Richard Allen Butterfield II
(1888-1918)
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Richard Allen Butterfield II, signature on WWI draft registration
SS Mt. Vernon
Gravestone, Private Richard Allen Butterfield II, Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Richard Allen Butterfield II
*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: 2/19/1888, Cleveland, Ohio
Birth: 2/19/1888, Cleveland, Ohio
Address: 3705 W. 44th St., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 29 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation Laquerer at Forest City Brass [illegible]
Appearance: Height short, Build slender, Eyes brown, Hair brown
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 12/14/1917; Private
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 12/14/1917; Private
Service Number: 718098
Deployment: 6/10/1918 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard SS Mt. Vernon
Action:
Death: October 24, 1918 in France at age 30; cause of death Bronchopneumonia
Death: October 24, 1918 in France at age 30; cause of death Bronchopneumonia
Burial: 10/28/1918 buried locally in American Cemetery in Vosges, France; 5/1/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. and shipped from Cherbourg, France to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton; soon thereafter remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 6/4/1921 to the care of Karl B. Pansler, Undertaker, 3308 W. 25th St., Cleveland, OH; final burial at Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, 4700 Broadview Rd., Cleveland, OH, Linwood Section, Lot 392, Grave 2 SL alongside his family; funeral held at Pansler Funeral Parlor, 3308 W. 25th St., Cleveland, OH
Burial: 10/28/1918 buried locally in American Cemetery in Vosges, France; 5/1/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. and shipped from Cherbourg, France to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton; soon thereafter remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 6/4/1921 to the care of Karl B. Pansler, Undertaker, 3308 W. 25th St., Cleveland, OH; final burial at Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, 4700 Broadview Rd., Cleveland, OH, Linwood Section, Lot 392, Grave 2 SL alongside his family; funeral held at Pansler Funeral Parlor, 3308 W. 25th St., Cleveland, OH
Next of Kin: Mrs. Mary Butterfield, mother, Box 44, Olmsted Falls, OH
Next of Kin: Mrs. Mary Butterfield, mother, Box 44, Olmsted Falls, OH
Additional Information: Father: Richard Butterfied, Sr. (1863-1936), born Ohio, occupation Factory Crater, buried Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Mary M. Tray Butterfield (1863-1943), born Canada, buried Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: Howard Butterfield (1886-1957); Calie Butterfield (1893-1914); Grace Butterfield Miller Nickels (1895-1953). Entire family buried at Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Cleveland, OH. Sibling list may be incomplete.
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