Anton S. Blazek
(1891-1918)
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SS Leviathan
Gravestone, Private Anton S. Blazek, Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Anton S. Blazek
*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.
Birth: 6/8/1891, Cleveland, Ohio
Birth: 6/8/1891, Cleveland, Ohio
Address: 3300 Devoy Rd.[street name not found on current map], Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 26 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation Tailor employed by Frank Blazek [possibly his brother who was also a tailor in his own shop]; 1900 and 1910 census records show many neighbors to be of Bohemian ancestry
Appearance: Height medium, Build stout, Eyes blue, Hair brown
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 12/6/1917; Private
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 12/6/1917; Private
Service Number: 794675
Deployment: 4/24/1918 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard SS Leviathan
Action:
Death: August 17, 1918 at age 27; cause of death Killed in Action
Death: August 17, 1918 at age 27; cause of death Killed in Action
Burial: 8/17/1918 buried American Cemetery in Vosges, France; 1/20/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Cherbourg, France 3/7/1921; 4/30/1921 remains shipped from Cherbourg to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 5/18/1921; 6/9/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH to the care of V.J. Vacha, undertaker, 5408 Hamm Ave., Cleveland, OH and received on 6/11/1921 by John Blazek, father; 6/13/1921 final burial at Calvary Cemetery, 10000 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH, Lot 490 Section 42 Grave 2. The inscription in Czech on the gravestone was "ODPOCIVEJ VPOKOJ," or Rest in Peace in English
Burial: 8/17/1918 buried American Cemetery in Vosges, France; 1/20/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Cherbourg, France 3/7/1921; 4/30/1921 remains shipped from Cherbourg to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 5/18/1921; 6/9/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH to the care of V.J. Vacha, undertaker, 5408 Hamm Ave., Cleveland, OH and received on 6/11/1921 by John Blazek, father; 6/13/1921 final burial at Calvary Cemetery, 10000 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH, Lot 490 Section 42 Grave 2. The inscription in Czech on the gravestone was "ODPOCIVEJ VPOKOJ," or Rest in Peace in English
Next of Kin: John Blazek, father, 3300 Devoy Rd. [street name not found on current map], Cleveland, OH
Next of Kin: John Blazek, father, 3300 Devoy Rd. [street name not found on current map], Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Father: Jan John Blazek (1845-1924), born Austria-Bohemia, emigrated ~1881, occupation Day Laborer, buried Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH in same plot as son Private Anton S. Blazek; Mother: Josefa Josephine Hubert Blazek (1850-1933), born Austria-Bohemia, emigrated ~1881; Siblings: Mary Blazek Hendricks (1876-1938); Frank Blazek (1879-1941); Joseph Blazek (1884-1937); Rozalie "Rose" Blazek Maur (1887-1919), who died at age 31 of Influenza/Bronchopneumonia and left a one-year old child. Sibling list may be incomplete.
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