Frank Ray Marple 

Birth: 6/27/1891, Mound City, Illinois

Address: 4240 W. 22nd St., Cleveland, Ohio

Demographics: age 25 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born American citizen; occupation Bookkeeper at Paul McCaslin Co. [business not found in our research], Cleveland, OH

Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes brown, Hair dark

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 10/2/1917; Sergeant

Service Number: 1959352

Deployment: Sergeant Marple died prior to deployment

Action: Trk Co 2 Div Tn 308 to---; Co B 308 M Sup Tn to death. Pvt; Sgt.

Death: May 5, 1918 at age 26 at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, OH; cause of death Lobar Pneumonia  [Approximately 5,686 cases of influenza were documented among Camp Sherman soldiers in 1918, of whom 1,777 died] (nps.gov)

Burial: on 5/7/1918 at Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, 4700 Broadview Rd., Cleveland, OH, Lot 125 Section Broadview Grave 1-SL; inscription on his gravestone: "Our Soldier Boy;" buried in same section as his parents

Next of Kin: Mrs. F. G. Marple, mother, 4210 W. 22nd St., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: Father: Frank Griffith Marple (1854-1929), born Honey Brook, Chester County, Pennsylvania where generations of both the Griffith and Marple families lived, occupation Wood Turner at Carpenter Shop and by 1920 at age 65 an Information Man at a Railway Station, buried Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Cleveland, OH in the same section as his wife and son Sergeant Frank Ray Marple; Mother: Sarah "Sadie" Cecelia Blodgett Marple (1864-1925), born Ohio, had at least 9 children, buried Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Cleveland, OH in the same section as her husband and son Sergeant Frank Marple; Siblings: List of siblings may be incomplete. Guy Darrell Marple (1883-1963); Vere A. Marple (1885-1945); Hazel Marple Peratt (or Pratt) (1888-1980); Mona Grace Marple Forbes (1895-1964); Joseph Marple (1897-?), who also served in WWI and was honorably discharged; Juanita Marple Nash (1900-1982); Lenore Marple Tancre (1902-1995); Donald Richard Marple (1905-1947)