Amos George Loveland

Birth: 7/4/1892, Lisbon, Ohio

Address: 2535 E. 130th St., Cleveland, OH (also recorded as Shaker Heights, OH)

Demographics: age 24 at draft registration; claimed (widowed) mother as a dependent; single; Caucasian; occupation Collector at a Publishing Co. [entry illegible but included the name Crowell]; he was listed as a student at Western Reserve University in the years 1913 and 1915 and was noted to be a member of the university's Garfield Debating Club  

Appearance: Height medium, Build slender, Eyes brown, Hair light

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/24/1918; Private

Service Number: 2658303

Deployment: 7/27/1918 from Philadelphia, PA aboard SS Agapenor

Action: 2 Co 1 Inf Repl Regt May 24/18 to July 13/18; 55 Co July Aut Repl Draft to --; Co C 163 Inf to Aug 28/18; Co C 23 Inf to Oct 3/18. Pvt. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF July 27/18 to Oct 3/18. 

Death: October 3, 1918 at age 26 at Saint-Etienne-a-Arnes, Departement des Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France [5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918]; cause of death Died of Wounds Received in Action

Burial: buried locally in Ardennes, France; 6/17/19 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Departement de la Meuse, Lorraine, France, Plot H Row 25 Grave 37

Next of Kin: Mrs. Phoebe G. Loveland, mother, 2535 E. 130th St., Cleveland, OH  

Additional Information: Private Amos George Loveland was an only child. His mother was widowed in 1915 and lost her only child, Private Amos George Loveland, to WWI in 1918. She lived the remainder of her life in the family home at 2535 130th St. in Shaker Heights, OH along with her younger, unmarried sister and their mother.

Father: Lewis H. Loveland (1861-1915), born Ohio, long-term employment as a Railroad Engineer, died instantly at age 54 from a skull fracture sustained in a devasting Erie Railroad accident in which the engine and three cars of his milk train derailed near Warren, OH in Mahoning County; buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Phoebe Griffith Loveland (1867-1959), born Ohio of Welsh ancestry, had one child, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH. Mother applied for the WWI Gold Star Mothers' Pilgrimage to visit her son's grave in France, but no record was found of her travel.