" Loeffler Jalas (1876-1961), born Germany; Sibling: younger brother Eugene Arthur Jalas (1898-1979)