Thomas Orville Sticker

Thomas Orville Sticker

*Some of the following information was provided by an independent researcher.

*Name appears as T. O. Sticker on Liberty Row List of Names.

*Many Americans served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WWI.

*Unclear why this soldier is memorialized on Liberty Row, as he does not appear to have lived in Cleveland. His sister lived in Cleveland and was his next of kin.

Birth: 9/7/1875, Island Creek, Jefferson County, OH or Windsor, Ontario, Canada (the latter information recorded on his Canadian enlistment papers). Unclear whether he changed nationalities. 

Address: 218 South St., Steubenville, Ohio (1900 Census); Gary, Indiana (1910 Census); Y.M.C.A. Hotel, Chicago, Illinois (Canadian enlistment papers) 

Demographics: single; religion Methodist; occupation Ironworker in 1900, Boiler Maker in 1910, Laborer in 1913, Locomotive Engineer (this last occupation recorded on Canadian enlistment papers)

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: Rank Sapper (Combat Engineer). Sappers were military engineers trained in such essential activities as trench raids, bridging, communications, water supply, and tunneling under German lines to place mined charges.

Service Number: 2010490

Deployment: died of illness; unclear if he served in combat 

Action: served for the United Kingdom from May, 1918 to August, 1918 in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canadian Engineers Unit; received the Victory Medal, British War Medal and Memorial Death Plaque

Death: August 15, 1918 at age 42, cause of death Influenza and Pneumonia (presumably due to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic); last residence listed as the Sherlock St. Hospital in Liverpool, UK

Burial: burial August 21, 1918 at Liverpool (Kirkdale) Cemetery, Liverpool (Merseyside), UK, Grave VI.C.E.101. 

Next of Kin: Julia Sticker Sharpe, sister, 2066 81st St., Cleveland, OH (unclear whether this address is East or West 81st St.). Julia Sticker Sharpe suffered multiple losses in close proximity to each other: she lost twin infant sons in 1904, her mother died in 1904, her father died in 1917, her brother died in WWI in 1918, and her husband, Roy Sharpe, died in 1919. 

Additional Information: Father: Joseph Sticker (1845-1917), born New York, served as a Private in the Union Army in the Civil War, having mustered in Pennsylvania, occupation Wood Wagon Maker, buried Union Cemetery, 1720 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville, OH, Section R, Lot 36, Space 1; Mother: Sarah Callie Hood Sticker (1845-1907), born Pennsylvania of Scots/Irish ancestry, had 7 children of whom 7 were surviving in 1900, buried Union Cemetery, Steubenville, OH; Siblings: Georgia Anna Sticker (1868-1942); Jesse Elliot Sticker (1871-1965); Harry A. Sticker (1874-1923); Julia Darling Sticker Sharpe (1879-1972); William L. Sticker (1882-1946); Charles Edward Sticker (1886-1960). Several siblings buried at Union Cemetery, Steubenville, OH in the same grave location as their parents.