Joseph Patrick Cleary

(1894-1918)

Private Joseph Patrick Cleary

Private Joseph Patrick Cleary signature on WWI draft registration

SS Margha

Private Joseph Patrick Cleary's siblings

Gravestone, Private Joseph Patrick Cleary, Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH

1300 W. 80th St., Cleveland, OH, address given on WWI draft registration

Joseph Patrick Cleary

[aka Patrick Joseph Cleary as recorded on gravestone, and aka Joseph Cleary as recorded on WWI Burial Card and as he signed his draft registration card]

[Update 8/25/2026: Many years ago, Private Patrick Joseph Cleary's plaque was found dislodged and abandoned in the street by two Shaker Heights, OH residents. They lovingly kept the plaque for safekeeping in their backyard and decorated it with an American flag on national holidays. When they became aware of the online Cleveland Liberty Row Memorial, they reached out to us to request that the plaque be properly restored beneath a tree on Liberty Row, which it will be in the near future.]

*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: 3/2/1894, Lakewood [Cleveland], Ohio

Address: 1300 W. 80th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 23 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation at draft registration Paver for the City of Cleveland; occupation in 1910 at age 16 Helper at Nut Factory; occupation in 1912 Machine Operator

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

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 4/1/1918; Private

Service Number: 2428948

Deployment: 6/8/1918 from New York, NY aboard SS Margha

Action:

Death: October 12, 1918 [one month before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 24 at Meuse, Champagne-Ardenne, France; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: 10/20/18 buried in an isolated grave at Saint-Juvin, Ardennes, France; 4/14/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Lorraine, France; 8/19/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to US arriving Antwerp, Belgium 9/5/1921; 9/20/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken, New Jersey 10/3/1921; 10/11/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 10/15/1921 to the care of James Cleary, 1300 W. 80th St., Cleveland, OH and W. H. Gallagher [Undertaker]; final burial 10/18/1921 at Calvary Cemetery, 10000 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 3 Lot 785 Grave 8 alongside his parents and several siblings buried later

Next of Kin: Mrs. Bridget Cleary, mother, 1300 W. 88th [sic-W.80th] St., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Parents could not read or write, per 1900 and 1910 Censuses.

Father: James Cleary (1859-1935), born Ireland, emigrated ~1882, occupation Laborer, buried Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Bridget Masterson Cleary (1865-1922), born Ireland, emigrated ~1879, buried Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: See Sibling List at left. Sister Rose M. Cleary Forrest had sons named John Joseph Forrest (1921-1993) and Patrick Gilbert Forrest (1928-1929), both presumably named after her brother Private Joseph Patrick Cleary. Sister Mamie Cleary Collins had a son named Joseph Collins (1919-?), also presumably named after Private Joseph Patrick Cleary. Sibling list may be incomplete.

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