Thomas Leroy Birt
(1893-1918)
(1893-1918)
Gravestone, Private Thomas Leroy Birt, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Thomas Leroy Birt
*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: 14517 Alder Ave., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 23 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupations Mechanic at Cuyahoga Sales Co., Cleveland, OH and Stoker [someone who tended a furnace]
Appearance: Height short, Build slender, Eyes brown, Hair brown
Service Number: 806538
Deployment: presumably died of disease prior to deployment; no deployment records found
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Additional Information: Private Thomas Leroy Birt was the youngest child in his family.
Father: Charles Franklin Birt (1855-1931), born Pennsylvania of English ancestry, occupations Stationery Engineer at a Mill and Janitor, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH alongside son Private Thomas Leroy Birt and other family members; Mother: Hannah M. Hathaway Birt (1857-1920), born Pennsylvania of English ancestry, had 5 children, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH alongside son Private Thomas Leroy Birt and other family members; Siblings: Edna Birt Neininger (1877-1954); Franklin Howard Birt (1878-1946) who had a son who died in a WWII aviation training crash at age 23; Mae Birt Kimble (1883-1960); Estella Birt Vogt (1885-1943).