Hubert Henry Murphy

Hubert Henry Murphy

Birth: 3/10/1894, Collinwood, Cleveland, OH

Address: 15303 Holmes Ave., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 24 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; occupation Painter; natural-born citizen 

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank:  draft date 6/5/1917; enlistment date 4/28/1918; rank Private 

Service Number: 2478911

Deployment:  6/12/1918 from Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Anchises  

Action: 35 Co 158 Dep Brig to May 4/18; Co H 329 Inf to July 26/18; Co K 103 Inf to death. St. Mihiel; Defensive Sector; AEF June 12/18 to death

Death: 3/ 7/1919 at age 24 in Brest, France; cause of death Pneumonia (presumably a victim of the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic)

Burial: St. Paul Cemetery, 1231 Chardon Rd., Euclid, OH. Lot No 25 Section North 

Next of Kin: Catherine McCaffery Murphy, mother, 15303 Holmes Ave., Cleveland, OH  

Additional Information: Father died in Hubert's first year of life;  Father: Thomas Murphy (1831-1895), born Ireland, occupation Ship Carpenter, ~25 years older than his wife; Mother: Catherine McCaffery Murphy (1856-1920), born England of Irish ancestry; Hubert was the second to youngest child in a family of 17 children; sister Mrs. Gertrude Murphy Lasher had a son, born July 6, 1919, whom she named Hubert...presumably in memory of her brother); mother and another sister (Helen Ormsbee) died in 1920; mother died just 3 days after the one-year anniversary of her son Hubert's death