Eugene Irving King

Eugene Irving King

Birth: 5/31/1896 or 6/1/1896; Cleveland, OH

Address: 1436 E. 26th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 22 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; occupation Shipping Clerk at Columbian Hardware Co., 9021 Bessemer Ave., Cleveland, OH;  natural born citizen 

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date 6/5/1917; enlistment date 10/21/1918; rank Private 

Service Number: 659933

Deployment: died prior to deployment

Action: Co D1 Replacement Regiment Engineers Washington DC Dec 3/18; Co A 1 Repl Regt Engrs Washington DC to death

Death: December 30, 1918 at age 22 at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, DC; cause of death Pneumonia/influenza/edema of lungs (presumably a victim of the 1918-1920 flu pandemic)

Burial: 7/11/1919 at Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH, 10000 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH; Lot 560 Section 4 Grave 3, (no gravestone information available at Calvary Cemetery findagrave site)

Next of Kin: Eugene Samuel King, father, 1436 26th St., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Father: Eugene Samuel King (1870-1919) was blind (for whom Eugene requested exemption on his draft registration) and worked as a musician in 1900 and in the newspaper business in 1910, born Ohio of English ancestry; Mother: Flora Miller King (1867-1906) died at age 42 of a cerebral embolism, buried Calvary Cemetery; father remarried on 1/17/1918, 2 weeks after the death of his son Eugene; father and son were both buried on the same day 7/11/1919 at Calvary Cemetery; older sister Gertrude (1895-1980) (Mrs. Joseph B. Goebel) had 8 children (one was named Eugene...presumably in memory of her brother)