Theron A. Betts
(1893-1918)
(1893-1918)
Theron A. Betts
Private Theron A. Betts
SS Ulua
Gravestone, Private Theron A. Betts, Fountain Grove Cemetery, Bryan, OH
Theron A. Betts
*No plaque found
*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque.
*No soldier photograph found in the following book: Doyle, A. C., Haulsee, W. M., Howe, F. G. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, DC: Soldiers Record Publishing Company, 1920.
Address: 603 E. Trevit St., Bryan, OH
Demographics: age 24 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupations Laborer at Frank Spicer, Bryan, OH and Stoker; claimed exemption from the draft "as the right of a free man who never has been convicted of a crime"
Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes gray, Hair black
Service Number: 1193741
Deployment: 5/26/1918 from Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Ulua
Action: completed Canada Expeditionary Force WWI Attestation papers [date unknown] in Vancouver, Canada but personnel files noted, "Illegally Absent" and that he was discharged. In the American Expeditionary Force he served in the Animal Transport Depot [which managed and supplied animals, especially horses and mules].
Additional Information: Father: Adrian J. Betts (1867-1900), born Ohio, descended from founding settlers of Portsmouth, Rhode Island dating to the 1600's, buried Fountain Grove Cemetery, Bryan, OH alongside wife and son Private Theron A. Betts; Mother: Adaline "Addie" L. Weaver Kenney (1867-1946), born Ohio, remarried 1916 to John Francis Kenney, buried Fountain Grove Cemetery, Bryan, OH; Siblings: Parepa Zoe Betts McCavitt (1888-1971); L.C. Betts (1890-1955) who had a son named Theron John Betts (1918-1987), presumably the namesake of Private Theron A. Betts; Cula Erdo Betts Fitzenrider (1898-1986). Sibling list may be incomplete.