Samuel Fleharty Buckley
(1887-1918)
(1887-1918)
SS Duca d'Aosta
Gravestone, Private/Private First Class/Corporal
Samuel Fleharty Buckley, Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
James Booth Buckley, father of Samuel Fleharty Buckley
Samuel Fleharty Buckley
*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: 3202 St. Clair Ave. NE, Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: no draft registration found which would have contained additional demographic information; Caucasian; native-born citizen
Appearance: not known
Service Number: 1538491
Deployment: 6/22/1918 from Newport News, Virginia aboard SS Duca d'Aosta
Action:
Additional Information: Private/Private First Class/Corporal Samuel Fleharty Buckley appears to have been the oldest child in his family.
Father: James Booth Buckley (1865-1928), born Kentucky, married 1886, occupations included Farmer, Assistant Keeper at City Work House, Construction Foreman, Fireman; Mother: Emily Emma Moreland Buckley (1860-1915), born Kentucky, did not live long enough to know of her son's death in WWI; Siblings: Eva May Buckley Posante [see photo] (1889-1951); Inez Buckley Upington (1891-1952); Hendrick (1897-?); ?John. Sibling list may be incomplete.
In 1930, sister Inez Buckley Upington, 10310 Olivet Ave., Cleveland, OH applied for a government-issued unmarked gravestone for her brother.