Bartlett Burt Pennington

*No plaque located*

*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque*

Birth: 11/11/1893, Cleveland, Ohio

Address: at draft registration gave the address of his employer in Lorain, OH; family address 2196 W. 44th St., Cleveland, OH 

Demographics: age 23 at draft registration; married; Caucasian; claimed exemption due to wife and "bodily condition" [not specified]; native-born Clevelander; occupation at draft registration Foreman Machine Shop at Brenbrunfers Eng. Co., Lorain, OH; other occupations included Auto Repair, Repairman, Clerk, Druggist

Appearance: Height tall, Build medium, Eyes gray, Hair light brown

Marriage: First marriage 9/4/1912 at age 18 to Florence E. Herb, age 19, who remarried in 1924; Second marriage 5/29/1917 to Alice Schleich, who remarried in 1918

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/4/1917; 4/1/1918; Private

Service Number: 2424070

Deployment: 7/15/1918 from Brooklyn, New York aboard SS Port Melbourne

Action: 3 Co 1 Tng Bn 158 Dep Brig to Apr 22/18; Co L 329 Inf to Apr 28/18; Detention Camp Cp Sherman O to May 2/18; 22 Cas Det Motor Mec Sig C Cp Greene SC to May 17/18; 18 Co 4 Motor Mec Div Mil Aeronautics to Oct 1/18; 19 Co 4 Motor Mec AS to death. Pvt Apr 1/18; Pvt 1cl July 1/18; Pvt Dec 9/18. AEF July 5/18 to death.

Death: January 6, 1919 at age 25; cause of death died of disease listed as "macoui collitei" [may be a misspelling of mucous colitis, a known condition at that time similar to what we would now call irritable bowel syndrome. Cause of death also listed as Volvulus [bowel twisting and obstruction].

Burial: buried locally after death in an American plot of a French Military Cemetery in Vendee, France; 8/24/1920 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Saint-Nazaire, France 8/26/1920; 8/31/1920 remains shipped from Saint-Nazaire to Hoboken, NJ arriving Hoboken 9/11/1920; 10/9/1920 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 10/10/1920 to the care of Mrs. Francis Pennington, mother, 2196 W. 44th St., Cleveland, OH; final burial at Riverside Cemetery, 3607 Pearl Rd., Cleveland, OH, Section 23 Lot 57 alongside his parents

Next of Kin: Mrs. F. Pennington, mother, 2196 W. 44th St., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information:

Private Bartlett Burt Pennington was an only child. In 1910, he and his divorced mother were living with her parents.  

Father: Adelbert D. Pennington (1859-1929), born Rochester, NY, occupation Carpenter, divorced and remarried 1904, buried Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Francis Bartlett Pennington Cannon (1863-1944), born Ohio of English ancestry, had one child, divorced and remarried in 1920 at age 57 to John Cannon, buried Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland, OH